Onassis Honeymoon Aboard Christina in Greece
Stretched to a three million dollar yacht Christina the wedding party of Aristotle Onassis and Jackie Kennedy waited for gales to ease. Caroline and John Kennedy joined well-wishers as plans shifted toward departures from Skorpios to Athens.
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Skorpios
Greece
UPI
Aristotle Socrates Onassis
Christina
Onassis
John F. Kennedy
Vatican City
Leukas
Caroline Kennedy
John Jr
Nidrion
Aktion
Olympic Airways
Athens
Caroline
John
United States
Pat Lawford
Jean Smith
Kennedy
Lee Radziwill
Prince Radziwill
Lamb Blasts Construction of Clark County Jail Flaws
Sheriff Lamb criticizes Clark County Jail construction flaws seen since 1958 and notes five escapes since then. He cites exposed steel, weak locks, and a hacksaw blade found inside. Lamb says staffing needs 12 more deputies to run the facility safely despite a 3.17 million budget.
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Lamb
Clark County
Conger
Los Angeles
Richardson
Beattie
Sheriff's Office
Hanoi Rejects U S Move To End Viet War
A Hanoi broadcast rejects ending the war through U S deescalation talks, accusing Washington of continued bombing and demanding recognition of the NLF as a political arm of the Viet Cong. It claims the Viet Cong controls most of South Vietnam and presses for talks with the NLF.
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Hanoi
U.S
Johnson
South Vietnam
United States
National Liberation Front
NLF
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Thieu
F-111 program faces cuts after crash controversy
The Air Force backs the F-111 amid enthusiasm for the aircraft while the Defense Department weighs future purchases. Original plan called for 493 planes with varied roles. Navy and British orders are cancelled. Australia to receive 24. Eight F-111s were sent to Vietnam for combat trials and two were lost.
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Air Force
Great Britain
U. S. Navy
John Gorton
Australia
Defense Department
Vietnam
Spacemen Return After Long Apollo 7 Mission
The Apollo 7 mission marked the second longest spaceflight to date with vast man hours in space. Astronauts faced head colds during re entry as pressure rose from 5 to 15 psi. possible ear and sinus injuries were anticipated especially for Schirra. Medical staff noted temporary pain during descent but a safe landing remained possible without full helmet use if needed. Recovery weather was favorable off Bermuda as the Essex prepared to retrieve the spacecraft.
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Earth
Schirra
Asronauts
Charles Berry
Berry
Donald Slayton
Moon
Essex
Atlantic
Bermuda
U.S. Warplanes Hit Dong Hoi Amid Short Cease-Fire
U.S. jet bombers struck Dong Hoi area targets despite a 36 hour limited cease-fire to repatriate prisoners. Command reports note bridges, oil dumps and supply points hit near the port city as talks of deescalation swirl in Saigon. A C-47 crash near Ban Me Thuot killed all 24 Americans aboard.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
North Vietnam
United States
Dong Hoi
Vinh
Washington
Hanoi
U.S.S
New Jersey
Dmz
U.S. Command
Central Highlands
Ban Me Thuot
19th Annual Conference Opens for Laboratory Animal Science
More than 2,000 veterinarians, medical and dental scientists and technicians gathered in Las Vegas at the Stardust Hotel for the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science annual session. Geoffrey H. Lord of Brunswick, New Jersey, will become president on Friday as the three day meeting begins. James E. Corbin of St. Louis is program chairman. Tours are planned of the Southwest Radiological Health Laboratories and the Nuclear Rocket Development Station. William I. Gay of Bethesda, Maryland, is outgoing president.
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Las Vegas
American Association For Laboratory Animal Science
Stardust Hotel
Geoffrey H. Lord
Brunswick, N.J
Southwest Radiological Health Laboratories
Nuclear Rocket Development Station
William I. Gay
Bethesda, Md
James E. Corbin
St. Louis
Riots Hit Tokyo as Antiwar Demonstrators Storm Shinjuku Station
Thousands of protesters attacked Shinjuku station in Tokyo and clashes with police spread through surrounding streets. The violence marked one of Japan’s worst postwar riots. police secured control after the government invoked emergency powers. At least 785 arrests and 115 injuries were reported.
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Tokyo
UPI
Shinjuku Station
Shinjuku Railroad Station
Japanese Defense Agency
The
Self-Defense Force
Data Processing Chief Ousted in County Crisis
Clark County terminates Data Processing Chief McMahon after a Board directive session on Oct 21 1968. He is suspended immediately and must vacate the office. Audit findings include excessive leave and unapproved purchases tied to a 219 288 annual rate.
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Board of County Commissioners
County of
Clark
Office of Management of Services
Henry
McMahon
Bradshaw, Snow and Mathis
Certified Public Accountants
District Attorney’s
Philco Ford Corp
the Sun
Franklin
The
SUN
Apollo 7 Splashdown Schedule Behind Reentry
NASA details Apollo 7 reentry steps ending an 11 day US spaceflight. Astronauts Schirra Eisele and Cunningham suit up for depressurized checks and nose pressure, engines fire, capsule separates, gravity returns, parachutes deploy, and recovery ships reach the North Atlantic aboard the Essex.
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Pacific Ocean
Atlantic
Texas
San Antonio
Houston
Coass
Florida
Hungarian Army Withdraws From Czechoslovakia
Prague radio reported Hungary pulling troops from Czechoslovak soil two months after the Warsaw Pact invasion. The withdrawal announcement named cont ngents without numbers and cited a hero's welcome in Medve where units were stationed likely in southern Slovakia with many reservists.
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Prague
UPI
Budapest
Medve
Pal Kovacs
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Bohemia
Reform
Alexander Dubcek
Rulig Party
Dubcek
Slovakia
Break-Ins Open Up A Few More NYC Schools
The Board of Education used a legal break-in tactic to reopen several schools amid a week-long teachers' strike. Police arrested Sidney O. Segre, 41, after he allegedly climbed a ladder, broke a window, unlocked an inner latch, and entered a Queens junior high. Teachers reportedly broke locks and sawed gate chains to reopen other schools.
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New York
UPI
Board of Education
Sidney O. Segre
Queens
New York Firemen Vote For Job Action Amid Board Disputes
New York firemen join a work slowdown after rejecting a mediation panel contract and opposing a wage settlement. Mayor Lindsay refuses to reopen negotiations, warning of a wider union chain reaction while schools remain closed over a teachers strike.
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New York
UPI
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
U.N
Arthur J. Goldberg
Michael Maye
Uniformed Fire Fighters Association
Goldberg
State Mediation Board
Vincent D. McDonnell
Gracie Mansion
Firemen’s
Firemen
Maye
New Limousine For President Delivered
Washington UPI reports President John Soe received a new 21 foot Lincoln Continental limousine equipped with bombproof armor bulletproof bubbletop and Secret Service push button platform. Ford leased the car priced not disclosed estimates up to 50000 500000 though.
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Washington
UPI
John Soe
Lincoln Continental
Ford Motor Co
White House
Franklin Roosevelt
Secret Service
Johnson
Ford
Kennedy
Dallas
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Jackie
Ionian Sea
Jackie Onassis
Hugh Auchincloss
Grande Bretagne
Weather Bureau
Onassis-owned
Tion
W. E. “Butch” Leypoldt
Zick and Sharp, Architects
Rai
Data Processing
NASA
Space Center
West Atlantic
Walter Schirra
Donn Eisele
Walt Cunningham
North Atlantic
Czech
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