Viet Cong Ambush Near Pleiku Raises US Casualties
AP reports two U.S. Army advisers killed and another wounded in a Pleiku area ambush as fighting across Vietnam intensifies. American fatalities rise to 395 since 1961 with additional losses in Quang Ngai. air and naval strikes continue against North Vietnam as pilots report recoveries and bomb damage.
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Pleiku
Viet Nam
Quang Ngai
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Hanoi
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Supreme Court Denies Stay In Vital Apportionment Rulings
The Supreme Court today refused to halt key reapportionment orders while urging state and lower courts to proceed. It kept intact a New York special election plan under a lame duck legislature and remanded Illinois for timely redistricting, while California and Idaho cases moved forward under three judge courts. Justices dissented in New York and California rulings, with Harlan voicing critique on the court’s handling.
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Johnson Sticks to Course Amid Critics at Luci Graduation
President Johnson urged debate yet affirmed his policies at the National Cathedral School for Girls graduation where his daughter Luci, 17, and 59 graduates listened. He emphasized moral duty to aid the world’s poor and noted broad American support for stopping aggression while defending his approach.
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Rescue in Utah cave after 36 hours deep 1170 feet
University of California graduate student James Dowling 24 of Conn ersville Indiana was rescued in critical condition after 36 hours in a 1170‑foot deep Utah Wasatch cave. Dowling and two companions explored Neffs Canyon cave Sunday and were aided by mountain climbers who pulled him out foot by foot and transported him to St Marks Hospital.
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Utah
University of California
Wasatch
James Dowling
Connersville
Ind
St. Marks Hospital
Dowling
John Wood
Paul Gerhard
Bladensburg
Neff's Canyon
Junto Refuses to Yield Palace to OAS Control
Dominican junta rejects OAS plan to extend the international security zone around the National Palace. Gen Antonio Imbert Barrera vows only junta forces may enter the palace and grounds as rebels led by Col Francisco Caamano Deno push for a broadened zone to deter a junta assault.
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Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
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OAS
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Francisco Caamano Deno
Junta
Santo Domigo
Telmo Vargas
Jose A. Mora
Junta Re
France Considers U S Nuclear Control Proposal
France signals cautious support for a NATO four to five member nuclear executive committee. Defense Minister Messmer said Paris will study Secretary McNamara’s plan to share potential nuclear decision making with allied partners, indicating De Gaulle may not reject it outright.
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America
General MacArthur’s First Wife Louise Brooks Dies
Louise Cromwell Brooks, 75, first wife of General Douglas MacArthur, died of a heart condition in a Washington hospital. Brooks married MacArthur in 1922 and divorced in 1929.
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Louise Cromwell Brooks
Douglas MacArthur
Washington Hospital
Final Medical Checks For Gemini Flight Astronauts
Two healthy crewmen James McDivitt and Edward White undergo routine preflight medicals at Cape Kennedy as they prepare for Gemini 4. The examination data will compare weightless effects with the 97 hour mission to follow a rendezvous with a target satellite.
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Edward H. White II
Christopher C. Kraft
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White
Charles A. Berry
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Berry
Air Force
Total Solar Eclipse Records Made in Flight Over Pacific
Albany dispatch reports Memorial Day weekend traffic deaths in New York State reaching 26, matching a 1958 record and topping last year. In Hawaii, NASA scientists completed a cross Pacific total solar eclipse flight with 13 experiments aboard a modified jet, observing the eclipse 39,500 feet up over water.
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New Attack on Ethics Bill Stirs Lawmaker Complaints
Albany legislators returned to work as the ethics bill faced fresh opposition from lawyers serving state departments. An amendment by the Senate Finance Committee bars department heads and top aides who leave state service from practicing before their former agencies for two years. Leaders target a mid June adjournment amid ongoing fights over penal law changes divorce laws and birth control bills.
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Zaretzki
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Assembly
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Senate Assembly
145 Trapped After Yamano Mine Blast in Kyushu
A gas explosion at Yamano coal mine on southern Kyushu Island trapped 145 people. Officials said 552 workers were in the mine when the blast hit, with 91 confirmed dead so far.
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Tokyo
Yamano
Kyushu
Oswald Widow Marina to wed Texas man Kenneth Porter
KRLD reports Marina Oswald to marry Kenneth Jess Porter a 27 year old electronics technician and Texas Instruments employee in Dallas today. Porter identified as Oswald bridegroom by the station citing a copyrighted KRLD story.
Kennedy knocked down by crowd at JFK monument unveiling
In Brooklyn at Grand Army Plaza an admiring crowd surged as a monument to President John F. Kennedy was unveiled. Senator Robert Kennedy was knocked into folding chairs and an unidentified woman fell but both were uninjured as he aided her to her feet.
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Sen
Kennedy
NEW York
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
John F. Kennedy
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn
Supreme Court to review dismissal of Penn slaying indictments
The Supreme Court agreed to review the dismissal of federal conspiracy indictments against six Georgia men charged in the shotgun slaying of Lemuel A. Penn a District of Columbia Negro compt who directed adult education and served as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve Penn was shot July 11 1964 near Athens Georgia Penn worked in DC school system and held Reserve rank The Justice Department argued the case involved national concerns of terrorism intimidation and reprisal against Negro citizens
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Supreme Court
Georgia
Lemuel A. Penn
Cdmp
District of Columia
U.S. Dist
W. A. Bootle
Macon
Justice Department
Department
Penn
Athens
District of Columbia
Army Reserve
School Chief Edward Saunders Dies in Cohoes
Ed ward J. Saunders, superintendent of schools in Green Island, died Monday in Cohoes Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. The obituary notes his leadership in the district and his passing in Cohoes, New York.
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Cohoes
N.Y
Edward J. Saunders
Green Island
Cohoes Memorial Hospital
Plan for More Demonstrations After 32 Arrested in Selma
In Selma Alabama Negro leaders vow continued picketing of white merchants and begin a drive to integrate schools. Dr Martin Luther King Jr announces a Southwide voter registration drive aimed at doubling Negro voters after a federal voting law. King wades into the Selma protests with an unscheduled visit and urges mass action while Rev L L Anderson vows a day and night vigil in West Selma.
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Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
King
L. L. Anderson
Browns Chapel Ame Church
Public Safety
Wilson Baker
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