Navy Pilots Down Two MIGs in North Viet Nam Air Battles
U S Navy planes including Skyraiders shot down two Communist MIG jets and damaged a third over North Viet Nam. One MIG21 was destroyed in revenge by a Navy pilot who was shot down three months earlier. No American planes were damaged in the fierce dogfights. The tally reached 23 MIGs shot down by American aircraft in the Viet Nam war, five of them late models.
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al Skyraiders
Viet Nam
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Soviet Reports Say Red Guards Ravage Sinkiang in China
Tass reported Red Guards disrupted the Communist party in Sinkiang, threatening the regional community committee as border tensions rise with the Soviet Union and neighboring countries. North Vietnam claimed U S planes were shot down with fighters engaging MIGs near Hanoi. Cmdr Richard M. Bellinger described his Gulf of Tonkin kill of a MIG21 as revenge and a long awaited return engagement.
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Soviet Union
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India
Mongolia
Red Chinese Party
Sinkiang Province
Red China
Soviet- Sinkiang
Orioles Clinch World Series Title In Sweep Of Dodgers
Baltimore surged to a 10 loss for Los Angeles as Dave McNally pitched the clincher to cap a four game World Series sweep. Frank Robinson belted a second Series homer off Don Drysdale in the fourth inning for the lone Dodgers run.
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Inez Threatens Brownsville Inland Texas Coast
Hurricane Inez moved from the Gulf toward Brownsville and Matamoros with warnings for the Brownsville Port Isabel area. Evacuations reached 2,000 to 3,000 from Port Isabel and South Padre Island as the storm brought 12-foot tides and 135 mph winds.
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Inez
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Matamoros
Mexico
Rio Grande
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Corpus Christi
South Padre Island
Weather Bureau
South Padre
Clear Weather With Mild Winds And Heat Peak
Clear with gentle winds today and yesterday. Today's high reaches 90 degrees with a low of 57. noontime humidity at 17 percent. Sunrise is 6 43 and sunset 6 12.
Gas Station Attendant Fatally Shot in $37 Robbery
John Wesley Foster 24 of 44 Prince Lane died from gunshot wounds after a $37 robbery at Pear son’s Shell Service at 2:30 a.m. His body was found in the tube room by Antonio Villalobos of Los Angeles. More than $100 hidden at the station was not taken. Deputies reported no witnesses and no suspects. Lt. Glen Simmons leads the investigation.
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Los Angeles
Germany
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Mao's Heir Called rubbish by Red Guard in China
Hong Kong based UPI report says Lin Piao heir apparent to Mao faced attacks from Red Guard students who called him rubbish and criticized Chou Enlai and Liu Shao Chi. Posters alleged Lin hailed from a bourgeois background and once lived as a beggar.
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