Reagan Edges Nixon for Utah Delegates at GOP Convention
Utah delegates split with five Reagan endorsed, two Nixon backed and one uncommitted. Uncommitted Janice Romney said she lost her candidacy while supporting Nixon at times. Delegates include Ernest Wilkinson of BYU and Rep. Lawrence Burton. The Utah meeting closed the Republican state conventions.
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California
Ronald Reagan
Richard M. Nixon
Utah
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Nixon
Madge Fairbanks
GOP
Janice Romney
Michigan
George Romney
Lawrence Burton
Richard Richards
Ernest L. Wilkinson
Brigham Young University
Clifford Advances Ceasefire Request Amid Paris Talks
In a White House briefing the administration linked ceasefire ideas to ongoing Paris conferences. President Johnson directed a reading from Gen. Creighton Abrams on current Vietnam operations and U.S. command posture as discussions unfold.
Defector Writer Be Liikov Abandons USSR for U.S.
Soviet writer and critic V. Beliikov defects to the United States with his wife, denouncing the Soviet regime as liars and criminals. He cites his resignation letter to the USSR Writers union on June 20 and comments on government oppression. The note mentions U.S. aims in South Vietnam and a guarded Saigon arrival.
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New York
Arkadiy V. Beliikov
United States
Belinkov
Union of Writers of the Ussr
U.S
Clifford
Saigon
Wallace Sees Name on Maryland Ballot
Former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace claimed victory in Maryland as a third party presidential candidate. He told supporters his campaign gathered 55,000 signatures, about 12,000 more than Maryland's requirement to qualify for the November election.
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Alabama
George C. Wallace
Maryland
Wallace
Rockefeller proposes gradual pullout of 75000 troops
Rockefeller urges mutual confidence and a staged Vietnam pullout. He calls for a neutral buffer force, free elections with Viet Cong participation if violence is renounced, reduced search and destroy missions, rearming South Vietnam, and a year of 10000 U.S. troop withdrawals if Hanoi slows infiltration. He vows to avoid past entanglements and to support allies without substituting for them.
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Hanoi
William C. Westmoreland
United States
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Gavin
Czechs See Troop Pullout Amid New Soviet Pressure
Prague reports Soviet convoys began withdrawing to bases in Poland East Germany and the USSR as the liberal Dubcek regime faces renewed pressure. Estimates of troops range 6000 to 24000 while Brezhnev Podgorny attend a high level Soviet led meeting in Warsaw.
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East Germany
Soviet Union
Moscow
East Europe
Alexander Dubcek
Red Army
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Warsaw
Bulgaria
Hungary
FB111A Test Flight Demonstrates New Bomber
The Pentagon announced a FB111A bomber version completed a 660 mile per hour maiden flight at Carswell Air Force Base Texas. The swing wing jet flew 30 minutes to 20 000 feet and follows the B 52 as its bomber successor.
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Pentagon
Carswell Air Force Base
Texas
Vietnam
Air Force
Southeast Asia
Thailand
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