B52 Bombers Hit Reds Again Near North Viet Nam Raid
B52 bombers of the U S Strategic Air Command struck Viet Cong positions 17 miles from North Vietnam as government troops carried out a major offensive by the 1st Army Corps. Viet Cong fatalities were reported at 14 with unknown government losses. 2,800 Marines landed at Chu Lai to reinforce Leatherneck forces, bringing totals to about 7,000 in Chu Lai and 29,000 northward near Da Nang Hue Phu Bai.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Strateic Air Command
North Viet Nam
1St Army Corps
Militry
Minitary
South
Viet Nam
Chu Lai
Frederick Karch
Big da Nang Air Base
Hue-Phu Bai
7Th Regiment
1St Marine Division
Okinawa
Ba Long
Johnson and Nkrumah exchange letters on Viet Nam
President Johnson and Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah exchanged letters about the Viet Nam situation. Press secretary Bill Moyers said the messages do not change immediate prospects in South Viet Nam. Nkrumah asked to keep his message quiet in what was the second such exchange within a week.
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Johnson City
Texap
Johnson
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
White House
Bill D Moyers
Viet Nam
Insurance policy switch prompts remittance push
The Independence Life and Accident Insurance Company of Louisville is no longer affiliated with the Daily Northwestern. Readers must pay 10 cents per policy by today and remit to the Daily Northwestern while transferring to the National Casualty Company in Detroit, which replaces the Independence policy.
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Independence Life and Accident
Louisville
Kentucky
Daily
W Northwestern
National Casualty Company
Detroit
Michigan
Independence Insurance
Northwestern
National Casualty
Chicago Rioting Continues In Garfield Park District
West Side unrest erupts for a second night with about 150 police clashing with several hundred Negroes along eight blocks of Pulaski Road. Eighteen officers and 47 civilians were injured, 100 people arrested for disorderly conduct, as windows shattered and looting reported amid sustained patrols through dawn.
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Chicago
West Side
Pulaski Road
Garfield Park
Fond du Lac Man Drowns In Green Lake Crash
Fond du Lac man James M. McCabe 21 of 351 Military Rd died when the car he drove sped into Green Lake near Sunnyside Acres on a dead end. Passengers David Kavske and Virginia Agnew survived with injuries, while crews searched overnight. The incident raised Wisconsin’s highway toll to 570 for the year.
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Fond DU Lac
Green Lake
James M. McCabe
Military Rd
Sunnyside Acres
Ray Winneck
Gus
Enoch Carver
David Kavalske
Brandon
Virginia Agnew
E. Fond du Lac St
Ripon
McCabe
Carver Boys
Capt
Lloyd Schoephoester
Douglas Hare
Conservation Department
Robert Razner
Welfare Depart
Wisconsin
Lea McLennon
Duluth
Minn
Dane - Columbia County Line
Portage
Primitive Handshakers Encountered by Troops in Viet Nam
U S paratroopers from the 1st Battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, in a Montagnard village south of Route 19 near Pleiku, encountered primitive villagers during a cautious patrol. After a flood of huts and a hand gesture from an old man, the troops hesitated before a sergeant finally shook hands.
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Plee HO Drong
South Viet Nam
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Pleiku
Duc Co
Ia Drang
James L Walters
Muskegon Midh
Los Angeles Riot Toll: 16 Dead Hundreds Hurt
Civil rights pickets gathered outside police headquarters in Springfield Massachusetts after a night of violence that left two buildings burned and 23 people arrested. Demonstrators, including members of the Congress of Racial Equality, condemned the fires as nonwhite arson and urged nonviolence while police investigated the incidents amid ongoing protests against police brutality.
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Los Angeles
Springfield
Mass
Massachusetts
Boston
New Haven
Conn
John F. Lyons
Power Commission
Fires Flare As Guards Combat Rioters In Watts
Los Angeles on the fourth day of riots sees National Guardsmen driving with rifles and bayonets through Watts amid ongoing looting and arson. The death toll reaches 16 with a sheriff's deputy and a looter killed. hundreds injured. Troopers clear Southeast Side areas but clusters of violence spread to white districts as blocks burn and motorists are attacked.
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Los Angeles
Watts
Whitey
Hall Ther
Navy Extends Enlistments For Marines And Navy Men
The Navy ordered a four month extension to enlistments of all regular Navy and Marine Corps personnel in a telegram from Secretary Paul H. Nitze. The move aims to bolster ranks for the Vietnam war and was confirmed by the Pentagon after early leaks.
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Washington
Navy
Viet Nam
Marine Corps
Secretary of the Navy
Paul H. Nitze
Pentagon
Johnson Proclaims Leif Ericson Day in Texas
President Johnson designated October 9 as Leif Ericson Day at the Texas White House calling on Americans to honor Greenlandic Norse explorer Leif Ericson who led an ancient expedition to North America a thousand years ago. He praised the explorer's courage and resourcefulness in facing the unknown.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Leif Ericson
Texas White House
Ericson
Embassies Closed as Congo Republic Breaks Ties
The United States and Congo Republic Brazzaville close their embassies in each other’s capitals, signaling a near diplomatic break. The U S State Department cites three serious mistreatment incidents of American diplomats in Brazzaville, and Congo officials withdraw embassy personnel to New York.
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Washington
United States
Congo Republic-Brazzaville
U.S
Andre Loufoua
the Congo
Loufoua
State Department
New York
Congo-Brazzaville
United Nations
French Congo
Congo Republic
Leopoldville
Department
Wiliam KK Mackey
Brazzaville
Congo
Foreign Ministry
Mackey
Stanley Baranson
Friday the 13th birth in Pakistan shocks locals
Mrs Dale Sadeski, a native in Pakistan, declared Friday the 13th unlucky yet gave birth to her daughter on that date. It was her second child born on a Friday the 13th, despite local superstition.
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Milwalkeed Wes Ups
Pakistan
Dale Sadeski
New System To Aid Road Construction
Madison based officials plan to use tabulators to reduce construction jams. Ralph Culbertson, director of the Bureau of Engineering, says clustering projects strains labor and materials. The tabulation program will stagger start dates for state buildings to ease material and labor supply and avoid premium prices, potentially saving taxpayer money.
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Madison
Ralph Culbertson
State Department of Administration
Bureau of Engineering
Culbertson
Fail to Sight Lone Sailor on Atlantic
A Royal Air Force search for American journalist Robert Manry, crossing the Atlantic solo in the 32 foot Sea Cloud equipped Tinkerbell, failed Friday to locate him amid 30 foot waves and heavy seas. He left Falmouth Massachusetts 76 days ago and was last seen 287 miles from his goal, with winds pushing him north toward Ireland and records possible if he finishes.
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Falmoutit
England
Aps
Robert Maury
Atlantic
Cleveland
Ohio
Royal Air Force
Manly
Falmouth
Robin
Douglas
Man
Virgina
Loveland Plain Dealer
Manry
Ireland
Mass
Britain
Manny
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Trading Stamp Redemption Center
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