Pope says birth control ban misunderstood by critics
Pope Paul VI told pilgrims near Rome that his encyclical banning artificial contraception was misunderstood by some critics. He defended the policy as binding but allowed reasonable family planning and medical needs, while opposition among Catholics persisted.
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Associated Press
Paul VI
Rome
America
Washington
Catholic University of American
Patrick Cardinal O’boyle
Association of Washington
John Cardinal Cody
Chicago
Thomas J. McGovern
Archdiocese of
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Newark
N.J
Thomas J. Murtha
London
Sunday Times
John Cardinal Heenan
Britain
Viet Cong Cache Reveals Vast Arms Haul Across Vietnam
U S officials report the largest Viet Cong arms find of the war with bunkers caves and rice paddies from the Mekong Delta to the DMZ yielding mortars submachine guns rockets and 150 000 in U S currency plus 935 000 piasters. Marines uncovered seven bunkers near Khe Sanh and a central coast cave contained the cash and supplies. The money likely funds food and imports and will go to the U S Treasury.
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Viet Cong Money Board
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Khe Sanh
Saigon
U.S. Treasury
Indiana group backs Rockefeller petitions statewide
The Indiana New Majority for Rockefeller reports over 15 000 Hoosiers signed petitions urging the Republican Party to nominate Nelson A Rockefeller for president. Kenneth Merlau of New Palestine says petitions collected July 20 and 27 in a statewide drive.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Rockefeller
Chicago men held on narcotics charge in Indiana
Two Chicago men, Ronald Flores 27 and Rostyslaw Kutko 23, were caught selecting marijuana weeds by a road near KrOX Indiana. They are jailed in Starke County on illegal possession of narcotics charges.
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Krox
Ind
UPI
Chicago
Here
Starke County
Ronald Flores
Rostyslaw Kutko
Frontier Shooting Across Korea Leaves 11 Dead
Incidents along the Korean frontier kill 11 people including one American and at least nine North Koreans while five Americans are wounded. A clash near Panmunjom unfolds during the 275th joint arms talks as U.S. troops pursue infiltrators.
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Seoul
Panmunjom
Joint Military Armistice Commission
2Nd
U.S. Infantry Division
Navy silent on Newsweek Scorpion report
The Navy would not confirm or deny Newsweek’s claim that top secret listening devices recorded ocean sounds during the Scorpion incident around May 21. Pentagon sources say tapes were checked after the submarine failed to return from a cruise, with officials declining to discuss analysis. The search focuses 450 miles southwest of the Azores in 12,000 foot depths, as a Navy board investigates the incident.
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Washington
Pentagon
Newsweek
Navy
Azores
Navy Board of Inquiry
Siege ends in Faenza as police gas suspect’s home
A 43 year old man named Amleto Natali, unemployed due to illness, held off police for 15 hours in Faenza. He ordered his wife and four children out and fired a shotgun at officers who approached the house before tear gas was released down the chimney.
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Faenza
Italy
UPI
Amleto Natali
Ouse
Nixon may need more than one ballot at GOP convention
Washington Window notes that Richard M. Nixon could win on the first ballot, but the Republican National Convention may require more than one ballot to nominate a candidate for president. The piece recalls 1948 when Taft and Stassen allied to stop Dewey, a situation mirrored by governors Rockefeller and Reagan this year.
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Raymond Lahr
United Press International
Richard M. Nixon
Harold E. Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
Oregon
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin
Dewey
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Nebraska
Philadelphia
Taft
Stassen
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Ronald Reagan
California
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Harry S Truman
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