Johnson asks Congress for 1000 more police for Washington
President Johnson urged Congress to fund 1000 additional police in the capital as crime rose 24.5 percent in the past year and tourist visits declined sharply. City officials warn patrols will shift to high crime areas and overtime costs rise while tourism suffers and Resurrection City protests loom.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
U.S
Resurrection City
Us.a
Washington Convention and Visitors Bureau
Hudson
Moses
Washington Hotel Association
Marvin Goldman
Saigon Mayor Wounded In Rocket Blast In Cholon
Saigon mayor Col Van Cua remained seriously injured after a rocket strike in Cholon on Sunday as he spoke from Gran Hospital Saigon with Premier Tran Van Huong at his side. Six high ranking South Vietnamese police and army officials were killed in the same blast, with the U S Mission indicating the rocket may have been fired by an American helicopter aiming at gunners.
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Saigon
Col. van van Cua
Cholon
South Vietnam
Tran van Huong
Gran Hospital
U.S
Fireman Killed Fighting Blaze in South St. Paul
Jay D. Bloemers, 43, a father of five, died when an aerial ladder collapsed during a downtown South St. Paul fire. He fell onto a snorkel hose nozzle that pierced his chest. The blaze began in the Coast to Coast store and damaged a three‑story building housing three businesses and three apartments. The cause was unknown. owner Donald G. Mattaini estimated near total loss. Bloemers is survived by his widow Patricia and their children.
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South ST. Paul
Frank S. Kosowski
Don's Liquors
Donald G. Mattaini
Victor J. Hapka
Mike Brenna
Joyce Showalter
Patricia
Soviet Red Army Could Have Seized Rhine End of World War II
A U S Army study suggests excessive caution by the Soviet high command late in 1944 and early 1945 cost a fast winter offensive, wasting weeks and allowing the Allies to cross the Rhine. The study, by historian Earl F Ziemke, uses captured German documents and Soviet writings to argue that a faster push to Berlin could have altered postwar Europe.
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Fred 8. Hoffman
Washington (Ap
U.S. Army
Rhine River
Germany
Rhine
France
Low Countries
Europe
Stalingrad
Berlin
Earl F. Ziemke
Oder River
Ziemke
Georgi K. Zhukov
U.S
High Command
Pomerania
Silesia
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LBJ
First City
Lincoln Memorial
ST. SW
Austin Bootery
Austin
F.C.W
North Main St
Chevrolet
Chevy
Job Tamer
America
Austin & Peoples Drugs
Remington Eet Bertaeg
Dial
Red Army
Stargard
Hron
Hungary
Lad Schick
Ist St. NW
2Nd Ave
Nat'l. Auto Bank
EOI
1St Avenue
Bob Lunsford
Mgr
Gordons Success
Corning
Ordon's
the House of Service
N. Main
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