Allied troops seize enemy munitions stores in Vietnam raid
U S and South Vietnamese forces uncovered large caches of ammunition near Saigon and along the DMZ. The 25th Division described stockpiles including 18 rounds of 122 mm rockets, mortars, anti tank mines, and thousands of small arms rounds. U S Marines found a separate cache with rockets, mortars, TNT and rice. An update noted 763 rockets and mortars and 650 pounds of TNT among the finds.
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Saigon
25Th Division
U.S
U. S
Radio
Hanoi
Nhan Dan
North Vietnam
Disputed Border Clashes Persist Amid Tensions in Mideast
Arab and Israeli forces exchanged light arms and mortar fire near Geshe and the Mandassehio Bridge with no casualties reported. Jordanian troops shelled Karameh. a 10 member Israeli committee to administer seized Arab lands was announced. Nablus mayor Hamdi Canaan initially resigned over a home demolition but stayed on after Dayan mediation. The UN Security Council prepared for possible talks as Egypt and Israel filed complaints over Sunday clashes.
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Mandassehio
West Bank
Jordan
Jordan Army
Karameh
Jericho
Jerusalem
Israel
Levi Eshko
Nablus
Hamdi Canaan
Moshe Dayan
Canaan
Dayan
U.N
New York
Security Council
Egypt
Council
HemisFair Rescue Amid Cardboard Carnival Tragedy
Tino Casas of San Antonio saved a woman from drowning after seeing only the top of her head in the lagoon and swimming to her. Dozens aided by fair workers and soldiers rescued injured riders from wreckage as crowds flocked for a two for one entrance offer. Daniel Langham and his wife Kathy were aboard the first train car. they recalled a red blur before the crash.
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Tino Casas
San Antonio
HemisFair
Daniel Langham
Kathy
Ft. Hood
Langham
British Concorde Prototype Rolled Out At Farnborough Show
The British prototype of the British French Concorde is unveiled amid optimistic forecasts of a sales boom for the 24 million supersonic airliner. Farnborough hosts about 100 flight demonstrations and 30 ground displays featuring diverse aircraft, including the Handley Page Jetstream and Beagle Pup.
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Farnborough
Samuel Franklyn Cody
Britain
Handley Page
United States
Air Force
Italy
Canada
Netherlands
Japan
Sweden
Yugoslavia
Global Trip Yachtsmen In Trouble In A Round The World Race
Two sailors in a single handed non stop World around voyage faced trouble. Chay Blyth leading after 96 days at sea was forced into port for repairs and disqualified. Robin Knox-Johnston reported steering gear and rudder damage after a severe storm near the Cape of Good Hope. Blyth halted at East London for spares aboard the 30 foot Dytiscus TIT while Knox-Johnston pressing toward Australia in the 32 foot Sunhawk.
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London
Jane
Chay Blyth
Robin Knox-Johnston
Blyth
Dytiscus Tit
East London
Cape of Good Hope
Australia
West Berlin Opens Modern National Art Gallery
West Berlin unveiled the German National Art Gallery in a steel and glass structure by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe near the Berlin Wall. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia attended as officials praised the design, with Mondrian works shown and a demonstration urging the restoration of a prior Mies monument to Luxemburg and Liebknecht.
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Hubert J. Erb
Berlin
West Berlin
Chicago
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Berlin Wall
Prince Louis Ferdinand of
Prussia
William I
Germany
Klaus Schuetz
Mies van der Rohe
United States
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
National Gallery
East Berlin
Piet Mondrian
Auguste Renoir
African Nations Urge Israel Withdrawal at OAU Summit
At the fifth OAU summit in Algiers 38 African chiefs of state voted 36 to zero with two abstentions urging Israel to withdraw from Arab territories seized in the 1967 war. The resolution pressed for UN Security Council peace terms while moderates blocked a stronger condemnation. Morocco and Algeria discussed possible reconciliation influencing regional power dynamics.
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Algiers
Israel
Lesotho
Swaziland
Organization of Afrikan Unity
OAU
U.N. Security Council
Addis Ababa
Ivory Coast
Dahomey
Houari Boumedienne
Morocco
Hassan I
Africa
Middle East
Algeria
Sahara
Weather From Page One Reports Edna Growing Slowly
Weather follows a warm frontal zone in East Texas with rain. Tropical storm Edna, about 1825 miles east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, moves west-northwest at 10 mph and could strengthen to a hurricane without threatening land for 2 3 days. Tornadoes pinged Wyoming and the Dakotas as one pilot spotted three near Ft Bridger Wyoming.
