Five Wounded as Gunfire Mars Watts Festival
Gunfire at the Watts Summer Festival in Will Rogers Park wounded five people minutes after the event opened, near Mayor Sam Yorty. Police faced rocks and bottles as crowds clashed. the area’s violence followed a Crenshaw gun battle earlier that day. Lt. Gov. Robert Finch traveled from Miami Beach to assist authorities as the festival continued under a tense mood.
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Los Angeles
UPD
Will Rogers Park
Sam Yorty
Crenshaw
Watts
California
Robert Finch
Miami Beach
Ronald Reagan
York tense after sniping and fires in York Pa
A three block area in York Pennsylvania faced sniping and firebombing over the weekend. Local officials blamed outsiders while promising action. At least 11 arrests and 17 injuries were reported as state troopers and guards manned the streets.
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UPI
John Blackwell
Naacp
Jacob W. Hose
York Human Relators Commission
Harrisburg
Secret military satellite launches from Cape Kennedy
A 120 foot Atlas Agena rocket launched a classified secret satellite from Cape Kennedy at 7 08 a m EDT. The equatorial orbit aims for higher pass frequency over wide areas including Red China and North Vietnam. Observers saw the plume and heard the blast from miles away as officials hinted at ongoing Cape missions in a new secret program.
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Defense Department
Red China
North Vietnam
America
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Russia
China
Space Agency
Satelites
Air Force
Bethlehem Pittsburgh hold line on steel vital to defense
The Defense Department said two more steel firms Bethlehem Steel and Pittsburgh Steel agreed not to raise prices on shell steel and defense materials. Rep Steel and Armco already pledged no increases. The move accompanies an administration push to secure lowest competitive prices for defense steel across about one million tons, with major producers contributing sizable shares of annual defense steel procurement.
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Pittsburgh
Washington
UPI
Defense Department
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Army
Pentagon
Pittsburgh Steel Co
Republic Steel
Armco
Johnson Administration
Defense
Chamberlain Corp
Scranton
Chamberlain
Pittsburgh Steel Company
Steel firms react to White House price pressure
Pittsburgh dispatch lists ten major producers and their responses to government price demands. U.S. Steel and Jones & Laughlin chose selective increases, Bethlehem and Inland moved across the board, Republic pledged to protect military goods then limited gains under pressure, Armco yielded on one defense line, Youngstown Sheet and Tube followed suit, National and Colorado Fuel & Iron were selective or unchanged, Wheeling and Pittsburgh varied, with defense products largely shielded from price hikes.
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UPI
White House
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic
Jones & Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Armco
National
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Wheeling
Natonal Defense
Stocks Climb Again On Technical Gains Tuesday
New York stocks rose for the second straight session, led by modest advances in blue chips and rails. The UPI indicator showed a 0.52 percent gain with 1,547 issues traded and 40 new highs. Dow inched up 4.39 to 976.92 as rails and utilities improved.
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UPI
United Press International
New York Stock Exchange
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Israelis Press Into Jordan in Pursuit of Arab Commandos
United Press International reports Israeli soldiers drove several miles into central Jordan in hot pursuit of Arab commandos blamed for a clinic bombing. Five Arabs were killed and two captured, in the second border strike since Sunday, as Jordan and Syria border clashes continued and the UN Security Council debated Israel’s actions at Salt.
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United Press International
Jordan
Arroyal Sean Ah Shal
United Nations Security Council
Israel
Salt
United Arab Republic
U.N
France
Security Council
el Fatah
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