Marines Struggle After Ambush on Jungle Hill
North Vietnamese forces trapped India Company of the 5th Marine Regiment on Hill 314 near the border. Marines were pinned by automatic fire, endured mortars and sniper attacks, and retreated to rescue wounded as helicopters evacuated the heavy casualties. Survivors recall intense close combat and acts of valor.
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India
UPI
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Cox
Samuel Glaize
Cherry Hill
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Douglas Howell
Fulton
N.Y
Robert W. Kulas
Winona
Minn
Mike’ Company
Kilo Company
Kulas
Pfc
Carl Wright
Kansas City
the India Company
Senate Labor Gridlock Over Airline Strike And Arbitration
Senate leaders weigh Morse plan for federal arbitration as machinists strike stalls talks. Airlines counter with higher wage offers while White House stays on the sidelines. Union leaders call congressional action a delaying move amid a stalemate over a 53 cent wage rise and improved benefits.
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Senate Labor Committee
Morse
House
Senate
International Association of Machinists
United
Eastern
National
Trans World
Northwest
Dirksen
Green Beret General Stilwell Missing After Pacific Flight
Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell son of Burma China campaigner Vinegar Joe Stilwell is missing after his DC3 vanished off the Pacific coast 600 miles southwest of San Francisco. Coast Guard search covers 7000 square miles with 12 to 20 planes from USS Yorktown and ships. Family confirmed his aboard with Pentagon notified of disappearance during a three day leave.
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UPS
Joseph W. Stilwell
Green Berets
Pacific
Honolua
Stilwell
Joe Stilwell
Okd
Coast Guard
Yorktown
Carmel
Calif
Sixth Army
Pentagon
Ky Calls for Invasion of North in Interview
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky advocates a North Vietnam invasion in a recently released interview. Ky urges decisive military action and warns of potential escalation in the ongoing war.
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North
Washington
UPI
Nguyen Cao Ky
Mystery illness planes and wage protests in U.S. briefs
Reports note an FAA mystery about a crew on a San Francisco bound flight with Harold J. Grimes as a key figure. California nurses threaten a $200 monthly raise with resignations. hospital bed charges may rise. Other items discuss higher taxes cutting take home pay, TWU strike threats, Viet Nam rest leaves, and Ky urging invasion against North Viet Nam.
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San Francisco
UPI
California Nurses’ Association
San Francisco Area
Ambassador Reischauer resigns as Japan envoy
The White House announced Edwin O. Reischauer resigns as ambassador to Japan and A Alexis Johnson will succeed him. President Johnson accepted the resignation with deep regret. Reischauer, a highly popular diplomat, had been a leading U S envoy in Tokyo.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Edwin O. Reischauer
Japan
A. Alexis Johnson
Johnson
Reishauer
U.S
Brigitte Bardot and Gunter Sachs cut Tahiti honeymoon short
The couple flew from Tahiti to Acapulco then New York after a brief Tahiti visit. They attended a governor’s party where Bardot danced, sunbathed, and water skied. Brando and Tarita also joined the event.
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Tahiti
Sachs
Acapulco
New York
Paris
Sicuranis
Brando
Weather bureau lowers hot temperature to 95 degrees
Fort Worth reports the weather bureau now defines hot weather as 95 degrees instead of 100. The official said air conditioning in homes offices and cars makes people more aware of discomfort at upper 90s temperatures.
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Fort Worth
UPI
Weather Bureau
Washington Officials Question Hanoi War Crimes Probe
CBS asked Ho Chi Minh if North Vietnam would try captured U S airmen and received a no trial reply. Moyers and McCloskey declined to confirm reports of an 11 member committee to study U S war crimes in Viet Nam. Harriman said the U S has sought prisoner exchanges. 19 sailors and hundreds of North Vietnamese prisoners are held.
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State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
North
Viet Nam
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Moyers
McCloskey
U. S
Harriman
Argentina bans necking as military government eyes public morals
Buenos Aires reports the new military government orders police to monitor couples in parks and plazas for behavior lacking public decency. The crackdown targets displays deemed improper as authorities uphold strict social codes in public spaces.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Argentina
Gromyko urges U S pullout to settle Vietnam
World brief from Tokyo reports Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko pressing the United States to withdraw from Vietnam for a peaceful settlement. He spoke at a dinner with Japanese officials and warned against underestimating the danger in Vietnam.
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Tokyo
UPI
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Viet Nam
Gromyko
Etsusaburo Shiina
Soviet Union
Johnson Makes Headway With Foreign Aid Bill
In Washington the Senate boosted the Alliance for Progress authorization in Latin America from one to two years by a 54 to 31 vote led by Sen. John Sherman Cooper with broad cross party support The Foreign Relations Committee had urged keeping authorizations to one year.
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Army
Viet Nam
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Green Berets
John Kennedy Special Warfareership
Washington
UPI
Senate
Alliance For Progress In
Latin America
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cooper
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
House
Alliance
Development Loan Fund
Foreign Relations Committee
Japan
Korea
300-Pound Cake Sets Luci’s Wedding Tone at Aug 6
Luci Baines Johnson selects a 300 pound seven layer wedding cake topped with real lilies of the valley for her August 6 wedding to Patrick J. Ngent at the National Shrine. The cake combines a white fruit cake base with a chocolate bride’s layer. The guest list includes Arthur Godfrey, confirmed by White House press secretary Bill Moyers.
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Washington
UPI
Luci Baines Johnson
White House
Luci
Roy Folk Beal
Austin
Tex
Betty Beal
Patrick J. Nugent
Arthur Godfrey
Johnson
Viet Nam
Bill D. Moyers
Godfrey
Elizabeth Carpenter
Faubus Watches Arkansas Democratic Primary
Gov. Orval Faubus, a lame duck with a history of machine-rule accusations, will take a limited interest as seven candidates vie in Arkansas for the party's nomination to face Republican Winthrop Rockefeller in November.
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Ark
UPI
Orval Faubus
Winthrop Rockefellor
Faubus
Idaho
Robert Smylie
Little Rock Central High School
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