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Texas
Edna
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Wyoming
South
North Dakota
Ft. Bridger,Wynt
Human Bones Found In Drainage Ditch
Two hunters in northeast Harris County found a partially submerged human skeleton in a drainage ditch. Investigators could not determine sex or cause of death immediately. no clothing or other items were recovered and no signs of violence were observed.
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Houston
Harris County
Reader grades western novels like a mailbag prophet
George Loveless of Lubbock Texas grades westerns good poor or indifferent after reading. He keeps an enormous library at home and at a Bayfield Colorado summer home and has shared his letter grade system with other readers. He notes westerns remain a favorite for male readers and compares their heroes to Buck Jones and Tom Mix.
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Buck Jones
William S. Hart
Tom Mix
Hoot Gibson
George Love- Jess
19Th St
Lubbock
Loveless
Bayfield
Colo
Americans Aloof To Czech Fair At Brno Fair
Brno Czechoslovakia. American businessmen at the Brno international fair show up in small numbers though the event is open to the public. Only the U S government exhibit is staffed by Americans George R Bridges and F Eugene Smith lead the American display. Space is tight and many exhibitors cancel or send European managers. A Swede notes Americans must adapt to local customs to close deals.
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Carl Hartman
Brno
Czechoslovakia
Nuclear
Chicago
U.S
George R. Bridges
U.S. Information Agency
F. Eugene Smith
Bath
Ohio
Fairground
Stewart Allen ‘Howard
Waianae
Hawaii
General Motors
Budapest
Forge
Alfa Romeo
Caterpillar
National Cash Register
Big
Texas A&M and Colleges Plan Faces Legislature Vote
The board adopts a master plan for the Texas college and university system with revisions possible, but final approval rests with the Texas Legislature which controls creation and funding. The agenda also includes land purchases, construction, reorganizations, and program changes from existing institutions.
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Texas A&m
Texas College and University System
Texas
Vietnam Brigadier Davison Stars in Breakthrough for Army
Frederic Ellis Davison, a World War II veteran who began as a captain in the all-Negro 371st Infantry, receives the silver star and becomes the third Black general in U.S. military history. At 51, he leads an infantry brigade in combat under Gen. Creighton Abrams Jr. and vows to push for fairness across races while visiting units and hospitals on Sundays.
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George McArthur
Binh Chanh
Vietnam
Frederic Ellis Davison
Creighton Abrams Jr
Davison
Howard University
Italy
Boy Scout Jim Cox Recounts Inter American Youth Trip
Ralls teen Jim Cox the nations top Boy Scout recalls meeting President Johnson at the Scouts report and attending the YMCA Inter American Youth Conference in Rio de Janeiro He describes Rio traffic Quito altitude lighter performance and anti Americanism encountered in Ecuador and Peru He mentions meeting Pele and riding part way with Miss Peru after the Miss Universe pageant in Miami and notes a developing Latin American middle class
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Jim. Cox
Ralls
U.S
Ecuador
Brazil
Peru
J. P. Nelson
Latin America
Rio de Janeiro
Jim Cox
Jim
President Johnson
J. P. Cox
Central University
Quito
Che Guevara
Guyaquil
Allather
South
Central America
Pele
Babe ‘Ruth
Rio
Germany
Lima
YMCA
Miami
Daley Defends Chicago Riots in National TV Radio Program
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and city officials defend the Democratic Convention protests as the work of instrumental radicals. The hour long program aired on 130 TV stations and 1,000 radio outlets, presenting police restraint and urging the nation to judge impartially.
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Chicago
Richard J. Daley
iChicago
International Amphitheatre
Conrad Hilton Hotel
R. F. Rock
Los Angeles
Daley
22 Arrested In Raid On City Residence
Lubbock police arrested 22 men in a late Saturday raid on a residence in the 1000 block of 1st Place. Nineteen were charged with drunkenness and three with liquor law violations by association.
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Lubbock
1St Place
Infant Receives Heart And Lungs Transplant In Houston
A two month old girl named Debra Ann Lee at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital Houston received a heart and both lungs from a one day old donor with brain defect. Surgery began at 8 p m and ended 27 minutes later. Debra's parents are William and Mrs Lee of Huffsmith East Texas.
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St. Lukes
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Mekong Delta
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Zambia
Gabon
Nigeria
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Othon Valent
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Anaconda
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