Grave Situation Reported in Laos Leadership Crisis Deepens
Communist led forces pressed neutralist troops in north central Laos as Gen Kong Le warned the situation was very bad. Kong Le flew from Ban Na to Vientiane for emergency talks with Premier Souvanna Phouma and two rightist generals. He appeared tired in civilian clothes after his trek from the command post, underscoring regional tension as a company of 152 military policemen arrived in Saigon from Fort Chaffee to bolster security.
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Laos
Kong le
Ban Na
Vientiane
Souvanna Phouma
Saigon
Ft. Chaffee, Ark
Motive Suspected in Kidnaping of Mrs Dassault
Paris police hunt three gunmen and a driver who abducted Mrs Marcel Dassault, wife of the aircraft magnate. Callers to newspapers claimed political motives and tied ransom to freeing anti Gaullist leaders Salan and Jouhaud, but authorities could not verify the links. Dassault’s husband doubts a political motive and expects a ransom demand.
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Paris
Marcel Dassault
Charles de Gaulle
Duseault
France Soir
Dassault
Raoul Salan
Salan
Algeria
Dassaudt
Spain
Jouhaud
Pierre Lazareff
France-Soir
Grenade Bounces Off Window At Saigon Bar
A grenade thrown at the Rainbow Bar near an American barracks exploded on the sidewalk outside after bouncing off a wire screen. About ten Americans were in the bar. nobody inside was harmed. Police said metal fragments dented a door. troops arrived to bolster security amid rising Communist incidents.
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Saigon
Washington Hints at More Arms Aid to Lao Forces
Washington prepared to provide additional arms to Red-press and Lao government forces as U S authorities await a needs list from Premier Souvanna Phouma. Diplomats maneuver over regional talks amid a tense Southeast Asia crisis.
World briefs on Vietnam Cambodia Laos and Southeast Asia
Amid fears of Communist terrorism in Saigon President Nguyen Khanh's regime cited three captured Viet Cong fighters to allege sanctuary in neutralist Cambodia. Sihanouk sought British help while hinting at measures. In Thailand PM Thanom dismissed immediate US troop calls. A Philippines Indonesia peace conference was planned with a Tokyo summit rumored, as Kadena hosted long planned SEATO exercises.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Sihanouk
Richard A. Butler
Thailand
Laos
Thanom Kittkichaorn
Bangkok
U. S
Philippines
Salvador P. Lopez
Indonesia
Tokyo
Borneo
Pacific
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Pentagon
Southeast Treaty Organization
Diplomat Son and Six Die in Congo Church Bombings
In Leopoldville a dusk to dawn curfew is imposed after saboteurs bomb two Roman Catholic churches, killing a worshipper and injuring several. Police Chief Victor Nendaka and Interior Minister Joseph Maboti announce martial law precursors, while accusations point to saboteurs from Brazzaville allied with Communist Chinese diplomats.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Victor Nendaka
Joseph Maboti
Maboti
Church of Christ the King
St. Peter
Dendale
Brazzaville
French Congo
Three Presidents Pay Honor to General George Marshall
At Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, President Johnson and former President Eisenhower dedicate the Marshall Research Library, a $600000 repository for Gen George C Marshall papers and memos. Truman planned to attend but stayed home. Omar Bradley read a Truman tribute.
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Eisenhower
Johnson
George Marshall
Lexington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George C. Marshall
Virginia Military Institute
Marshall Research
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Omar Badley
Truman
Mate Held In Slaying Of Captain
A first degree murder warrant was served aboard a Coast Guard cutter in Tampa Bay after a struggle between shrimp boat captain William Schuck and his mate Henry Weakver. The FBI charged 23 year old Henry Weakver with the death on or about May 10 off the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Fia
Coast Guard
Tampa Bay
FBI
Henry Weakver
William Schuck
Gulf of Mexico
Weaver
Point Swift
Schuck
Campeche
Yucatan Peninsula
Neal Welch
Senate panel backs filling vice presidency by amendment
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee favors a constitutional amendment to allow the president to fill a vice presidential vacancy with Senate and House approval. The six member panel also supports letting the president delegate powers to the vice president when unable to act, with Congress deciding incapacitation. Chairman Birch Bayh said the report aligns with ABA proposals and the plan may pass unanimously next week.
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Barkinson
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Thomas Dodd
D-Conn
Kenneth B
Kennedy Exhibit Opens Private Preview for JFK Legacy
Mrs. John F. Kennedy and family will attend a private New York opening for the John F. Kennedy Exhibit. Public viewing starts Tuesday with a 12 day run at IBM building, then a 22 city tour. Mrs. Kennedy recalls JFK believed one man can make a difference and urged serving the country. The John F. Kennedy Memorial Library project has more than half of its $120 million goal funded.
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John F. Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
Harvard
International Businmeas Machines Corp
East Side Sewage Issue Warming Up
Middletown officials admit a serious East Side sewage problem while residents voice complaints and frustration over inaction. The report notes photos accompany the story on page 27.
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East Side
Middletown
Presbyterians Told Race Issue Still Problem
In Oklahoma City a leading Negro pastor urged restraint after the United Presbyterian Church celebrated a milestone with the election of a Black officer. Rev Eugene Callender, moderator of the New York City Presbytery, warned the denomination not to boast too soon and spoke at the general assembly.
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United Presbyterian Church
Eugene 8. Callender
Church of the Master
New York City
General Assembly
Former New Orleans mayor dies in plane crash in Mexico
CIUDAD VICTORIA Mexico AP Former New Orleans mayor and U S diplomat de Lesseps S Morrison his young son and five others were killed instantly when their chartered two engine plane crashed in dense fog Friday The wreckage was found in a mountain corn field 27 miles from Ciudad Victoria The bodies were mangled and taken to the civil hospital in Ciudad Victoria Morrison 52 and his 7 year old son Randy were aboard along with socialite widow Mrs Carolyn Vandergrift and her 7 year old son Christopher Pilot Hugh Ward Ovide Cemac and Riley Pellegrin also died The bodies were to be flown to Corpus Christi and then to New Orleans Morrison had been traveling between Louisiana and Latin America as head of a trade commission and had served as New Orleans mayor for 15 years.
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U.S
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Hugh Ward
Brownsville
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Houma
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Vandergrift
Martinsville
Charleston
Arthur Beall
Air- Sea Rescue
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Navy Air Station
Beall
John McKeithen
Louisiana
Mors Rosion
Latin America
Kennedy
OAS
Corinne Waterman
deLesseps Jr
LSU
Corinne Anne
British Aid to Cuba Tops Visitor Ships in April
Exile sources in Miami report 17 British-registered ships visited Cuban ports in April, the most of any nation doing business with Fidel Castro's regime.
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Cuba
Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Goldwater Pledges Clean Campaign in California
Senator Barry Goldwater vowed a clean campaign in California as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. He denounced efforts to turn California into a political butcher shop and urged fair play and decency while noting hate literature from the East, traced to George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi party, but said Rockefellers are not connected.
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