Two Arizona Girls Slain. Third Sought In Desert
Tucson police investigate after two runaways from May 1964 were found murdered. Aileen Rowe, 15, vanished last year and is now among three charged in the killings, with Gretchen Fritz and Wendy Fritz also dead. Suspects include Charles Schmid, John Saunders, and Mary Rae French.
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Arizona
Tucson
Ariz
Norman Rawe
Alleen
Bernard Garmine
Garmine
John Saunders
Mary Rae French
Charles Schmid
Aileen
Schmid
Gretchen Fritz
Wendy Fritz
Saunders
Air Force
Fast Haven
Conn
Miss French
Belton
Tex
Rowe
Schmidt
Miss Rowe
Explosion at Lucas Street apartment tears through unit
At 8:15 p.m. a flare exploded as explosives were being handled in 1025 S. Main St. Lucas apartment. Baldwin, a U S Forestry Service worker and private first class in Co D 319th Infantry, had lived in Blacksburg for a month. Ft. Lee expert Lt. Louis Diave said Baldwin attempted to disassemble the flare. Police found over 30 explosive items including 12 sticks of dynamite and a half pound of TNT in the room. The building was evacuated and searched by a Ft. Lee demolition team. Mrs. Rowe mourns the loss of the Fritz sisters, calling the case a nightmare.
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S. Main Street
Lucas
Baldwin
U. S. Forestry Service
Co. D
319Th Infantry
Blacksburg
Louis W. Diave
Ft. Lee
Diave
Princess Margaret Tours Washington Monuments in Rain
Princess Margaret and her husband toured Washington sights in rain dishing to see the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. They climbed the monument top and marble steps while mingling with onlookers amid a luncheon at the British Embassy with Mrs Johnson and a banking guest.
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Margaret
U.S
Secret Service
Elizabeth I
George VI
Washington
Washington Monument
Capital
National Park Service
Lincoln Memorial
Eugene J. Colbert
Lord Snowdon
Lincoln
Memorial Building
Mount Vernon
Historic
Alexandria
Lyndon B. Johnson
Viet Nam volley opens with ambush near Chu Lai airstrip
Reports say friendly artillery fell short killing two Marines and wounding 13 near Chu Lai while a new squadron of F4C Phantom jets arrived at Cam Ranh Bay from McDill. U S air and naval forces pressed the Sa n Drang Valley fight as troops dug in against a major North Vietnamese offensive.
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Chu Lai
Saigon
Cam Ranh Bay
McDill Air Force Base
Florida
U.S. Air Force
Navy
San Drang
U.S. 1St Cavalry
North Viet Nam
Cambodia
Laos
U.S
Bravo Company
2Nd Battalion
7Th Cavalry
George Custer
Viet Nam
Ta Drang
Soviets Launch New Probe Toward Venus
The Soviet Union launched its second unmanned Venus probe, Venus 3, five days after Venus 2, aiming to reach the clouded planet in about 344 days if successful. Tass reported both craft followed near the planned course. Venus 3 weighed 2,116 pounds and carried different scientific gear.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Venus
Earth
Tass
Johnson urges Negro vote effort to shape destinies
President Johnson tells delegates that despite 200000 registering under the 1965 Voting Rights Act many hundreds of thousands remain barred from the polls. He urges activists to work around the clock, stressing federal discrimination probes and immediate results from a letter by Attorney General Katzenbach. The tide of change is moving, he says, toward brotherhood and justice as civil rights leaders meet government officials to chart a new course.
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Johnson
Congress
Nicholas Katzenbach
Ku Klux) Klan
Watts
Brotherhood of Man
United States faces strategy over Peking at UN vote
Twelve nations urged the UN to admit Peking and expel the Nationalists, while the United States argued for a higher threshold. Historical votes show Peking’s bid repeatedly failing, despite shifting French and African positions. The upcoming White House conference tied to President Johnson's Howard University speech frames future rights and equality.
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Cambodia
United States
Peking
U.N
Assembly
France
Charles de Gaulle
Ivory Coast
Arsene Assouan Usher
United Nations
White House
Johnson
Howard University
U S Industrial Production Rises in October Despite Steel Decline
Washington AP report shows the Federal Reserve index at 143.6 in October, up from 143 in September, signaling production 43 percent above the 1957-59 average. Iron and steel fell 8 percent while autos, machinery, aircraft, and home goods rose, offsetting declines.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
Aluminum stockpile release sparks Johnson price hearings
Representatives Curtis of Missouri and Widnall of New Jersey call for hearings on the Johnson administration’s use of federal aluminum stocks to influence prices. They warn the move risks violating the Defense Production Act of 1951 and questions the government’s role in the private economy. Curtis and Widnall are senior Republicans on key economic and defense panels.
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Johnson
Thomas B. Curtis
Missouri
William B. Widnall
New Jersey
Congress
Curtis
Joint Economic Committee
Widnall
Joint Committee On Defense Production
Kennedy visit turns tense at Chilean university rally
During a one day trip to an industrial city Senator Kennedy spoke on social and economic reforms in Chile. Leftist students shouted and some threw eggs while anti Communist students clashed outside the gym. Kennedy stressed free speech and noted world leaders may address universities. He was protected by aides as he left the building.
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Kennedy
United States
Chile
Ethel
Lenora
U.S
Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Ike and Mrs Eisenhower Recuperating at Ft Gordon
Mrs. Eisenhower rests in a Ft Gordon Army Hospital room recovering from strain and fatigue while visiting her husband during the day. The former president reads Western paperbacks and listens to records as doctors joke about reports of heart specialists being placed under an oxygen tent prior to a recent flare up.
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Eisenhower
Ft. Gordon Army Hospital
North Carolina House Defeats Referendum on Speaker Ban
The debate over a proposed speaker ban ends with a 73 to 42 defeat in the House. Governor Dan Moore gains a political win as the measure fails. Senate amendments to push a public vote and monthly speaker lists are rejected, with Morgan signaling further attempts.
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H. P. Taylor
Taylor
North Carolina
House
Phil Godwin
Gates County
Commission
Dan Moore
Study Commission
Senate
Sen. White
Board of Trustees
Morgan
Dallas Allford
Nash
Thant Nam Peace Call Reiterates Geneva Conference Path
Thant Nam warned that prolonging the conflict makes a solution harder to reach. He said possibilities seen in 1914 no longer exist and urged reconvening the Geneva conference. He argued reinstating the 1954 principles is the only way to achieve peace and stability in the area.
Queen Forces Wide Rhodesia Powers With Seven Orders
Queen Elizabeth II signed seven orders giving Harold Wilson’s government broad authority to curb Rhodesia after its unilateral independence. The measures target Rhodesia’s laws, trade preferences, sugar agreement, and citizenship rules, allowing sanctions and potential intervention while Gibbs stays in contact with London.
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Wilson
Rhodesia
London
Elizabeth II
Harold Wilson
Britain
House of Commons
Salisbury
Ian Smith
Humphrey Gibbs
Commonwealth Relations
Arthur Bottomley
Gibbs
Pat
Bottomley
Commonwealth
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