Hanoi Frees Three American Fliers
North Vietnam released Maj. James F. Low Maj. Fred N. Thompson and Capt. Joe V. Carpenter to an American antiwar committee in Hanoi. The fliers, held four to seven months after being shot down over North Vietnam, were to depart for Vientiane Laos Friday night.
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Tokyo
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Vientiane
U.S
James Frederick Low
Sausalito
Calif
Fred Neal Thompson
Taylors, N.C
Joe Victor Carpenter
Victorsville
North
Southeast Asia
Weather outlook and brief Vietnam release notes
Middletown and Miami Valley forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunder showers and continued hot humid weather tonight and Friday. Low tonight in the low 70s. Vietnam update notes North Vietnamese release of three other American fliers for humanitarian reasons. Airmen delivered at 8 a.m. to Anne Scheer wife of Ramparts editor Robert Scheer plus Vernon Grizard and Stewart Meacham.
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Middletown
Miami Valley
Vietnam
Nihon Dempa
North Vietnam People’s Army
Anne Scheer
Ramparts Magazine
Robert Scheer
Vernon Grizard
Boston
Stewart Meacham
American Friends Service Committee
Vientiane
Hanoi
ICC
Diplomacy S Questioned After Vietnam War Lull
U S officials remain unsure about North Vietnam signaling a de escalation by suspending Saigon shelling. Thuy cites no Saigon attacks but Washington suspects a political move while warning of potential resumption. No progress at Paris talks, while bombing and troop activity shift in the region.
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Paris
U.S
North Vietnam
Saigon
United States
Marines Hit North Vietnamese Near the DMZ in Major Battle
U S Marines killed 56 North Vietnamese seven miles north of Camp Carroll in a day long fight near the DMZ. An outnumbered Marine patrol killed 21 more nearby. Nine Americans died and 25 wounded as helicopters evacuated the wounded. Secretary Clifford commented on enemy withdrawals and refitting, while touring Vietnam before heading to Honolulu to report to President Johnson.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Camp Carroll
Leathernecks
Clark M. Clifford
South Vietnam
da Nang
Dmz
Vietnam
Mekong
Honolulu
Jonison
Eisenhower Holds News Conference Amid Health Recovery
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, convalescing after a fifth heart attack, held a news conference at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Speculation rose that he might endorse Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, as Nixon’s presence in Washington fueled talk he could break his neutrality.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Eisenhower
Nixon
New Security Measures Sought to Prevent Skyjacking
Washington AP reports studies on devices to photograph boarding passengers and detect large metal objects, plus in-flight surveillance options. FAA officials note no solution is ready, while airlines weigh a gate device to film boarding for security cues and cockpit surveillance proposals face mixed support.
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Washington
Richard Swift
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Fake Grenade Hijack Story Ends With Cuban Return Trip
Fifty six passengers expelled from a National Airlines DC8 hijacked to Havana were allowed to return to Miami on a State Department charter. The hijacker claimed Fidel ordered him back and used a fake grenade, later unwrapped as shaving lotion.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
U.S
U.S. State Department
National Airlines
Fidel
National
Los Angeles
Hernandez
Richard Nell
U.S. Air Force
Biloxi
Miss
Nell
Melton Hamilton
Houston
Tex
Hamilton
Texas
Kathleen Dickinson
Coral Gables
Sidney L. Oliver
Havana
Oliver
New Orleans
Jose Maris Airport
Baiamonte
Split deepens as communists press Czechoslovakia reform
AP report notes Soviet and allied leaders demand reversal of liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia while Prague receives support from Tito and Ceausescu. French Communist Waldeck Rochet set to visit. Moscow and MTI push for firm party control over liberal press.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Belgrade
Tito
Stalin
Nicolae Ceausescu
Kremlin
Waldeck Rochet
Rochet
Moscow
Warsaw
East Germany
Poland
Hungary
Bulgaria
MTI
Alexander Dubcek
Son May Follow Dad's Path To Death House
In Columbus Ohio AP Lee Arthur Henley a former Cincinnati garbage truck driver could face execution in the electric chair next week His father was executed in Arkansas at 20 for killing his mother and Henley lost a rehearing of the 1964 shooting death of Cincinnati carry out manager Peter Mazes before the Ohio Supreme Court
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Columbus, Ohio
Lee Arthur Henley
Cincinnati
Arkansas
Lee
Ohio
Peter Mazes
Ohio Supreme Court
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Thailand
Smith Pond
N. Viets
Bulletin
Swift
William Becker
The
Air Transport Association
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