Viet Cong Attacks Convoy Southwest of Saigon
Viet Cong attacked a government convoy 15 miles southwest of Saigon as Saigon Airport endured a bomb blast injuring 34 Americans and 12 others. A US adviser was missing, a helicopter was shot down, and a crewman died. Casualties included nine Vietnamese, two Indians, and a French national. Air action in the highlands claimed a helicopter and US pilots reported sinking barges near Vinh and damaging others.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Armerican
U.S
Viet Nam
Highlands
Pleiku
Air France
Air Force
Navy
United States
North
Vinh
Hee Hung
Midway
Hanoi
McNamara details Viet Cong strength and infiltration
Secretary McNamara outlines Viet Cong forces totaling about 65 000 regulars plus 80 000 to 190 000 guerrillas and 30 000 political operatives in South Vietnam. Infiltration from the North has reached at least 39 000 since 1960 with more than 10 000 likely in the past year. He cites North Vietnamese battalions in Kontum and possible additional infiltrations, notes U S air attacks have hindered them, and says South Vietnam’s total force is 574 000 with a less than 4 to 1 ratio in favor of the enemy but aims to raise it with a 100 000-strong expansion. He defends U S air raids as effective in reducing but not stopping infiltration, comments on morale, civilian protection, and civilian targets versus Viet Cong attacks. He mentions South Korea contributing about 2,000 troops and discusses civilian-military civil authority questions and mobilization prospects.
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Viet Nam
McNamara
North Viet Nam
U.S
South Viet Nam
Kontum
China
United States
Namara
North
I Morales
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Pacific Fleet
South Korea
Douglas
Senate
McNamara outlines US South Vietnam troop setup plan
Excise chair says House ready to bring compromise bill Thursday if aides finish report in time. Senate action would follow. McNamara describes a side by side US and South Vietnamese command, split battlefield, bases prioritized, with potential aid to South Vietnam and no extra funds beyond the $700 million supplemental appropriation. Draft calls remain unaffected.
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Mills
Long
Senate
Viet Nam
Maxwell Taylor
McNamara
United States
South Vietnamese
U.S
Pro-Integrationists March In Chicago Fourth Time
Pro integration demonstrators, including both Black and white participants, marched from Buckingham Fountain to City Hall in Grant Park for the fourth time in six days to protest school segregation. Police managed traffic in two lanes as about 125 marchers proceeded. 526 arrests have been reported in the week. They demand dismissal of arrested protesters and a change in Chicago school leadership, seeking public backing for integration. Mayor Daley says he is willing to meet the leaders under conditions.
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Chicago
City Hall
Ingham Fountain
Grant Park
Buckingham Fountain
Richard J. Dalry
Jesse
Hel
Albert Raby
Coordinating Council of Community
Benjamin C. Wills
Paley
Baley
Willis
Daley
Senate Split Over Smoking Health Warnings Debate
Senators clashed on whether cigarette smoking causes cancer with Neuberger Kennedy Magnuson backing warnings while Ervin and Pastore attacked alarmist stats. The plan would require each pack to carry a cautionary statement, bar other health warnings, and pause new cigarette advertising health statements for three years.
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Neuberger
Robert Kennedy
Warren B. Magnuson
D-Wash
Sam J. Ervin
D-N.c
John Sherman Cooper
Rky
John C. Pastore
D-R.j
Thruston B. Morton
Senate
Morton
Ross Bass
D-Tenn
Magnuson
Farton
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Harrison backs general sales levy in budget message
Governor Harrison urges a general retail sales levy in his January budget message. He warns months will pass before year end surplus and current revenue estimates are known, possibly covering deficits from 200 more state college admissions. He praises Godwin Pollard and Button as conservatives, noting Godwin’s endorsement and predicting a conservative ticket could influence November outcomes both ways.
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Harrison
Godwin
del. Fred G. Pollard
Virginia
National Party
Johnson backs compromise tax cut plan for auto levy
The proposal aims to spark economic growth by cutting consumer prices on many goods while eliminating inequitable taxes on low income families. In early stages excises on jewelry watches cosmetics furs luggage refrigerators radios TVs and more will be wiped out. Auto tax cuts move to 7 percent retroactive to May 18 and follow a schedule toward 1 percent by January 1969 with additional reductions for air conditioner and highway related levies.
