Marines Stop Run of North Vietnamese Near DMZ
U S Marines fought about 3000 enemy troops in a six hour battle below the DMZ with 140 reported killed and 34 Americans dead 185 wounded. South Vietnamese forces reported 70 enemy killed as air and artillery fire aided operations around Con Thien Hoi An Cam Pha port cranes and coal piles.
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Saigon
Outnam
U.S
U. S
Hoi An
Haiphong
Red China
Russia
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Con Thien
Cam Pha
Oriskany
Coral Sea
Poasttown and Madison Schools Hit by Weekend Vandalism
Vandals damaged Poasttown Elementary and Madison High School on Rt. 122 over the weekend. Losses cited include a theater curtain, desks, a copying machine, and broken bus windshields totaling about 700 dollars, with 500 dollars for the Madison High School glass. Deputies collected fingerprints and shoe prints as Midletown police joined the investigation.
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Poasttown
Madison High School
Rt. 122
Darrell Root
Madison
Root
Middletown
Middletown City
Amanda Junior High School
Oxford State Road
Gibraltar Holds British Line After Referendum Result
Gibraltar voters backed remaining a British crown colony by 12,138 to 44 with 65 void ballots, while 425 abstained. crowds cheered Sir Joshua Hassan and waved British flags, fearing renewed pressure from Spain despite Franco era tensions and UN opposition.
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Britain
Spain
Gibraltar
John Macintosh Hall
Sir Joshua Hassan
U.N
Francisco Franco
Gialtar
the Rock
Police Firemen Reject Proposals In Youngstown Strike
Youngstown police and firemen voted 298 to 69 to reject a pay rise far below demands after a late Wednesday strike. City offers $25 immediate plus $31 retroactive if a tax passes. Ferguson Act threat looms. National Guardsmen discussed. injunction has them back to work.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown
Anthony Flask
Flask
John Harrington
Fraternal Order of Police
Philadelphia
Mahoning
Space probes land on moon and return with bugs
Astrobiology mission Surveyor 5 lands on a gentle slope in the Sea of Tranquility after a helium leak nearly halting descent. Engineers redesigned the mission and saved helium, while BioSatellite 2 returns with bees and plant seeds as scientists observe effects of weightlessness.
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Pasadena
Calif
U. S
Pacific
Space
Earth
Jet Propulsio Laboraory
Surveyor Project
Howard Haglund
Surveyor 5
Hawaii
C.J. Lyon
Dartmouth College
John Tremor
Ames Research Center
Coast Guard Faces Recruitment Challenge For Negro Cadets
Report notes difficulty attracting Black applicants to the Coast Guard, especially for cadet and officer ranks. Only five Negro officers among 3,700, five of 700 plus cadets are Black, with broader lower representation in enlisted and warrant ranks. Academy requires standard exams and tough physicals, unlike other service academies.
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John F. Kennedy
Coast Guard Academy
Merle J. Smith
Baltimore
Guard
Coast Guard
UAW and Ford to talk as 160000 strike enters fifth day
Bargainers from UAW and Ford meet in Detroit for a probing session as the 160,000 UAW strike stretches into day five. Ford warns its 85,000 1968 models ready Sept. 21 will last about 30 days, while ISST seeks craft representation and skilled-pay parity.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Ford
Ken Bannon
Ford Department
Sidney F. McKenna
Earl Mazey
Cobo Hall
International Society of Skilled Trades
ISST
General Motors
Flint
Saginaw
National Labor Relations Board
Steel Magazine
Metalworking Journal
Southwest Ohio Weather Forecast Update
The forecast calls for a cool night in the 50s with a sunny and warmer Tuesday. Yesterday's high reached 71 and the low 44, and 12 inches of precipitation were recorded over the weekend.
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Ohio
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Washington
U. S. Coast Guard
Walter P. Routhern
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