Lifetime Sentence Advised for Ruby
DALLAS—(UPI)—Jack Ruby, condemned to death for slaying Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President Kennedy, should be kept alive, Dist. Atty. Henry Wade said Thursday. He said he was willing to recommend the death sentence be commuted to life.
Ruby shot and killed Oswald as millions watched on national television Nov. 24, 1963. He was convicted of murder March 14, 1964 and sentenced to death. He has been in the Dallas County jail since while his case was on appeal.
SAIGON—(UPI)American military authorities said today five North Vietnamese regiments have been positively identified as operating in the Central Highlands of South Viet Nam.
Five Cong Forces Enter War
At least one of the regiments, and possibly two, were involved in the week-long Communist attack on the American Special Forces camp at Plei Me.
A U.S. military spokesman identified the regular North Vietnamese units as the 18th, 95th and 101st regiments of the 325th division, and the 32nd and 250th regiments.
U.S. Delays Walk in Space
SPACE CENTER, Houston — (UPI)— The next "walk in space" by an American astronaut will be delayed until next year, according to U.S. space officials.
The U.S. space agency revealed Thursday it had killed a proposal to permit astronaut Thomas P. Stafford to take such a walk during the four-man "Spirit of 76" Gemini flights now set for December.
The honors, instead, will go apparently to astronaut David Scott, copilot of the Gemini 8 orbital voyage expected next February or March. Scott will stroll outside his capsule for at least one complete orbit around earth, space chiefs said.
Princess Peg Starts U.S. Tour
SAN FRANCISCO—(UPI)—Princess Margaret wishing to "meet many people from all walks of life," set out today to see San Francisco.
The Princess and her husband, Lord Snowdon, arrived Thursday night after a long and tiring 13-hour flight from London.
But showing that unique combination of graceful enthusiasm and regal reserve, the princess remained unflustered by the battery of cameramen and newsmen who greeted her at a press club reception.
War in Viet Nam
Walking Booby Trap Survives As Doctors Remove Grenade
SAIGON —(UPI)— The Vietnamese man with the bomb in his back got out of his hospital bed today and walked gingerly across the room to a sandbag bunker. Two American surgeons and an English anesthesiologist held their breath.
IT WAS A grenade about the size of an egg fired from an M-79 launcher, a weapon that resembles a sawed-off shotgun.
The man was a walking booby trap. He could explode at any moment with a blast powerful enough to blow him to bits and anyone nearby.
ONCE INSIDE the sandbag bunker, the man carefully climbed onto an operating table. The entrance was closed up and the most unusual operation of the war began.
Chin was rushed to Saigon's Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors noticed a hole in his back and lump there. X-rays revealed that the grenade was imbedded in his back, and that the device was live, capable of exploding at any second.
Chin was placed in a shack on the hospital grounds segregated from the rest of the patients. The grenade had entered the right side of his body, then slipped around the skin to the small of his back.
The story began last Thursday when Nguyen Van Chin, a 52-year-old Vietnamese farmer from Long An Province, walked out of his house. Someone came up behind Chin and said "put your hands up."
Chin heard a loud noise and then felt something strike him on the right side of his body.
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successfully removed the grenade today in a daring volunteer operation.
Maj. Gen James W. Humphreys, protected by sandbags and shatterproof glass, calmly cut around the grenade, pulled it out with forceps and dropped it into a tank filled with sand.
The small egg-shaped grenade was designed not to explode until it had traveled 36 feet. It failed to detonate when it hit the victim in the back from 24 feet away.
BUT NO ONE knew what would happen when Humphreys began to probe for the grenade, working behind sandbags in case it exploded.
The "human bomb" limped unaided to the specially-prepared operating room at Cho Ray Hospital where he was segregated from other patients.
Humphreys loosened the 40 MM grenade from the surrounding flesh, and pulled it from the man's back with long forceps about the size of ice tongs.
THE DOCTOR then dropped the grenade into a steel tank filled with sand alongside the operating table. A heavy lid was clamped on the tank.
The entire tense procedure, from the time the wounded man got out of bed until the last stitch was in place, took 13 minutes.
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