High Ranking Red Chinese Official Falls
Peng Chen a long time member of Red China's elite and former Peking mayor was removed from the party secretariat and replaced as first secretary of the Peking central committee. Despite the purge his Politburo post may remain, signaling further shakeups in the capital.
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Peng Chen
Red China
Peking
Red Capital
Peng
Peking People’s Daily
Mao Tze-tung
Chinese Communist Party
Weekend Forecast From UA iWideo-TM
The UA forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions tonight into Saturday with a 20 percent chance of rain tonight and Saturday. Low temperatures in the low 60s, highs reaching mid to upper 80s Saturday. Southerly winds diminish tonight with continued warmth and a 20 percent rain chance into Sunday.
Amherst College Honorary Degree Ceremony Amid Protests
Twenty Amherst College students walked out during commencement as Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara received an honorary Doctor of Laws. A group of about 20 pickets protested Viet Nam policy with signs while Sen. Paul H. Douglas spoke and the couple greeted demonstrators.
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Amherst College
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Gemini 9 Pilots Chase Target Satellite In Space Flight
Gemini 9 astronauts Stafford and Cernan blasted from Cape Kennedy in a Titan 2 on a three day mission aiming to rendezvous with a barrel shaped target satellite. They executed orbital adjustments and aimed for a connection above the Pacific, despite a prior communications hiccup and a late launch scramble.
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Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
U. S
Pacific Ocean
Stafford
Surveyor
Titan
Atlantic Ocean
Eugene Kranz
Gemini
Earth
Moon
Edward H. White II
Cernan
Australia
Bellwood Mom Weeps as Cernan Lifts Off
In Bellwood Illinois Mrs S On Cernan cried tears of relief after watching astronaut son lift off into space. Relatives including Mrs James Riley and Andrew Cernan spoke of the tense moment and family pride. Cernan recently took a week off from work at the Forest Park Naval Ordnance Plant as officials noted the quiet living room during ignition.
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Bellwood
Ill
Andrew Cernan
Mrs. Riley
Andrew
Cernan
Naval Ordnance Plant
Forest Park
Chicago
Charles Biggs
National Space Agency
Surveyor 1 Sends Second Stream Of Moon Photos
Pasadena reports Surveyor 1, the U S spacecraft on the Moon, sent a second batch of pictures showing itself and lunar terrain near the Sea of Storms. Some frames were out of focus, others showed fine detail as small as one eighth of an inch while the camera prepared for a full circle sweep.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.S
Surveyor
Stocks Mixed To Higher In Light Trade
Stocks showed mixed to higher readings in a slow early afternoon on light turnover. Big blocks appeared but overall activity was the lightest in 10 months with brokers noting sidelined buyers and uneven group performance.
Five Die as Powder Plant Blast Hits Ohio Town
An explosion at the Austin Powder Co Red Diamond plant near McArthur Ohio killed five workers. The blast damaged a building behind a hill and prompted tight security around the plant. Victims were Duane Lowe Glenn W Pendleton Oliver Risner Pearley Seymour and Arvin Caudill, all residents of the McArthur area.
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MacArthur, Ohio
Austin Powder Co
Red Diamond
McArthur
Appalachians
Joseph Strong
Duane Lowe
Glenn W. Pendleton
Oliver Risner
Pearley Seymour
Arvin Caudill
Johnson urges across the board Social Security boost
President Johnson called for a blanket increase in Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries, directing Secretary John Gardner to draft a plan for the next Congress. He said increases would be a high priority and outlined a rights-based approach to aging, plus a June 15 meeting to launch Medicare on July 1 with 200 doctors and hospital administrators.
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Washington
Johnson
John Gardner
Congress
White House
National Council of Senior Citizens
Goldberg to Speak in Normal Wednesday
Arthur J. Goldberg U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will deliver the inaugural address in the Adlai E Stevenson Lectures on International Affairs Series at 7 30 p.m. Wednesday at Horton Fieldhouse Illinois State University Normal Proceedings note a Special Bloomington dispatch.
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Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
United Nations
Adlai E. Stevenson
Horton Fieldhouse
Illinois State University
Normal
Buddhist Leader Urges Boycott of Saigon Elections
Thich Tri Quang, a radical Buddhist figure, warned at a Saigon news conference that Buddhists will boycott elections to be held by Ky and Thieu's government. He demanded Ky and Thieu resigns and blamed U.S. policy for Viet Nam unrest, signaling further political tension ahead of the September 11 constituent assembly vote.
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Hue
Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Thich
Tri Quang
Quang
Buddhist Institute
Johnson
Nguyen van Thieu
da Nang
Thieu
Saigon
Nun Dies by Self in Da Nang as Buddhist Boycott Threatens Truce
A 26 year old Buddhist nun burned herself to death at a Da Nang pagoda amid rising anti government sentiment. Thich Tri Quang vowed Buddhists would boycott elections, while Tam Chau resigned as head of the Buddhist Institute in Saigon. The incident shakes the truce plan to add civilians to Ky's regime and mars prospects for civilian rule.
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South Viet Nam
Buddha
da Nang
Thich Tri Quang
Nguyen Cao Ky
Hue
Johnson
Buddhist Institute
Thich
Tam Chau
Chau
Thich Na Dieu Dinh
Viet Nam
Budd
Hai Lac
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