Paratroopers Fight Viet Cong Across Multiple Fronts
U S paratroopers reported heavy combat near Ah Khe and Ben Cat with Viet Cong deaths and captures. Air strikes saturated the area while 173rd and 101st units pressed operations, supported by allied troops and B52 bombers in Mekong Delta and near Saigon.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ah Khe
101St Airborne Brigade
101St
17Th Airborne Brigade
Ben Cat
Salemon
U.S. Strategic Air Command
Mekong River
South
Viet Nam
New Zealand
An Khe
1St Cavalry Division
Fwr
Vinh Vinh
Red Cross Bloodmobile visits Episcopal Parish House
The Red Cross Bloodmobile arrives tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 45 p.m. at the Episcopal Parish House, sponsored by the Stephens City Lions Club. A quota of 150 pints is set, with 19 pints sought for open heart surgery in Washington D C. Call 662 5412 for appointments.
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RED Cross
Episcopal Parish House
Stephens City
Erhard's Party Retains West German Leadership in Election
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the Christian Democrats victory secures 47.6 percent of votes and a coalition with the Free Democrats. Turnout reached 86.9 percent, signaling continued support for Atlantic alliance and Common Market. Erhard plans talks with President Johnson in Washington. Willy Brandt led the Social Democrats in disappointment. In a separate report from Johannesburg, thousands of white miners threatened to halt work at South Africa's gold mines over alleged worker victimization. Only four of eleven Orange Free State mines remained at normal operation.
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Bonn
Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Christian Democratic Party
West Germany
Erhard
Social Democrats
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
Johannesburg
South Africa
Orange Free State
Johannesburgg
Mother of Quadruplets Took Fertility Drug
Alice Pigge took clomiphene citrate to treat a woman’s disorder and became pregnant ten months later. Her quadruplet birth, two boys and two girls, occurred at Los Angeles County General Hospital where the babies, weighing nine pounds total, were in critical condition in incubators. The case follows another quadruplet birth in Plainfield, New Jersey.
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Los Angeles
Alice Pigge
Lo Angeles County General Hospital
Edna Sibiga
Plainfield
N.J
Pigge
Los Azogeles
Milton Smale
Firefighters near containment of major Northern California fires
After days battling fires that burned 207000 acres across 21 counties, crews contained the 16000 acre Chiles Valley blaze on two sides while the southern flank remained out of control. In Sonoma County, a separate fire scorched 6000 acres near Austin Creek. One firefighter died, 120 houses and 400 outbuildings were lost, with damage around 4.5 million dollars. Five counties were designated disaster areas.
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San Francisco
California
Chiles Valley
Napa County
Atlas Creek
State Division of Forestry
Sonoma County
Austin Creek
Cazadeero
el Dorado County
Edmund G. Brown
Marin
Napa
Sonoma
Solano
San Francisco Bay
Placer County
Sierra Foothills
Sacramento
No Relief in Sight From Late Summer Heat Wave
A late August and September heat wave continues with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s and little rainfall. The five day outlook calls for 8 to 10 degrees above normal through midweek with scattered showers possible Wednesday and September totals near 1.01 inches.
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The
Mercury
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
UN Demands 48 Hour India Pakistan Cease Fire
The Security Council votes 10 to 0 with Jordan abstaining to demand a cease-fire in 48 hours. The Netherlands sponsored resolution warns China to stay out of the fighting and urges Thant to supervise and report on cease-fire and withdrawal progress.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Security Council
India
Pakistan
Jordan
Netherlands
China
Peking
Kim
Security Council
J.G. D. Beus
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
France
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
de Beus
Johnson
U Thant
Pakisom
Fire Destroys Four Businesses in Waynesboro
An early morning fire in Waynesboro wiped out four establishments and damaged two others. Residents were evacuated. the Browns were rescued from an upstairs apartment as firefighters from multiple towns contained the blaze. Fire chief K M Frost said the cause was undetermined and damage estimates pending.
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Waynesboro
Robert Brown
Wayne Auto and Body Shop
K. M. Frost
E&j
Body Shop
Specksrocery and
Ritchie Plumbing
Bea’s
Frost
Commerce Street
George Thilo
Stuarts Draft
Augusta County
Dooms
Staunton
Brown
Frances
Carol the third tropical storm forms far east in Atlantic
Tropical storm Carol, the third of the season, forms far east of Puerto Rico about 1,550 miles east. Forecasters say it likely will not reach the United States though a Western path remains possible. Winds near the center reach around 55 mph with gales to 150 miles north and 75 miles south. Ships in the area are cautioned for the next 24 hours.
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Miami
Fla
Carol
United States
Gilbert Clark
San Juan
P.R
P.h
Liquor Shipment Reaches Viet Nam Marines
A U S Marines platoon in Da Nang were sent two quarts vodka a fifth bourbon a pint scotch a pink champagne bottle and a bottle of mixer from West Babylon New York. Navy medic Larry Freeman ordered the liquor from Al Rustice's calendar on home leave. The shipment was flown to Da Nang and Lt Donald McCloskey said the liquor would be saved for a special occasion. Rustice also sent cheese dip salted nuts potato chips cigars and extra scotch for the commander. Freeman placed the order as a gag and had not met Rustice.
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DA Nang
Viet Nam
Saigon
Navy
Larry Freeman
al Rustice
Rustice
Freeman
Indian Prime Minister says China fires in two frontier sectors
Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri accuses Communist China of firing across the Indian frontier in two sectors, Sikkim on the eastern front and Ladakh in Kashmir on the western front, as New Delhi protests and calls for defense by all means. The U.N. Security Council urged India and Pakistan to end their war within 48 hours.
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New Delhi
India
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Peking
Asia
Sikkim
Ladakh
Kashmir
Shastri
China
Pakistan
Nath Pal
U.N. Security Council
New York
Defense Ministry
Tibet
Fukche
New China
Lhasa
Demchok
Himalasyan
Indian Defense Ministry
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J.C. Shanholtz
Senseny Road
James M. Lawyer
Merriman’s Lane
Atlantic Alliance
Washington
Free Democrats
Telesvision
Richard Tan
Preg
Nant
Smale
General Hospital
James ‘Pigge
Bulletin
Tokyo
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Philips E. Smith
Mer
Luci
White House
Georgetown
School of Nursing
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Atlantic
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Life Ins. Co
Virginia
Cameron St
Women’s Civic League
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