Viet Cong Attacks In Mekong Delta And North Viet Nam
Viet Cong forces shelled outposts 100 to 125 miles southwest of Saigon with 60mm and 81mm mortars causing light to no casualties in some attacks. A Navy Skyraider from USS Midway was lost near the Dong Hoi barracks after ground fire. Viet Cong medical facility uncovered near Saigon held 14 wards and thousands of medicine supplies with 2,000 arms and ammunition items and 1,000 tons of rice seized. Forward air controllers reported 200 guerrillas killed in 24 hours, though not confirmed by body count. In North Viet Nam raids, eight F105s hit an explosives plant near Hanoi and four attacked a barracks near the South Viet Nam border. Seven tanks damaged in a separate strike on a petroleum storage area south of Hanoi. See ATTACK, Page 3.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong
U.S
Navy
al Skyraider
Dong Hoi
Borider
Midway
Gle
Duc Co
Pleiku
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Air Force
Viet Nam
Independence
Two Yachts Missing as Coast Guard Scours Lake Michigan
Coast Guard ships and planes comb Lake Michigan for a missing cabin cruiser after a storm. Chicago executive Sanford Lederer and his wife survived seven hours adrift in the Jonah, while another cruiser Kenmar remains unaccounted for as searches continue near Racine and Kenosha.
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Two Rivers
Coast Guard
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Sanford H. Lederer
Kenmar
Lederer
Racine
Associated Press
Kenosha
Barnacle Bill
O’brien
Wis
Jonah
Michigan
Slain inmates shock Moose Lake prison camp
Two inmates were killed and a third wounded in a Moose Lake Minnesota correction camp attack Friday afternoon. Prison staff pursued two逃 fugitives who hid in a farm field and later refused to talk. Authorities name the dead as Stanley Mains Gerald Johnson and Stanley Chavez with suspects Harry Mason and John Pittman taken into custody.
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Moose Lake, Minn
Moose Lake
Reformatory
Jack Young
St. Cloud Reformatory
Moose Lake State Hospital
Duluth
Carlton County
Stanley Mains
Pipestone
Gerald Johnson
Detroit Lakes
Stanley Chavez
Minneapolis
Mercy Hospital
Harry Mason
St. Paul
John Pittman
Mason
Pittman
Wisconsin Rep. Reuss's son held after Mississippi death
Mike Reuss 18, son of Rep. Henry S. Reuss, was arrested in Mississippi amid civil rights protests. Authorities say Trooper Cowart died after a struggle with Reuss during a frisk. officials filed manslaughter charges while Reuss, in Jackson jail earlier for picketing, claims innocence.
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Mississippi
Ea Wweet
Henry S. Reuss
D-Wis
Stanford
Joe Strickland
Cowart
Buck
Rep
London
Washington
Mike Reuss
Jackson
State
Lee Reuss
Eleven Killed In Wisconsin Highway Toll Spike
A day of Wisconsin highway disasters left 11 dead including John R. Vanderhoef 49 of Racine and 17 year old Richard Fawcett driver of a Wildcat Implement Co. truck. Vanderhoef’s wife and children were injured as a flatbed collision occurred on Highway 23 west of Princeton. The fatalities raised the year’s toll to 548 with many victims under 25.
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John R. Vanderhoef
Racine
Richard Fawcett
Hillsboro
Princeton
Fawcett
Wildcat Implement Co
Vanderhoef
Wisconsin
Associated Press
David Jankord
Bloomington
Minn
Lake Mills
Milwaukee
Marinette
Mary D. Weed
Wesley
Daniel
Green Bay
Pammy Kosteretz
Mark Schmutzler
Watertown
Burlington
Edward Worth
Chippewa Falls
Joseph Prueher
Bloomer
Ronald Boers
Robert Gillis
Demonstrators protest LBJ Viet Nam policies across states
Hundreds demonstrated in Washington California and Indiana against President Johnson's Viet Nam policy. In Washington 600 attended a four hour rally near the White House and a sit in occurred at a gate. In Emeryville 300 pickets blocked troops trains to Oakland and in Bloomington over 100 IU students marched with signs. A second assembly planned a Monday march to the Capitol.
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Washington
California
Indiana
Johnson
White House
Emeryville
Calif
Oakland
Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Santa Fe
Camp David
Thurmont
Bearlier
Viet Nam
China
United Nations
Hirshima
Japan
Joan Baez
Eight die as plane crashes into California cemetery
A Beechcraft twin-engine plane veered through heavy fog and crashed into All Souls Cemetery in Lakewood, killing eight aboard two families. Deputies said no one on the ground was hurt. The victims included pilot James Whitmarsh and two Whittier families, en route to Niagara Falls. The aircraft was linked to James C. Thomas III of Pasadena.
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Alameda County Sheriff's Office
Lakewood
Calif
All Souls Cemetery
Long Beach
John Hagedorn
Hagedorn
Joseph Rhoades
Roy Kundtz
James Whitmarsh
Mildred
Terry
Mary Margaret
James Edward Dent
Whittier
Rebecca
Peggy
Richard
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Dent
Roy
James C. Thomas III
Pasadena
Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel
Government Moves To Enforce Rights Law
The Department of Justice launches enforcement of the voting rights act starting in Jackson Mississippi challenging Mississippi poll tax and setting up federal registration in the South. Attorney General Katzenbach says thousands of Negro citizens may be registered by year end as King notes expected registrations reach about 900 thousand in the region. President Johnson urges registration and voting while suits target poll taxes in Texas Alabama and Virginia with counties to be named.
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Department of Justice
Department
Jackson
Miss
Atty
Nicholas B. Katzenbach
South
Joe T. Patterson
Mississippi
Justice Department
Martin Luther King Jr
Alabama
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
Alaska
North Carolina
Katzenbach
Texas
St Paul Babysitter Slaying Suspect Indicted
St Paul Ramsey County grand jury indicted Dennis Linehan on two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping in connection with the babysitter slaying. The indictment was handed up Friday night in St Paul Minnesota.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Ramsey County Grand Jury
Dennis Linehan
Cambridge man charged in murder of Barbara Iverson
A 24 year old Cambridge man faces first degree murder and related counts for killing 14 year old Barbara Iverson during an alleged rape or sodomy. He reportedly admitted strangling her after abducting her from a Glen Hanson home and hiding the body in Anoka County.
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Barbara Iverson
Cambridge
Linehan
St. Paul
Glen Hanson
William Randall
Barbara
Anoka County
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Weekend Rain Then Warmup Clouds and Cooler Night
The forecast calls for a cloudy, cooler regime with light rain Saturday night. Slow clearing Sunday brings a warming trend with highs in the 80s. Monday looks fair and slightly warmer with continued mild conditions.
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