Gunboats aid infantry in trap of Viet Cong units near Saigon
UPI reports a river battle 17 miles south of Saigon where gunboats called Monitors supported infantry against the Fifth Viet Cong Independent Battalion. The action, part of five battles from the Mekong Delta to the DMZ, left 368 Communists dead and 49 Americans dead with 216 wounded.
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Saigon
UPI
U. S
Mekong
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Bac Giang
Hanoi
Haipuong
Haiphong
Navy
Augustine Marano
Clearfield
Cape Hatteras
Marano
U.S
Rach Cat
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
North Vietnam
Mideast arms policy under review as U.S. pledges limits
Washington reports a sweeping review of U.S. arms policy in the Middle East. President Johnson urges UN public accounting of weapons flows. Russia remains the leading supplier, with France and Britain following. The United States has provided about 345.9 million dollars in military aid to Arab states since 1950 plus smaller Israel purchases.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Middle East
Johnson
United Nations
Pentagon
United States
Russia
Egypt
Defense Department
France
Britain
Jordan
Soviet Union
Congressional
Israel
Matty Alou profits from refresher batting course
Matty Alou improves his hitting approach with a refresher batting course. The piece outlines adjustments and expected impact on his swing mechanics and plate discipline.
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Matty Alou
Deaths of James A. Rees Sr and Muggs Shaffer
James A. Rees Sr aged 74 of Willard and Muggs Shaffer aged 80 of 913 Adams St are recorded as deceased on Tuesday June 20, 1967 in the death notices.
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James A
al) Rees Sr
Willard
Muggs) Shaffer
Adams St
Mutiny Reported in Aden Mutiny by Arab Troops
Arab troops mutinied against their British officer in Aden a British protectorate on the Red Sea, and joined by armed native police. In Washington President Johnson would back a congressional move to draft permanent rail strike legislation per Senate Leader Mansfield.
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Aden
UPI
Red Sea
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House states vote today on draft bill
Washington UPI reports Congress moves to extend draft authority for four years and uphold college deferments. The plan, sent to Johnson for signature, bans a draft lottery and keeps discretionary deferments, though Republicans argue the burden should be shared more fairly.
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House
Washington
UPI
Senate
Johnson
White House
Congress
Riots in Atlanta as police quell crowd at shopping center
Hundreds of Negroes rioted near Dixie Hills in west Atlanta after a rally speech. Police fired riot guns into the air to disperse the mob as snipers fired, 6 were injured and several storefronts were damaged. Authorities reported no gunfire injuries.
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Atlanta
UPI
Stokely Carmichael
Dixie Hills
Summerhill
Podgorny to visit Cairo as Soviet effort backs Arabs
Soviet President Podgorny flies toward Cairo for talks with Nasser on the Middle East crisis with details sparse and a stop likely en route. Cairo officials say the trip mirrors Moscow’s bid to calm militant Arabs after Kosygin's UN speech and amid ongoing Arab reconstruction and morale concerns.
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Cairo
UPI
Nikolai Podgorny
Middle East
U.A.R
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Podgorny
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Alexei Kosygin
U.N. General Assembly
Kosygin
Israel
U.N
Nasser
Egypt
Garrison calls TV JFK probe report the big lie
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison described NBCs JFK Conspiracy program as the big lie and said the NBC report exposed a hoax. He charged Clay Shaw with conspiracy and alleged witnesses were pressured or induced to lie.
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Garrison
JFK
New York
UPI
New Orleans
Jim Garrison
NBC News
Shaw
Kennedy
NBC
Washington, D.C
Clem Bertrand
FBI
Kosygin misses speech at U N General Assembly
U S Ambassador Arthur Goldberg urged the General Assembly to endorse President Johnson five point peace program as basis for a durable Middle East settlement. He contrasted a Soviet push for Israel withdrawal with Washingtons call for negotiations under UN cease fire review.
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United Nations
UPI
U. S
Arthur J. Goldberg
General Assembly
Johnson
Middle East
Goldberg
Assembly
Thant
Israel
U.N
Egypt
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
U.S
Security Council
Britain
France
Russia
China
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Kosygin-Johnson
Nouredin Atassi
Syria
Thaat
Abba S. Eban
Eban
UNEF
U.A.R
Kremlin
Five Republican Senators to Bolts Dirksen Amendment Vote
In Harrisburg five GOP lawmakers ready to join Democrats to recommit the Dirksen Amendment reversing the 1964 US Supreme Court apportionment ruling. Senate leaders plan to send the measure back to the Rules Committee to stall the 1967 session.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Senate Rules Committee
William J. Lane
Washington
John H. Devlin
Pittsburgh
Devlin
Frederick H. Hobbs
Schuylkill
Richard J. Green
Cambria
Edwin G. Hall
Wilmot E. Fleming
Montgomery
Clyde R. Dengler
Delaware
U.S. Supreme Court
Rebel Chinese general seizes Kai Muzes arsenal and testing grounds
Hong Kong report claims General Wang En-mao seized the Kai Musze complex in Sinkiang, claiming control of the arsenal where China tested its first hydrogen bomb. The Star reports 15 000 dead or wounded in the assault and warns of further destruction unless Mao changes policy.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Today
Peking
Star
Wang En-mao
Sinkiang
China
Wang
Kaimusze
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
The
Mao
Anti Mao
Weather Roundup for Western Pennsylvania and U.S. Heat Record
Partly sunny and warm in Western Pennsylvania with highs 75 to 85. Tonight partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers ending Wednesday. warmer tonight, little change Wednesday. Temperatures: maximum 77, minimum 58. Shenango River at 4.7 feet. UPI reports 105 degree highs in Presidio and Childress, Texas, and a 37 degree low in Greenville, Maine.
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Pennsylvania
Shenango River
New York
Rusk Masses Talks Amid Effort for Johnson Kosygin Summit
Secretary of State Dean Rusk travels to New York to press for talks with Soviet leaders including Foreign Minister Gromyko as the United States weighs a possible summit with President Johnson and Premier Kosygin. A broad agenda covers Vietnam weapons limits and ABM deployment.
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New York
UPI
Dean Rusk
Johnson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Rusk
Washington
Kosygin
Camp David
Andrei Gromyko
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
United Nations
Llewelyn E. Thompson
Moscow
Thompson
Anatoly F
Dobrynin
Gromyko
Vietnam
U.N
Middle East
United States
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