14 Mar 1966
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1966
Page
1
The message urges a decisive yes vote tomorrow for five city bond proposals. It argues all five are fully explained, approved by council members, and financed without tax rate increases. It warns apathy, stresses water, sewers, streets, lighting, safety, and building needs, and calls for the largest possible turnout and a sweeping majority.
In Saigon and Washington, Fulbright defends Senate hearings on Viet Nam policy as the country remains split over war aims. A war profiteer in Dalat is executed for embezzling public funds, while a former treasury chief Pleads guilty and seeks clemency amid graft charges. The affair underscores national divides and debate on U.S. objectives in Asia.
Reports from Singapore say Subandrio plotted an attack on the U S Embassy in Jakarta to rally pro Communist forces. The three day old Suharto government is said to hold Subandrio and President Sukarno under house arrest while intelligence agents clash with paratroopers and police.
Cape Kennedy Fla AP The Gemini 8 mission to rendezvous with an Agena target and perform a space walk is delayed 24 hours after leaks were found in an Atlas rocket and in a spacesuit circuit. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott will use the extra time to review flight plans as technicians fix fuel and life support systems. The plan calls for Atlas Agena to lift off at 10 am and the Gemini 8 spacecraft at 11:41 am to link with the Agena, followed by Scott’s 24 hour space walk to study life in high altitude.
In South Vietnam jets battered the Ashau Special Forces camp on the Laos border on day two of air strikes against a North Vietnamese regiment. The barrage faced heavy anti aircraft fire yet destroyed a building and five mortar positions while neutralizing nearby air defenses. A U.S. spokesman reported no plane losses.
In a Doone jungle Viet Cong stronghold the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s B Company battles for survival as a bomb crater fills with wounded soldiers. Capt. Ronnie L. Brownlee, wounded, directs troops from a tree as medics rush aid amid machine gun fire. A 19-year-old private dreams of home and a milk shake, while a patrol near Song Be River faces heavy fire and regrouping.
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