Democrats Brace For Delegates At Chicago Convention
A five member Democratic delegation will oversee the Chicago convention with two members backing Humphrey for the ticket. Hale Boggs will head the uniform committee and Daniel Inouye will keynote and act as temporary chairman. Other leaders stay uncommitted while McCormack steps down as permanent chairman.
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Tiere
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Carl B. Albert
Oklahoma
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
Johnson
Fed trims discount rate in technical move
The Federal Reserve Board lowers the discount rate from 5.5 to 5.0 percent in a move described as technical. President Johnson welcomed the decision as supporting homebuilding while signaling continued easing of monetary conditions to curb inflation and payments balance pressures.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Johnson
Fed
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Minneapolis
Federal Reserve
Tax and Rights Tangle In Daly Contempt Case
Federal revenue officials weigh an appeal in a civil contempt case against Jerome Daly, a Minnesota lawyer who argues income taxes are unconstitutional A judge dismissed the contempt charge after Daly refused to answer IRS questions claiming Fourth Fifth and Sixth Amendment protections Daly says taxes are lawful but the currency is invalid and cannot underpin taxation without constitutional basis
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Minneapolis
Washington, D.C
Gilbert Engle
Internal Revenue Service
Jerome Daly
Savage, Minn
IRS
U.S
Miles W. Lord
Daly
Lord
8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Federal Reserve
Nigerians Advance Toward Biafra Capital Aba
Nigerian forces push 10 miles south of Aba as Col Benjamin Adekunle seeks relief for pressure on his troops. Addis Ababa talks stall with Nigeria rejecting relief flight proposals and citing Enugu as the transfer point.
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Biafra
Lagos
Nigeria
Haile Selassie
Yakubu Gowon
Addis Ababa
Ethiopan
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Organization of African Unity
Aba
Benjamin Adekunle
Port Harcourt
Adekunle
Imo
Ibo
Radio Biafra
Akwete
Romania and Czechoslovakia Sign New Friendship Pact
Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and Czechoslovak President Ludvik Svoboda signed a 20 year treaty of friendship cooperation and mutual assistance. The pact commits to frontier inviolability as a security precondition and to curb plots by imperialist forces. Ratification documents to be exchanged in Bucharest.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Nicolae Ceausescu
Ludvik Svoboda
CTK
Bucharest
Ceausescu
Soviet Bloc
Taxi and Bus Labor Disputes Near Chicago Showdown
Chicago faces near showdown as 3,500 Yellow and Checker taxis threaten a midnight strike over a dispute for higher commissions. CTA bus drivers rejected a compromise to avert a August 25 wildcat walkout ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
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Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority
Checker
Democratic Union Organizing Committee
Afl-Cio Seafarers International Union
Kirk Beck
Division 241
Amalgamated Transit Truckers
CTA
Court Martial Ordered for Seven U.S. Marines
Maj. Gen. Youngdale ordered a general court martial for seven Marines over the deaths of five Vietnamese civilians last May. The review upheld murder charges. two civilians were executed, one hanged, and two shot after capture as Viet Cong suspects. Defendants include Denzil Allen, Martin Alvarez, Anthony Licciardo Jr, John Belknap, James Maushart, Manuel Cornejo, and Robert Vickers.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
U.S
Carl A. Youngdale
1St Marine
Israeli and Jordanian clash near Tirat Zvi ends with no casualties
Israeli and Jordanian troops fought with light arms for about 20 minutes across the Jordan River outlet of Tirat Zvi in the Beisan Valley. Israel reported no casualties.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Jordan
Tirat Zvi
Beisan
Five Day Forecast for Minnesota
Five day forecast shows cooler than normal temperatures by 2 to 6 degrees with normal highs in the mid 70s to upper 70s and lows in the 50s. Expect one half to one inch of precipitation in showers early and again midweek.
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Minnesota
Social and Rehabilitation Service plans new vocational program
The U S Social and Rehabilitation Service will design a program for the completely uneducated and socially isolated including parolees probationers and welfare clients. Mary E Switzer says techniques from rehabilitation of disabled people will be used and the plan follows a National Citizens Advisory Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation recommendation. The approach targets individuals facing low paid drudgery and welfare dependency and aims to move them toward work.
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Associated Press Washington
U.S. Social and Rehabilitation Service
Mary E. Switzer
National Citizens Advisory Committee On
Cambodia demands equipment and confession over seized landing craft
Cambodia says it will return the landing craft and its 12 man crew only after the United States admits responsibility for an alleged helicopter attack that killed 14 Cambodian villagers in Svay Angong on June 29 and provides 14 bulldozers. The note was delivered through Australia.
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Washington
Cambodia
U.S
Australia
America
Svay Angong
Cigarette smoking noted as major preventable death cause
The Task Force for Smoking and Health reports that cigarette smoking ranks among the foremost preventable causes of death in the United States and worldwide, highlighting the health risks and urgent need for public health actions.
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Associated Press
United States
Task Force For Smoking and Health
Japan Observes 23rd Anniversary of WWII Surrender
A Tokyo national memorial service marked 23 years since Japan's World War II surrender. Emperor Hirohito Empress Nagako and Premier Eisaku Satō attended at the Martial Arts Hall with about 4,000 prominent citizens amid the ceremony.
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Toyko
Japan
Tokyo
Emperor Hirohito
Empress Nagako
Eisaku Sato
Police Compensation Ruling Upholds Widow Benefits
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled off duty police gun accident deaths are covered by workers compensation. It upheld the Industrial Commission’s award of $18,250 to Darla Sandmeyer, widow of Bemidji Patrolman Donald Sandmeyer who died April 26, 1966 during off duty target practice. The department had encouraged practice and supplied gear.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota Supreme Court
State Industrial Commission
Donald L. Sandmeyer
Bemidji
Darla
Industrial Commission
Bemidj
Sandmeyer
Dale Hines
UNESCO Sees Turning Point in Broadcast Satellites
UNESCO says satellites mark a turning point in communication and urge international rules for peaceful use and frequency sharing. The report warns of propaganda risks without control and envisions global news and education links via direct broadcasting by mid 1970s.
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Unesco
Vienna
A_ United Nations agency
U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
U.N
Outer Space
U.N. General Assembly
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