Viets Claim US Doubt Is Unjust
Viet Nam government denounces a U S State Department statement as unjust and based on erroneous info. It cites Buddhist arrests and the Aug 21 raids as evidence while noting martial law, student unrest, and a postponed National Assembly election amid the crisis.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Neo Dinh Diem
U.S. State Department
South
State Department
Joint
Diem
Saigon University
Ngo Dinh Diem
Tokyo
National Assembly
Today in History highlights from Aug 28 1963
On this date in history events ranged from 1864 the first railway post office on the Chicago and North Western Railway to 1798 John Dukour establishing Americas first vineyard near Lexington Ky. Other notes include 1850 Lohengrin at Weimar under Liszt, a 1493 Georgia coast cyclone, 1922 Walker Cup debut, 1941 Dnieper Dam destruction, ten years ago UN Korea talks, five years ago Cyprus intervention, and last year Sunghon Korea flood deaths.
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Chicago and North Western
Chicago
Clinton
Iowa
John Dukour
America
Lexington
Russia
Dnieper River
U.N. General Assembly
U. S
Korea
Plans Set If Rail Strike Hits Midnight
Kansas City AP report states Union Pacific will run passengers to division points and freight to nearest terminals if a strike begins at midnight. Missouri Pacific follows similar plan, while Rock Island may issue handling directives today.
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Kansas City
Union Pacific
Sam Reinhardt
Rock Island
Kansas City Minister Declines 1964 Presidential Bid
Dr Rutherford L. Decker 59 pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Kansas City Missouri says he will not seek the Prohibition Party nomination in 1964. He is mentioned as a leading contender but will only give the convention keynote address.
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ST. Louis
Kansas City, Mo
Prohibition Party
Rutherford L. Decker
Temple Baptist Church
Kansas City
Johnson Jr Wins Mississippi Democratic Governor Nomination
Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson Jr. won the Mississippi Democratic nomination for governor in a record vote, defeating former Gov. J. P. Coleman amid a campaign fueled by white opposition to Kennedy and civil rights. Johnson faces Republican Ruchel Phillips in November. Coleman carried a mock vote among unregistered Black residents with 26,721 to 949 for Johnson.
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Jackson, Miss
Paul Johnson Jr
Mississippi
Johnson
J. P. Coleman
Kennedy
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Coleman
Ruchel Phillips
Publican
Phillips
U.S. Senate
Ross Barnett
Missing Plane Found Dead Occupants Near Sunsen Lake
Wreckage of a light plane missing since Sunday night on a Blaine Kan to Fort Campbell Ky flight was found Tuesday in woods near Sunsen Lake. The two occupants Sgt. Victor A Berg 25 and Spec 4 Joseph W Keller 21 of the 50th were dead.
Airborne Battle Group Returns From Blaine Visit
Troops from Ft. Campbell are returning to base after visiting Herbert A. Berg and relatives in Blaine. They left Blaine about 5 p.m. Sunday and were last heard from that night when radioing the airport tower at Vichy Missouri while flying near Farmington. The aircraft is identified as Bergs plane.
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Ft. Campbell
Berg
Herbert A. Berg
Blaine
Vichy
Farmington
General Walker Named Missouri River Division Engineer
Brig. Gen. George H. Walker is named Missouri River Division engineer for the Corps of Army Engineers based at Omaha Nebraska. He has served as director of topography and military engineering.
Army engineer officer named to succeed Seedlock in Korea
Walker, 49, a Muskogee, Oklahoma native and West Point graduate of 1937, will assume new duties as Chief of Engineers replacing Brig. Gen. Robert F. Seedlock, who is reassigned to Korea after a Civil Engineering master's from the University of California in 1941.
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Robert F. Seedlock
Korea
Walker
Muskogee
Okla
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
University of California
Walker Served As Assistant Commandant At Ft Belvoir
Walker was the assistant commandant of the U S Army Engineering School at Fort Belvoir Virginia.
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Walker
U.S. Army Engineering School
Ft. Belvoir
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Associated Press
THE
Richard Wapner
Weimar
Franz Liszt
Georgia
South Carolina
Southampton
N.Y
Makarios
United Nations
Cyprus
Sunghon
Iva
Oxfords
Sule
Ivy
Litwin
H. R. Moore
Operations Department of
Missouri Pacific
Mopac
K.C
By James Saggus
Penney
Jamaica
Danstar
Smorgashord
Ottawa
Aso P.m
Spm
John Pickens
Vermont
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