Surrounded Troops Stage Desperate Jungle Defense
The 101st Airborne fought for four days as surrounded units held a defensive perimeter amid thick jungle. Captain Walter R. Brown and Captain Fenn led efforts to repel Communist assaults with a rescue of nine wounded and eighty-seven volunteers joining the fight. Colonel Henry Emerson directed airlifted support while bombings targeted enemy concentrations in Tay Ninh and nearby areas.
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Walter R. Brown
Chattanooga
Fenn
Bill Carpenter
Monroe
Henry K. Emerson
Milford
52Nd Airborne Battalion
Emerson
Carpenter
Harpenle
Brown
101St Diivision
U.S
Guam
Tay Ninh
Saigon
Frenchwoman jumps to death from Arc de Triomphe
A young French woman leapt from the Arc de Triomphe on Thursday and died. Police did not immediately reveal her identity. The Arc de Triomphe, built nearly a century and a half ago, has long stood as a symbol in Paris.
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Paris
Union Rejects Board Airline Offer Sparks Wage Dispute
The machinists union rejected presidential emergency board wage recommendations amid a contract dispute with five major airlines. If no talks resume, a strike could affect 25,000 workers at Eastern, Northwest, Trans World, United, and National Airlines, with potential 150,000 more layoffs.
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APT
Presidential Emergency Board
Aly
Chicago
Iner Vnational Association of Machin
Ists
Joseph W. Ramsey
Eastern
Northwest
Trans World
United
National Airlines
Ife
Johnson
Sen
Wayne
Morse
D-Ore
Smplint
Anl
Alma hurricane causes wide spread damage and deaths
A Cuban hurricane named Alma drenched western Cuba then tracked into the Florida straits near Key West and up the Gulf of Mexico causing extensive flooding and winds. Florida reported no total damage estimates though the Keys, Tampa Bay area and crops sustained varying impacts as Fidel Castro ordered rapid reconstruction. The refugee airlift resumed Monday with about 25,000 Cubans ferried to the United States since December.
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Fort Gordon
Augusta
Honduras
Cuba
Florida
Florida Straits
Key West
Alma
Gulf of Mexico
Fidel Castro
Havana
United States
Hurricane Alma stalls Cuban airlift to U S cities
The Cuban refugee airlift disrupted by Hurricane Alma resumes Monday. One plane flew to New Orleans, carrying refugees from the hurricane zone. Normally about two planeloads of Julians totaling around 200 arrive daily, with over 25,000 airlifted from Cuba since December 1.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Alma
New Orleans
Norimally
U.S
Transit deficit rise in Milan and arrest of jewel ring suspects
Police arrest two stateless Poles linked to an international jewel theft ring operating in Swisserland Austria and West Germany. The suspects Nicolai Barkowski 36 and Abram Ciekanowski 66 reported a transit deficit of 13.3 million and held jewels valued at about 40 000 with nine months ending April 30 up 113 000 from last year.
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Milan
Waly
UPN
Swisserland
Austria
West Germany
Euston
Massa J
Cusetts Bay Transit Authority
Nicolai Barkowski
Abram Ciekanowski
Stratton Pushes Immediate Milk Price Increase
Washington AP reports Representative Samuel Stratton of New York urges an immediate and substantial rise in Class I milk prices paid to Upstate New York dairy farmers. He calls the increase legally warranted and economically essential, citing a five-year drought that has raised costs. The Agriculture Department granted a small rise in May but later cut it. Stratton opposes direct subsidies and favors a permanent producer increase.
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Samuel
Stratton
New York State
Amsterdam
New York
Agriculture Department
Department
Texas
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