Algerian Coup Ousts Ben Bella in Predawn Takeover
A revolutionary council led by Col. Houari Boumedienne seized power in Algiers after a predawn coup. Ben Bella is arrested and charged with treason as Boumedienne vows to continue existing commitments while denouncing personal power. The move follows economic turmoil and Berber tensions amid Algeria's push for stability.
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Houart Boumedienne
Ben Bella
Boumedienne
Algeria
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Moscow
Madrid
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Havana
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China
U.S
Washington
State Department
Radio
Kabylie Mountains
Red China
Hocine Ait Ahmed
Ait Ahmed
Ali Ahmed
Tizi Ouzou
Kabylies
Houari Boumedienne
Colorado Floods Death Toll Rises Amid Widespread Damage
Colorado endures ongoing floods as 17 deaths are confirmed and at least 11 people are missing. Reports cite evacuations across the Arkansas Valley from Lamar to La Junta, emergency air drops for Lamar shelters, and flooding in Sterling and Garden City. Governor Love seeks federal aid of 31 million dollars with total damages estimated around 42 million public, 10 million highways, and 50 million private properties.
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Colorado
Rocky Mountain States
Southwest
Manual Guajardo
Lamar
Las Animas
Arkansas
Purgatoire
Holly
John A. Love
Arkansas Valley
South Platte
Sterling
Sidney
Nebraska State Patrol
Kansas
Garden City
Main
Montana
Missouri
Yellowstone
Weather Bureau
Love
Johnson
Parachutist Plans 21 Mile Sky Dive Record
Nickolas J. Piantanida of Brick Township New York aims to jump from 115000 feet in a balloon gondola between September 10 and 16 near Minneapolis St Paul to break the world record of 102000 feet set by Air Force Capt. Joseph Kittinger Jr five years earlier. The Duluth Air Force base announced the plan.
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Duluth, Minn
New Jersey
Air Force
Duluth Air Force Base
Nickolas J. Piantanida
Brick Township
N.Y
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Joseph Kittinger Jr
Gagarin Too Busy to Meet Gemini 4 Spacemen
In Paris Yuri Gagarin declines a meeting with American astronauts Edward White II and James McDivitt saying he is too busy. At a luncheon he briefly meets White at a table and shakes hands. Vice President Humphrey tours the Soviet pavilion with the astronauts and their wives amid the snub.
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Paris
Edward H. White II
James A. McDivitt
Yuri Gagarin
Gagarin
White
Hubert H. Humphrey
McDivitt
Speech writer and newspaperman Paul Yates dies at 72
Paul C. Yates, 72, once a speech writer for Franklin D. Roosevelt and longtime newspaperman, died Friday in Clarksville Arkansas.
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Clarksville, Ark
Paul C. Yates
Franklin D. Roosevelt
UC President Denies College Hires Commies
UC President Clark Kerr rejects a state Senate report claiming the university employs Communists as unsubstantiated. The report links Leon Wofsy of Berkeley to the Free Speech Movement and cites a crackdown on student radicals amid 700 arrests. Kerr says no evidence shows any Communist party member employed by the university.
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Sacramento
Calif
Clark Kerr
University of California
State Senate
Kerr
Leon Wofsy
Berkeley
Wofsy
Communist Party
Chicago
Associated Press
Son of World War II author earns Private rank salute skills
Christopher P. Hargrove, 20, son of Marion L. Hargrove creator of See Here, Private Hargrove, earns a private first class stripe after less than a year in the Army. At the Defense Information School in Fort Slocum he is praised as a promising talent in military television and communications.
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U.S. Army
Hargrove
Chrisopher P. Hargrove
Marion L. Hargrove
Army Defense Information School
Har
South Viet Nam Names Ky Premier As Military Run Government
Brig Gen Nguyen Cao Ky, 34, becomes South Viet Nam's youngest premier heading the eighth Saigon government in 20 months. The armed forces control power with civilians holding 14 of 16 cabinet posts and a military directory led by Maj Gen Nguyen Van Thieu. Ky vows to risk his life but aims to return power to civilians later.
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South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Phan Huy Quat
Phan Khac Suu
Suu
Congress of the Armed Forces of
Viet Nam
Nguyen van Thieu
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
North
Dien Hong
U.S
Two Syracuse Teens Die in Flaming Route 81 Crash
Two Syracuse youths Gary R. Hartrick 18 and Gary M. Barnes 19 died when their car struck an abutment beside Route 81 and burst into flames. Both were trapped in the wreckage half a mile south of Adams near Watertown.
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Syracuse
Adams, N.Y
Gary R. Hartrick
Gary M. Barnes
Watertown
Rita Moreno Weds Dr Leonard Gordon in New York
Academy Award winner Rita Moreno aged 33 marries 45 year old Manhattan internal medicine specialist Dr Leonard Gordon in a double ring ceremony at the Supreme Court in New York.
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Rita Moreno
New York
Leonard Gordon
Manhattan
Supreme Court
George Melachrino Dies at 56 in London Bath
George Melachrino a noted British band maestro and survivor of the Beatle era was found dead Friday in his bath in London. The 56 year old conductor was among the few British big band leaders to remain active through the 1960s.
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George Melachrino
London
Bath
Overthrow Plot Reported Tied to Madrid
Official sources said the attempted overthrow of Algeria's President Ahmed Ben Bella may have been plotted in Madrid. Mohammed Khider, an opponent, has lived secretly in Madrid for months after a Swiss court blocked his extradition to Algeria over charges of fleeing with more than $16 million in state funds.
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Madrid
Spain
Ahmed Ben Bella
Algeria
Mohammed Khider
Khider
Ben Bella
OAS Plans Temporary Control of Dominican Economy
The Organization of American States sketches a plan to take provisional control of the Dominican Republic’s economy to end the civil war. The scheme would have the provisional government surrender revenue to the OAS which would spend it and the United States would inject at least $10 million monthly. Formal replies from rebels and the junta were expected within days.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
OAS
United States
Woman Killed In Crash With Trooper Auto
In Chemung County at Canal Street and Route 17 a private car and a State Police vehicle collided. Marice C. Hoffman 37 of Corning died in the crash Trooper G D Boyle was hospitalized and Jane Krebs 42 of Corning suffered minor injuries.
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Chemung County
Canal St
Route 17
Marice C. Hoffman
Corning
G.D. Boyle
Horseheads
Arnot-Ogden Hospital
Elmira
Jane Krebs
Hoffman
Corning Hospital
Pentagon Seeks More Results of B52 Raids
The Pentagon searches for signs of the B52 strike effectiveness in South Vietnam amid jungle concealment. A AP reporter notes scant air-visible evidence, while the Defense Department cites no sanctuary from air attack during the monsoon in the Ben Cat area 25 miles north of Saigon. Two SAC B52s were lost during refueling and at least one airman died with seven missing.
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Pentagon
South
Viet Nam
Associated Press
Defense Department
Saigon
Red
Lion Strategic Air Command
U.S
Guam
South Viet Nam
52S
Ben Cat
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