Fierce Viet Clashes Across North and South
U S forces clashed with Communist guerrillas across South Vietnam as waves of American planes bombed targets in the North. Reports say 77 guerrillas killed and 28 captured with a major heli borne action near Saigon. Nine Americans wounded. The U S commander Westmoreland authorized combat support missions. Air strikes hit depots radars bridges and a North Vietnamese power plant. An American jet was downed but the pilot was rescued unharmed. Australian infantry also landed near Vung Tau aiding Bien Hoa efforts. Helicopters lifted paratroopers near Xom Cay Xoai as Viet Cong concentrations were spotted.
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South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Washington
State Department
William C. Westmoreland
U. S
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Highway 75
Demilitarized Zone
Phan Huy Quat
Gia Long
Quat
Vung Tau
Bien Hoa
Xom Cay Xoai
Spacewalk Film Reveals White Gemini Fourth Drama
Film footage shown to viewers in the Soviet Union and later abroad captures astronaut Frank Borman White’s Gemini 4 spacewalk with live color detail. The report describes camera setups, temperatures, and White’s eight extra minutes outside the capsule as flight controllers ordered him back inside.
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Soviet Union
White
Manned Spaceflight Center
Gemeni 4
Astronauts Return to Earth After Weightless Flight
Four days after the Titan rocket and Gemini A launch, astronauts McDivitt and White rest aboard the Wasp off Jacksonville. They eat breakfast and lunch with crew, undergo medical checks, then plan to fly to Cape Kennedy for reunions and a Texas ranch meeting with President Johnson.
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Cape Kennedy
McDivitt
Earth
Jacksonville
Fla
Manned Spaceflight Center
Johnson
Texas Ranch
Las Vegas man missing after horseback trek to Montana
Yellowstone County Sheriff Roy R. Stewart said there is no lead on the whereabouts of Robert Mahalek 27 of Las Vegas who rode by horse toward Hardin Montana to promote a movie The Day Custer Fell. Mahalek spent the night May 14 in a Billings hotel and has not been heard from since.
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Billings
Mont
UPI
Yellowstone County
Roy R. Stewart
Las Vegas
Hardin
Robert Mahalek
Custer
Stewart
Mahalek
Global cheers mix with critique after Gemini-4 flight
London reports wide praise from Soviet and European papers for James McDivitt and Edward White s space achievement. Tass notes White s spacewalk and cites U S racial discrimination charges while Western outlets hail courage and technical skill as a new era in space exploration.
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London
UPT
James McDivitt
Edward White
China
U.S
Anastas Mikoyan
Johnson
Tass
White
London Daily Express
Color films show spacewalk beauty as wives await returns
Mrs Patricia White and Mrs Patricia McDivitt viewed color footage of Edward White and James McDivitt spacewalks at home in Seabrook Texas. They marveled at Earth’s colors and discussed White’s reluctance to leave the capsule.
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Seabrook
Tex
UPI
Patricia White
Earth
White
Patricia McDivitt
Edward White
James McDivitt
Manned Spacecraft Center
Mrs. White
McDivitt
McKeithen Presses Rights and Responsibility Link
Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen urged the legislature to couple state rights with state responsibility after the killing of deputy O Neal Moore near Bogalusa. He offered a $25,000 reward and pledged to prosecute the killer without federal help. Moore, a father of four, was buried near Varnado as night riders fired at the local crime chief's home.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
John J. McKeithen
Bogalusa
McKeithen
MckKeithen
O'Neal Moore
Varnado
Moore H
Crim
Auto Of Suspect In Murders Found In Wichita
Police recovered the abandoned 1939 black Buick convertible linked to Duane Pope in Wichita after a nationwide search for the bank robbery slayings in Big Springs Nebraska. FBI said the car’s parking duration is unclear as authorities widen efforts to locate Pope and other leads. Deputy Creed Rogers was wounded in the incident.
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UPI
Duane Pope
Big Springs
Neb
Wichita
FBI
Pope
Fort Worth
Tex
McPherson
Kan.) College
Larned
Kan
Moore
Creed Rogers
Poverty War a Fraud in Ypsilanti Testimony
Two Ypsilanti youths, Arthur Amolsch and Gordon Mattson, told a House Republican task force that a federal anti poverty program is a fraud and a disgrace. They criticized a $188000 University of Michigan grant to launch a Willow Run demonstration project as a boondoggle.
