Flood losses top 102 million as air floods sweep Colorado
Colorado faces at least 102 million dollars in property damage and six deaths amid four days of floods. Gov Love seeks 31 million federal aid and declares 27 of 63 counties as disaster areas. The Arkansas and Fountain rivers rise, threatening Brush to Lamar and Greeley, with new water entering the Arkansas at Pueblo. Authorities caution over a radio rumor of missing children and a dam collapse.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
John A. Love
Johnson
Love
Kansas
Nebraska
Arkansas River
Iatte Valley
Brush and Sterlin
la Junta
Las Animas
Lamar
Holly
Greeley
Adams
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Baca
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Crowley
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Elbert
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Towa
Kit Carson
Larimer
Lincoln
Logan
Morgan
Otero
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Prowers
Pueblo
Sedgwick
Teller
Washington
Weld
Yuma
Two Buttes
Two Buttes Reservoir
Arkansas
Clay Creek
Man Survives 130-Foot Fall From Roof
Robert Keys, 26, plunged 130 feet from the roof of the Hilltop Apartments in Philadelphia while assisting installation of a chain hoist. He grabbed the overhanging equipment, slowed his descent, but landed hard, breaking vertebrae. He remains in good condition at Chestnut Hill Hospital.
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Philadelphia
Robert Keys
Chestnut Hill Hospital
Keys
Hilltop Apartments
Most Powerful Titan 3C Rocket Fails to Orbit Maiden Flight
Titan 3C, described as the most powerful rocket yet fired, achieved a spectacular test at Cape Kennedy. The Air Force planned space operations after the maiden flight, which produced over three million pounds of thrust and a flame tail exceeding 600 feet. An onboard payload of 21,000 pounds was intended for orbit.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Humphrey heads to Paris to honor de Gaulle and meet astronauts
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey travels to Paris with Gemini space crew James McDivitt and Edward White to pay respects to Charles de Gaulle and to observe the Paris air show. The group plans to visit the air show and discuss future space plans as they tour Le Bourget.
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Paris
Hubert H. Humphrey
France
America
Charles de Gaulle
Humphrey
International Air and Space Show
le Bourget Airfield
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
de Gaulle
Gen
Johnson
James E. Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Charles Mathews
Julian Scheer
NASA
White
Saturation bombing fails to yield Viet Cong casualties
Ground troops hunted under sporadic sniper fire for enemy bodies after a large air raid on three square miles of Viet Cong jungle by B52s and other planes. Seven Americans missing from a B52 collision in the South China Sea, with four survivors and one body recovered. Ky named prime minister of South Viet Nam, youngest in republic history.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Pentagon
D Zone
Nguyen Cao Ky
Central Highlands
Central Post Office
Rusk Says U S Met Constant Red Rebuffs on Viet Nam Peace
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told the Cabinet that the United States has explored many peace paths in Viet Nam but met constant Communist rebuffs and insistence on military action. He noted the Reds may continue strikes under monsoon protection and warned they likely would not reveal any nonmilitary talks in advance. Cabinet session with President Johnson lasted about an hour. McNamara also reported.
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Washington
United States
Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
U.S
Rusk
Johnson
Robert Is. McNamara
Strategic Air Command
South
Five Die in S C Truck Crash on U S Highway 1
A propane gas tractor-trailer and two cars collided on a busy U S Highway 1 near West Columbia South Carolina killing five people. Victims include Brice Caughman 49 of Columbia Rachel Arant 25 of Lexington area and her daughters Alisha 3 and Miriam 10 months Ruby Rish 28 of Lexington area.
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West Columbia
S.C
U.S. Highway 1
Here
Brice Caughman
Columbia
Rachel Arant
Rt. 2
Lexington
Alisha
Miriam
Ruby Rish
Rt. 4
State Highway Patrol
Caughman
Rish
Arant
Coughman
Goldwater Group Hampers GOP Unity, Bliss Says
Republican National Chairman Ray C Bliss says Barry Goldwaters Free Society Association will drain party funds and hinder unity as he tightens control of party finances. Bliss named Gen Lucius D Clay as party finance chairman and questioned the groups aims while noting Goldwater's prominence. He spoke after meeting with campaign officials and warned the move could hurt long term GOP interests.
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Washington
Ray C. Bliss
Barry Goldwater
Free Society Association
Bliss
Lucius D. Clay
Goldwater
Denison Kitchel
Society
Republican Party
Goldwater Group
British Commonwealth Peace Mission Plan Near Collapse
London sources report opposition from Asian and African colonies to Prime Minister Wilson’s Viet Nam peace mission. Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere dissociates his country, warning the plan could court China and threaten the Commonwealth stance. Wilson presses ahead amid rumblings from Kenya Ghana Ceylon India and Pakistan. See MISSION Page Two.
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British Commonwealth
London
Harold Wilson
Wilson
Izvestia
Tanzania
Kenya
Ghana
Ceylon
India
Pakistan
Julius Nyerere
Peking
Ha J
Arrests at Jackson protests total 103 this Friday
Jackson AP report says police arrested 103 demonstrators during six hit and run picketing attempts at the State Capitol Governor's mansion and other sites. Total arrests reached 858 in five days as protesters faced a 400-man force with highway patrolmen nearby.
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Robert E. Lee
Governor’s Mansion
Jackson
OAS Urges Dominican Factions to End War and Allow Elections
The Organization of American States called on Dominican factions to suspend fighting and permit OAS supervised elections within six to nine months. A provisional government would oversee revenue and budgets under OAS control, with U S support to cover deficits, while leaders from democratic parties could return under safeguards to participate in the vote.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
OAS
Caribbean
United States
U. S
Ellsworth Bunker
inter-American Organization
East German helicopter defies Allies over West Berlin
An armed East German helicopter flew over West Berlin on Friday in defiance of Western powers. U.S. Army helicopters reportedly mounted machine guns as a counter move, though a spokesman declined to confirm. The intruder, at about 1,000 feet, targeted the McNair Barracks area near U.S. Army installations before returning to East Germany, marking the boldest breach of air rights in the city to date.
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U.S. Army
U.S. Army Quartermaster
McNair Barracks
U.S. Army Combat Infantry Brigade
East Germany
Berlin
Hells
Newspaper Put Into Space At Cape Kennedy Fla
The Air Force announced it placed the first newspaper in space through a Titan 3D rocket mission. A June 12 edition of The Missileer, the Eastern Test Range military newspaper, traveled in the dummy payload aboard the orbital launch.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Missileer
Eastern Test Range
Kerrs laxness blamed for Berkeley student uprisings
California report accuses University of California president Clark Kerr of tolerating radical groups and allowing a minority of communist leaders to influence Berkeley protests. Kerr denies Commu nist involvement and calls the committee’s report inaccurate. The Free Speech Movement and a December campus takeover led to mass arrests as police intervened.
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Sacramento
Calif
University of California
Clark Kerr
Berkeley
San Francisco
State Senate
Senate
Hugh M. Burns
Fresno
John Birch Society
Robert Welch
John Rousselot
The
San Marino
Free Speech Movement
Contlict
Weather outlook for Virginia and North Carolina forecast
Virginia shows variable clouds and warming with scattered showers possible in the southeast Saturday highs in the 70s, upper 60s on coast and mountains. Sunday mostly sunny and warmer. North Carolina expects variable clouds with possible scattered and thunder showers in the east Saturday, highs in the 70s. Sunday fair and warmer.
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North Carolina
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Titan 3D
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Cu Chi
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