Kiesinger Edges Out in Narrow West German Vote
West Germany delivered a split verdict as CDU led by Kiesinger won most votes but fell short of a ruling majority. SPD under Brandt gained ground yet also lacked a majority. FDP shows strength as coalition talks begin and NPD loses support amid post election caution.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Christian Democratic Party
CDU
Wille
Rae Ture UE Vraany Brandt
Social Democrats
SPD
Christian Democrats
Free Democrats
Free Democratic Party
FDP
Brandt
Kiesinger
Walter Scheel
National Democratic Party
NPD
Bundestag
National Democrats
Tucumcari Food Poisoning Tragedy Claims Three Victims
An Arkansas woman Myrtle Mae Parker and two grandchildren Bobby Joe Parker and Jackie Lee Parker died in a Tucumcari car incident blamed on food poisoning. Four others, including Parker's husband and two other children, were hospitalized after the Sunday morning crash on US 66.
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Tucumcari
N.M
Spe
Arkansas
Associated Press
Trigg Memorial Hospital
Myrtle Mae Parker
Bobby Joe Parker
Jackie Lee Parker
Bronson Moore
Parker
Glen Parker
Anne Leota Parker
David Eugene
Elien
Parkers
Springdale
Ark
Buena Park
Calif
US. 66
East Tucumcari
Moore
Purge of Dubcek as Czechoslovak leadership reshapes party
In Prague the ruling Communist leadership ousted Dubcek allies and restructured the cabinet Nine Central Committee members were removed and nineteen liberals resigned while a conservative bloc moved in The party backed Moscow line justifying the Soviet invasion and the purge completes a major power shift across the government and parliament.
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Prague
Alexander Dubcek
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Dubcek
Moscow
Tass
Central Committee
Josef Smrkovsky
Smrkovsky
Jiri Hajek
Frantisek Vlasak
Oldrich Cernik
CTK
Josef Kempny
Peter Colotka
Frantisek Hamouz
Jan Tabacek
Vaclav Hula
Frantisek Viasak
Miloslav Hurskovic
Committee For
Karol Lacore
B62s Keep Up Raids Across South Vietnam
U S bombers pressed raids across South Vietnam with up to 750 tons dropped on Vietcong concentrations and staging areas from the Mekong Delta to the far north as the U S Command cited light enemy activity. Fourteen enemy rocket and mortar attacks were reported while three Americans were wounded. The 3rd Division, to be sent home by December 15, faced a mortar and small arms attack.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Mekong Delta
Vietnam
Tiger Mauls Model at Canterbury Estate
London model Merelyn Lamb, 19, visiting Lady Osborne near Canterbury, was mauled by a Siberian tiger after she tickled its nose through a cage. Doctors worked six hours to save her right arm as tigers and other animals reside on the private estate.
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Canterbury
England
London
Merelyn Lamb
Lady Osborne
Keeler Life Story Triggers New Row In Britain News
Christine Keeler whose affair with John Profumo sparked a government scandal begins a life story series in News of the World. Lord Longford and Baroness Stocks condemn the move as sales ploy while Rupert Murdoch defends the publication noting Keeler and Profumo are part of national history.
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London
Christine Keeler
News of the World
Miss Keeler
Lord Longford
House of Lords
Baroness Stocks
John D. Profumo
Harold Macmillan
Profumo
Longford
East End
Stocks
Rupert Murdoch
Labor
Army Reassigns Critic Col James Campbell in Vietnam
In Long Binh Vietnam Col James Campbell a former chief US information officer and Pacific Stars and Stripes critic was reassigned within US Army Vietnam headquarters after a speech at a conference. The Army said his opinions did not represent headquarters views and noted Campbell originated the speech without higher authorization.
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Long Binh
Vietnam
U.S
James Campbell
Army
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Hanoi Herald
Campbell
Pacific Information Officers
U.S. Army
U.S. Army Headquarters
USARV
Saigon
Ross Johnson
Army Headquarter
Associated Press
Johnson
Sheriff Dodds Killed in Texas After Posse Shootout
In Lavaca County near Shiner a disturbance left Sheriff Ronnie Dodds dead and Deputy Albert Jakubek critically wounded. A posse member, Samuel Matthews, was wounded in a later exchange of gunfire near Hallettsville and taken to a Galveston hospital in undetermined condition. The incident began when two highway patrolmen arrested five Negroes for the disturbance and handed two to the officers.
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Hallettsville
Tex
Shiner
Texas
Lavaca County
Ronnie Dodds
Albert Jakubek
Santa Rosa Medical Center
San Antonio
Samuel Matthews
Matthews
John Sealy
Galveston
Dodds
Jakube
Harris County
Justice of the Peace
Wilber Roznosky Dodds
Slay Suspects Arranged in Albuquerque in Ohio Robbery Case
Two men linked to four killings during a Cincinnati area savings and loan office robbery last Wednesday were arraigned in Albuquerque. Watterson Johnson, 22, and Johnnie Levi Leigh, 20, face unlawful flight to avoid prosecution charges after being picked up near Gallup while hitchhiking from Nashville to California. The FBI reports $500,900 bonds each and that Leigh waived extradition.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Cincinnati
Ohio
Savings and Loan Office
Gallup
Watterson Johnson
Johnnie Levi Leigh
FBI
Leigh
Cansel
U.S
Eugene E. Greeson
Johnson
Nashville
Tenn
California
New Mexico-Arizona
Howard McClanahan
Thomas J. Jordan
Erque FBI
Cabinet Supreme Savings and Loan Association
Delhi
McClanahan
U.S. 66
New Mexico
Santa Fe
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Rut
Byron Walker
Palisades
Tiger Mauls
Keeler
Astro Guide
Ann Landers
Colorado
Department of Public Safety
Corpus Christi
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