Red China threatens to send troops to Vietnam
Beijing warned Saturday that Chinese forces could join the Vietnam war as Washington announced 50 000 more U S troops would deploy in South Vietnam The dispatch cites Chinese and Soviet condemnations of U S actions and accuses Johnson of duplicity while reaffirming Hanoi Hanoi North Vietnam and the Viet Cong seek active external help and insist on Geneva accords implementation
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Tokyo
Red
China
Viet Nam
U. S
Radio Peking
Johnson
U.S
South
North Viet Nam
Red China
United States
Peking
South Viet Nam
America
Hanoi
Indochina
Viet Cong hit Saigon area as air strikes kill hundreds
Viet Cong mortars hit government outposts north and south of Saigon as US and Vietnamese planes reply. About 200 guerrillas killed in retaliatory air strikes. A Navy Skyraider is reported lost near Dong Hoi with pilot presumed dead.
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Democratic Republic of
North
Viet Nam
Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Navy
al Skyraider
U.S
Mekong Delta
Duc Co
Dong Hoi
Hanoi
The
Independence
Weather Outlook Shows Showers and Tstorms Likely
The area expects further rain with occasional showers and thunder showers today. A high near 85 is forecast with a cooldown Monday after more showers. Rain yesterday was the heaviest since July 17, totaling about 0.84 inch, following 0.84 inch on that date and 1.24 inches on April 5.
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C.T. Morningstar
Charge Dropped In Officer Death In Mississippi
West Point Mississippi AP state Saturday dropped a manslaughter charge against civil rights worker Mike Reuss after a highway patrolman died following Reuss arrest. Dist Atty Harvey Buck said officer B Cowart died of a heart attack not Reuss’s actions. Rep Henry Reuss traveled to Mississippi to seek dismissal approval and noted Reuss was released after fines for sidewalk blocking and interfering with an officer.
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West Point
Miss
Mike Reuss
Wisconsin
Harvey Buck
B. Cowart
Young Reuss
Washington
London
Mississippi
Rep
Reuss
Mississipi
Buck
Clay County
Typhoon Jean Strikes Nakhodka Russia Coast
Typhoon Jean hit the Soviet far eastern port of Nakhodka causing flooding in the port city and nearby farm lands near Vladivostok. Tass reports six to eight inches of rain in the maritime province between Manchuria and the Sea of Japan. Police in Japan tally 26 dead and 134 injured.
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Moscow
Jean
Nakhodka
Vladivostok
Tass
Chinese Manchuria
Sea of Jan
Japan
Motorist Dies in Ohio Valley Collision
A Toledo woman, Mil dred Rich, 40, was killed in a two car head on crash Saturday three miles west of Franklin. Her passenger and the other driver were injured as emergency crews responded to the scene.
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Louisville, Ky
Toledo, Ohio
Mildred Rich
Franklin
Four Die in London Flour Mill Explosion
An explosion at the Frenflight mill in London's East End killed at least four people and injured about 30. About 100 workers were present when the seven story mill blew apart, and a search for others believed trapped continued.
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London
East End
Night in the City and Other Briefs
A look inside city life after midnight via two journal photographers on page 23. The medical quack’s sound echoes nationwide in a piece on page 9. A Working Man becomes the new boss of the United Steelworkers Union on page 6.
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United Steelworkers Union
FBI Seeks Clues In Deaths Of 2 Youths
FBI releases photos of nine teenagers in Baltimore Maryland hoping to identify two youths found dead on the Baltimore Washington Parkway. Police suspect hitchhiking youths from near New York City or Miami area possibly returning from the World's Fair were struck by a large vehicle. Dressed in graduation like photos found on one boy's wallet, the victims had no ID and carried two small bags. Investigators consider homicide and seek help from the public.
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Baltimore, Md
FBI
Baltimore- Washington Parkway
U.S. Park
N.Y
Edwin R. Tully
Baltimore
Miami
Nagasaki Marked Hole In Clouds Spelled Death
AP reports a reunion of the 393rd Bomb Squadron recalls how weather spared Kokura then Nagasaki on atomic missions. Brig. Gen. Charles Sweeney and Lt. Col. Kermit Beahan recount two bombing runs, four near misses, and Nagasaki’s selection after Kyoto was dropped. About 73,000 people were killed.
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New York
Kokura
Nagasaki
Charles W. Sweeney
Milton
Mass
Kermit Beahan
Houston
Tex
Col
Paul W. Tibbets
Tinian
Enola Gay
Hiroshima
Sweeney
Pacific
Buck
Dier Beahan
Niigata
Kyoto
Edwin 0. Reischauer
U.S
Japan
City of
Temples
Beahan
Voting Law Put To Use Poll Tax Challenge In Mississippi
The Justice Department filed a federal suit in Jackson to strike down Mississippi's $2 poll tax for state elections, citing the 1965 voting rights law. The action, ordered by President Johnson, seeks to bar elections conditioned on poll tax payments and aims to curb racial and economic voting barriers.
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Jackson
Miss
Justice Department
Johnson
Mississippi
Nicholas Katzenbach
Washington
Congress
Alabama
Texas
Virginia
Commission On Civil Rights
Current Rains Won't End Drought in Ohio
Federal climatologist Ted Pierce says the present rains do not lift Ohio from general drought conditions. He notes drought here spans years with deficient precipitation since 1800 and may take years of above normal rainfall to restore water levels, warning cycles are speculative and uncertain.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ted Pierce
Pierce
Ohio
Bolivia Lifts State Of Siege
Bolivia's ruling military junta lifts the state of siege imposed two months earlier as miners revolt. The army was sent into mining towns and union leaders jailed or exiled as the regime accused them of Communist influence amid a dispute over cost cuts affecting tin exports and the Bolivian economy.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Evidence Grows In Cold Deaths
In Austin Texas James C Cross Jr is charged with murdering Stirley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby Cross. Police say Cross admitted involvement and details indicate the crime occurred midafternoon July 18 with bodies hidden in a field early next morning. Stark had planned to marry a SMU student and was dating Cross. Rigsby knew none of Cross.
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Austin
Tex
James C. Cross Jr
Stirley Ann Stark
Susan Rigsby Cross
Fort Worth
Travis County
Dallas
Cross
University of Texas
Miss Stark
Susan Rigsby
McBee
Phifer
Texas
Clint Peoples
Miss Rigsby
Man Begins $35000 House Build With Personal Funds
A man starts constructing a $35000 residence using his own funds. The effort marks a solo housing project with no external financing reported.
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MM Valley News
Yeaily
George Phifer
Texas Department of Public Safety
Justice of the Peace
Frank McBee
Homer Garrison
Department of Public Safety
Satur
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