Viet Troops Battle Cong In Key Delta
South Vietnamese troops fought sharp battles in the Mekong Delta with mixed results as U S Navy jets struck Viet Cong positions near Saigon. A search and destroy operation ended near My Tho after 20 hours of combat. 50 Viet Cong and moderate government casualties were reported. A helicopter was shot down, two crew wounded but rescued. U S B 52s bombed Viet Cong concentrations near Saigon and another raid targeted rice paddies and pineapple fields 15 miles southwest. Overall, 300 sorties were flown in 24 hours, with planes returning safely.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong River
U.S
My Tho
Ca Mau
U.S. Strategic Air Command
Guam
North Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Trouble Shooters Enter Steel Talks
In Pittsburgh AP Johnson named two mediators Wayne Morse and LeRoy Collins to help avert a nationwide steel strike set for Tuesday midnight. Morse and Collins joined Mediation and Conciliation Service chief William Simkin in exploratory sessions with industry and United Steelworkers Union as talks continued with little public comment. If no deal is reached 450000 basic steel workers could strike, halting 80 percent of U S steel output. The president had previously spoken with top bargainers and urged cooperation while Morse Collins and Simkin sought to isolate issues and push toward a settlement.
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Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Adie Collins
White House
Pittsburgh
Johnson
Oregon
Morse
Collins
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Simkin
Industry
United Steelworkers Union
Louisiana
Betsy
Vinton
Dirksen
Congress
Scott Carpenter
Navy
John Pennel
Budapest
Monroe and
Ouachita Parish
Northeast State College
West Monroe school board member Ramblin’ Ramblin’ recovering
Roy C. Cash of 108 Fairview Drive West Monroe, Ouachita Parish School Board member, returned home after an 18 day hospital stay at Glenwood following a heart attack on August 5. He is resting per doctor orders and invites friends for a chat.
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Roy C. Cash
Fairview Dr
West Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Glenwood Hospital
Cash
Johnson sends two top troubleshooter to steel talks
President Johnson assigns two lead negotiators as the steel dispute nears the looming strike deadline. The move signals urgency to avert a work stoppage that could ripple through markets and jobs nationwide.
Greek Premier Tsirimakos ousted after no confidence vote
In Athens the Greek Parliament defeated Premier Elias Tsirimakos with a 159 to 135 no confidence vote. Tsirimakos warned his 36-member dissident bloc could fracture the Center Union if he fell, as Papandreou returned and balked at backing the government.
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Athens
Greece
Elias Tsirimakos
King Constante
George Papandreou
Tsirimakos
Papandreou
Center Union Party
Palace
George Athanasiadis Novas
Center Union
National Radical Union
Tsirimokos
Gemini 5 Recovery Net Shifts As Storm Betsy Looms
A large recovery force moved 276 miles southwest of Bermuda to form a catch net for Gemini 5 as tropical storm Betty advances. Astronauts Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles Conrad Jr. remain aboard the capsule with mission control adjusting timing and safety plans.
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Gordon Cooper
Pete Conrad
Atlantic
Uss
Lake Champlain
UDT
Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Bermuda
Grand Turk Island
Betty
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Betsy
Eugene Krantz
Jacksonville
Fla
Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr
DuPont
Waldron
Weeks
Kraft
Gordon Dunn
Miami
Cooper
Conrad
Charles A. Berry
White Sands
N.M
Laredo
Betsy s Wind Gains Speed Ends Gemini 5 Flight
Tropical storm Betsy brushed the Leeward Islands Saturday night and sped northward, forcing an early end to Gemini 5. Warnings covered the Virgin Islands Puerto Rico and Dominica with gusty winds and moderate flooding feared. Betsy was forecast to pass about 200 miles east of Grand Turk at 5 p.m. today as gales extended northeast.
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Miami
Fla
Betsy
Leeward Islands
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Grand Turk
Weather Bureau
Caribbean Sea
St. Maarten
Dominica
Guadaloupe
Grand Turk Island
Gordon Dunn
U.S
Showers Forecast For Monroe Area This Weekend
A few afternoon thundershowers are forecast for today and Monday in the Monroe West Monroe area with no temperature changes expected. The U.S. Weather Bureau expects clear to partly cloudy skies with around 70 percent sunshine today and highs near 84 to 88 degrees. Saturday’s high and low were 87 and 74. Late Saturday showers dropped .11 inch in the Twin Cities area, bringing August total to 2.10 inches, 1.37 inches below average. Variable northerly winds today range from eight to 16 mph.
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Monroe
U.S. Weather Bureau
Twin Cities
FAA
Selman Field
Firefighters Contain Brush Fire Near Los Angeles
In California, water dropping helicopters and about 500 firefighters halted a brush fire north of La Crescenta, scorching 500 rugged mountain acres. Officials reported the blaze was no longer spreading and said full control was hoped for Saturday night.
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LA Crescenta
Calif
Los Angeles
Bus-Truck Collision Kills 11 in Southwest Louisiana
A Houston to New Orleans Greyhound bus collided with a heavy lumber truck near Winton Louisiana on U.S. 90 killing 11 and injuring 30. The bus front was sheared off and timbers pierced passenger sections. The truck driver Henry Gregory died. bus driver Jeff Blankenship survived with serious injuries.
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Winton
New Orleans
Louisiana
Greyhound
W. M. Pierce
Houston
Pierce
Henry C. Gregory
Jeff Blanken
Coleman
Charles
Charles Newman
Bowman
Danny Daniels
Pascagoula
Miss
Terry
C. P. Broussard
Port Arthur
Tex
Johnson Signs Bill Financing Road Program
President Johnson signed a historic 3 billion dollar bill to fund interstate highway work, providing 90 percent federal support for state projects on the 4000 mile system. It follows a previous 1 billion federal aid apportionment for primary and secondary highways, with total 4 billion dollars to be spent in the next fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
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Orbit
John Hunt
Peter Spencer
Read E. Rich
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Edward Ponder
Frederick Highsmith
Champlain
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Thompson
Jane Conrad
Trudy Cooper
The
Space Center
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Gemini
Roger
James A. McDivitt
Pete
McDivitt
Jane
Trudy
Virgil I. Grissom
California
Beaumont
Lake Charles
Sulphur
Orange
Mott Musgrove
Ernest Campbell
Juanita Vyes
Birmingham
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