NASA pushes Gemini 7 on 14 day flight plan amid Agena failure
NASA advances with the 14 day Gemini 7 mission while investigators probe the Agena rocket failure that wrecked Gemini 6. Officials say the setback won’t derail the goal of landing Americans on the moon in 1969, and Gemini 7 test flights proceed with Lovell and Borman aboard.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Schirra
Stafford
Robert Seamans
Space Agency
Robert Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Earth
Moon
George Mueller
NASA
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Borman
Air Force
Lovell
Navy
Indonesian army chief calls for purge of communists
Armed forces chief Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution urged a purge of Indonesia's Communists and sympathizers in a speech broadcast from Jakarta. He warned that Reds and followers would again try to overthrow the government unless rooted out, and framed the move as counterpressure to President Sukarno.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Armed Forces
Abdul Haris Nasution
Jakarta Radio
Nasution
Sukarno
Wisconsin Plans Draft for Childless Married Men 19 to 26
Wisconsin will likely begin drafting childless married men aged 19 to 26 in December as part of a broader plan to meet South Viet Nam troop needs. Col. Bentley Courtenay said the move follows depleted single-men pools and mirrors similar actions in other states.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
China
United States
South Viet Nam
Madison
Wisconsin
Selective Service
Bentley Courtenay
Col. Courtenay
Courtenay
Johnson
Lewis B. Hershey
U.S. Selective Service System
Wisconsin Selective Service
Wisconsin Assembly Sets 18 as Beer Age for Graduates
Wisconsin Assembly passes a bill making the minimum beer drinking age 18 for high school graduates and 19 for others with parental consent required for ID cards. The plan targets teen age drinking drivers and aims to curb county hopping, sparking debate over uniform 21 age advocates.
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Assembly
Madison
Wisconsin Assembly
David Obey
D-Wausau
Wisconsin
Senate
Milwaukee County
Obey
Milwaukee
Lewis Mittness
Janesville
Vincent Mathews
D-Waukesha
McNamara to resign as Defense Secretary this year
President Johnson accepts McNamara's decision to step down by year end. Deputy Secretary Cyrus Vance named to succeed him, with Vance a longtime ally who previously served as Army secretary under Kennedy. The resignation follows McNamara's reduced role in Viet Nam policy and friction with Congress.
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Robert S. Allen
Paul Scott Washington
Defense
Robert McNamara
Pentagon
Lyndon B. Johnson
McNamara
Congress
Capitol Hill
Viet Nam
Rusk
McGeorge Bun
Richard Russell
D-Ga
Full Armed Services Committee
White House
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Army
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
City Airman Charged With Texas Murder
Thomas J. Beranek, a 19 year old Kelly Air Force Base medic from La Crosse, was charged with murder in the slaying of Capt. Ray E. Moore, aide to the commanding general of the Air Force Security Service. Moore was found shot three times in his Lackland area apartment after Beranek fired into the air then fled in Moore's car. Moore, a 10 year veteran and Dallas native, had served three years with the Security Service at Kelly AFB under Maj. Gen. Richard P. Klocke.
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San Antonio, Tex
Kelly Air Force Base
la Crosse
Thomas J. Beranek
Air Force Security Service
Ray E. Moore
Lackland Air Force Base
Beranek
Ruth Beranek
Charles Sr
Moore
Lackland Afb
Air Force
Dallas
Tex
Kelly Afb
Richard P. Klocke
Security Service
Viet Cong Assault Presses Pleiku Camp as U.S. Air Strikes Escalate
At Pleime Special Forces camp near Pleiku, Viet Cong forces launched a vigorous attack despite heavy U.S. air strikes and ground reinforcements. U.S. casualties were reported as relief forces and air support continued, with several helicopters and aircraft shot down and two American crew killed.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Plei Me
U.S
India Walks Out As US Russia Clash Over Thant Powers
In a United Nations Security Council session India walked out amid a dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union over Secretary-General Thant’s authority to deploy observers along the India Pakistan cease fire line. The U S defended Thant’s actions while the USSR urged a three month mandate limit.
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United Nations
N.Y
Security Council
United States
Russia
U Thant
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Thant
Fedorenko
U.N
Subcontinent
U.S
Arthur J.goldberg
Council
India
Pakistan
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Walter Schirra
Tom Stafford
Titan-Ii Complex
Howard Benedict
Ben I. Funk
Air Force Space Systems Division
Washington
North Viet Nam
Red China
Red
South
Bill D. Moyers
North
Hanoi
Peking
Moscow
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Dong
Finland
Edward M. Kennedy
Ronnie Wilson
Wichita
Kan
da Nang
UPI Radiotelephoto
Bong Air Force Base
Mathews
Warren P. Knowles
Austin Stapleton
Menomonee _ Falls
Knowles
Paul Alfonsi
Minocqua
Waukesha
Henry Cabot Lodge
John Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Preparedness Committee
Stennis
Eek
Texas
Edwin Q. White
Pleiku
1St Cavalry Division
Pleike
Laos
2Nd Army Corps
Harold M. Moore
Pekin
Ill
By Tom Hoge
Kashmir
Arthur Goldberg
Gopalaswami Pattasarathi
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