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Army pilot's death brings Vietnam death toll to 139 Americans
By NEIL SHEEHAN
SAIGON, Viet Nam, Nov. 26, 1963 (UPI) - The remains of a U.S. Army pilot whose two-engined Mohawk observation plane crashed in the mountains north of here last January were recovered yesterday, military sources said today.
Red China A-Blast expected this year
LONDON, Aug. 1, 1964 (UPI)--Diplomatic reports said today Red China may be able to set off some kind of a nuclear explosion for prestige purposes later this year.The reports said Peking scientists, although they have not yet been able to produce anything resembling a real atomic bomb, appear to be rushing work on some sort of a primitive "nuclear device."
Red China explodes atomic bomb
TOKYO, Oct. 16, 1964 (UPI) -- Red China today exploded its first atomic bomb. It then immediately proposed a world conference to ban use of nuclear weapons.The official New China News Agency, in a Peking broadcast monitored here, said the bomb was exploded in "western region of China" at 3 p.m. Peking time.
West, Russia cold to Red China bids
TOKYO, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- Red China exploded its long-expected atom bomb yesterday. Then it offered to be friends again with the Soviet Union and urged a world summit conference to banish nuclear weapons from the face of the earth.Peking made both offers on its own terms. Neither was likely to be accepted.
Mao's theory on atomic bomb: They can't kill us all
TOKYO, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung maintains that Communist China has nothing to fear from nuclear weapons. But his people have paid a fearful price to develop the atomic bomb of their own.Mao is said to have told a Yugoslav visitor to Peking in 1957, "We have a very large territory and a big population. Atomic bombs could not kill all of us."
U.S. may have received information from spy plane
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- Reconnaissance flights by the high-flying U-2 spy plane may have played a role in obtaining for the United States advance information on Red China's first nuclear blast.The U.S. intelligence system often has been criticized in the past for not for seeing events, but it was right on target in predicting Communist China's nuclear plans.
LBJ, aides confer on world shakeup
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 1964 (UPI) -- President Johnson met with his top military and diplomatic advisers today to consider "these...sobering hours in the history of the world" -- Red China's nuclear test and the shakeup in the Kremlin.The chief executive canceled a scheduled weekend campaign trip to Texas because of the international situation. He was to confer at noon with the National Security Council.
Kremlin seeks to end split with Red China
By HENRY SHAPIRO
MOSCOW, Oct. 19, 1964 (UPI) -- The new Kremlin regime today moved toward patching up its grievances with Red China.
China says it fires H-bomb
TOKYO, June 17, 1967 (UPI) - Communist China announced it successfully conducted its first hydrogen bomb test today in the air over the western part of the China mainland.The announcement was made in a Japanese language broadcast monitored in Tokyo. It said the Chinese scientists had succeeded in launching a "hydrogen bomb test."
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