Johnson and Diaz Ordaz Inspect Amistad Dam on Rio Grande
LBJ and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz tour the Amistad Dam upstream from Ciudad Acuna and Del Rio in a display of cross border cooperation. Johnson calls for regional plans and a new era of multinational projects, citing Lincoln and future hemispheric collaboration.
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LBJ
Amistad Dam
Rio Grande
United States
Mexico
Amistad
Ciudad Acuna
del Rio
Tex
Johnson
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Latin America
Diaz Ordaz
International Bridge
Abraham Lincoln
Watch Him He May Try Again At The Wall
A young East German, about 20, attempted to escape near the wall but was forced back as border guards opened fire with sub machine guns. Five shots were heard and the man, unharmed, was led away by police in West Berlin.
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Berlin
Wall
West Berlin
Ford Sees Slower 1967 Auto Sales Pace Despite November Surge
Ford Motor Co chairman Henry Ford II cautioned that 1967 sales may slow due to economic uncertainty despite a late November spike in industry sales and a $7 million Christmas bonus for union workers. He noted potential for 9 million annual U.S. car sales but warned outlook remains unclear amid rising living costs and policy worries.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford II
Ken Bannon
Ford
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
New York
Ford Board
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors
AMC
Lani Bird satellite opens service with limited orbit
The Intelsat I satellite known as Lani Bird begins limited operations linking North America Hawaii and Japan after a motor failure put it in an elliptical orbit. Comsat reports eight to nine hours daily for U S mainland to Hawaii and over seven hours to Japan.
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Washington
U.S
North America
Hawaii
Japan
The
Communications Satellite Corp
Pacific
Comsat
Lani Bird
Australia
Eight Amateur Explorers Plan Snowmobile Crossing to Pole
Eight adventurers led by Ralph Plaisted announce a cross Arctic crossing from Eureka Ellesmere Island to the North Pole using snowmobiles in three weeks starting March 18. The team includes Minnesotans Donald Powellek Blair Woolsey Gerald Pitz Walter Pederson and others with medical and technical aides from the US Canada and CBS. base camp at Eureka with support from Atlas Aviation and engineers Bom bardier and Drouin advising.
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Canada
North Pole
Peary
North Polar Ice Cap
Ralph S. Plaisted
White Bear Lake
Plaisted
Eureka
Elles
Mere Island
Northwest Territory
U.S
Arthur C. Aufderheide
Duluth
Derheide
Donald Powellek
St. Paul
Blair D. Woolsey
Marine Reserve
Gerald R. Pitz
University of Minnesota
Walter H. Pederson
St. Cloud
Robert Clemens
Columbia Broadcasting System
New York
John Austad
Royal Canadian Air Force
Welland Phipps
Atlas Aviation
Resolute
N.W. Territory
Jean Luc Bombardier
Barrie
Ont
Pierre Drouin
Sherbrooke, Que
Ait Eureka
Rioters Seize Macao City Hall in Pro Communist unrest
Thousands of pro Communist Chinese demonstrators sacked Macao City Hall and clashed with police in the colony's worst crisis since 1952. They tore portraits from walls, burned records, overturned cars, and beat officials and reporters. Police used tear gas. several were hurt and photographers' equipment seized. The protests, directed from Canton and Beijing, followed accusations of racist acts by Macao authorities.
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Macao
Peking
Government House
Mao Tse-tung
China
Canton
Hong Kong
Red China
Navy Medal Given Parents of Man Who Died in Action
In a frame house on the White Earth Indian Reservation Leo Beaulieu received the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in Vietnam. Marine Beaulieu, 23, was killed May after firing his machine gun to repel a Viet Cong ambush. He was the 11th of 11 children and a Fosston High School graduate who enlisted in 1965. His letters spoke of praying for peace.
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Navy
Lengby
Minn
White Earth
Leo
John Beaulieu
Christine
Viet Nam
Conrad
Bemidji
Fosston High School
Jakarta Roundup Surges as Troops Target Communists
Army troops conducted a major roundup in Jakarta seeking underground Communist elements. Police also detained youths with Beatle hairstyles and forcibly cut their long hair in the street during the operation.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Nyrop Receives Aviation Club Award at Washington Reception
More than 300 aviation and government officials attended a Washington reception honoring Donald W. Nyrop 54 St. Paul Northwest Airlines president as he received the National Aviation Club's award of achievement.
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Washington
Donald W. Nyrop
St. Paul
Northwest Airlines
National Aviation Club
DAR Faces $10489 Lien Over Constitution Hall Renovation
A construction firm filed a lien for 10489 against the Daughters of the American Revolution claiming partial payment for Constitution Hall work. The lien was posted on the hall's 14 doors after earlier filing with the district recorder of deeds. DAR says the firm did not finish the renovation. The firm contends workers were sent but DAR officials refused to detail required tasks. In other notes, U.S. Steel reports 1966 iron ore shipments from Minnesota near 18 million gross tons, up ~2 million from 1965.
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
DAR
Constitution Hall
District Recorder of Deeds
John W. Johnson Inc
Bethesda
Johnson
Duluth, Minn
U.S. Steel Corp
Minnesota
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Richard W. Reuter
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Vladimir Kazan-Komarek
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Post Office Department
Commerce Department
Aussin
Herald
Adm
Robert E. Peary
Macao City
By Forrest Edwards
Sterling
State Bank
F.D.I.C
Sears
Decorator Service
Mrs
Donald Welch
Mr. Wayne
Dept
Mar
R.B. Spencer
Minneapolis
Leo Beaulieu
Fanny Farmer
Piggly
Pepsi Cola
Johnson’s Home
Oakland Ave
5Th Pl
S&h
Kraft
Monarch
Pillsbury
Peter
PEG
Cindy
Sauerkraut
Morton House Beef
Wold Drug
Morton House
Wold Drug Store
Hormel
Erarragra
Word Drug
Court House Square
Main Street
Heinz
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