Marines Repel Viet Cong Attack Near Chu Lai
U S Marines beat back a Viet Cong thrust on Chu Lai as artillery duelled with mortars. A 160 strong Marine force repelled an assault at Phu Bai with light casualties while VC attacks hit Phu Loi north of Saigon. Two airmen were rescued after ejecting from a damaged F4B Phantom.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Chu Lai
Phu Bai
Phu Loi
Mekong Delta
North
Viet Nam
Air Force
U.s. 1St Infantry Division
Boi Loi
101St Airborne Division
Tuy Hoa
1St
1St Cavalry
Tan Birth
Ba Lai
South China Sea
Robert Pappas
East St. Louis
Til
John R. Cola
Senate holds ad hoc Viet Nam debate despite no speakers
The Senate convenes a special Saturday session on Viet Nam policy with no speakers announced. Senator Morse suggested he may speak if others fail to appear, while Senator Long urged colleagues to share speeches. President Johnson holds a news conference as Fulbright’s committee weighs new foreign aid requests and Humphrey eyes testimony.
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Washington
Senate
Russell B. Long
Wayne Morse
Dore
Lousiana Democrat
Johnson
Viet Nam
Hubert H. Humphrey
J. W. Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
White House
Asia
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Robert S. McNamara
Priest Suspended Over Call for Priest Union in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, 31 year old Father William J. DuBay was suspended from the priesthood by Cardinal McIntyre for urging priests to form a union. He says his appeal to the Pope for an ecclesiastical trial stands, while the archdiocese cites irreverence and disobedience and retains suspension until further notice.
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Los Angeles
Archdiocese of
William J.dubay
DuBay
James Francis Cardinal McIntyre
Chancery
Cardinal McIntyre
Father DuBay
Paul VI
Compton
Anaheim
Calif
St. John's Hospital
DuiBay
Robert Kintner Resigns As NBC Chairman
Robert E. Kintner resigns as NBC board chairman effective March 31 after serving since January. The Swarthmore graduate, 56, led NBC following Sarnoff and urged more experimentation in regular programming and greater use of preemption for special programs addressing controversial social and economic issues.
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Robert Kintner
NBC
New York
Robert E. Kintner
The
National Broadcasting Co
Kintner
Robert W. Saroff
Radio Corporation of America
Kininer
Swarthmore College
A “T Am
PT Klint News
Swarthmore Grad
Boy Hooks Dead Otter
WEST STEWARTSTOWN NH AP Robert Burns fishing on Lake Francis hauled a large dead otter onto the ice after enlarging the hole. The odd catch drew amusement as Burns realized the animal was not a sailfish but a lifeless otter.
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West Stewartstown
Robert Burns
Lake Francis
N.A
Indonesian Crisis Deepens As Sukarno Cracks Down
Singapore sources report Indonesian tanks and troops blocking roads to the palace while helicopters monitor protests against Sukarno. KAMI banned and Shi hopes from Moslem Students Union add tension as Nasution’s fate remains unclear and curfews extend.
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Singapore
Sukarno
Jakarta
KAMI
Lacit
Abdul Harris Nasution
Radio Jakarta
Nasution
Voice of Free Indonesia
Java
Ibrahim Aji
Siliwangi
Tor
Aji
Syria names two civilians to head new regime
In Damascus the coup leaders named Dr. Noured din Atassi aged 36 as chief of state and Dr. Youssef Zayyven aged 33 as prime minister. The pair replaces deposed Gen Amin Hafez and Salah Bitar as the Temporary Command of the Arab Socialist Baath party.
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Damascus
Syria
Juma
Noureddin Atassi
Amin Hafez
Youssef Zayyven
Salah Bitar
Radio
Arab Socialist Baath Party
Ussher
Nkrumah
Accra
J.A. Ankrah
New
National Liberation Council
Ghana
Albert Adomakoh
Bank of Ghana
R. S. Ame ‘Gashie
B. K. Messah
United States
Broadcast House
E. K. Katoka
Katoka
Peking
Convention People's Party
Geoffrey Bing
Wag Keia Batsa
Spark
Ghanaian Times
Convention People’s Party
Kwame Nkrumah
Washington
State Department
Militar
Robert J. McClaskey
Gallant Knights Help Girl Retrieve Glasses in Sewer
In Middleboro Massachusetts Dawn Emmons 8 lost her glasses down a storm drain. Workers from the water and highway departments struggled two hours to retrieve the glasses from muddy water before finally returning them to Dawn.
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Middleboro
Mass
Water and Highway Departments
Dawn Emmons
Highway Department
Water Department
Dawn
Relatives Cheer 450 Released From Ghana Jails
In Accra relatives welcomed 450 released detainees as Ghana freed political prisoners reportedly jailed under Kwame Nkrumah era. Many ex-prisoners appeared weak and ill after years in confinement.
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Ghana
Accra
Rela-lother
Kwamel
Nkrumah
Mossler Defense Rests Case in Florida Murder Trial
The Jacques Mossler murder trial defense rests without calling Mossler’s wife Candace or her nephew Melvin Lane Powers. The state plans 10 rebuttal witnesses as the judge warns jurors to ignore a second Grimsley testimony about an alleged killing offer.
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Miami, Fla
Jacques Mossler
Mossler
Candace
Melvin Lane Powers
Messler
Grimsley
Powers
Massler
Houston
College Students Face Test for Draft Deferments
Washington AP reports about one million draft eligible students to take selective service college qualification tests this spring. Tests on May 14 21 and June 3 will be at 1200 locations across the continental U S Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone to aid boards in deferment decisions.
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Washington
Selective Service
United States
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Canal Zone
Science Research Associates of Chicago
Lewis B. Hershey
John Weaver
Ohio State University
John A. Monro
Harvard University
Teenagers seek UN site to test powerful homemade missile
Jacksonville high school senior Dave Witte leads the Morgan County Amateur Rocket Society seeking a launching site outside the United States after U.S. agencies deny sponsorship. The 12 foot rocket would reach 60 000 feet and 1200 mph with three stages and a transmitter.
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Jacksonville
Morgan County
Amateur Rocket Society
Witte
U.S
Wille
U 'Thant
U.N
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Nations
United States
Rocket Club
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George Schulz
Arthur Grimsley
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Schulz
Maurice Sodihoff
Federal Aviation Agency
Baylin Hardware
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