British Labour landslide victory elevates Wilson to PM
In London the Labour Party secured a sweeping general election win giving Harold Wilson a strong new mandate. Wilson pledged to build a new Britain with measures both popular and unpopular and said the win would empower him to advocate for disarmament and world peace on the international stage.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Britain
Wilson
No. 10
Downing Street
Labor
Liberals
Conservatives
Liberal
Heath
Labor Party
U.S
U.S. Viet Nam
NATO
Patrick Gordon Walker
House of Commons
Leyton
Gordon Walker
Two More Big Guns Join LBJ
Washington dispatch reports two new special assistants to President Johnson, Robert E. Kintner of NBC and Walt W. Rostow from the State Department, joining the White House staff at $30,000 salaries each. Kintner also serves as secretary to the cabinet, while Rostow chairs the Policy Planning Council. Johnson outlined flexible staff roles enabling aides to switch positions as needed.
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Washington
Johnson
Kintner
Rostow
White House
Firemen Seek Order To Lift Injunction
United Press International reports locomotive firemen press legal move to keep a coast to coast strike active despite a U S District Court injunction ordering 8 000 workers back to work. BLFE seeks to overturn Holtzoff order while Wirtz pleads at White House and in appeals court. Strike disrupts auto industry with GM down thousands and multiple plants affected. details continue on page 12.
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W. Willard Wirtz
U.S. District Court
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
BLFE
U.S. Court of Appeals
Washington
Alexander Holtzoff
Holtzoff
Wirtz
Johnson
Ables
Pittsburgh
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Windham College Fire Deliberately Set at Windham
A general alarm fire at Windham College, believed deliberate, damaged the administration building where student records were stored. Firefighters battled the blaze for over three hours. several students and a firefighter were injured. State police guarded the scene as officials assessed damage and possible links to earlier narcotics raids.
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Putney
UPS
Windham College
Harold Foss
Pinkham Hall
College
Windham
Atty
J. Thomas Moore
George Axelson
New York City
Brattleboro
Harold Frost
Fenn
Viet Cong Attack Hits U S Officers Billet in Saigon
In Saigon, Viet Cong extremists machine gunned three U S MPs passing by and struck a U S officers billet with hazardous material. The pre dawn assault left four Vietnamese dead and 113 American officers injured in the bloodiest anti American terror incident of the war.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Rockefeller's 100 Million Narcotics Bill Passes
Albany confirms final passage of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's $100 million narcotics program as bills from both parties move through the Senate and Assembly. The report also covers Hue Vietnam protests, U.S. warnings for Americans, Da Nang travel limits, and a Saigon area river landing by Marines. Palm Springs records 104 top heat. Bennington Vermont 17 is the cold low.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Senate
Committee of the Revolutionary Council
U.S
Samuel B. Thomsen
da Nang
Hue
Saigon
Viet Nam
Viet Cong Leader Praises American Progressives
Nguyen Thi Binh, representing South Viet Nam’s National Liberation Front, lauded American progressives for backing the Soviet and Chinese effort against the Johnson administration in Viet Nam. She asserted the United States cannot win the war and urged recognition of the Front as Viet Nam’s government.
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Moscow
API
China
Soviet Union
Johnson
Viet Nam
Nguyen Thi Binh
South Viet Nam
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Soviet Communist Party Congress
Binh
America
Russia
Red China
Johnson Administration
Luna 10 To Orbit Moon By Soviet Moon Satellite
Moscow reports Luna 10 launched to become the first artificial satellite to orbit the moon. If successful it marks a major step toward a manned lunar landing, with a three day trip and Tass confirming a selenocentric orbit and onboard systems tests.
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Moscow
UPI
Russia
United States
Tass
Inside Track on a Tax Hike and Gulf Stream Sail
An Inside editorial weighs a possible federal tax increase. Sam Ogden comments on the thrill of sailing in the Gulf Stream off Florida. Special art by noted artists accompanies pages 4 and 6.
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Sam Ogden
Gulf Stream
Florida
Engineers Urged to Ignore Picket Lines in Rail Strike
Cleveland UPI reports BLE grand chief engineer Perry S. Heath urged engineers to return to work and ignore BLFE picket lines in a two day strike against eight major railroads. Heath accused BLFE leaders of leveraging economic power to disrupt rail service and called crossers scabs, while defending union solidarity and federal court orders.
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Cleveland
UPI
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
BLE
Perry S. Heath
Striking
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
BLFE
H. E. Gilbert
BFLE
Heath
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Harrison Avenue
Paradise Realty Company
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Hagerman
United Press International
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
Victoria
Pham Xuan Chieu
Hue- da Nang
Chien
Chieu
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Alaska
Palm Springs
Calif
Bennington
Eastfote
Leonard J
Blackie) Black
YMCA
Leonid Brezhnev
Hamilton
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