Egypt Israel clash ends with U N cease fire near Suez
Across the Suez cease fire line Egyptian and Israeli gunners clashed for three hours ending as U N observers brokered a cease fire. No Israeli casualties were reported. The story links renewed Jewish settlement plans in the West Bank with broader regional tensions.
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Israel
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U.N
Great Bitter Lake
Ismailia
Sinai
East Bank
Levi Eshkol
Jordan River
Bethlehem
Hebron
Golan Heights
Syria
Bnnas
Jordan
Nablus
el Fatah
West Bank
David Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem
Old City
Dayan
American Motors Raises Prices for 1968 Models
Detroit based American Motors announced 1968 car prices will rise about 3.8 percent or $89 on average, making AMC the fourth U.S. maker to lift 1968 model prices. The Ambassador top line will include standard air conditioning, a change from 1967.
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Detroit
American Motors
AMC
U.S
Fifty Solons Urge Viet Policy Action
Fifty House members from 46 Republicans and 4 Democrats urged Congress to formally review U.S. policy in Vietnam and decide whether further action in Southeast Asia is desirable. Other items touch on North Vietnam peace talks, Soviet reactions, and calls for a pause in bombing to pursue negotiation.
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Washington
Congress
U.S
House
Southeast Asia
United Nations
North Vietnam
Karl Mundt
R-S.d
United States
Red China
Vietnam
State Department
White House
Mundt
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Soviet Union
Skunk Dash Marks Rivalry Buzz At Neville Ouachita Game
In West Monroe A. P. Knight recovers from illness while Monroe School Board President W. S. Gannaway teases Neville Ouachita football rivalry. He notes a skunk ran on campus during a track session as a humorous aside.
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A. P. Knight
Carter
West Monroe
Monroe
W. S. Gannaway
Neville- Ouachita
U S May Revamp Bomber Defenses
The Johnson administration weighs a total revamp of continental air defense moving from hundreds of jet fighters and ground radars to a new 4 billion system with airborne radar and fighter interceptors possibly using A 11 or F 3 aircraft. The Nike X anti missile system was also announced as part of defense plans.
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New York
New York Times
Washington
Pentagon
Robert S. McNaman
McNamara
China
United States
Red Chinese ships fire at U S planes during Haiphong raid
Saigon AP report by crew of the Amfrak describes Chinese ships firing at U S planes over Haiphong this summer. It notes unloading delays and hunger in the port, labor shortages, and war materiel piling up as the city faced chaos and distress.
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Saigon
U.S
Haiphong
Amfrali
Famagusta
Cyprus
South Vietnam
Cam Ranh Bay
Amfrak
Skydivers' Fatal Jump Blamed on Pilot and Controller
National Transportation Safety Board faults pilot of a B25 and an FAA radar error for the Wakeman Ohio jump disaster near Lake Erie on Aug 27. Sixteen skydivers died. 18 of 20 passengers were released at 20 000 feet.
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Washington
National Transportation Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration
Wakeman
Ohio
FAA
Robert Bruce Karns
Ortner Airport
Lake Erie
Indian Summer Stays In Area Forecast for Monroe
The Monroe area forecast calls for fair skies through Tuesday with warm days and cool nights. East to northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Highs around 82, lows 54 to 60. Yesterday’s FAA Selman Field high was 87 with a 59 low this morning. No rainfall reported in the last 24 hours.
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Monroe
FAA
Selman Field
OAS Agrees To Penalize Cuba Traders
At a three day OAS conference in Washington the group approved a 200 vote resolution urging non-Communist states to apply penalties on ships sailing to Cuba and curb Cuba trade. The measure stops short of a blacklist but calls for tightened commercial credits and fuel restrictions in Latin American ports. Only Mexico abstained as nations urged unity against Castro backed insurrection.
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Latin America
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Venezuela
Bolivia
Hemisphere
Organization of American States
U.S
Havana
United States
OAS
Castro
Americas
West
England
France
Spain
Mexico
Floodwaters Hit Harlingen Homes
Floodwaters from the Rio Grande swollen by Beulah flooded Harlingen Texas forcing about 5 000 residents to flee. The arroyo Colorado surge threatened Mercedes La Feria Rio Hondo and Lozano with record water levels and officials called for volunteers to shore up sandbag dikes and plug storm sewers. Coast Guard helicopters evacuated 635 Mexicans elsewhere amid the rising flood.
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Arroyo
Mercedes
la Feria
Rio Hondo
Lozano
Department of Public Safety
Harlingen
Coast Guard
Rio Grande
Funeral Set For Mrs Shotwell Jr Here On Tuesday
Mrs Mary Riser Shotwell 42 wife of Alden T Shotwell Jr of Monroe died at home after a lengthy illness. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe with Reverends G Preston Brown and Ernest Holloway officiating. Burial Riverview Cemetery. Survived by husband a son Roy and daughter Polly Shotwell both of Monroe mother Mrs Hugh Riser Ruston sisters Annie Kay Bessie Lazarus Ruston and Hattie McGough Louisville Miss.
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Mary Riser Shotwell
Alden T. Shotwell Jr
Emerson St
Monroe
Mulhearn Funeral Home
G. Preston Brown
Ernest Holloway
Riverview Cemetery
Ruston
First Presbyterian Church of
Roy Shotwell
Polly Shotwell
Hugh Riser
Annie Kay
Bessie Lazarus
Hattie Mcc Gough
Louisville
River Stage Readings Show Varied Flood Conditions
River gauges report Camden at stage 26.5 feet with no change. Monroe measures 40.0 feet, up 0.1 foot, indicating a rising flood condition.
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Camden
Monroe
Divers Find New Sunken Treasure Off Scotland Coast
Divers haul a barnacle crusted chest from the North Sea near Scotland with $168000 in silver ducats, the second sunken treasure find in a week off Great Britain. The haul is linked to the 1711 Dutch East India Company ship Liefde, sunk with 300 lives, near Out Skerries south of Shetland.
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London
North Sea
Scotland
Great Britain
Scilly Islands
Shetland Islands
Dutch East India Company
Liefde
Out Skerries
Housay
John Bannon
Civilians Warned To Flee DMZ Bombing Rain From B52s
UPI reports North Vietnamese villagers near the DMZ were urged to defect to the south to escape the rain of death from intensified B52 raids. Leaflets dropped over Ben Quang warned civilians to flee as U S and South Vietnamese forces press a heavy retaliation against artillery and rocket positions. Marines at Con Thien suffer casualties amid ongoing clashes near Da Nang and Leatherneck fort as 35 000 North Vietnamese troops are positioned for a possible invasion.
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Saigon
7Th Fleet
Ben Quang
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Panhandle
South da Nang
da Nang
Air Force
Leatherneck
Dmz
U. S
She did not marry him for wealth but faced no other path
A humorous line presents a woman who rejects marrying for money yet notes there is no alternative to obtain it, framing a witty twist on marriage and finance.
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Harlingen, Tex
Beulah
Texas
Texas Department of Public Safety
Arroyo Colorado
Mrs. Shotwell Jr
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Atlantic Ocean
Sir Clowdisley Shovell
James C. Holloway
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