Strange Vietnam encounter ends with suspected American missing linked death
Lakce Gordon and nine Marines on a recon patrol near Phu Bai in Vietnam fired on a white man in enemy uniform after he acted as a lookout. Gordon said he fired 20 rounds, believing the Caucasian died. later Marine investigators suggested the slain man resembled a missing American Marine from 1965.
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Robert D. Ohman
Associated Press
Phu Bai
Gordon
Troy Mountain
1St Marine Division
Lance Co
Jim Wilker
Waseca
Minn
Cpl
Charles H. House
Glendora
Calif
Wilker
NVA
House
Johnson orders added pressure to curb steel price boosts
President Johnson directs government civilian agencies to join the Pentagon in cutting purchases from price boosting steel firms. Officials weigh further actions if needed as eight of the 10 largest producers already raise prices. Senator Hart urges FTC probe while Senator Morse calls for a federal inquiry.
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Austin
Tex
Johnson
Pentagon
Texas White House
George Christian
Washington
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Federal Trade Commission
Hart
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Three U.S. Pilots Home After Hanoi Prison
Maj. James Low, Maj. Fred Thompson, and Capt. Joe Carpenter, released from a North Vietnamese camp, flew from Hanoi to Bangkok for a dinner with U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger and a Bangkok hotel stay before heading to New York. They described bread rations, pork fat meals, and reading local papers in captivity, and noted they chose commercial travel for the trip home.
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Peter O’loughlin
Bangkok
Thailand
Hanoi
North Vietnam
James F Low
Sausalito
Calif
Fred N. Thompson
Taylors
S.C
Joe V. Carpenter
Victorville
Vietiane
Low
Thompson
Carpenter
Newsweek
Radio
Paris
U.S
Leonard Unger
New York
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