Coast to coast anti draft protests surge
Scores arrested in antiwar and antidraft demonstrations reaching 30 cities. Thousands burned draft cards, with major actions at Berkeley, Oakland, Boston, Chicago, Champaign, Portland, and Philadelphia. In Washington and New York, protesters pressed demands while church groups and university students joined the nationwide mobilization.
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Associated Press
New York
University of California
Berkeley
Oakland Army Induction Center
Joan Baez
Boston
Arlington Street
New England
Bers
Chicago
Federal
U. S. Marshal’s Office
Selective Service Center
Champaign
Ill
University of Illinois
Portland
Ore
State
Selective Service
London
Lost and
U. S
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
David M. Gracie
Episcopal Diocese of
Pennsylvania
Federal Building
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
Washington, D. C
Daniel O. Omer
Cornell
Ithaca
N. Y
Denver
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Albany
Poughkeepsie
Pittsburgh
Providence
R. C
San Francisco
McNamara warned against barrier in Vietnam conflict
Defense chiefs plan an electronic barrier between North and South Vietnam drawing strong criticism from a Chinese party newspaper. A tropical low near Miami could strengthen into Heidi, the eighth storm of the season, per the National Hurricane Center. Kennedy assassination trial for Clay Shaw set for February with possible venue change, while Senator Percy accuses Johnson of lacking honesty and names potential nominees. Cincinnati schools seek long term racial peace amid rising student violence. Milwaukee opens a panel to break housing deadlock after nights of protests. Britons face rain and gales as Aberfan nears the disaster anniversary with evacuations continuing and fears of landslides.
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Robert S. McNamara
North
South Vietnam
New Orleans
Clay L. Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Criminal Dist
Edward A. Haggerty
Dist
Jim Garrison
Athens City Council Gives Tentative Budget Approval
Athens City Council approves a tentative budget for the next year signaling budgetary planning advances. Council members discuss line items and forecast expenditures while monitoring revenue streams for upcoming programs and services.
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Athens
Chesterhill
Cheshire Water Corporation
Miami-Ohio U
Medina Operation Aims To Relieve DMZ Pressure
U S command announces Medina ground thrust 28 miles south of the DMZ. First week result: 21 Marines and 44 Communists killed, 167 Marines wounded. Air strikes hit Haiphong area targets including a missile base and three SAM sites. Marines and South Vietnamese troops, possibly 5,000 men, push into Quang Tri Province amid heavy monsoon rains. 300 Marines faced 400 North Vietnamese in a four and a half hour engagement, 30 enemy killed, 8 Marines dead, 46 wounded. Naval bombers hit Haiphong military compound housing missiles and helicopter parts, and the Kien An bridge approach.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Haiphong
Medina
1St Marine Regiment
7Th Fleet
Dmz
Quang Tri
Quang Tri Province
U.S. Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
Kien An
Budget Fight Deepens Over 2.85 Billion Spending Cut
Washington AP reports House Appropriations Committee endorses a 2.85 billion cut reallocating roughly 1.4 billion this year. Rep. Bow pushes for a 5 billion reduction. Mills blocks tax moves, planning no Ways and Means reconvening. Payroll cuts hurt federal agencies, Viet Nam exceptions noted.
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House Appropriation Committee
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Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
Appropriation Committee
Mills
House
Frank T. Bow
Ohio
Appropriations Committee
Bow
Congress
Vietnam
Governors clash over war policy at governors conference
The National Governors Conference moves toward a vote on a resolution backing President Johnsons Vietnam policy as Utah Governor Rampton seeks support from 44 colleagues. Romney Rockefeller Reagan oppose firm policy statements amid Republican divisions. The cruise returns to New York by October 24 with some governors planning to fly home Friday or Saturday.
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Percy
Washington
Johnson
Richard Nixon
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
Independence
National Governors Conference
Virgin Islands
Utah
Calvin L. Rampton
William L. Guy
D-N.d
Michigan
Romney
Illinois
Otto Kerner
John A. Love
Colorado
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
New York
Rockefeller
Reagan
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Fear Model May Be Dead
A 23 year old model Erike Rita Bunne, key prosecution witness in an international cocaine smuggling case, is believed kidnapped and possibly murdered to ensure her permanent silence. Asst. U.S. Attorney Raymond B Grunewald stated she vanished from her Manhattan penthouse earning $325 a month.
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New York
Asst
U.S
Raymond B. Grunewald
Erike Rita Bunne
Manhattan
16 Hour Ford Sessions End Without Accord
DETROIT AP negotiations between United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. ended their longest bargaining session since the strike began. After more than 16 hours at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, talks broke at 3 15 a.m. with no clear settlement, though leaders planned to reconvene today.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Dearborn
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Malcolm L. Denise
Russians May Join In Seeking Mid East Peace
At the United Nations Kuznetsov arrival signals potential Soviet willingness to join Middle East peace efforts. U Thant may regionalize talks while U S officials keep details private.
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Mid-East
United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Middle East
Kuznetsov
New York
United States
Jury Expected To Deliberate In 1964 Civil Rights Slaying
Meridian Mississippi AP report says 18 white men charged in the 1964 slaying of three Civil Rights workers face a jury after a weekend of witness hearings. Defense lawyers note only a few witnesses remain before rebuttal and closing arguments as 57 witnesses testified in a seven hour session on Fathers Day.
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Travis Buckley
Laurel
Buckley
Sam Holloway Bowers
J. C. Powe
Amie Coleman
Ome
Neshoba County
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