Guinea Orders Peace Corps Out After Ghana Incident
President Sekou Toure of Guinea ordered the U S Peace Corps and Pan American World Airways out of Guinea in retaliation for Ghana's seizure of Guinean delegates. Radio Conakry said staff must leave within a week and Pan American rights and offices were revoked. Ghanaian officials seized 19 Guineans from a Pan Am plane, including the foreign minister, in Accra. Anti American demonstrations followed and the U S ambassador was confined to the embassy for 24 hours.
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Dakar
Senegal
Sekou Toure
U.S. Peace Corps
Pan American World Airways
Guinea
Ghana
Toure
Radio Conakry
State Department
Washington
Department
Peace Corps
Conakry
Accra
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Organization of African Unity
United States
Robinson McEwame
Cairo Chilly To U. S. Viet War Policies
In Cairo public opinion questions U.S. Viet Nam policy and US motives. Egyptians blame Washington for global upheavals, view aid as tied to political strings, and cite past food-for-peace ties while noting wheat aid may shift to hard currency with repayment.
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Cairo
Viet Nam
Cnll
United States
Egypt
Semen
Abdullah al-Sallal
U.S
Israel
United State
Washington
Sporadic Ground Fighting In Viet Nam Reported
Sporadic ground fighting was reported across Viet Nam with only light clashes. American infantrymen found Communist arms and supplies in Tay Ninh Province, the scene of nearly a week of heavy fighting near the Cambodian border as US 1st Division infantrymen combed the battlefield.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Tay Ninh
Massive tunnel complex yields vast supply cache and 95 bodies
U S soldiers uncovered a tunnel complex tied to a reg imental command post containing a massive array of supplies and 95 bodies. Nearby a mine factory held 450 claymore type mines. In another tunnel system the Big Red One found eight submachine guns 11 machine pistols 3600 hand grenades 1000 rifle grenades and large ammunition pouches. Since Operation Attleboro began in Tay Ninh on September 14 865 enemy were reported killed by ground fire and air strikes. air activity included 132 multi plane missions and 48 single plane sorties in the south alongside 261 Vietnamese air force sorties. A B52 strike hit a Viet Cong staging area in Quang Ngai Province and in Operation Geronimo the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne reported light contact while destroying nine enemy base camps in 24 hours with 41 enemy killed. U S casualties remain light.
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U. S
Tay Ninh
North Viet Nam
Sin
Viet Nam
Quang Ngai Province
Saigon
101St Airborne Division
Tuy Hoa
U.S
Attleboro
Geronimo
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