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Johnson
Highway Trust Fund
Protest March Breaks Up After Broken Up In Jackson
Riot trained police disrupt third day of civil rights protest near the Mississippi Capitol. Police arrest 51 marchers for parading without a permit as about 100 flee through back yards and side streets. Over 700 demonstrators taken into custody since Monday amid calls for voting law repeal and alignment with federal requirements. Governor Johnson defends session to revise voting laws. GOP chair Yerger accuses motive of courting Negro votes. Smaller turnout due to late start after delays.
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Jackson
Miss
State
Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi
Congress
Paul Johnson
Johnson
Wirt Yerger
Republican Party
Yerger
Flood crosses Colorado river and floods Denver area
A major flood spread north to south along the Platte River east of the mountains, ripping out bridges including Titan Road and bridges in Denver. The crest, 300 feet wide and 15 to 20 feet high, moved at 5 to 10 mph toward Blakeland near Littleton, prompting evacuations and traffic bans on Santa Fe Drive and Denver river bridges. Centennial Race Track began evacuating 160 thoroughbreds as the flood neared the city core and its stadium area.
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Denver
Martin Co
Titan
Blakeland
Littleton
Colorado
Walhurst
Highway Patrol
Santa Fe Drive
Debver
Platte
Denver Bears
Centennial
Titan 3C to lift from Titan and ignite at 25 miles
Report outlines Titan 3C launch plan with ignition at 25 miles, comparing it to the Saturn 1 and Soviet booster. Air Force Space Systems Division chief David V. Miller notes record chases such as most powerful rocket fired, largest solids launched, and heaviest payload, with goals to deploy military satellites and a manned orbital lab by 1968.
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U.S
Soviet Union
Milion. Co
David V. Miller
Air Force Space Systems Division
Miller
Air Force
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Earth
Moon
Angered note from U S over East German shooting in Berlin
U S Ambassador McGhee denounces East German guards for killing a West Berlin couple and wounding the fiance on a border canal. He holds Soviet authorities responsible for consequences and accuses East Germany of brutality. ADN disputes American claims, calling the cruise provocative.
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McGhee
Pyotr Abrasimov
East Germany
United States
U.S
West Berlin
Elke Martens
Hermann Doebler
ADN
German Democratic Republic
Germany
Doebler
Rebels Fire In Dominican Security Zone Amid Cease Fire Doubts
The OAS said 280 rebel prisoners were taken as the security zone expanded. Inter-American forces held them, not turning over to the civilian military junta. Caamano blamed the rebels for the fighting and called for a full investigation into civilian and military deaths.
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Organization of American States
inter-American
OAS
Col. Caamano i
82Nd Airborne Division
Caamano
U.S
Hugo Panasco Alvim
inter-American Peace Force
United Nations
Washington
Red Cross
Ozama Fortress
Ozama River
Thend
Alvim
Caamene
High Command
Elsworth Bunker
United States
Ramon de Clairmont Caenas
el Salvador
Cabinet reshuffle hints at Health Education Welfare successor
The urban cabinet move marks the 11th and final agency creation since 1953. Johnson has not indicated a future head for the new agency while Kennedy had proposed Robert C. Weaver for the post. Ribicoff says the Government Operations subcommittee will vote next week after completing hearings, with supporters confident of Senate approval.
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Health, Education and Welfare Department
Johnson
Kennedy
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Dconn
Senate
Government Operations Committee
Weather and behavior links in European accident study
Accident statistics from 30 major European cities show sharp increases in accidents during biologically unfavorable weather. Researchers report weather dangers are small compared with bodily disruption from weather stimuli that impair concentration and reaction time. Weather affects conception timing, with most legitimate conceptions in June and illegitimate in May.
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Istics
U.N. Debates Meeting Places as San Domingo Clashes Loom
In 1948 and 1951 Paris sessions framed by the Berlin blockade echoed in a Soviet push to move Security Council meetings. Fedorenko urged Santo Domingo as a site to boost effectiveness, while Yost accused rebels and pro Castro factions of provoking U.N. action and violating the cease fire, with timing tied to the 14th of June Movement rally.
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General Assembly
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I.N
Fedorenko
Security Council
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Yost
Sans To Domingo
Francisco Caamano Deno
Council
Ruben Brache
Caamano
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