Manila talks over allied vow Viet exit if peace terms met
At a two day summit in Manila seven nation leaders pledged to withdraw foreign troops from South Vietnam within six months after peace terms are fulfilled and North Vietnamese forces pull out. The communique urged prisoner exchanges while signaling no immediate talks with Hanoi amid protests and unrest outside the Malacanang Palace.
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Manila
Ace
Johnson
Vey
Wees
Eace
Hanoi
Asia
Pacific
Malacanang Palace
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
South Viet Nam
Washington
Selected Reserve To Stay Sharp and Mobilization Readiness
The Pentagon will keep the Selected Reserve Force in a high state of readiness through mid 1967 as a hedge against mobilization. Maj. Gen. Winston P. Wilson reports 86 percent of 423 SAF units passed regular Army battalion tests, with 60 awaiting retest, showcasing strong part time performance.
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Washington
Pentagon
Winston P. Wilson
National Guard Bureau
McNamara
SRF
Jury Progress Reported In Sheppard Retrial
In Cleveland Ohio AP Judge Talty said jurors are being lined up for the retrial of Samuel H Sheppard in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Prospective jurors were interviewed with several excused and a conference delaying session start. He seeks a fair panel after the Supreme Court ordered a new trial citing irregularities at the 1954 conviction for the bludgeon slaying of Marilyn Sheppard.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Francis J. Talty
Samuel H. Sheppard
Sheppard
Cuyahoga County
Talty
F. Lee Bailey
Marilyn Sheppard
U.S. Supreme Court
Blonde Ariane Tebbenjohanns
Cleveland
Dusselford
Germany
Ohio State Penitentiary
Vanished Master Spy George Blake Life In Ritzy Jail
Reports from Wormwood Scrubs portray the jailed spy George Blake amid a relaxed, club like atmosphere in D-block where long term inmates enjoyed privileges and light supervision. Former prisoners say the wing functioned as a gentlemen s club with coffee gatherings in Blake s cell during association time.
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Ritzy
London
George Blake
Wormwood Scrubs
Ritz
Blake
D-block
Blake escapes from English prison of wartime spy
On a cell wall A medieval St Paul study and a bookshelf of over 100 volumes stood beside a valuable Bokhara rug sent by his wife John Vassall served 18 years for spying after a Russian blackmail. Blake on good terms with guards fled the block Saturday after five years of a 42 year term, the longest in modern English history. Detectives hold little hope of capture and suspect he is abroad or on a Soviet trawler heading to his masters.
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St. Paul
John Vassall
Blake
Europe
Atlas Centaur Launch Scrubbed By Radio
The Atlas Centaur test flight was postponed after faulty temperature data from a radio channel in the second stage. Ground data via land line was correct, but the radio channel failed to relay it, delaying the countdown with five minutes left.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Space Agency
Communications Satellite Corp
Pacific
North America
Hawaii
Southeast Asia
Rower's Rest as Maureen Blyth Leads Atlantic Voyage Start
Sgt Chay Blyth, famed British paratrooper and Atlantic rower, steps back as wife Maureen Blyth rows from Orleans Massachusetts. Blyth met Cape Cod seafarers who aided preparations last June for the 92 day crossing with a paratroop captain aboard.
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Chay Blyth
Atlantic Ocean
Maureen Blyth
Orleans
Mass
Blyth
Cape Cod
Weather Outlook With Frost Tonight Then Warming
Tonight will be fair and cool with scattered frost and a low in the lower 30s. Wednesday turns fair and warmer with a high near 66. Yesterday's high reached 65 and the overnight low was 36. Around 11 AM today the temperature stood at 57.
New Parents Toast Home and Baby Plans
A cheerful young couple stands before a new home with their baby in a carriage and laughs about future payments. The husband quips that one day the child will own it and begin making the payments.
Burning Ship Gulfstag Burns Near Morgan City
A Gulf Oil tanker Gulfstag burned about 30 miles south of Morgan City Louisiana after two explosions. Seven crewmen are believed dead, trapped in staterooms as flames threaten 153000 barrels of gasoline. Coast Guard cutters and a tug stand by in a 10 square mile danger zone.
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Morgan City
Gulfstag
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
Larry L. Larue
Gulf Oil Corp
Point Lookout
Iris
Galveston
Tex
Titan
Sabine
Funeral Held For 10-Year-Old Slag Victim In Aberfan
In Aberfan Wales a tiny coffin bearing a single red rose carried through rubble strewn streets for Randolph Tudor 10 as miners wept. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip planned to visit the disaster site as rescue teams resumed work and authorities tallied 145 recovered bodies with 46 believed still buried beneath the sludge. A mass funeral for 60 children was planned, led by Rev Kenneth Hayes whose 9-year-old son would be among the mourners.
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Aberfan
Wales
Randolph Tudor
London
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Kenneth Hayes
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