Five Western States Fight Forest Fires Across Nation
Heat and lightning sparked brush and forest fires across five Western states including California Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana. Firefighters battled thousands of acres of flames in dense timber with hot shot crews aiding California. A separate Alaska flood emergency led to disaster declarations and National Guard mobilization. A Census Bureau report showed a drop in poverty nationwide yet persistent nonwhite poverty, while government moves expanded birth control initiatives and a high level review of communications policy faced Congress.
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California
Cascades
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Hollister
State Division of Forestry
San Andreas
Cascade Range
Willamette National Forest
Wester Montana
San Bernardino
U S Air Strikes Near Chinese Border Escalate
U S warplanes attacked Lang Son and Na Thuerailyard near the Chinese border as part of a campaign to curb war goods flow to North Vietnam. The strikes came as debates rose over the widening scope of air attacks within 10 miles of China with political criticism mounting in Washington.
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Satgon
Red China
China
North Vietnam
Lang Son
Na Thue
U.S
Johnson
South Vietnam
Washington
Mike Mansfield
Senate
Vietnam
Mansfield
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles H. Percy
R-Ill
Mexico
Rio Grande
U S Clears Baronik in trawler case and other news
The U S government dropped the charge of fishing inside the 12 mile limit against Russian trawler captain Daniel Baronik after review found evidence circumstantial not enough for conviction. Baronik’s vessel was seized after a chase near Akutan Island in the Aleutians. In Washington, Joan Baez drew crowds at a free performance near the Washington Monument after DAR blocked a concert at Constitution Hall. Other items note a Nazi gas trial in Stuttgart and various political and cultural updates.
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U.S
Daniel Baronik
Anchorage
Richard McVeigh
McVeigh
Baronik
Coast Guard
Akutan Island
Aleutians
Washington, D.C
Joan Baez
Daughters of the American Revolution
Constitution Hall
Washington
Washington Monument
DAR
Miss Baez
Patty
William Henry Sullivan Jr
Stewart L. Udall
Panama Court Sentences Jimenez in 1964 Arias Attack
A Panama court on Monday sentenced Alfredo Jimenez to 10 years in jail for the attempted assassination of Roberto Arias in 1964. Arias, husband of British ballet star Dame Margot Fonteyn, was left crippled for life.
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Panama
Alfredo Jimenez
Roberto Arias
Arias
Margot Fonteyt
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Nenana
Walter Hickel
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Gardner
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Fowler
Schultze
Gardner Ackley
President
House
Ways and Means
Ways & Means
Wilbur .Mills
D-Ark
New York
Episcopal Church
James A. Pike
Jerusalem
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Brussels
Congo
Kinshasa
Bukavu
Columbia Broadcasting System
Morley Safer
Genoa
Italy
Cuba
Hondu
Knutsfield
Russ Trawler
Nazi Germany
Stuttgart
Albert Widman
Widmann
Heinrich Himmler
Minsk
Frank Sinatra
Mia Farrow
Peyton Place
Paramount Studios
Hollywood
Vidal Sassoon
Miss Farrow
Rosemary
Andreas Papandreou
George Papandreou
Athens
Stylianos Patakes
Papandreou
Patakos
University of California At Berkeley
Edmund Brown
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Martin Luther King Jr
SNCC
Poitier
Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Liberation Negro Movement
Grand Jury
Chicago
Robert Waskin
William Riceman
Indianapolis
Ind
Waskin
Daniel
Paris
Larry, Collins
Collins
Au Secours
Stlion
Michel Safirstein
Ralph Humphrey
Minneapolis
Hubert Humphrey
Jane Tayree
Joan Crawford
Russell
Alessio
Caliente Race Track
San Diego
PRADO
Mamuel Prado
Peru
Jane Darwell
Bethe
OK Commission Gallery
West ST. Garden Grove
Long Bench
Groupe
Lakewood Blvd
Long Beach
Phare
Alan Patio
Cere Ladd
Cere
Compton
Beech
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