City Told to Avoid Explosives
Downtown Urbana Ohio was sealed off after a Penn Central freight derailment carrying 105MM shells and detonators. About 5000 residents within a half mile were evacuated as Army ordnance teams and hundreds of National Guardsmen secured the area under Pentagon orders. A Defense Department expert planned to judge handling of the derailed cars.
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Defense Department
Caches Found North of Saigon in Viet Cong Sweep
Allied forces uncovered large weapons caches and tunnels 25 miles north of Saigon during seal and search operations. In the Cau Dat area crews seized rockets, recoilless rifle rounds, and documents while ten Vietnamese were killed and 17 captured. Separate raids near Chanh Luu yielded 114 prisoners and more than three tons of food. South Vietnamese Rangers found additional caches and 25 enemy troops killed with 92 AK47 rifles and mortar ammunition. No allied casualties reported.
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Cau Dat
Sth Infantry Division
Chanh Luu
S. Viet Rangers
Cambodia
Mekong Delta
South Vietnam
Space leaders meet in Vienna to plan practical space benefits
United States and Soviet Union lead discussions at the first UN space conference in Vienna aimed at applying space technology to social and economic development. U Thant hopes for joint ventures to ease global problems while nations debate satellite use for development, weather, and resource surveys.
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Soviet Union
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Hofburg Palace
Russia
France
Britain
Japan
Canada
Bulgaria
Austria
Kremlin Warns East Bloc Against Multiparty Systems
Pravda denounces proposals in Czechoslovakia and similar moves in the East Bloc to permit extra parties or dissident voices. The Soviet Communist Party newspaper says fundamental socialist features cannot be removed without harming the system and stresses Moscow’s line on centralized control. In Vienna, Nicolae Ceausescu says Warsaw Pact matters should be settled by each nation’s parties and people.
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Pravda
Soviet Communist Party
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava
Vienna
Austria
Romania
Communist Party
Nicolae Ceausescu
British envoy Hopson argues for continued China ties
Sir Donald Hopson says his release from Red China signals potential improvement in Sino British relations. He notes slow progress since the embassy attack by Red Guards and describes visa delays for 13 delegation members as a grave concern while affirming the value of maintaining a British mission in Peking.
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Jeff Price
Associated Press
Hong Kong
Britain
Peking
Donald Hopson
Red
China
Donald
Hopson
Red Guard
McCarthy Sees Maddox Impact on Main Ballot Fight
McCarthy warned that Georgia Governor Lester Maddox entering the race could derail Humphrey on the first ballot, pushing the convention to a second or third ballot. He pegged his own strength around 800 votes and noted 1,312 are needed for the nomination in Chicago.
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Georgia
Lester Maddox
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Humphrey
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Minnesota
Blair Clark
John Kenneth Galbraith
The
Americans For Democratic Action
Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Rockefeller
Lindsay
Pioneer Ford Assembly Man Dies at 86
Charles Sorensen, 86, longtime Ford pattern maker who helped launch the Model T era by towing a chassis on rope to demonstrate the assembly line. He later served as Ford vice president earning 220000 a year before resigning in 1944 to lead Willys-Overland.
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Charles Sorensen
Henry Ford
Sorensen
Ford
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America
Willys- Overland Motors, Inc
Minnesota McCarthy backers lose bid to upend delegate slate
In St Paul Minnesota backers of Senator Eugene J McCarthy fail to overturn the Democratic National Convention delegate allotment in a state Supreme Court appeal The three judge panel ruled the matter intraparty polit ical and cannot be decided by courts The case sought a 7 percent swing to 31 21 in favor of McCarthy against Humphrey as Minnesota prepares 52 votes in the nominating balloting in Chicago starting August 26
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Hubert Humphrey
Chicago
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McCarthy
Democratic - Farmer Labor Party
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U.S
Philip Neville
Harry Blackmun
Rochester
Minn
Charles Vogel
Fargo N. D
Martin van Oosterhout
Soux City
Iowa
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
U.S. Supreme Court
Kenneth E. Tilson
St. Paul
DFL
Anti Castroite Arrests and Arm Cache in Rural New Jersey Farm
Authorities seized a large arsenal including dynamite, a mortar, rifles, tear gas and a zip gun from a farmhouse near Death Road in Johnsonburg New Jersey. Miahhael A. DeCarolis, 32, faces six weapons violations after a 34 hour police raid. He claimed ties to anti Castro activities and Bay of Pigs involvement in 1961.
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Shades of Death Road
New Jersey
Miahhael A. DeCarolis
U.S. Accuses Hanoi of Planning New Large Scale Attacks
In Paris the United States presented evidence from captives and broadcasts claiming North Vietnam plans another round of major attacks in South Vietnam. Harriman urged de escalation while Thuy accused the U.S. of obstructing peace. Viet Cong killed 8,000 civilians this year, wounded 20,000, and kidnapped 6,000.
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United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
W. Averell Harriman
Xuan Thuy
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Thuy
Vietnam
Harriman
South
Hanoi
Johnson
Radio
Welfare Secretary Sees 7 Million Lift From Social Security Changes
Welfare secretary Wilbur J. Cohen said up to seven million Americans could be lifted out of poverty by raising Social Security benefits and extending them to people outside the labor market including the aged disabled widows and orphans.
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Washington
Wilbur J. Cohen
Cohen
North Central Urged to Run Denver Minneapolis Nonstop
A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner urged approval for North Central Airlines to operate nonstop flights between Denver and Minneapolis-St Paul in competition with Western Airlines. The recommendation was issued Tuesday in Washington.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
North Central Airlines
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Minneapolis-St. Paul
Western Airlines
Car Driven by Austin Man Kills Girl
The report details two teens from Villard Minnesota Jeffrey Hutchins 16 and Lon noe Anderson 15 killed in a late Tuesday crash on Highway 28 near Villard when their motorscooter collided with a truck driven by 18 year old Stephen Ray of Barrett. A four year old girl Cynthia Marie Bertram of Finlayson died after being struck by a car on Highway 61 in Sturgeon Lake. The driver of the car in Bertram’s case was Clarence C Goetz of Austin Minnesota.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Jeffrey Hutchins
Lonnoe Anderson
Villard
Minn
Pope County
Highway
Hutchins
Anderson
HUD funds target Mankato and St. Cloud urban renewal
HUD designated two federal allotments totaling more than 500000 for urban renewal in Minnesota. A 275448 grant funds survey and planning for a 77 acre Key City project in Mankato with an 9008000 total project cost. An additional 234587 covers a 655 acre neighborhood renewal area 4 plan near the Minnesota River. A 170000 grant backs survey and planning for a rehabilitation project in St. Cloud's central business district.
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Housing and Urban Development Department
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