Viet Cong Ambush Against U.S. Army Leaves Heavy Toll
In War Zone D, the 1st Infantry Division repelled a Viet Cong ambush with 31 American dead and about 196 enemy killed in a three hour fight. About 113 Americans were wounded as Viet Cong fled under air and artillery bombardment.
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Lagion
U.S
War Zone D
U.S. 1St
Saigon
Hanoi
Kep
Air Force
U.S. Navy
Bon Homme Richard
Thanh Hoa
Enterprise
Haiphong
Vinh
South Viet
One Vehicle Mishap Kills Ruston Youth
A 16 year-old Ruston youth Ronald Ralph Tinsley died from injuries after a pickup overturned several times in a one-vehicle crash two miles northwest of Ruston on Lincoln Parish Road 183 around 11:30 p.m. Friday. Companion Mike Barnes also 16 was listed in satisfactory condition at Lincoln General Hospital. Funeral services for Tinsley were set for 2:30 p.m. today at Emanuel Baptist Church Ruston with burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Survivors include his parents a sister and several grandparents.
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Ruston
Ronald Ralph Tinsley
Lincoln Parish
Mike Barnes
Lincoln General Hospital
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Spears Funeral Home
Cindy Tinsley
D. B. Tinsley
Homer
Mike Branch
David Lee
Gary Taylor
Roger Johnson
Donnie Westbrook
Mike Frazier
Governors Get 19 Gun Salute at Fort Chaffee Review
Governors Rockefeller of Arkansas and McKeithen of Louisiana received an 11 gun salute during the 3rd annual Governors Day review of the 39th Infantry Division at Fort Chaffee. The event marked the halfway point of a 7,000 soldier summer encampment by the Arkansas Louisiana National Guard.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Rockefeller
Arkansas
John McKeithen
Louisiana
39Th Infantry Division
Arkansas-Louisiana National Guard
Fort Chaffee
Harvard Law School confers magna cum laude on Charles Foster
Charles Allen Foster, son of Mr and Mrs C S Foster of 2408 Hawthorne St, Cambridge, graduates magna cum laude from Harvard University Law School. He earns a Bachelor of Law at the 316th commencement, in a traditional Yard ceremony beside Memorial Church. Foster is a 1959 Neville High School graduate.
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Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass
Charles Allen Foster
C. S. Foster
Hawthorne St
University Law School
Allen
Memorial Church
Neville High School
Birthday Cake Delights Lisa Parker On Weekend Party
Lisa Parker, age two, finally tasted her birthday cake after weeks of anticipation at 318 Splane Dr West Monroe. Friends arrived for a party Thursday, and she cut the cake Friday, leaving no slices by Saturday.
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Lisa Parker
Splane Dr
West Monroe
China still cannot deal fatal blows to US says McNamara
Washington AP Defense plans show the Pentagon believes Red China's hydrogen test does not alter the view that China will lack the capacity for a significant intercontinental missile force before the mid 1970s. McNamara cautions about time, cost and deployment limits for an antimissile shield. Nike X research continues with over $2 billion spent on defense experiments.
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Washington
Red China
Pentagon
United States
Defense Department
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
World At A Glance Presidential visit and Cold War gaze
President Johnson hosts Australian Prime Minister at Camp David Maryland as long distance debates loom with Soviet Premier Kosygin over the Middle East. Crewmembers of the U S Liberty testify they believe an attack was deliberate during the Mideast War.
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Johnson
Camp David
Kosygin
Middle East
U. S. Liberty
Writers Re Study Report On JFK Assassination
AP writers Sid Moody and Bernard Gavzer completed a seven month study evaluating criticisms of the Warren Report. They found much is right and much wrong, with a 20000 word piece titled The Lingering Shadow sent to morning papers for June 25.
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Sid Moody
Bernard Gavzer
Associated Press
Kennedy
Moody and Gavzer
Warren Sport
Ams
Pms
Moody
Gavzer
Warren
Lee Harvey Oswald
Edward Jay Epstein
Mark Lane
Harold Weisberg
Dist
Atty
James Garrison
Orleans Parish
Louisiana
Dodd Charges Create Senate Ethics Dilemma
The Senate Ethics Committee debated charges against Sen. Thomas J. Dodd. A resignation threat surfaced from Sen. Eugene McCarthy if Dodd is exonerated. Debates focused on double billing for seven trips and a second charge of using campaign funds for personal expenses.
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Eugene McCarthy
Dminn
Senate
Dodd
McCarthy
Rains Possible This Afternoon
Today is expected to be hot with highs in the lower to middle 90s and mostly clear to partly cloudy skies. The forecast calls for a chance of a few afternoon thundershowers with easterly winds 5 to 15 mph and lows in the upper 60s to low 70s.
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Monroe
Twin Cities
Liberty attack deemed deliberate by crewmen testimony
Crewmen of the U S Navy ship Liberty testified that Israeli planes and torpedo boats deliberately attacked the vessel off Israel on June 8. They said the attack was precise and that the ship was identifiable, noting 81 hits and 34 dead with 75 wounded as the vessel repaired in Malta. Israeli officials apologized, while Washington protested and questioned the ship's identification and flag status.
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Valletta
Malta
U.S. Navy
Liberty
Israel
Navy
U.S
Defense Department
Washington
Middle East
Red China claims first hydrogen bomb test in 1967
Tokyo AP reports Red China announced it had detonated its first hydrogen bomb. Officials say the blast near Lop Nor signals a new stage in nuclear development, with potential implications for U.S. and Soviet policy and regional power dynamics.
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Red China
Tokyo
Red
China
United States
Soviet Union
Washington
Atomic Energy Comission
Peking
Commission
White House
Pentagon
State Department
United Nations
U Thant
General Assembly
U.N
Middle East
New China News Agency
Kosygin Arrives at U N Session Amid Middle East Tensions
Soviet Premier Kosygin appeared at the opening of the U N General Assembly emergency session after a Paris visit. He listened as U S Ambassador Goldberg urged restraint and a just Middle East solution while Soviet leaders prepared for Monday debates.
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United Nations, N.Y
Alexei N. Kosygin
U.N. General Assembly
U.S
Middle East
Kosygin
Arthur J. Goldberg
Kennedy International Airport
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Goldberg
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
Afghanistan
Assembly
Johnson
Dean Rusk
U.N
Soviet Union
Israel
United States
Security Council
Near East
General Assembly
New York
Lure Of Comfort Thins Civil Defense Shelter Volunteers
In Athens Georgia 750 volunteers mostly from Georgia began a two day fallout shelter test. Sixty three left in the first 15 hours amid hard floors noise and crowding while others stayed observing via one way mirrors. CD officials noted some leadership emergence and provided food sanitation and ventilation kits.
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Civil Defense
Athens
John Hammes
University of Georgia
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U. S
Central Highlands
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Elephant Valley
U.S. 01St Airborne Division
Quang Ngai City
Bac Giang
Ruston Youth
Jes’ Ramblin
Harvard
Pecunia
Andrei Gromyko
Nikolai Federenko
United Nations General Assembly
Congress
Sen
Thomas J. Dodd
Russell B. Long
Nebraska
Grand Island
Marty Fleckman
Cassius Clay
Clay
National Archives
Lop Nor
Sinkiang Province
Hiroshima
Japan
Mao
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
U. N
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