Freeman urges support for farm act extension
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman presses for a four year extension of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 as its expiration in 1969 nears. He argues the act is vital to price supports and production controls and credits Democratic leadership for farm legislation during the 1960s.
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McGovern Opens Church Campaign in Brooklyn
Senator George S. McGovern visited Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn meeting Protestant ministers at Bethany Baptist Church to build delegate support for the Democratic National Convention. James Farmer attended and pressed for broader farm policy outreach ahead of the Food and Agriculture Act extension.
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
Le Duc Tho Returns to Paris Talks in Hanoi Visit
Le Duc Tho, key North Vietnamese negotiator, returns to Paris after six weeks in Hanoi. He met Soviet officials in Moscow on the way back, while U S officials hint at a possible new stage in Paris talks. President Johnson’s aides and Nixon discuss the talks amid the Vietnam bombing lull.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Nixon Campaign Focuses On Crime And Civil Disorder
A top Nixon adviser says crime and civil disorder will top Nixon campaign priorities. Aide statements stress law and order while addressing slum concerns and promoting a "black capitalism" program. Spiro Agnew attacks violence as civil rights progress is tied to order.
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Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
San Francisco
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Widow sues kidney machine maker after husband’s death
Mrs. Carol Benson of Willmar Minnesota files a 35000 suit in Hennepin County District Court against Milton-Boy Co. of St. Petersburg and the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation over deaths at Hennepin County General Hospital in January 1967 during artificial dialysis. The suit names doctors Hitchock Shapiro and staff and other foundation personnel. The coroner cites lack of minerals in blood as the cause of death.
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Fred Shapiro
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James Henrie
LaVerne Kela
Joyce Sankey
Willmar
Sheldon Jacobson
Fergus Falls
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McCarthy Proposes Four Point Job Program
Sen Eugene J McCarthy outlined a four point plan to end slum unemployment and push government to expand job markets and training for the disadvantaged while strengthening enforcement of anti discrimination laws. He condemned tokenism in addressing urban racism.
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Los Angeles
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
Attempt on Greek Premier Papadopoulos Ends Without Injury
An assassination bid on Prime Minister George Papadopoulos occurred on a road near Athens while he traveled from his summer villa. A suspect, 30-year-old George Panagoulis, was seized as two bombs exploded in the capital and authorities said the attack appeared coordinated by resistance elements against the military regime.
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President Johnson Signs $4.6 Billion Public Works Bill
President Johnson signed a 4.6 billion dollar public works appropriation bill. About one third funds water projects in five states. The action was announced from Austin Texas by Associated Press.
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Austin, Tex
Johnson
Allied Forces Kill 18 Reds Near Viet Capital
Allied and South Vietnamese forces swept the Mekong Delta south of Saigon killing 181 Viet Cong in four battles. The 9th Division reported 104 enemy dead 21 miles southwest of Saigon, 13 prisoners and 36 weapons captured. U.S. losses were 15 killed and 30 wounded with over 1,000 men landed to cordon the area.
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Police abandon Watts after saturation patrol ends
In Watts Los Angeles 2000 officers ended a 24 hour saturation patrol after a weekend of violence that left three dead and 48 injured. A single fire caused 35000 damage to a quilting plant four miles from the disturbance site. Police reported 35 arrests and 28 felonies.
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Southcentral
Alain Locke High School
Will Rogers Park
17 Month Girl Hit by Truck Near Owatonna
A 17 month old girl, Karri-Lynn Schuster, was struck and killed on County Road 18 near Owatonna while wandering from her family farm. The incident adds to Minnesota's highway toll for 1968, now 595.
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Associated Press
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Otter Tail County
Minnesota
Hans Sorenson
Ashby
Fergus Falls
Karri-Lynn Schuster
Marlin Schuster
Minneapolis
Hopkins
Twin Cities
Kenneth C. Hoaglund
County to Move State Patient From Fergus Falls Hospital
Cass County Welfare officials will assume temporary financial responsibility to transfer a woman patient with alcohol induced brain damage from Fergus Falls State Hospital to a rest home in Walker. The case has involved a three county dispute over her residency for more than two years.
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Walker, Minn
Cass County
Fergus Falls State Hospital
Viet Cong sets up People’s Liberation Committees in rural areas
Reports from Saigon indicate the Viet Cong National Liberation Front is organizing People’s Liberation Committees in contested rural zones. The drive accompanies a broadened recruitment campaign seen by allied officials as aiming to establish footholds before any potential cease fire.
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Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
People’s Liberation Committees
Three U S Pilots Take 30 Day Leave From Pentagon
Three American pilots released by North Vietnam earlier this month flew quietly from Washington for a 30 day leave pending new Air Force assignments. The Pentagon did not announce the departure in advance.
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Washington
North Vietnam
Pentagon
Fire Ravages Chicago Heights Business District
An explosion sparked a fire that destroyed a one story brick building housing several businesses and a storefront church in Chicago Heights. The blaze followed a night-long standoff with police as dozens of youths clashed with officers and the fire spread to six structures in the area.
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Chicago Heights
TV Networks Mull Wallace Time
Spokesmen from the three major networks said they will decide on coverage of George C. Wallace's American Independent party convention if and when he requests it. SBA approves low interest loans for flood damage in Blue Earth County Minnesota.
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George C. Wallace
American Independent Party
Washington
Small Business Administration
Blue Earth County
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