Anti-Communist Campaign Spreads From Indonesia to Islands
Kuala Lumpur reports Radio Malaysia that Indonesia's anti Communist drive reaches the Celebes and Sumatra as Prime Minister Abdul Rahman warns Sukarno may lose a chance by not ousting the Communists. Nasution now runs Antara. PKI denial follows Jakarta uprising.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Radio Malaysia
Java
Celebes
Sumatra
Abdul Rahman
Sukarno
Raham
Ipoh
Indonesia
Southeast Asia
Jakarta
Abdul Haris Nasution
Armed Forces
Antara
Halim Air Base
Samusi
National Police
Johannes Leimena
National Party
Indonesian Communist Party
PKI
Driver Killed As Truck Hits Reader Train
A gasoline truck crashed into the Reader Railroad train near Monroe injuring no one aboard. The truck driver Robert Cecil Sullivan of Brookhaven, about 32, died. Police say brake failure caused the vehicle to swerve across the road median into the train. The train, a Possum Trot Line, was en route from Reader Arkansas to Bay St. Louis Mississippi for a movie shoot. A Shreveport news team was aboard.
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Shreveport
Douglas Attaway
Continuation of India Pakistan fighting despite cease fire
Soldiers continue dying along the Kashmir front and in the plains of Punjab and the Thar desert as skirmishes erupt daily after a Sept. 23 cease fire. The UN cannot deploy peacekeepers and India rejects a peacekeeping force, leaving no effective end to hostilities.
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New Delhi
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
Thar
United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
India-Pakistan
Lal Bahadur Shastri
U.N
Ramblin Birthday Bocage for Herbert Hobes at 87
Ramblin Herbert N Hobes of 404 Loop Road celebrates his 87th birthday on Saturday. He remains active selling Little Theatre season tickets in the community.
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Herbert N. Hobes
404 Loop Road
Four Monroe Students Pledge Fraternities at University of Southwest Louisiana
Four Monroe students at the University of Southwest Louisiana in Lafayette pledged fraternities. Bruce Herrell joined Sigma Nu while Larry White, Amos Warner and Hardeman Cordell pledged Kappa Sigma.
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Monroe
University of Southwestern Louisiana At Lafayette
Bruce Herrell
Sigma Nu
Larry White
Amos Warner
Hardeman Cordell
Kappa Sigma
Campaign to rid Indonesia of its Communist party
A nationwide drive against the Communist party spreads to Sumatra and Celebes, with strong political pressure across Indonesia as authorities seek to curb communist influence amid regional tensions.
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Indonesia
Sumatra
Celebes
Dodgers Blank Twins As Osteen Shuts Them Out
Dodgers pitcher Claude Osteen held Minnesota to five hits in a 4-0 victory that snaps their World Series deficit to 2-1. Osteen stifled the Twins after they beat Drysdale and Koufax in the first two games, while the Dodgers seek to even the series with Drysdale facing Jim Grant.
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Los Angeles
Claude Osteen
Minnesota Twins
Los Angeles Dodgers
Minnesota
Osteen
Twins
Dodgers
Don Drysdale
Sandy Koufax
Drysdale
Jim Grant
Zoilo Versa
Gerry Zimmerman
Ellender Faces Potential 1966 Senate Challenge
Camille Gravel an Alexandria attorney and John Garrett Claiborne Parish state representative said they may run against U S Senator Ellender next year. Gravel a Kennedy Louisiana ally and Garrett a McKeithen floor leader join the political contest as Ellender, a veteran figure, weighs another six year term with primaries set for Aug 13 and Sept 17.
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Senate
Ellender
John Garrett
Claiborne Parish
Garrett
Gravel
Louisiana
John F. Kennedy
Legislative Committee
John McKeithen
Huey P. Long
Kennedy
Earl K. Long
Long
Shreveport
Charlton H. Lyons Sr
Aquanauts To Surface From Sealab 2 Mission
Aquanauts from Sealab 2 at 205 feet depth near La Jolla California prepare to end a 45 day undersea living experiment. The 10 divers will seal the lab and ride a 10 minute ascent in the transfer capsule then spend about 30 hours in a decompression chamber aboard the support vessel Berkone.
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Berkone
Warm Weather Remains Here in Northeast Louisiana
The area will stay sunny and warm through Monday with no rain and little temperature change. Expect 90 percent plus sun today. Selman Field recorded no precipitation Saturday, with a 91 degree high and 57 low. Today's forecast calls for a high of 86 to 92 and a low of 54 to 64. Variable west winds at 5 to 15 mph.
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Louisiana
FAA
Selman Field
Cuba Exiles Prepare as Point of Exit Opens
Thousands of Cubans plan to depart Cuba today but U S officials say a mass exodus will not begin for 10 days. Cubans are expected to use Camarioca port to reach Florida as Cuba’s exit policy holds. Estimates vary from 50,000 to 500,000 with Florida officials bracing for large flows.
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Miami
Fla
U.S. State Department
Florida
Cuba
U.S
State Department
Havana
Haydon Burns
Johnson signs poverty bill from Bethesda bed
President Johnson signed a 1.7 billion dollar bill aiding the war on poverty late Saturday while recovering from gall bladder and kidney stone surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Doctors say he will be kept under care but remains determined to push the program forward.
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Washington
Johnson
Bethesda Naval Hospital
White House
Joe Laitin
James C. Cain
Cain
Combat Deaths Reach 788 In Vietnam War
Washington reports four year total American combat deaths in Vietnam rising to 788 as Defense Department lists 48 more KIA. Breakdown: 25 Army, 16 Marines, 5 Air Force, 2 Navy. Ten missing Air Force pilots identified. Wounded tally up 118 to 4,038. missing count 65 to 75. captured knowns up to 21.
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Washington
UPI
Viet Nam
Defense Department
Air Force
Navy
Death Gene Stalks Family Across Eight Generations
Florida physicians report a possible hereditary death gene linked to heart rhythm defects. Tracing 127 family members in St Augustine back to the 1800s, 21 sudden deaths occurred from age 3 to 58. Autopsies showed no obvious heart disease, but later microscopic exams revealed malformations in the heart's electrical pacemaker system.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Florida
J. Russell Green Jr
L. Jerome Krovetz
Douglas R. Shanklin
W. Jape Taylor
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville
James J. DeVito
St. Augustine
American College of Physicians
Green
1st Infantry Battles Way Out Of Trap
In a major central province air offensive, three B52 waves from Guam hit Viet Cong targets in Binh Dinh. American forces reported moderate casualties as they fought their way out of a trap near Phu My amid ongoing Ben Cat offensives and parallel strikes against Hue and Quang Duc Province. Navy and allied units supported with airpower and ground actions across the Saigon area.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Guam
Binh Dinh
Phu My
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Ben Cat
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Strategic Air Command
Hue
Quang Duc
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LBJ
JETS
Cam Ranh Bay
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