General Davis Wounded In Vietnam Gunboat Clash
Brig. Gen. Franklin M. Davis Jr. was wounded by rocket grenade shrapnel while boarding a Monit or gunboat south of Saigon. A dozen South Vietnamese sailors and three other American officers were injured as Viet Cong fire hit six patrol boats during a 15 to 20 minute engagement. Davis remained on his feet and returned to base after treatment. his son was killed in action in 1967.
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Rung Sat Special Zone
Vietnam
Franklin M. Davis Jr
Davis
Waltham
Mass
199Th Light Infantry Brigade
Saigon
Navy
George Varga
Castine
Maine
U.S
River Force
Stephen Davis
Alliluyeva Rejects View of U S King's and Kennedy Deaths
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, living near Princeton University, says the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were acts by extremists rather than signs of a sick country. She fled Russia in 1967 and now enjoys life in America, studying the campaign and engaging with friends and correspondence.
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Princeton, NJ
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Martin Luther King Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
Mrs. Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin
Alliluyeva
Princeton University
Saxe Cummings
Europe
Princeton
Truce In Soviet Bloc Prevails In Prague Returns Hope
In Prague AP reports a bloc wide truce with Czechoslovakia's liberal Communist leaders and Soviet press saying all is well after Bratislava talks. Dubcek pledges to stay the reform path and calls Bratislava a fulfillment of expectations while stressing mutual cooperation and noninterference among socialist states.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Poland
Alexander Dubcek
Dubcek
Slovakia
Republic
Hungary
Bulgaria
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Norge Bassett
Armstrong
Amana
Remington
Sunbeam
Hi-Lite
Polaroid
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Waltham — Emerson
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NO Limit
REDS
WPFB
Harry’s Furniture
N. Verity
Trenton
Spa
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