Johnson accuses solon of breaking confidence in Viet Nam row
President Johnson charged a top Republican broke his confidence and distorted remarks about Viet Nam deliberations. Gerald Ford of Michigan said he would not engage in a public quarrel with the President. Johnson named no one but noted unnamed attendees at White House talks.
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Washington
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Donnybrook
Johnson
Frank Cormier
Johnson City
Tex
White House
Lbj Ranch
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
U.S
Viet Nam
Per- Johnson
Ford
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Dirksen
Hickenlooper
Mansfield
John Stennis
D-Miss
NBC
Meet the Press
Stennis
Two Men Charged In Slaying Of Marine Recruit
In Americus Georgia two young men Eddie Will Lamar and Charles Lee Hopkins both in their early 20s face murder indictments after 21 year old Andrew Whatley was shot during a civil rights march. The case emerges amid ongoing demonstrations and calls for reinforcements from civil rights leaders and white supremacist groups.
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Americus, Ga
Eddie Will Lamar
Charles Lee Hopkins
Americas
Andrew Whatley
Mabel Barnum
Sumter County
Clarke
SCLC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Americus
Calvin Craig
Georgia
United Klans of America, Inc
Atlanta
Ku Klux Klan
Craig
First Baptist
First Methodist
Mafia Link With U S Is Smashed
Italian police rounded up nine men described as links between the Sicilian Mafia and the American Cosa Nostra. The group includes reputed Mafia head Genco Russo and an Italian-American once linked to Lucky Luciano, with 14 total targets charged with associating to commit crime.
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Palermo
Sicily
Cosa Nostra
Mafia
Charles “Lucky” Luciano
Coppola Arrest Ties Two Italian Crime Figures
On a farm near Rome police detained Frank "Three Fingers" Coppola 75 previously deported by the United States in 1948. He had ties to Kansas City and was linked to Luciano who allegedly held the crown after Naples death. Italian police cite past homicide extortion and trafficking accusations against Coppola and Genco Russo, including robbery and theft.
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Rome
Frank
Coppola
U.S
Kansas City
Luciano
Naples
Genco Russo
Crosby son of Bing Crosby granted divorce
Dennis Crosby, son of Bing Crosby, was divorced July 3 from former Las Vegas showgirl Pat Sheehan after six years of marriage.
Riviera Wildfires Bring Injury Toll Along French Coast
Fires fanned by a sea breeze along the French Riviera damaged pine forests near Toulon and nearby areas. Officials said the south wind aided containment by dawn, with hopes to extinguish all flames if no new wind arises. Five people were injured and around 20 000 residents evacuated or displaced.
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Toulon
France
French Riviera
Eisenhower Faults UN Lethargy Over Viet Nam Fight
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower expressed disappointment with the United Nations for not moving to gather facts and marshal world opinion behind South Vietnam’s struggle. He spoke during a Wisconsin vacation and urged support for President Johnson’s Viet Nam policies. He noted private citizens lack access to facts and praised the nation’s prosperity and peace during his term.
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Minocqua
Wis
Igge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United Nations
South Viet Nam
Eisenhower
Wisconsin
Johnson
Viet Nam
Woodruff
Gettysburg
Wisconsin Lakes
New York
Howard Young
Russell warns South Vietnam may choose Ho Chi Minh rule
Sen. Richard B. Russell says South Viet Nam could plebiscite to join North Viet Nam under Ho Chi Minh if given a vote. He criticizes civilian leadership, urges stronger political effort and stable government to back military success, and calls for maintaining U.S. force strength in the region.
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Don Carson Washington
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Ho Chi Minh
CBS
Weather Forces Elderly Pair To Abandon Climb
A Wisconsin couple, H. Russell Briggs 72 and his wife 77 of Madison, halted plans to climb Mount of Denver due to stormy wet and cold weather. They began peak adventures on their honeymoon 45 years ago and had just scaled Mount Evans and Gray's Peak before turning back to Madison.
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Mount of the Holy Cross
Redcliff
Colo
Wisconsin
Denver
H. Russell Briggs
Madison
Wis
Colorado
Briggses
Pike's Peak
Colorado Springs
Briggs
Mount Evans
Gray's Peak
Columbusite Killed In Airplane Crash Near Great Falls
ANGUSTA Mont AP Thomas Leroy Haley 31 of Columbus Ohio was killed as a single engine plane crashed in the mountains near the Continental Divide west of Great Falls Montana. Passenger Richard Knowles 27 of Columbus said Haley gunned the engine causing the crash. The aircraft dropped into trees and a wing tore off.
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Angusta
Mont
Thomas Leroy Haley
Columbus
Ohio
Continental Divide
Great Falls
Richard Knowles
Haley
Enyon
Military Leaders Meet in Honolulu Over Viet Nam Troop Buildup
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler heads a conference with Gen. Westmoreland and Adm. Sharp to plan deploying 530000 additional U.S. troops to South Viet Nam. The meeting aims to implement President Johnsons order to raise fighting personnel from 75000 to 125000. Taylor, in Hawaii, may speak publicly later this month.
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James Lagier
Honolulu
America
Pacific
U.S
South Viet Nam
Johnson
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
William C. Westmoreland
Viet Nam
U.S. Grant Sharp Jr
Wheeler
Maxwell D. Taylor
Hawaii
Taylor
Waikiki
Miss Pearl Bailey in Satisfactory Condition After Collapse
Pearl Bailey, 47, collapsed after a performance at an Ontario California nightclub. A Mt Sinai Hospital spokesman said she is in satisfactory condition and will stay for several days for tests, following a February nervous exhaustion hospital stay and a mild heart attack in April.
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Los Angeles
Pearl Bailey
Ontario
Calif
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Miss Bailey
Freight Train Derails Near Findlay Destroys Track
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed north of Findlay at North Baltimore Sunday night, pulling 12 cars from the rails. No injuries reported. Cause unknown. cleanup under way with over a quarter mile of track torn up for repairs.
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Findlay, Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio
Here
North Baltimore
Maine Area Searches for Missing Youths in Katahdin Area
George Mott of Rochester reports his son Robbie 17 and Timothy 3 vanished from their Mt Katahdin family camp after Friday supper. Search teams including National Guard, Air Force, state park staff and volunteers scoured the area while a carved marker reading Robbie M appeared on a birch tree, unclear if related.
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Millinocket
Maine
Mt. Katahdin
George Mott
Rochester
N. Y
Robbie
Timothy
Matt
Joseph Bartlett
Piscataqua County
500 Tons Dropped On Quang Tin In Major Viet Nam Raid
U S B52 bombers dropped 500 tons of bombs in a 45 minute raid on Viet Cong installations in Quang Tin Province north of Saigon at the Doxa area. The attack involved eight aircraft from Guam and followed a ground sweep southeast of Saigon with limited results.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Strategic Air Command
Quang Tin Province
Doxa
Kontum
Bs%s
Guam
Siagon
Okinawa
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Bien Hoa
Viet Nam
Hue
da Nanag
Long An
Go Cong
Weather update with fair skies and cool temps
Cool, fair weather continues tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight around 58. Daytime high near 79 with today’s low about 61.
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Italy
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Riviera
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Strom Thurmond
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China
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Miss Pearl
Ann Landers
Soar
Seaee
Crane
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Quang Tin
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Pham Thi Thanh van
North
U S
James S. Killen
Kellen
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