Buddhist Crisis Deepens As Saigon Braces For Riots
In Saigon, elite 7th Infantry Division is alerted to quell Buddhist protests amid charges of treason against the regime. Monks threaten hunger strikes and vows of self immolation as Da Nang and Hue report ongoing anti government actions with security forces clashing and a helicopter incident leaving a gunner dead.
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Saigon
Premer Nguyen Cao Ky
1St Corps
Hue
U.S
Huynh van
Cao
U.S. Marine
Viet Nam
Jonas M. Platt
1St Army
Thien Minh
Thieh Tri Quang
Ngo Dinh Diem
Committee Would Curb CIA's Work
Washington AP The Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed a 14 to 5 plan to create an 10 member intelligence oversight panel to supervise CIA foreign operations. Sponsor Sen Eugene J McCarthy said floor action could come this session and the measure would shift three Foreign Relations members onto the CIA watchdog panel from the Armed Services and Appropriations panels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Eugene J. McCarthy
Dminn
U.S
McCarthy
CIA Watchdog
Armed Services and Appropriations Committees
FBI agent slain in woods during girl hunt near Shade Gap
A federal agent pursuing kidnapped Peggy Ann Brodnick was shot and killed in a wooded ridge near Burnt Cabin Route 522. The 17 year old girl, believed alive, and her abductor were later sighted as a large police force surrounded the area. The Mountain Man sniper is suspected.
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Shape Gap
FBI
Peggy Ann Brodnick
Pennsylvania
Frank McKetta
McKetta
Washington
Terry Ray Anderson
Camp Hill
Anderson
Burnt Cabin
Shade Gap
U S Troops Force Reds To Retreat In Central Highlands
U S air cavalry reinforced by helicopters fought 350 North Vietnamese regulars 15 miles west of An Khe. After a brisk two-day battle, headquarters said the enemy was retreating at nightfall. US casualties were moderate. enemy dead estimated at 28 in the opening six hours.
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Saigon
U.S
Central Highlands
An Khe
1St Air Cavalry Division
Battleships Consider Reactivation for Viet Nam Duty
Washington AP reports a House subcommittee indicated one or more ships in the Navy mothball fleet including Missouri may be reactivated for Viet Nam duties. Also in AP briefs a Continental Airlines jet suffered an engine explosion near Waterloo Iowa causing an emergency abort with 29 aboard unharmed. Two Waterloo men died from burns in a John Deere foundry incident. Paris announced France will conduct atomic tests at Mururoa Atoll in the Tuamota archipelago between Tahiti and the Marquesas.
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Washington
Navy
Missouri
House
Inday
Waterloo
Towa City
Gerald Stuebenrauch
Myron Funmaker
University Hospitals
Town City
John Deere Tractor Works
France
Paris
Mururoa Atoll
South Pacific
Tuamota Archipelago
Tahaiti
Marquesas Islands
U.S. backs strong military role in Viet Nam turmoil
Washington reports that after two days of consultations, the Johnson administration will support a robust Vietnamese military role in any future Saigon government. Officials stress this does not imply personal endorsement of Premier Ky, amid debate over his Da Nang actions.
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Viet Nam
U.S
Washington
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
da Nang
Dean Rusk
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rusk
Fulbright
National Press Cluir
Henry Cabot Lodge
Seoul
Chung Hee Park
South Viet Nam
United States
Gemini 9 Launch Delayed After Agena Failure
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP The Gemini 9 mission was postponed for at least two weeks after the Agena target satellite failed to reach orbit. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan were to practice rendezvous and space-walk maneuvers for Apollo missions. The Atlas rocket lifted off late due to fueling problems with the Agena.
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Thomas Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
Cape Kennedy
Fla
AP Photofox
William Schneider
Thomas P. Stafford
Space
Stafford
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Cernan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atlas
Spur Ton
States
Weather forecast brief for the area
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with a 30 percent chance of showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler with highs in the lower 70s. High Monday around 75 and a night low near 57. Noon today at 68 with trace rainfall and a river stage of 11.4 feet.
High Wind Drives Bus Into Ditch Near Dunlap Iowa
A strong wind flipped a Greyhound bus on Highway 3 near Dunlap injuring the driver Vergil Jantz 58 of Omaha and two passengers Hilda Mattson 78 of Floodwood Minnesota and Lillian Achterkirch 58 of Minneapolis along with nine other riders. The bus went upright in a ditch about a quarter mile south of Dunlap. The mishap occurred early today and all three injured were taken to Denison hospital.
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Denison
Greyhound
Dunlap
Iowa Highway Patrol
Vergil Jantz
Omaha
Hilda Mattson
Floodwood
Minn
Lillian G. Achterkirch
Minneapolis
Wide backgrounds named for Area IX board picks
Nine men were elected Monday to run the new Area IX community college vocational district with an estimated 1500 students and a first year budget near 1.2 million dollars. Voters in Muscatine Scott and Clinton counties and parts of Cedar and Louisa counties chose directors from diverse trades and professions.
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TX Community College - Vocational Training District
Muscatine
Scott
Clinton
Cedar
Louisa Counties
Torney Harold Keele
West Liberty
Rohner
Keele
Norman Regennitter
Bennett
Scott County
Cedar County
Richard F. Schebler
Davenport
J. R. Underwood
Norman J. Kelinson
Bettendorf Real Estate
Ellis Vetter
Stanley
Edgar H. Jorgen
Sen
First National Bank of
William J. Vaiser
Eclipse Lumber Co
Sabula
Miles
Jackson County
Vic
Clinton and Muscatine
Davenport Oecasional-Technical School
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Lewis W. Walt
Ky Sunday
CIA
Detroit
Jeftist Socialist Workers Party
Young Socialist Alliance
Edward Wantolek
London
National Union of Seamen
Harold Wilson
Royal Navy
Bill Hogarth
Camp Hil Pa
Harrisburg
John Anderson
Neb
Kansas City
Continental Airlines
Denver
Flight 11
Atlantic Ocean
Richard H. Stanley
Stanley Engineering Company
John E. Rohner
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