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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1966
Page
1
Bodies of Chinese Nung militiamen with U S Special Forces lie on a battlefield 15 miles north of Tay Ninh in the C Zone. Killed in Viet Cong night attacks on a company of about 160 men. Reinforcements arrived two days later to find the dead stripped of weapons.
President Johnson plans a quiet weekend at his Texas ranch after a busy stretch of talks with advisers. W Averell Harriman returned from an 11 nation tour and cited possible British Soviet Viet Nam talks as promising peace moves. Johnson met reporters on the front lawn and said he would attend church on Sunday. He also discussed Pope Paul VI in relation to a Christmas truce and noted upcoming surgery for a throat polyp and hernia repair with no date set.
U S officials monitor a deepening split within China's Communist leadership as opposition to Mao Tse tung grows. The article notes internal debate on foreign policy and economics, Mao's use of the Red Guard, and resistance led by Liu Shao chi among others.
Officers said the Presbyterian Church on Thursday night served as headquarters for the Blackstone Rangers, a Negro youth gang, with unseen details noted by investigators.
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky planned to replace Lt. Gen. Dang Van Quang who commands the Mekong Delta last major area without major American ops. Quang opposes U S troop use and is linked to royalist critics while Vinh Loc heads to the United States for medical treatment amid corruption allegations.
Vietnamese rangers attacked a U S Special Forces building at Hon Quan 70 miles north of Saigon using armored personnel carriers and firing into the facility injuring two Americans. Friction had built for days and reports spoke of earlier killings and beatings in the rubber plantation area.
Negotiators announced a tentative national agreement on issues involving Westinghouse Electric Corp. that could avert a wider strike affecting 30 plants and a third major defense facility. Local issues remain to be reconciled between the company and the AFL-CIO International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
A three judge federal panel in Atlanta ordered Georgia to present a legal remedy for selecting a new governor by November 25 or the court will provide one. The choice is between Republican Howard H. Callaway and Democrat Lester G. Maddox as the legislature is not to decide.
A one day old baby boy was reported missing from a nursery at Colorado General Hospital in Denver. The infant wore a white hospital shirt and was wrapped in a white blanket with a U C Med Center marking.
The wives of the Gemini 12 astronauts prepared to meet and talk as their husbands orbited Earth on the second day of America's final two man spaceflight.
Astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin photographed a 10 minute total solar eclipse from Gemini 12 as it passed over the Pacific. The mission included a planned two hour external work session and attempts to capture the moon's shadow on Earth.
Police charged 23 year old Michael J Herrington in a spree that left Julia Beckwith 10 dead Sherryl Thompson 18 stabbed 22 times and Kathleen Drever 11 assaulted. Herrington, a parolee from Leavenworth, admitted two slayings and the latest assault as authorities described a series of terrorizing attacks in Milwaukee near West Side. Bond set at 65000 with weather forecast noting increasing cloudiness and rain or snow.
Conservative leaders pick from Gordon Rosemmeier Little Falls Stanley Holmquist Grove City or William Dosland Moorhead for the 1967 majority post. Liberals back Karl Grittner St Paul as bipartisan shift looms with 24 new senators and major committee openings.
Florence residents face deeper hardship as floods cripple jobs and public kitchens feed the hungry. Giulio Ceva Grimaldi and his wife lost their home and business, living on credit with 600 lire left. Two thirds of Florence's 450000 population were affected, 150000 homeless and about 200 killed, with art treasures damaged beyond repair.
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OTIS AIR FORCE BASE Mass AP A crack team of Air Force investigators began a probe into the second crash in 16 months of a radar picket Constellation in the Atlantic. Search resumed at dawn for the 19 crewmen aboard the aircraft when it went down early Friday 125 miles southeast of Nantucket Island.
State traffic deaths show 814 today versus 722 a year ago, while Iowa reports 792 today against 691 last year, reflecting national and regional trends in road fatalities.
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