Red Attack Blunted By US Big Guns Near Saigon
About 40 miles east of Saigon a 500-strong Viet Cong battalion attacked a US 11th Armored Cavalry bivouac but was repelled by heavy American fire. Eight US soldiers were killed and 31 wounded. The clash followed air and artillery strikes across North Vietnam as planes targeted rail lines and a steel plant near Thai Nguyen.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Thai Nguyen
Decision Due On Dodd Censure
The Senate is expected to vote on censure for Sen. Thomas J. Dodd amid charges of financial misconduct. Dodd’s defense says he lacks enough votes to block censure. the ethics committee proposal may be voted on Tuesday or Wednesday. Senator Long says votes exist but not a majority, while Dodd asserts no personal profit from office.
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John Chadwick Washington
Senate
Thomas J. Dodd
Dodd
Senate Ethics Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
New Orleans
Long
Wallace F. Bennet
Rutah
Ethics Committee
Bennet
Everett M. Dirksen
Sen. Dodd
Dirksen
Connally Signs 161 Bills Vetoes 37 In Texas Session
Governor John Connally signed 161 bills and resolutions and vetoed 37 on the final signing day. He trimmed the general revenue appropriations by 3.2 million to 444.3 million for 1968, and vetoed measures on curfews and legislator pay raises. Total state spending reached 2.38 billion with a 48 million teacher pay raise in the education budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Heard Austin
John Connally
Tne
Connally
Texas
Kosygin urges UN to condemn Israel and force withdrawal
Premier Kosygin asks the General Assembly to condemn Israel as aggressor and order its forces out of Arab lands. He accuses the United States of backing Israel and warns of potential nuclear war if conflict continues. Israel's Abba Eban counters Soviet bias and defends Israel's right to security and access to waterways.
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Kosygin
U Thant
United Nations
Alexei N. Kosygin
General Assembly
Middle East
Andrei Gromyko
William L. Ryan
N.Y
United Nations General Assembly
Israel
U.N
United States
Johnson
Washington
U.A.R
Egypt
Syria
Jordan
Abba Eban
Soviet Union
Eban
Suez Canal Zone
President Johnson Outlines Five Principles Of Peace
President Johnson declares that Israeli troop withdrawals must be negotiated as part of a general Arab‑Israeli peace. He links pullback to rights of national life refugees freedom of passage and arms race limits, warning simple withdrawal invites renewed conflict. He spoke at a State Department event amid UN talks with Kosygin.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Johnson
Middle East
U.S
Israel
State Department
Alexei N. Kosygin
U.N. General Assembly
New York
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Straits of Tiran
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Tuesday Rites For Victim Of Drowning
Funeral rites are set for 4 p.m. Tuesday for Johnny Gutierrez a 15 year old junior high student who drowned Sunday afternoon at Lake J B Thomas near the Scurry County Boys Club camp. The Rev. Herman Valladares will officiate at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church with burial in Snyder Cemetery. Surviving are his parents two sisters and three brothers all of Snyder and living at 1311 Eighteenth Street.
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Johnny Gutierrez
Lake J. B. Thomas
D. P. Ammons
Joe Gutierrez
Eighteenth Street
Delores
Nellie Gutierrez
Bernie
Lupe
Martin Gutierrez
George Milne Dies Sunday
George Milne aged 63 of La Mesa Highway died Sunday night at Sanatorium Texas. Funeral arrangements were pending at Bell Seale Funeral Home. He is survived by wife Mrs Johnnye Milne a daughter Mrs William Crabtree of Long Beach California two step sons Jack Sprott serving in Italy and Charles Sprott of Castro Valley California three stepdaughters Mrs Jeanne Brooks Mrs Marieta Rosendale and Mrs Louise Rice a sister Mrs C B Curtis and nineteen grandchildren.
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Bell Seale
George Milne
Lamesa Highway
Milne
Sanatorium
Tex
Johnnye Milne
William Crabtree
Long Beach
Calif
Jack Sprott
U. S. Navy
Italy
Charles Sprott
Castro Valley
Jeanne Brooks
Weather Snapshot Across Texas Through Tuesday
The report covers temperatures from highs of 90 to 100 degrees and lows of 68 to 80 across South Central, Southeastern, Southwestern, Northeastern, Northwestern, and North Central Texas. It notes partly cloudy to clear skies, warm conditions, and widely scattered showers or thunderstorms mainly near coasts and western areas through Tuesday, with a few differences by region.
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Texas
Tion
Pecos
Panhandle
Hurricane Hunter Sights Suspect Storm Area
Miami AP reports a hurricane hunter flight out 500 miles northeast of Puerto Rico to scout a potential 19 day season storm area. Sunday aerials show clouds and weak circulation with signs of possible intensification amid three depressions and two other suspicious areas since June 1. One disturbance hit North Carolina, bringing heavy rains and rough tides.
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Miami
Fla
Puerto Rico
North Carolina
Service Set For Pioneer Of Hermleigh
Rites are arranged for Herman F. Wenetschlaeger 79 of Hermleigh who died Sunday morning in Cogdell Memorial Hospital. Rosary tonight at Bolger Funeral Home. mass Tuesday at St. John's Church Hermleigh with Fr. William Lensing officiating. He was a 60 year Scurry County resident and member of the Catholic Church and Hermann's Sons of Texas. Pallbearers named. burial in Hermleigh Catholic Cemetery under Bolger Funeral Home direction.
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Herman F. Wenetschlaeger
Hermleigh
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Bolger Funeral Home
St. John’s Catholic Church
William Lensing
Wenetschlaeger
Scurry County
Rail Machinists Stage Walkout In California Strike
Labor unions in the rail industry ended a no strike pledge as some workers quit at 12:01 a.m. in Roseville California and others refused to cross picket lines at Southern Pacific yards. IAM headquarters said no California walkout reported and called any such event unauthorized. The action followed a looming national shutdown tied to antistrike legislation as Congress negotiates a compromise amid the Dodd censure debate.
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JO Hall Ther
Congressional Legislative Washington
International Asso
Southern Pacific Railroad
Roseville
Calif
Congress
Er Lines
IAM
California
House
Senate
Sen
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
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Trias
Wam
Cuba
Hurricane Hunter
Pioneer of Hermleigh
Lai Khe
South Vietnam
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