Shaky truce in New Jersey communities
Plainfield in the West End reports a fragile calm after a police and militia search of riot areas. Rioting tensions spill across northern towns including Jersey City and Paterson. Newark hosts a four day Black Power conference as Gov Hughes keeps emergency orders in place. Five of 46 stolen carbines recovered, with protests over apartment searches by residents.
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UPID
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New Jersey
Jersey City
Asbury Park
Franklin Township
New Brunswick
Rahway
Montclair
Paterson
Newark
Floyd McKissick
James Farmer
Richard J. Hughes
Middlesex
West End Gardens
Weather snapshot for Redlands and SoCal forecast
Redlands today high 98 low 59 through 1:30 pm. Year ago today high 94 low 58. Wednesday high 99 low 60. Smog moderate. No burning permitted Friday. Sun rises 5:51 sets 7:59. Full Moon rises 8:20. Ocean water 65 air 71. San Bernardino Valley Sunn Friday clear nights. Southern California mostly sun Friday, with night and morning fog and low clouds along the coast. Interior slightly warmer. outlook Saturday sunny and warm.
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Arab nations plan renewed attack on Israel
United Press International reports that Arab leaders including President Gamal Abdel Nasser vow to mobilize all Arab resources to crush Zionist aims. Moscow pressure and UN talks shape a looming crisis as Gromyko negotiates with the United States on Israeli withdrawal and ending belligerence amid threats of renewed war in the Middle East.
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Algeria
Nasser
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Cairo
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Moscow
Ismail E} Ehary
East
Andrei A. 'Gromyko
U.N
Gromyko
U.S
Arthur Goldberg
Tass
United States
Silver prices rise at least twenty percent in Mexico
Mexico City United Press International reports that silver prices will climb at least 20 percent following the freeing of the metal from U.S. controls and rising world market quotations. The Banco de Mexico said a kilogram of silver, once 478 pesos, now fetches 518 pesos, reflecting higher costs for industry and crafts.
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Mexico City
UPI
U.S
Banco ‘de Mexico
Calm settles on Minneapolis riot over wig dispute
In Minneapolis a white police intervention in a wig dispute between two Negro girls sparked a daytime riot in the Near North Side. At least four injured including a fireman hit by a brick, 80 officers with riot gear swept the area, six arrests made as bottles bricks and rocks were thrown. fires lit the night with Molotov cocktail flames.
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Minneapolis
Minn
UPI
North Side
Plymouth Avenue
Seven derailed freight cars block main lines near San Bernardino
Seven cars of a westbound Santa Fe freight train derailed five miles east of San Bernardino blocking the main lines used by Santa Fe and Union Pacific. One pair of tracks was to reopen within three hours after the 9:40 a.m. incident. Four trains were delayed including the Grand Canyon passenger train. Buses were used to transport passengers. No injuries reported and cause under investigation.
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San Bernardino
UPI
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Grand Canyon
Red China funded Mexican Communist plot exposed
Mexican authorities announced the arrest of 13 Communists accused of subversion to establish a popular socialist regime. The mastermind, a former Mexican Communist Party leader, fled to Peking and the group planned guerrilla camps in Chiapas financed by 1680 dollars a month from Red China via the New China News Agency. The case surfaced after a July dynamite attack linked a peasant farmer to the conspirators.
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UPI
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Chiapas
New China
Sanchez
Dyna
Mexico
Guatemala
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Guerrero
Nicaragua
Venezuela
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Fuentes
New China News Agency
Administration seeks non defense cuts to dodge tax rise
Washington reports say the Johnson administration is examining controllable non defense outlays to avoid a tax increase. Officials deem a 15 percent cut across agencies unlikely to cover a potential $9 to $10 billion shortfall and reject rumored large deferrals in defense spending. Defense officials caution against overstated savings while urging cuts as the preferred remedy over new taxes.
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Bers
Budget Bureau
Defense
Robert S
McNamara
Vietnam
John J. Rhodes
Ariz
House
GOP
UN Postpones Adjournment for More Study
The United Nations General Assembly delayed adjournment by at least a day to allow Soviet led efforts to craft an Arab friendly Middle East resolution. Fedorenko pressed the delay in a morning meeting with President Pazhwak while the motion was tabled by Finland. The U.N. Secretary General said observers from Burma Finland France and Sweden would monitor the Suez cease fire alongside the Truce Organization.
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UPI
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Middle East
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Assembly
Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
Afghanistan
Max Jakobsen
Finland
Pazhwak
Austria
Ben
Mark
Security Council
Soviet Union
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
Kremlin
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Mahmoud Fawzi
United Arab Republic
Thant
Burma
France
Sweden
Suez Canal
Odd Bull
Norway
U.N. Truce Supervision Organization
Mere bail raised for Mrs Birch in murder case
Compton upi report states widow of multimillionaire Albert Otis Birch had bail increased from 10000 to 25000 on two counts of assault with intent to murder. Judge Shafer set preliminary hearing for next Tuesday as district attorney cited seriousness and past record including a Texas murder sentence. Birch, 60, 6 feet tall and 205 pounds, cared for the late 95 year old estate owner, involved in a dispute with a tenant when a rifle was fired narrowly missing a police officer and tenant relative.
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Birch
Texas
Paratroopers Free 22 From Red Jungle Jail
American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne freed 22 starving Vietnamese inmates from a Viet Cong jungle jail near Duc Pho, 325 miles north of Saigon, after storming a 10 foot bamboo wall. The raid followed U S aerial attacks as B52s hit troop centers and MIG interceptors clashed with U S jets, with casualties mounting for both sides in the ongoing Vietnam War.
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UPI
U.S
Vie Cong
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
U.S. High Command
Jingle
Armys 101St Airborne Division
Dennis Anderson
Crookston
Minne
Duc Pho
Princess Grace Loses Baby During Expo 67 Visit
Princess Grace of Monaco suffered a miscarriage in Montreal while accompanying Prince Rainier and their children during Expo 67 activities. She remains in satisfactory condition at Royal Victoria Hospital, with doctors citing no stated cause and planning a brief recovery period.
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Montreal
UPI
Grace
Monaco
Grace Kelly
Philadelphia
Prince Rainier
Canada
Caroline
Albert
Stephanie
Royal Victoria Hospital
Royal Palace
Monte Carlo
House approves anti riot bill targeting interstate violence
The House voted 347 to 70 to outlaw travel between states or via interstate facilities with intent to foment violence. Penalties could reach five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. Senate expected to pass soon as lawmakers framed action as a stand for law and order amid summertime riots.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Congress
Explorer 35 Sets Course for Lunar Radiation Study
Explorer 35, a 230 pound moon monitor with four solar panels, sped toward a lunar orbit to study radiation levels astronauts may face. It will orbit the moon to observe the surrounding space, carrying seven experiments on radiation, magnetic effects, and dust particle motion.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
America
Johnsons send advisers for talks with allies
President Johnson dispatches Gen Maxwell D Taylor and Clark M Clifford to Saigon and on to Australia Korea New Zealand the Philippines and Thailand to discuss allied troop levels in Vietnam and prepare for a future Asian summit while seeking broader support from Manila nations. The move follows McNamara's mission and aims to align standstill talks with Rusk signaling conditional steps toward peace.
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UPI
Johnson
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Vietinam
White House
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Clark M. Clifford
South Vietnam
Saigon
Australia
Korea
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Thailand
George Christian
Taylor-Clifford
Robert S. McNamara
Manila
Christian
McNamara
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Vietnam
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Southeast Asia
Dean Rusk
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