Apollo 11 Moon Landing Countdown Underway At Cape Kennedy
Cape Kennedy crews fixed a Saturn 5 helium leak and started the countdown for Apollo 11. Astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin prepared in a command ship trainer while technicians tightened a loose fitting. The launch is set for next Wednesday with final checks and tests ongoing.
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Cape Kennedy
Lunar
Neil Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin Aldrin
Armstrong
Collins
Aldrin
First Sight of Wife and Children Brighten Blind Father's Day
A Pittsburgh father, Ralph Voelker, who has been blind since age 17 after a tank explosion, reunited with his wife Delores and four children Paul 8 John 6 Alan 3 months and Jeanne 15 months after an experimental eye operation restored sight in one eye. He wept with happiness as he returned home from New York, where doctors sewed a plastic cornea onto his right eye on June 29.
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Ralph Voelker
Voelker
Pittsburgh
New York
Paul
John
Alan
Jeanne
Delores
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
Herbert Hoover Jr
U.S. State Department
California
Huntington Community Hospital
Pasadena
Hoover
United States
Stanford University
Communists Hit 31 Targets in South Vietnam Actions
In South Vietnam Communist forces fired rockets mortars and recoilless rifles at 31 targets Thursday night and today, including six provincial capitals where two people were killed and several injured. Near Saigon a bomb outside an American enlisted men's quarters wounded nine GIs and 14 South Vietnamese civilians.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Vietnam War Toll Drops to Six Month Low
American combat deaths in South Vietnam fell to 153 last week, the lowest in six months. The total American deaths since January 1, 1961 rose to 37,019 as ground fighting slowed nationwide.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Vietnam
No Interference Claimed in Prisoner Release Talks
Paris American pacifist David T. Dellinger said Henry Cabot Lodge assured him the three POWs due for release by North Vietnam would go home unimpeded by U S Army He voiced this after meeting the chief American negotiator in Paris following the 25th session of Viet talks Dellinger noted prior releases had seen some Army interference.
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Paris
David T. Dellinger
Henry Cabot Lodge
Dellinger
Unconditional U.S. Pullout Rejected in Vietnam Talks
At the Vietnam peace talks in Paris and Washington the U S negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge rejects communist demands for an unconditional American withdrawal and calls for capitulation to be refused. A separate U S defense pact issue regarding Thailand is described as a military contingency plan. In Canada a major nickel strike by 17 200 United Steelworkers halts INCO plants in Toronto with potential global steel supply disruption. A hijacked DC 4 lands safely with all passengers unharmed as police detain the suspect. A British draft treaty to outlaw germ warfare is submitted in Geneva.
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U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Vietnam
Washington
Te Department
Aod
Toronto
United Steelworkers of America
International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd
INCO
Canada
Japan
Europe
Veterans Parade Draws Seattle Cheers and Mockery
A crowd welcomed 814 Vietnam veterans marching through downtown Seattle in misty rain while about 60 antiwar demonstrators jeered. It marked the first civic welcome for Vietnam veterans in the city.
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Seattle
Tax Reform Measure Clears House Panel For Bond Taxation
The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively approved a reform plan allowing state and municipal bonds to be taxed, enabling financing of civic projects with both tax exempt and federally subsidized taxable bonds. The move follows several Justice Department actions and regional funding considerations in Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Arkansas
Mississippi
Justice Department
Nixon voting rights bill fails in House backed extension
The House ordered the bill to extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act to a full committee, with Republicans led by Rep. McCulloch nearly united with Democrats to approve the extension. The administration proposal to replace the act faced strong civil rights opposition and failed in its first House test.
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Nixon
House
Rep
William
M. McCulloch
Ohio
South
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