Johnson Orders Ground War Shift in Vietnam 1965
The New York Times says a Pentagon study found President Johnson decided on April 1 1965 to shift to offensive ground operations in Vietnam and to fast track the change while masking policy shifts. The study notes the March 1965 bombing began and American troops rose from 27000 to 184314 by year end with a move to search and destroy missions.
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Times Report Today
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Defense
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Robert S. McNamara
the Times Report
U.S
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Vietnam
White House
da Nang
Maxwell D. Taylor
Saigon
Times declines request to quash war publication
The New York Times says it will not comply with a Justice Department bid to stop publishing a secret Pentagon Vietnam War study. Attorney General John N. Mitchell urged the paper to refrain, warning of irreparable injury to U.S. defense interests.
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New York Times
Justice Department
Atty
John N. Mitchell
United States
Robert C. Marcian
Internal Security Division
Mitchell seeks court order to stop Times war study series
Atty General Mitchell confirms the Justice Department will seek a temporary restraining order and injunction in Manhattan to halt further New York Times publication of excerpts from a top secret Vietnam War study. The government says publication harms national defense and cites the Espionage Act.
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John N. Mitchell
Justice Department
New York Times
Mitchell
U.S. District Court
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Times
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United States
Fred Buzhardt
Department of Defense
Asst. Atty
Robert C. Mardian
Harding F. Bancroft
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Mardian
Melvin R. Laird
Senate
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
The
Secretary of Defense
Pentagon
Goldwater recounts 1964 plan to widen Vietnam war
Senator Barry Goldwater says he told Lyndon Johnson during the 1964 campaign that the Vietnam war would require bombing and a larger American troop commitment regardless of who won. He says Johnson would have faced a harsher defeat if both had told the public the plan.
Schedule of pages Editorial Area News Society Comics VS Market Snorts Classifieds
The page list outlines the newspaper sections Editorial Area News Society Comics VS-Mkt Snorts and Classifieds across pages 4, 5 6 7 8 9 10 and 14 15, indicating where each feature appears. It serves as a reader guide to section placement and page order.
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Area News
Society
Detectives hunt for four men in Detroit massacre
Homicide detectives sought four men and a motive for the mass killing of seven young people in Detroit. The victims aged 18 to 27 were shot at a narcotics center on the Near Northwest Side, with one man wounded critically. Police found cartridges of multiple calibers and say two witnesses fled through a sun porch. Detectives probe gangland drug and robbery theories while noting $673 found on victims.
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Detroit
James Bannon
Bannon
Robert Gardner
Viet gunners shell near DMZ as B52s strike
North Vietnamese gunners pounded allied positions below the DMZ as U S B52 bombers intensified raids on northern Vietnam. Five Marines were killed and 15 wounded in a four hour mortar attack near Khe Sanh while 15 more shells hit U S troops from the 1st Brigade.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Laos
Dmz
U.S
Only Two Of Sydney Nonuplets Survive After Birth
In Sydney the Royal Hospital for Women reported that only two of the nine babies born to Mrs. Leonard Brodrick survived 60 hours after birth. Two more deaths followed as the situation remained dire with the two remaining infants still struggling to breathe. the surviving boy weighed 12 ounces and the girl about one pound. The 29 year old mother was coping as officers stated.
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Sydney
Leonard Brodrick
New Tax Plan in Minnesota Legislature Taking Shape
Conservatives in both chambers back a tax compromise totaling about 600 million dollars over two years. The plan may include a 10 mill statewide property tax on commercial and industrial property. Approval would require near unanimous Conservative backing, threatening the Senate coalition.
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ST. Paul, Minn
House
Senate
Minnesota
Gasoline Truck Crash Closes I 94 Near University
A gasoline transport crashed and burned in the westbound lane of Interstate 94 near the University of Minnesota, closing a section of the road for the morning rush. The eastbound lane reopened after about three hours. Driver Russell Nelson, 40, escaped with minor injuries and remained in a hospital hours later for treatment.
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Minneapolis, Minn
University of Minnesota
Highway Patrol
Russell Nelson
Public works bill up for House vote
A compromise public works bill totaling 5.5 billion dollars faces a final House vote. It includes 2 billion for accelerated projects in high unemployment areas and 1.95 billion for local government upgrades, with broader regional development funds and a veto risk cited by Republicans. Democrats insist they cannot lose regardless of the result.
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White House
Nixon
Senate
GOP
House Public Works Committee
Conservatives Press Quick OK on Remap Plan
Minnesota lawmakers debate fast passage of a legislative reapportionment in a special session. Rep. Rolf Nelson warns a federal court may draw lines if the legislature fails, amid ongoing lawsuits challenging current one man one vote rules.
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ST. Paul, Minn
House
Rolf T. Nelson
Golden Valley
DFL
Nelson
Wendell Anderson
U.S. District Court
Minneapolis
Senate
Anderson
Executives Call for Government Help to Save Lockheed
Two executives told Congress that government aid may be needed to keep American business competitive with subsidized foreign rivals. William H. Moore of Bankers Trust and Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. of Trans World Airlines urged a government loan guarantee to prevent Lockheed Aircraft Corp. bankruptcy.
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Congress
William H. Moore
Bankers Trust Company
Charles CC. Tillinghast Jr
Trans World Airlines
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Search for missing Air Force jet spans Pacific
AP dispatches report a search continues over the Pacific for an Air Force jet missing between American Samoa and Hawaii on a classified mission. The item notes other AP briefs from Calcutta, Charleston, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City and Miami.
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Honolulu
Pacific Ocean
Air Force
American Samoa
Hawaii
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