Prague Radio names Jan Pelnar interior minister
Prague Radio announced Jan Pelnar former head of the Communist party in western Bohemia will replace Gen. Josef Pavel as interior minister in Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia. Pavel resigned and was accepted by President Ludvik Svoboda. Streets remained empty under curfew and casualties were reported amid the invasion.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Radio
Jan Pelnar
Communist Party
Bohemia
Josef Pavel
Pavel
Ludvik Svoboda
Martin Czur
Moscow
Slavia
Eisenhower Reading In Bed While Improving Slowly
Washington AP General Eisenhower remains bed-ridden but resting comfortably as doctors note steady but slow progress after his seventh heart attack. He passes time reading shoot em up westerns while oxygen is given intermittently.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Walter Reed General Hospital
E Hospital
Army
Iran Earthquake Leaves Hundreds Dead in Eastern Region
An earthquake measuring about one minute struck a 750 square mile area in eastern Iran near Russia and Afghanistan. Early official casualty figures were withheld, but Red Lion and Sun and press reports described heavy damage and hundreds of deaths.
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Tehran
Iran
Russia
Afghanistan
Red Lion
Sun
Stalled Car Struck, State Girl Killed Near Glenrio
A Wisconsin girl, eight year old Carleen Jungblut, died when a stalled car waiting for fuel was struck near Glenrio Texas on a road close to the New Mexico border. Her father Charles A Jungblut witnessed the crash while returning with a gasoline can. The mother and two brothers and a sister were injured.
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Glenrio
Tex
Wis
Gil
Texas Panhandle
Charles A. Jungblut
Hartland
Carleen
New Mexico
Marchers Versus Daley Ignite Chicago Protest Clash
The Chicago confrontation between antiwar demonstrators and police and National Guardsmen began in Lincoln Park and spread through the North Side. Nightly curfews and riot-control tactics followed as crowds grew, with taunts and bottle-throwing marking the first day of clashes amid security measures around the Democratic convention.
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Chicago
Peace Pilgrims
Richard J. Daley
Michigan Avenue
Near North Side
Daley
National
Lincoln Park
Lake Michigan
Youth International Party
Humphrey Won Delegates With Quiet Chicago to Philadelphia Strategy
Hubert Humphrey built support through a steady sequence of meetings with mayors bankers ministers and labor leaders across cities including Philadelphia Oklahoma City Omaha Cleveland Columbus Detroit Denver San Francisco and San Antonio. At each stop he courted convention delegates and forged commitments that propelled him past the nomination threshold at the Democratic Convention.
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Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
Philadelphia
Bellevue-Stratford
Pennsylvania
Humphrey
Phrey
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Cleveland
Columbus
Detroit
Denver
San Francisco
San Antonio
Congress Set For Return In Election Year Scramble
Congress readies return after party conventions as re election pressures loom. Major issues include Fortas nomination to chief justice gun control budget cuts farm programs antipoverty aid and nuclear treaty talks amid Cold War tensions. Senate leaders suggest session could extend through year despite members wanting home for campaigning.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Bmhaenkaf Tha Hanes Handlad
Johnson
Abe Fortas
United States
Redwoods National Park
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Army paratroopers uncover large arms cache near Hue
Eighty second Airborne Division troopers found a major Viet Cong stockpile eight miles southwest of Hue after a defector led them to tunnels. The cache included 500 rifles, 5000 mortar rounds, 310 anti tank weapons, 20000 .50 caliber rounds and 1750 North Vietnamese uniforms. A two story field hospital was found in the tunnel complex and one wounded soldier died during overrun. Civilian casualties and village burnings were reported south of Hue and near Hoi An.
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Saigon
Hue
U.S
South Vietnam
82Nd Airborne Division
Associated Press
Joe Holloway
Holloway
Hoi An
Hoi
Fire in Gary destroys three buildings. death toll reaches 13
Rescue teams in Gary Indiana recovered six more bodies from the rubble of three Midtown buildings raising the death toll to 13. Fire investigators said identification may be limited by charring and the cause remains under investigation as police seek missing persons.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Gary
Gary, Ind
Whtich
Murder Charge Against Marine Veteran in 2-Year-Old's Death
Midland Texas police charged Michael Lee Moody, a Marine veteran and rookie officer, with murder after his stepfather Jack Walcher’s home yielded the partially nude body of 2-year-old Lori Gunn. Moody, the sole occupier at the scene, faced a murder count with malice as investigators noted the child died by a blow to the head though the charge cited death by unknown means.
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Midland
Tex
Marine Corps
Lord Margaret Gunn
Jack Walcher
Walcher
Michael Lee Moody
Vince Conklin
The
Midland Police
Conklin
Moody
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