Navy jets strike Sam missile bases in North Vietnam
Two U S Navy F8 jet fighters opened fire on Soviet built Sam antiair craft missile bases in North Vietnam in a protective reaction after the bases fired Sam missiles and 37 millimeter rounds at an unarmed R 8 recon plane. Recon craft unharmed. no damage reported to missile sites. Bases lie 85 and 115 miles north of the DMZ, about 20 miles from Laos near Ho Chi Minh trail routes.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Laos
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail Complex
Letters Return to GM Nets Two Salvage Dealers 20000
Two salvage dealers earned 20000 after selling 19 boxes of microfilmed complaint letters about Chevrolet to General Motors. GM preferred to recover the letters to assess content, avoiding Nader exposure. The letters dated 1964 and 1965 emerged from a Chevrolet customer relations cache in a Detroit warehouse.
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Detroit
Chevrolet
General Motors
Ralph Nader
Kenneth Simpson
Floyd Avery
Tornadoes devastate Kentucky and Texas with multiple deaths
State officials report three tornados in south central Kentucky killed nine people and injured over 100 as damage runs into millions. Gov Nunn planned federal disaster designation while Thompsonville Illinois suffered one death and extensive destruction. In Kentucky six deaths occurred near Columbia, two in Russell County, and two in Butler Warren counties. A separate twister struck Waxahachie Texas damaging a Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
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Columbia
Kentucky
Louie Nunn
Thompsonville
Lll
Richard B. Ovilvie
Russell County
Butler- Warren
Texas
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Waxahachie
Shepard Named Admiral and Other Roster News
Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr moves to rear admiral as Nixon nominates 49 Navy captains for star ranks. Samuel Gravely Jr and Harry Train III also win admiral promotions in a Navy Board slate. James Johnson tapped as assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs. Also: Arnold Grant obtains uncontested divorce from Bess Myerson. Boyle ordered to step down as UMW welfare fund trustee. Roche removed. Welfare fund transfer ordered by June 30. A New Jersey man seeks $55 monthly welfare aid for a stable and horses. Harold Wilson visits New York with plans incl White House breakfast and Texas trip. Melvin Laird hospitalized for hernia operation.
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Alan Shepard Jr
America
Nixon
Shepard
Navy
Samuel Gravely Jr
Harry Train IH
James Johnson
Civil Service Commission
Madison, IL
Marine Corps
Defense Department
Naval Academy
Arnold Grant
Bess Myerson
New York Supreme Court
Miss Myerson
John Lindsay
Consumer Affairs
Morris Spector
Grant
U.S. District Court
United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Gerhard Gesel
Josephone Roche
Washington
UMW
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Carbondale
Ill
Combined News Services
Paris
Orly Airfield
Algiers
Tokyo
Japan
Pacific
Oknawa
Ankara
Turkey
William Rogers
Central Treaty Organization
China
London
Peking
Communist
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Jedgar Snow
Belfast
Falls Road
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
George Low
NASA
Amtrak
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Congress
Econony
Commerce Department
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S. Administration
Salvador
Brazil
Iphoto
Astronaut Shepard
Alan Shepard
Midshipmen
Academy
New Jersey
Robert Gallagher
Gallagher
Harold Wilson
New York
White House
President Johnson
Secretary of Defense
Melvin Laird
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Ephote
Yuzo Susagano
la Pasada
Lakewood
Bullock’s
Clark Avenue
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