Main Battle Erupts Across Sinai and Surrounding Fronts
War erupts in the Middle East with heavy fighting in Sinai near Ismailia and Gaza, and on Syria and Jordan fronts. Israel targets Cairo Amman Damascus while Haifa is bombed. United Nations forces warned earlier. Amman reports clashes along Jordan's frontier. Damascus cites Syrian air strikes on Haifa refinery.
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Hussein
Sharm el Sheikh
Gulf of Aqaba
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Khan Younes
Gaza Strip
Desert
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Suez Canal
George Brown
London
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U N Cease Fire Appeal Stalls Over Troop Withdrawals
The U N Security Council delayed a cease fire resolution on Israel and Arab states as members debated a Indian sponsored withdrawal clause. Some back the clause favoring Arabs while others including the United States seek to avoid or tie it to pre Egyptian moves near the Gulf of Aqaba. Hans Tator oversaw talks with Goldberg and Fe See THANT.
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Max Harrelson
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N.yap
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Israel
Security Council
Council
Soviet Union
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Gulf of Aqaba
Hans Tator
Denmark
Middle East
Goldberg
Nikolai T. Fe
Marines Crush Communist Regiment Near Da Nang
U S Marines smashed a Communist regiment about 25 miles southwest of Da Nang, reporting 570 enemy killed. Marine casualties stood at 73 dead and 139 wounded. The clash followed two days of heavy fighting as planes and artillery hammered the target, which was estimated at 3,000 men before the battle.
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U.S
da Nang
Leatherneck
North Vietnam
Quang Ngai
Hanoi-Haiphong
101St Airborne Division
Power failure hits East Coast grid causing widespread outages
A major interconnecting line failure cut electricity from New Jersey to Maryland and Delaware at midmorning, with eight of nine New Jersey plants out and cities from Newark to Philadelphia plunged into darkness. Power slowly returned in spots as railroads and traffic faced disruption and emergency services operated on limited power.
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Maryland
Delaware
Philadelphia
Elizabeth
New York City
The
Public Service Co
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Pennsylvania Railroad
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Hudson River
New York
Port of New
Britain
BOAC
British European Airways
BEA
British Airlines
Labor
House of Commons
Maurice Orbach
Dark Picture For Jobs On Farms
The Agriculture Department estimates 43 of every 100 rural boys turning 20 will face no jobs in rural areas. By 1980 only about one in seven or eight rural residents will live on a farm. Undersecretary John A. Schnittker says expanding nonfarm opportunities is essential to slow rural exodus.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
America
John A. Schnittker
United States Declares Middle East Neutral in War
The State Department announced the U S will remain neutral in thought word and deed amid Middle East hostilities and restricts travel to 14 countries including 13 Arab states and Israel until further notice. Passport endorsements are required for trips to these nations.
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Washington
United States
iState Department
Robert J. McCloskey
State Department
Israel
Middle East
U.S
McCloskey
Lebanon
United Arab Republic
Jordan
Syria
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Yemen
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Sudan
Ex City Woman's Husband Injured In Middle East War Coverage
Ted Yates husband of former La Crosse resident Mary Grace Osberg was seriously injured by a mortar shell in Jerusalem while NBC covered the Middle East outbreak. NBC producer and director Yates also spent a month in La Crosse in 1964 filming for Brinkley's Journal and married in 1952 to Olberg of 2117 Cass St.
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Middle East
National Broadcasting Co
Ted Yates
Mary Grace Osberg
United Press International
Jerusalem
Yates
NBC
Cairo
Associated Press
Tom Streithorst
David Brinkley
Brinkley
Mississippi River
Miss Olberg
Archie Olberg
Cass St
Britain probes air safety after 160 Britons die in two crashes
AP report from London notes 160 fatalities from two chartered holiday airliners. A DC4 bound for Perpignan hit Pyrenees hills killing 88 aboard. an Argonaut returning from Majorca crashed in Stockport killing 72 and injuring 12. Both planes were 20 years old.
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Britain
Perpignan
France
Pyrenees
Majorca
Stockport
BOAC
British Overseas Airways Corp
Body Of Boy 17 Drowned Recovered From Black River
The body of Steven D. Snider, 17, of 1349 Liberty St., was recovered about 1 10 p.m. Monday after divers resumed search in the Black River near the Interstate Highway 90 bridge. Snider drowned Wednesday while trying to retrieve a football blown into the river. dragging had paused earlier Monday, then resumed by commercial fishermen using seines.
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Snider
Black River
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