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Washington
UPI
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Arthur Amolsch
Gordon Mattson
House
University of Michigan
Willow Run Village
Ypsilanti Township
Amolsch
Johnson trims VA closure plan amid congressional push
President Johnson yielded to congressional agitation and veterans groups by scaling back the planned VA closings. The revised order cuts 6 hospitals 2 domiciliaries and 9 regional offices, saving about 10 million dollars annually, with conversions to meet community needs and reduce temporary economic disruption.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Veterans Administration
William J. Driver
Congress
House Veterans Committee
White House
Driver
General Services Administration
GSA
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Americans Held by Dominican Rebels Near Santo Domingo
Three U S paratroopers captured by Dominican rebel forces crossed the boundary into rebel territory in Santo Domingo. The group named Henry Leforce from Nash Oklahoma SP4C Alton Blakely of Richmond California and Nelson Blengeri Peru Peru national in the U S Army. They were held overnight as captives of Col Francisco Caamano Deno and to be released to OAS officials the next morning. They were reported uninjured and in good health as investigators moved into the interior to check political disorders.
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Santo Domingo
UPI
U. S
Henry Leforce
Nash
Okla
Alton Blakely
Richmond
Calif
Nelson Blengeri
Lima
Peru
Organization of American States
OAS
FBI Adds Criminal To List
William Albert Autur Tahl, 26, accused of a double murder in California and a knife attack in Texas, was added to the FBI's list of 19 most wanted criminals. He allegedly began a crime spree April 1 in San Diego with a yacht club double homicide and rape, then traveled to Dallas where his roommate, a Navy deserter, was found dead with a knife wound.
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Washington
UPI
William Albert Autur Tahl
California
Texas
FBI
Tahl
San Diego
Dallas
Tex
Vegas Lawyer Named Deputy Atty General
Don Winne a Las Vegas lawyer 34 was named deputy State attorney general in Carson City. He will resign from the Las Vegas law partnership where he has worked since 1963 after coming to Nevada in 1960 as an FBI special agent and later transferring to Washington before returning to Nevada.
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Carson City
UPI
Don Winne
Las Vegas
Winne
Ralph Denton
Nevada
FBI
Washington
Contempt Questioned for Nobel Winner in Italy
Italian prosecutor considers contempt charges against Nobel laureate Ernst Boris Chain after he urged support for Domenico Marotta and criticized the trial of Marotta and co-defendants in a $1.44 million embezzlement case. Chain sent a letter to the wife of co-defendant Italo Domenicucci, calling the proceedings harmful to Italy's prestige.
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UPI
Ernst Boris Chain
Domenico Marotta
Italy
High Institute of Health
Chain
Italo Domenicucci
Marotta
Haly
Nordic Air exercise to drop supplies in Denmark
The U S Air Force announced a June 12 to 22 air drop exercise in Denmark as part of the Nordic Air joint British American Danish drills. The event aims to keep U S forces in Europe ready for combat. Pierre Salinger seeks Paris marriage to Nicole Gillman within weeks. Van Cliburn returns to Moscow to a loud, welcoming crowd.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
UPI
Europe
Denmark
U. S. Air Force
U. S
Two Spanish Air Force Planes Collide Killing 14
At Alcantarilla Spain two Junkers collided in the air during an exercise killing 14 airmen. The victims included crews of the planes and eight paratroopers aboard the aircraft. Most paratroopers had bailed out before the collision.
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Alcantarilla Air Force Base
Spain
Minister Kidnap Suspect Free on Bail in St Louis Case
Insurance agent Lawrence Loethen posted a 2500 dollar bond after being charged with kidnapping Rev Kenneth Hindman a Crestwood pastor who said Loethen forced him at gunpoint to sign a false confession of an affair with Loethen's wife Hindman 33 and father of three said the alleged abduction occurred Thursday night and he was coerced into a three page statement.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Lawrence Loethen
Kenneth Hindman
Crestwood
Loethen
Johnson names new TAC and Logistics Command leaders
President Johnson announced Air Force Gen Gabriel P Disosway will command Tactical Air Command while Lt Gen Kenneth B Hobson leads the Air Force Logistics Command. Disosway leaves his post as commander in chief of U S Air Forces in Europe at Lindsey Air Station Wiesbaden. In New York defense rests in the Liberty Statue plot trial of three African American defendants with summations slated for Thursday and a jury verdict expected by Friday or Monday.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Air Force
Gabriel P. Disosway
Tactical Air Command
Kenneth B. Hobson
Air Force Logistics Command
Disosway
U.S. Air Forces In
Europe
Lindsey Air Station
Wiesbaden
Germany
New York
William B. Herlands
Luci Johnson ends steady romance with Paul Betz
Luci Johnson announced she is no longer pinned to her steady boyfriend Paul Betz after about a year. The 17 year old daughter of President Johnson said they will continue to date and remain excellent friends.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Luci
Paul Betz
Young Betz
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