Westmoreland bids farewell to Vietnam troops
Gen. Westmoreland visits Da Nang and Tan Son Nhut before departing Vietnam after more than four years. He addresses 300 staff at Saigon and leaves to become Army chief of staff in Washington. Abrams named as his successor. Also coverage notes Sen. Brooke’s remarks on perseverance amid national mood following RFK’s death. Britain’s first heart transplant patient Frederick West develops a chest infection but is not in danger.
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Senate
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Britain
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Navy Court
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Navy
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WANTS OUT Morley at Sacramento High seeks reassignment
Ulric Morley principal of Sacramento High, city’s oldest public secondary school, seeks a new position amid ongoing racial tensions and a cafeteria clash involving white and Negro students. Police were summoned as several students and teachers were struck during the unrest. Williams says he wants to return to the U.S. from Tanzania, having lived in Red China since 1966. Surgeon General Stewart calls noise a health hazard and criticizes treating it as a nuisance. Rev James C. Peters, Greensboro pastor, is named superintendent of the Winston-Salem Forsyth District of the United Methodist Church.
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Western North Carolina
Marines suffer heavy losses in Khe Sanh action
International ports report at least 12 Marines killed and nine wounded in a convoy ambush ten miles east of the Khe Sanh outpost. Leatherneck forces on a hill five miles south of the base killed 12 North Vietnamese, with seven Americans dead and 41 wounded. A dozen North Vietnamese were slain in the ambush as they attacked with satchel charges, rocket grenades and rifle fire before Marines answered with tanks, helicopter gunships and fighter bombers.
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Bidault declines run but backs anti Gaullist vote
Georges Bidault, a former premier and long time foe of Charles de Gaulle, said he would not seek parliamentary office this month. He signaled a spoiler role against de Gaulle by urging votes for leftist and centrist candidates while warning against Gaullists and Communists. Bidault, age 67, returned from self exile and resumed political fighting over the Fifth Republic and Algeria.
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Georges Bidault
de Gaulle
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National Assembly
France
Algeria
Tito Admits Guilt Promises Reforms
Belgrade President Tito vowed Sunday night to back sweeping social and educational reforms urged by protesting Yugoslav students. He said he would resign if he failed to satisfy them and urged Belgrade University students to return to their studies via a 20 minute nationwide radio and television address.
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Josip Broz Tito
Tito
Communist Party
Belgrade University
Poor's March Leader Replaced After Feud in Washington
Sterling Tucker of the Urban League will lead the Poor People's March on June 19 in Washington, replacing Bayard Austin who quit over goals. Abernathy clashed with Austin over demands on Congress for poverty relief, as marchers seek an end to poverty and a living-wage jobs pledge for all employable citizens.
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Urban League
Poor People
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League
District of Columbia
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Austin
Congress
Abernathy
Freeman urges equality and opportunity at American University
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told Sunday night graduates that colonial Americans launched the revolution of the common man and Americans must perfect the ideal of equality. He urged using talents to expand economic opportunity, end discrimination, and reduce poverty.
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American University
Washington
Freeman
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