North Korea claims sinking of spy ship in Yellow Sea
North Korea radio says its KPA patrol boats sank an enemy spy ship near Pukpo Harbor in the Yellow Sea and sent the crew to the bottom. U S officials deny any sinking and say no missing vessels are reported.
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North Korea
Yellow Sea
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Korean Central
U.S
Washington
Phil G. Goulding
United States
State Department
Seoul
Korea
314Th Air Division
Boopo
Pukpo
38Th Parallel
Haeju
Yunpyund Island
Pueblo
Wonsan
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South Korea
Pentagon
North
Korean Peoples Army
KRA
Pukpo Harbor
Yompyong Island
U.S. Navy
Paris
Vietnam War Reaches Longest Length As U.S. Forces Stack South Saigon
Saigon reports the Vietnam War now six years six months and one day old since Dec 22 1961 when Spec 4 James Thomas Davis of Livingston died. Thousands of U.S. troops move to new positions to defend South Vietnam's capital against a potential third enemy offensive.
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U.S
South Vietnam
James Thomas Davis
Livingston
101St Airborne Division
Cambodia
Hau Nghia
Firecracker explosion kills girl in Pittsburg
In Pittsburg Kansas a truck carrying firecrackers exploded after a teen lit a cracker and tried to throw it out. Patricia J Stanford, 17, was killed and driver James H Cutburth, 17, was seriously injured and taken to Kansas University Medical Center.
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Patricia J. Stanford
James H. Cutburth
Kansas University Medical Center
Kansas City
Kansas
Police cancel search for girl in dotted dress
Los Angeles police canceled an all points bulletin about a girl in a white polka dot dress tied to the Kennedy assassination. Inspector Powers said the description was erroneous and no person with special knowledge of the killing existed.
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Los Angeles
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
John Powers
Detective Bureau
French vote Sunday tests Gaullist hold on France
Paris AP reports France begins two stage vote for 487 National Assembly seats amid voter lassitude after strikes and riots. De Gaulle seeks a decisive Gaullist majority to block totalitarian and communist forces. 2,267 candidates run in 470 districts with major parties fielding hundreds of nominees.
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Charles de Gaulle
National Assembly
France
Federation of Democratic and Socialist Left
Modern Progress and Democracy
de Gaulle
Senators oppose Johnson naming new chief justice after Warren
Three Republican senators oppose allowing a lame duck president to designate the Supreme Court's next chief justice as Earl Warren plans to retire. They warn of breaking faith with the system amid a shifting political landscape.
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Johnson
Supreme Court
Earl Warren
Sen
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Senate
Strom Thurmond
R-Sc
Warren
Senate Judiciary Committee
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
U. S
United Nations
United States
California
Jesse M. Unruh
Johnson names Menninger to violence commission
President Johnson named Dr. William Walter Menninger of the Menninger Clinic Topeka Kan to the commission on the causes and prevention of violence joining Ernest W McFarland Arizona chief judge and former senator and governor and Leon Jaworski senior partner in a Houston law firm in the 13 member body.
Democratic rivals meet back home in Minnesota
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to address a Minnesota fund raising dinner in St Paul his first political outing since Robert Kennedy assassination. Senator Eugene McCarthy and Humphrey exchange a brief handshake at the event as both seek the Democratic nomination. Nixon and Rockefeller pace the GOP with Rockefeller claiming momentum and Wallace drawing crowds at a Jackson Mississippi dinnerendee.
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Humphrey
St. Paul
Minn
Robert F. Kennedy
Sen
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
McCarthy
Democratic Farmer Labor Party
Waverly
New York
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Rockefeller
George Wallace
American Independent Party
Alabama
Jackson
Miss
Prisoners graduate from Walla Walla college program
Forty percent of the spring graduate class at Walla Walla Community College came from the Washington State Penitentiary. Gov. Dan Evans announced that 31 inmates earned associate degrees in applied arts and sciences, with some studying unsupervised and returning to prison at night, and others taught by college staff inside the penitentiary.
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Walla Walla, Wash
Walla Walla Community College
Washington State Penitentiary
Dan Evans
Weather picture for Kansas through Sunday
Generally fair and warm weather is forecast for Kansas through Sunday. Highs will reach 90 to 95, with 65 to 70 degree lows tonight. Scattered thundershowers possible in the western portion Sunday, aiding the wheat harvest. Cooler air briefly moved into northwest Kansas but is expected to retreat northward. Top Friday readings ranged 85 to 95, with lows from 60 to 74.
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Kansas
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Abilene
Olathe
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