Night battle near Dong Xoai sparks desperate ranger defense
AP photographer Horst Faas joined Vietnamese rangers in the Dong Xoai fighting as 1,500 Viet Cong pressed the town. Wounded were given rifles or grenades for last-ditch defense while helicopters brought in survivors amid heavy fire. Casualty toll and final outcome remained uncertain as air strikes and heavy bombardment continued.
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Viet Nam Leaders Resign and Transfer Power to Military
Saigon South Viet Nam leaders including chief of state Phan Khac Sun prime minister Phan Huy Quat and National Legislative Council chairman Maj Gen Pham Zuan Chieu signed a joint communique announcing their resignations and handing over power to the armed forces as a caretaker arrangement and potential military rule looms. The move follows months of civil conflict and Catholic protests with divisions over cabinet dismissals and church support. U.S. officials expressed surprise as generals planned to form a new ruling junta to avert a power vacuum.
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Astronauts Carry Sacred Medals On Gemini Flight
Space heroes James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II received on the spot promotions from President Johnson to lieutenant colonel as Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper were also named for promotions. White kept three personal tokens a St Christopher medal a golden cross and a star of David chosen for his spaceflight representing faiths. The four astronauts later held a news conference detailing their four day mission and banter aboard Gemini 4.
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Ambassador Taylor Sees Some Hard Fighting Ahead
Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor warned of hard fighting in the next two months as the Vietnam war intensified. He spoke after a White House NSC meeting with President Johnson and top officials. Officials expect a monsoon season offensive to challenge U S and allied forces, with eventual victory for the Saigon government. Taylor planned to depart for South Vietnam Saturday.
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Cloudburst Destroys Sanderson Texas Town
A 15 foot wall of water devastated Sanderson Texas as a cloudburst left 12 dead and 16 missing with 450 homeless. Rescue crews found fourteen bodies and identified several victims from Johnson, Sellers, Wood and Falcon families. Nine inches of rain fell overnight and hundreds of homes and businesses on Highway 90 were destroyed.
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Bank slayings suspect Duane Pope surrenders
Duane Pope, 22, a Nebraska bank robbery and triple slayings suspect, surrendered in Kansas City after a telephoned plea from Dr Desmond Bittinger. Pope said he was tired of running and turned himself in to police following the FBI’s most wanted list placement. He faces charges for killing bank president Andreas Kjeldgaard, cashier Glenn Wendrickson, and bookkeeper Lois Ann Hothan, and wounding Franklin Kjeldgaard. he appeared before a U S commissioner and remained jailed.
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Fidel Castro Sister Claims Plot to Oust Regime
Fidel Castro's sister Juanita testified before a House subcommit tee that high officials in her brother's government plot to overthrow the Cuban regime. She said riots have erupted in Cuba and that Castro would use missiles against the United States if available.
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Dynamite Found In Virginia Woods At Minutemen Site
In Prince William County Virginia authorities seized a cache of dynamite buried in woodlands about 20 miles from Washington The cache was alleged by the FBI to be at a Minutemen training camp a right wing organization The June 10 1965 FBI sheriff and state police joint probe located the explosives off Route 641 near a power line three quarters of a mile from the highway
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Vietnamese Paratroopers Battle Viet Cong at Dong Xoai
Saigon dispatch reports Vietnamese paratroopers pressed through jungle toward the Dong Xoai area north of Saigon to root out Viet Cong forces that had devastated the town and its allied camp. News tallies list U.S. casualties, including three dead, 15 missing, 15 wounded, with many more harmed in the broader action and a separate transport crash adding eight more American deaths. Civilian deaths near Dong Xoai were reported around 150.
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Three Of 110 Guests Die In New Jersey Hotel Fire
In Plainfield New Jersey the century old Victoria Hotel was destroyed by a Friday fire. Police and firemen evacuated 110 guests, with three dead and eighteen injured. Five hospitalized, none in critical condition. The fire burned for over two hours across a five-structure complex near the fire station. Survivor William Brown, 58, and Officer Robert Miller, 131, described rapid evacuations and smoke-filled halls before Miller collapsed. Fire investigators believed the blaze started on the second floor.
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Nearly 200 Arrested In Chicago Protest March
Police broke up a road clogging school protest march in Chicago and arrested nearly 200 men women and children as about 300 demonstrators began a 2 4 mile trek from Soldier Field to City Hall. After a sit down the marchers were bused to stations and later allowed to post bond. The event followed a plan by civil rights leaders to repeat yesterday’s traffic snarling protest and a proposed two day boycott of the city schools.
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Weather report for Virginia and North Carolina
The weather page notes variable cloudiness across Virginia with scattered showers and thundershowers, mainly Saturday afternoon and Sunday in the south. Highs reach 86 to 98 in Virginia, cooler in the north. North Carolina expects showers and thundershowers Saturday with locally heavy amounts, then diminishing Sunday, and continued warmth and humidity with highs 76 to 84.
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