Space officials push Apollo plan after Soviet Zond-5 success
NASA officials debate December premoon flight aims and note the Soviet Zond-5 return as evidence of strong space capability. They insist on a staged timetable with at least five Apollo flights next year and a possible moon landing by 1969, while lamenting U S budget cuts to NASA and vowing renewed funding effort.
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Teague
Space Agency
Scheer
U.S
Earth
United States
Tass
NASA
Congress
Chicago Phone Strike Ends After 158 Days
About 11 800 IBEW telephone installers end a 158 day walkout costing $35 million in wages and disrupted DNC telecommunication. The three year contract includes a $27.50 weekly pay increase and $14.50 immediate raise, with further boosts over years. Some 25 percent may not return. company loans and wage advances offered to hardship cases amid potential rate impact.
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Chicago
UPI
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Ibew
Robert Nickey
Systems Council
T-4
IBEW
Nickey
Illinois Bell
Joe O’brien
O’brien
Wallace Gains In Wallace Nixon Leads In Polls
Harris poll shows Nixon and Humphrey under 40 percent six weeks from election. Wallace expands among independents, small towns, wealthy, young, and white Protestants, drawing over five points. Nixon would lead Humphrey by 14 in a two way race if Wallace exits, complicating strategy for both campaigns.
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Nixon
Humphrey
Rockefeller
McCarthy
Wallace
Alabama
Democratic Party
Nixon Forms Truth Squad To Bird-dog Humphrey
Nixon opens a truth squad to rebut Humphrey in town by town stops led by Hugh Scott and Don Rumsfeld. Klein notes Wallace’s surge may persist but focus remains on strengthening the Humphrey challenge. Nixon tours Philadelphia suburbs then heads to Milwaukee for a cross country trek toward Florida.
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Truth Squad
Bird-dog’ Humphrey
New York
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Bird
Hubert H. Humphrey
Herbert Klein
Pennsylvania
Hugh Scott
Sinois
Don Rumsfeld
Humphrey
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Klein
Chicago
Robert Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Theodore Sorenson
Kennedy
Johnson
Edward Muskie
Kansas
Philadelphia
Fifth Avenue
Milwaukee
Wis
Florida
Stab Attack mars Humphrey visit at Euclid Beach
Violence marred Vice President Humphrey's visit to Euclid Beach Amusement Park near Cleveland as a stabbing occurred near his rally site. Police arrested several people and a policeman was injured by a thrown can. The crowd, about 5,000 at the speech area, included peace demonstrators while some shouted antiHump chants.
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Cleveland, Ohio
UPI
Huberr H. Humphrey
Mammoth
Euclid Beach
Cleveland
Humphrey
Edgar Berman
Berman
Secret Service
Soviet Moon Capsule Zond-5 Recovered by Tass
Tass reports Zond-5 capsule recovered in Indian Ocean after moon flight. officials praised the achievement as bringing humans closer to the moon and signaling future manned Soviet missions while noting the 1967 Komarov disaster and ongoing space race milestones.
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United States
Sergei Yesneev
Khasakhstan
Beria
Tass
Indian Ocean
South Africa
Western Australia
Zond-5
Earth
Moon
First Day of Fall Marks Autumnal Equinox
UPI reports summer ends as autumn begins for Northern Hemisphere residents at 7 26 p m EDT. Hayden Planetarium notes only two days yearly with sun rising due east and setting due west, marking equinoxes.
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New York
UPI
Tarium
Equator
Levi Eshkol Urges World Peace Amid Arab Tensions
Eshkol calls for the establishment of gods kingdom on earth and a reign of peace and brotherhood aimed at Arab states and Egypt which warns of renewed warfare. Egyptian Foreign Minister Riad travels to Paris London Ottawa then New York to brief on the Arab cause. King Hussein of Jordan meets Saudi king Faisal to discuss military needs, while Israel reports the capture of Abdul Amin Jaabar, nicknamed the Arat Scarlet Pimpernel, after a gunfight in the Arawah desert south of the Dead Sea.
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Eshkol
Israel
Egypt
Mahmoud Riad
Cairo
Paris
London
Ottawa
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Riad
Gunnar Jarring
U.N
Hussein
Jordan
Faisal
Amman
Dahjat Talhouni
Amer Kham
Dead Sea
Soviet Shadowing of NATO Fleets Spurs Realistic Exercise
In the Norwegian Sea NATO reports Soviet warships and aircraft shadowing the armada during Exercise Silver Tower. The incident includes three destroyers two trawlers and two fleet oilers shadowing U S Navy Carrier Wasp and others while labeled Orange for exercise purposes. Over 100 ships and aircraft from nine nations participate in the maneuvers entering their second week.
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London
UPI
Norwegian Sea
NATO
Wasp
Donald May
Ivan
U.S
Benedict J. Semmes
British Police Change Tactics In Home Siege
In Shrewsbury England police halted sirens and backed away to pressure John James the 28 year old farmer holding his wife and four children hostage for five days They plan to starve him out while providing groceries and cigarettes to the family and allowing only a priest to visit Local priest Edward Corish says James remains defiant and is afraid of the police and hospital remains unresolved with no sign of surrender
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Shrewsbury
England
UPI
John James
James
Sanders
Landers
Edward Corish
Adament
Vietnam War Prison Camp Overrun Near Quang Ngai
Military spokesmen reported an attack overrun a prisoner camp about 15 miles north of Quang Ngai near Chu Lai. In the Mekong Delta area 400 militiamen freed 11 men nine women and five children from a Viet Cong camp without firing a shot. Three American helicopters were shot down with nine crew injured and six unaccounted for including a Marine CH46 near the Rockpile.
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U.S
Chu Lai
Mekong Delta
Saigon
U Minh Forest
U.S. Command
Pleiku
Rockpile
Demilitarized Zone
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Las Vegas
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