Lesson From Tragedy of Cleveland Violence
The August 3 1968 Austin Daily Herald essay analyzes Cleveland violence where snipers killed three police and seven militants were killed wounded or arrested. It notes ambush tactics and fear aimed at black white communities, cites Ho Chi Minh influence, and urges unity and love rather than letting fanatics shape attitudes. Roman 13 8 and Somerset Maugham quotes frame the call for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ho Chi Minh
Fred
Ahmed) Evans
Carl Stokes
Turn Back the Clock Through Decades of Austin News
A collage recalls events from 30, 20 and 10 years ago in Austin. Hormel officials discuss sewer plant costs, Hangge liquor license transfers take place, and landlords face rent refunds. Packers win in 10 innings, USI reshapes to UF, and local winners claim fair prizes and Woman of Achievement honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hormel Company
Hormel
Council Sewer Committee
Eugene Hanf
Hangge
Forrest Hangge
Hans
Austin
Emil Scheid
Austin Packers
Winona
Minnesota
Marcusen Park
Packers
USI
United Solicitators Inc
USC
United Community Funds and Councils of America
United Funds
United Fund
Duane H. Patten
Lois Voss
Mower County
H. EF
Geraldine) Rasmussen
Austin Daily Herald
Wemen
Reuther Teamsters Plan Tightens Grip on Labor Federation
Victor Reuther outlines an Alliance for Labor Action with Walter Reuther and Frank Fitzsimmons to build a new auto union federation. He envisions vast housing programs, pension fund financing for construction, air purification drives, and a broad mobilization of organized and unorganized workers against the AFL CIO. The plan signals a mass movement aimed at reshaping national labor power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Victor Reuther
Detroit
Foreign
Walter Reuther
Teamsters
Victor
Alliance For Labor Action
ALA
Reuthers
United States
Reuther
Brotherhood of Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters Fraternity
General Motors
Kenneth Galbraithian
Aflcio
George Meany
Galbraiths
Rewon
Fitzsimmons
America
Moscow
Reuther Brothers
Auto Union
Teamsters Alliance
Congress of Industrial Organizations
UAW
Afl-Cio
Jimmy Hoff
Fitz
Ruether
Teamster
CIO
Harry Bridges
Paciffc Coast
United Electrical Workers
New Crusade
Labor Movement
Publishers - Hall Syndicate
Reuther Skills Move to Form New Labor Alliance
The article describes Walter Reuther forging a vast alliance outside the AFL CIO with the Teamsters and courting ex CIO unions like Har ry Bridges longshoremen and United Electrical workers. It warns of a potential new national labor conference and a reshaped labor movement amid looming civil conflict.
Silence as Strategy in Czechoslovak Crisis
U S officials favor silence over protest against Moscow in Czechoslovakia. The plan relies on Soviet missteps, aiming to expose Moscow's rigidity without U S action. Czech leaders seek more independence from Russia in a shift within the Warsaw Pact framework.
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Washington
NEA
U.S
Czechoslovakia
Britain
Moscow
United Nations
Indonesia
Prague
Soviet Union
Russia
U.S. State Department
Egypt
Middle East
Splintered Red World Studies Soviet Moves
Leon Dennen analyzes how the Soviet led Communist bloc fractured after Yugoslavia’s 1948 defection and the Sino Soviet split. He describes four internal strands in former monolithic movements: pro Soviet Communists who will subordinate policy to Moscow.
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World Communist Movement
Cominform
Red China
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Cuba
Red
Today in History highlights from Aug 3 across centuries
On this date events include Benedict Arnold taking command at West Point in 1780, British troops seizing Suez in 1881, Germany declaring war on France in 1914, Calvin Coolidge’s oath at Plymouth in 1923, anti Nazi actions in Italy in 1943, West Point cheating scandal in 1951, Nautilus north pole crossing in 1960, Rusk in Moscow on a nuclear test ban in 1963, a halo theft at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 1967, and more.
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Associated Press
Benedict Arnold
West Point
N.Y
Suez
Germany
France
Britain
Calvin Coolidge
Plymouth
Milan
Genoa
Italy
US. Military Academy
U.S
Nautilus
North Pole
Quick Quiz Broadly Covers Parks to Ideologies
A mixed trivia excerpt questions the largest baseball park and the bone cruncher hyena. It discusses acre measurement and analyzes Communist groups including anti-Moscow reformers pro-Peking revolutionaries and Moscow's China policy amid rumors of Soviet action in Czechoslovakia.
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Cies
Russia
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Peking
Vietnam
Laos
Thailand
Asia
Little
Albania
Balkans
Mao Tse-tung
Moscow
Japan
India
Fidel Castro
China
Satellite Detects City Lights From Neil 86 Miles?
American OSO B satellite at 400 miles altitude reports lights from U S cities and flares from North Africa and the Persian Gulf. Scientists Sparrow and Ney say initial analysis to Science notes bright lights in unlisted areas complicating source identification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
North Africa
Persian Gulf
University of Minnesota
Orbiting Solar Observatory
OSO B
J. G. Sparrow
E. P. Ney
Science
Cape Kennedy
Florida
North
Africa
Rugged Showmen Honored by County Fair Editor
P. J. Holand pays tribute to showmen who run fairs and carnivals across the country. He notes their long workdays short seasons yearly gatherings in Chicago, mutual aid, and lifelong dedication to the profession despite hardships and dream of winter rest in the south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. Holand
County Fair
Chicago
Showman's League of America
Scientists urge Congress to probe UFO sightings
A group of scientists led by Dr. James F. McDonald asks Congress for a thorough investigation into UFO reports. They note many eastern sightings around the 1965 blackout and warn against attributing events to swamp gas. The remarks label the link as a puzzling coincidence and emphasize genuine curiosity about potential surveillance by extraterrestrials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Earth
James F. McDonald
University of Arizona
Insitute of Atmospheric Physics
McDonald
Minnesota 2nd District in reapportionment spotlight
The Minnesota Health Department estimates show the state likely loses one U.S. House seat after the 1970 census. Growth is slow, with 53 of 87 counties down since 1960, and the 2nd District poised among the population losers amid urban migration and an ongoing agricultural crisis. Farmers and farm issues anchor the 1968 contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Department of Health
Congress
Iowa
South Dakota
Michigan
Ilinois
Indiana
Missouri
Wisconsin
Blue Earth
U.S
Mankato Free Press
Absentees Dominate World Council Debates in Sweden
The World Council of Churches gathering in Uppsala Sweden ran three weeks with key figures Hans Kung Hans King and William Sloan Coffin Jr central in discourse though not present. The article notes Kung as ecumenical leader and critic of Rome and Coffin as a forceful dissenting voice on war and conscientious objection. It also mentions petitions supporting dissent by 250 Americans and highlights Vietnam and racial issues shaping U.S. policy and world opinion as seen by non Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Council of Churches
Hans King
William Sloan Coffin Jr
United States
Christian Church
Sweden
World Council
Hans Kung
Catholic Theological Faculty
Tubingen
Germany
John XXIII
Kung
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Sheed & Ward
Rome
Vietnam
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A. Richard Gross
Somerset Maughm
Thomson Newspapers, Inc
Ist
Minn
Tro
Reuther-Teamsters
Berry
Incut
Ray Cromley
Leon Dennen
Red World
Dean Rusk
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Jerusalem
Ohio
Animal Kingdom
David Poling
Dr. Kung
Father Kung
Benjamin Spock
Chaplain Coffin
Uppsala
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