Marines Surrounded on Hill in Three Day Viet Nam Siege
On a jungle hill near the DMZ, 1st Lt. Daniel McMahon and D Company, 4th Marine Regiment, fought to evacuate wounded under heavy North Vietnamese fire. Lt. Col. Jack Westerman directed a cautious response from a nearby hilltop as helicopters finally began evacuations after a prolonged standoff.
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Henri Huet
Demilitarized Zone
South Viet Nam
Daniel McMahon
D Company
4Th Marine Regiment
North
South
Viet Nam
McMahon
Jack
Black Jack) Westerman
Oceanside
Long Island
N.Y
Westerman
Bremerton
Wash
B Company
Surveyor 2 Aims for Moon Landing and Photos
America's Surveyor 2 cleared Cape Kennedy on an Atlas Centaur to target the Moon in a 63 hour flight. Officials say initial tracking shows accurate launch and midcourse guidance similar to Surveyor 1 as engineers race to confirm progress and timing.
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Jim Strotham
Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
U.S
Flight Control Center
Sinus Medis
Robert Gray
Old Belt tobacco opening prices rise at $65 to $69
Opening day prices on the North Carolina Virginia Old Belt flue cured markets averaged 65 to 69 dollars per hundred, higher than 1965. Sales were heavy on 19 markets with prices ranging 64 to 74. None financed by government loan in hour one. About 10 million pounds expected to sell today.
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Associated Press
GOP Accuses Democrats of Deception over Viet Nam
House Republicans led by Rep. Melvin Laird charge the Johnson administration deceived the public on Viet Nam and will push a major ground-war escalation after the November election. The paper predicts a post election request for 13.5 billion dollars for defense and delta-area escalation.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
House
Republican Today
Johnson
Viet Nam
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
GOP
Laird
Department of Defense
Southiet Nam
Charles E. Goodell
New York
GOP Committee On Research and Planning
Gerald R. Ford
Goodell
Harlem School Opens as Strike Continues Over Principal Change
In New York a 5 million Harlem model school reopened with 14 teachers on duty amid a racial dispute over replacing white principal Stanley Lisser with Beryl Banfield, a Negro assistant. Teachers picketed while Negro and Puerto Rican parents pressed for neighborhood control and integration.
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New York
Harlem
Beryl Banfield
Murray Hart
Board of Education
Stanley Lisser
Hart
Brookyn
Teachers’ Union
Harry Heitner
Lisser
Southern governors address civil rights at confab in Kentucky
The Dixie governors conference centered on racial issues with Alabama's George Wallace criticizing federal control of schools. Robert McNair urged softer federal school integration guidelines with claimed broad support. John McKeithen urged stronger federal stance against demonstrators. Paul Johnson Jr. cited difficulties in handling violence tied to integration.
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Alabama
George C. Wallace
South Carolina
Robert E. McNair
Johnson
Louisiana
John J. McKeithen
Mississippi
Paul B. Johnson Jr
South
Moore seeks 1967 Southern governors meeting site
Gov Dan Moore of North Carolina said he is trying to persuade southern governors to hold their 1967 conference in Asheville. The governors meet in different states each year and will decide the 1967 site at the close of the 1966 conference.
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Kentucky Dam
Village
Dan Moore
North Carolina
Asheville
N.C
Public confidence in Johnson dips after Hanoi oil depot bombings
A Harris poll shows 43 percent positive view of President Johnson's Vietnam handling, down from 54 percent after the initial bombings, echoing a pattern from last December's pause. Voters expect a long war but want an honorable end as soon as possible.
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Johnson
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Ford to test electric car in England next year
Ford Motor Co will test a prototype electric powered car in England next year and then roll it out in the United States. The company described a lightweight sodium sulfide battery and cautioned on timing while noting speculation about range and cost.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
England
United States
Ford
Arjay R. Miller
Ann Arbor
Miller
University of Michigan
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