Imbert Announces Dominican Junta to Quit
Brig. Gen. Antonio Imbert Barreras said the civilian military junta will resign to allow a provisional government under the OAS to take office likely by midweek. The five member junta and the cabinet would step down as negotiations with the OAS proceed, amid signs of divisions within the armed forces over the peace plan.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Imbert
OAS
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Francisco J. Rivera
Armed Forces
Rivera Caminero
Military Chiefs of Staff
Junta
Hector Garcia Godoy
Army
Johnson
Petition For D.C. Home Rule Faces Stiff Hurdle
Washington AP report says House leaders after meeting with President Johnson remain unwilling to sign a petition backing a House vote on a D C home rule bill. Speaker McCormack and Leader Albert decline to sign or vote except on ties. The bill sits in the District of Columbia Committee as backers push to force a floor vote needing over 40 more signatures.
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Washington
Johnson
District of Columbia
John McCormack
D-Mass
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
House
Weight regain under way after Gemini 5 flight
Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. PC regained weight after an eight day space mission. Medical tests show they are in good condition with no adverse effects. Gemini 6 prep proceeds with Schirra and Stafford training to test final docking maneuvers using the Agena satellite.
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Howard Benedict Cape
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Cooper
Conrad
Cape Monday
Lake Champlain
Atlantic Ocean
Charles A. Berry
Gemini
Berry
Cape Kennedy
Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Space Agency
Cooper- Conrad
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
White House
Paris
Soviets Reject Treaty To Stop Nuclear Spread
At Geneva the Soviet Union rejected the American plan to halt nuclear weapons spread. Soviet Delegate Semyon K Tsarapkin said no treaty can succeed without banning West Germany from nuclear access. He called West German militarism the greatest danger and accused Western powers of double talk on nonproliferation. Foster defended the draft and urged unity against Soviet aims to divide the alliance.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
West Germany
U.S
William C. Foster
Foster
Tsarapkin
North Atlantic Alliance
Atlantic
Desegregation Spreads Quietly Across Deep South Schools
Across the South the desegregation of public schools continued with few incidents. In Hayneville Alabama four Negro pupils entered Hayneville High School watched by twenty five white spectators, and one rode a bus with white children. Other districts including Barnwell and Phenix City saw Negro students attend previously white schools without trouble. In Atlanta integration leaders children enrolled at a previously white school, joining peers of MLK Jr and Ralph Abernathy families as the era of controlled change advances.
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Associated Press
South
Alabama
Black Belt
Hayneville High School
Hayneville
Montgomery
Mansfield
Tex
Willie Pigg
South Carolina
Barnwell
S.C
Barnwell County
Blackwell
Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr
Ralph Abernathy
King
Ala
Phenix City
Valdosta
South Georgia
Wife Reaches Shore as Shipping Executive Drowns
Albert C. Ingersoll Jr. 54 of Federal Barge Lines perished after a collapse of a 16 foot boat in Green Bay near Marinette. His wife Carol 42 swam to shore after a five hour ordeal and was treated for exposure. Winds and five foot waves battered the bay as rescuers recalled her persistence and use of life preservers.
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Marinette
St. Louis
Green Bay
Albert C. Ingersoll Jr
Federal Barge Line, Inc
Carol
Lake Michigan
Sturgeon Bay
U.S. Coast Guard
Ingersoll
Kirkwood
Federal Barge Lines
Columbus
Ohio
U.S. Naval Academy
New York State Merchants Marine Academy
Coast Guard
Belnap
Mississippi River
St. Louis Shipbuilding Corp
Stanford Physicist dies of heart attack at 65
Stanford professor Simon Sonkin age 65 of the microwave laboratory died Sunday from a heart attack. He was a physics and electronics faculty member at Stanford University.
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Stanford, Calif
Simon Sonkin
Stanford University
Microwave Laboratory
Gettelman Dies at 75 Veteran Wisconsin Senator
Bern hard Benny Gettelman a Milwaukee Republican longtime lawmaker from World War I era through the mid 1950s died Monday at St Marys Hospital at age 75. He served six years in the Assembly and 28 in the Senate, was customs collector here for seven years and ran for Congress and secretary of state. He led fights for public flogging of wives beaters and for publicly financed school bus transportation to parochial and private schools. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Milwaukee
Bernhard
Benny) Gettelman
Wisconsin
Gettelman
Assembly
Senate
U.S. Collector of Customs
Congress
St. Mary’s Hospital
Chicago
State Senate of Wisconsin
Charles K. Harris
Draft Board To Check Students' Records
MADISON AP Col Bentley Courtenay says local draft boards will inspect college student records this fall. Part time students may face harder deferment chances though no policy denies 2-S status. Boards will weigh grades and progress toward a degree. More youths drafted as enlistments fail to meet Viet Nam war quotas.
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Madison
Col
Bentley Courtenay
Selective Service
Courtenay
Negotiators urged to stay in session over steel strike
President Johnson won an eight day postponement and pressed for a settlement as AFL CIO United Steelworkers and top steel producers resumed talks in Washington. Senate leaders Mansfield and House Speaker McCormack urged continued negotiations to keep mills operating and avert economic and war impact.
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Johnson
United Steel Workers
I. W. Abel
R. Conrad Cooper
UPI
Washington
Capitol
Afl-Cio
United Steelworkers Union
America
White House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
House
John McCormack
Mansfield
McCormack
Viet Nam
Bill D. Moyers
Pittsburgh
SMU Hires First Negro On Faculty
Southern Methodist University announces the appointment of its first African American faculty member. Dr. William S. Willis Jr. a former Columbia University faculty member, will serve as an assistant professor in the sociology anthropology department.
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Dallas, Tex
Southern Methodist University
William S. Willis Jr
Columbia University
Swiss glacier cracks again burying 96 workers at Mattmark site
The Allalin Glacier at Saas Fee collapsed sending ice and rock onto the Mattmark power project. About 1,000 workers were at the 6,000 foot site when the bottom half gave way, leaving 96 buried and feared dead. Rescue efforts paused by a second avalanche as operations struggled to recover bodies and injuries mounted.
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Geoffrey Atkins Saas Fee
Switzerland
Swiss Alps
Allalin
Saas Fee
Mattmark
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Allen Lietzke
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