Dengler Walks Again After Car Breaks Down
Navy Lt. Dieter Dengler, famed for a 22 day jungle escape in Laos, had to walk back to Washington when his borrowed car broke down on Saturday. After a Senate Armed Services Committee ovation, he spent the night with friends and found help three hours later to reach the Pentagon for a Navy briefing. He quipped that there were no mosquitoes or leeches in this jungle.
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Washington
Navy
Dieter Dengler
Laos
Navy Department
Dengler
Senate Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
FBI Arrests 13 White Men in Grenada Desegregation Probe
Federal agents detained 13 white men in Grenada Mississippi including Justice of the Peace James Richard Ayers on charges of conspiring to violate civil rights by attacking Negro children at newly desegregated schools. Bonds set at 1000 dollars each. A 13th suspect sought. U S Attorney H M Ray said the group aimed to oppress and intimidate citizens exercising constitutional rights.
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Grenada
Miss
FBI
Justice of the Peace
James Richard Ayers
Oxford
U.S
H. M. Ray
United States
Jackson
Roy K. Moore
Mississippi
Wilbur Ray Carroll
Grady Carroll
Constable Carroll
U.S. Dist
Claude Calyton
J. D. Quinn
Quinn
Missis
Marines Hold Off North Vietnamese After Sudden Assault
In South Viet Nam frontier fighting two U S Marine companies Bravo and Delta of the 4th Marine Regiment were cut off Saturday night by a battalion or more of North Vietnamese regulars. The Americans, outnumbered about three to one, had air and artillery support. A spokesman said they were not in danger as reinforcements marched in despite rough terrain and darkness slowing the movement.
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South Viet Nam
U.S. Marinere
Bravo
Delta
4Th Marine
Please Don't Die Marines in Viet Nam Field Action
In a Viet Nam rice paddy Marines dive from a dirt road as Viet Cong machine guns open fire. A corpsman pleads for a wounded man to live, but the casualty dies. the medic searches for his name while five bodies are loaded for extraction near the landing zone.
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Horst Falll
Demilitarized Zone
Viet Nam
Kennedy Book Ban Revealed by Mrs Kennedy
Author Jim Bishop said Mrs. John F. Kennedy twice asked him to drop his planned book The Day Kennedy Was Shot. He and Bennett Cerf of Random House confirm pressure to suppress sources and publication.
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New York
Jim Bishop
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Bishop
Bennett Cerf
Random House
Cerf
Fla
Manchester
New Kennedy
Dramatic Color Pictures Capture Gemini 11 Earth Curve
Gemini 11 astronauts Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon photographed earth from 851 miles up. Poor window glare and exposure limited film quality though high-resolution stills showed the planet curve and continents clearly.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Earth
Navy
Charles
Pete) Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Australia
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
Arabian Sea
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
Ethiopia
Somali
Viet Nam Obstacle to Accord at United Nations
U.S. Senator J William Fulbright warned that the Vietnam war would shadow the U N General Assembly making progress with the Soviet Union unlikely. He cited major agenda items including banning underground nuclear tests and seating Communist China. The U N secretary general's post and South West Africa future were also on the table as U Thant plans to retire.
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United Nations, N.Y
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Viet Nam
U.N. General Assembly
Senate Forign Relations Committee
U.S
U.N
China
United Nations
South-West Africa
U Thant
Fulbright
Dean Rusk
New York
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
Rusk
Hubert H. Humphrey
United States
Public Split Over Gun Laws Reflects National Tension
Washington report outlines public fear of rising violence and gun jitters while gun purchases surge. It cites Los Angeles gun buys three times higher than last year and California estimates 31,000 handguns bought in 1956. It notes federal and state debate, quotes Sen Kennedy and Sen Cannon, and compares homicide trends with firearms involvement.
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Hal D. Steward
North American Newspaper Alliance
Washington
Congress
Los Angeles
California Criminal Identification and Investigation Bureau
Los Ang
U. S
United States
U.S
Austin
Texas
Charles J. Whitm
Angus
Senate
Massachusetts
Edward M. Kennedy
Kennedy
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Martin Luther King Sr
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Eugene A. Cernan
Air Force
Michael Collins
Nevada
Howard W. Cannon
Cannon
Phoenix
Aziz
Paul Blabaum
Blabaum
Ation
DUKE
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