Bombs and Leaflets Over North Vietnam Warfront
U.S. planes dropped millions of propaganda leaflets over North Vietnam and raided radar sites and highways in a coordinated operation. 1,600 mph F4C jets joined F105 fighters in bombing, as 1,800 Marines landed at Da Nang bringing total Marine strength to 8,000. A Saigon tribunal sentenced a Viet Cong youth leader to death for a hotel bombing plot. Leaflets, about playing-card size, urged peace but warned of broader air strikes if aggression continued.
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Saigon
UPI
Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
le Dau
Dong Hoi
Ha Tinh
Vinh
Thanh Hoa
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Hanoi
Wilson Thant Talks Scheduled at United Nations Visit
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives in New York for meetings with U N Secretary General Thant and President Johnson aimed at a negotiated Viet Nam solution. He meets Thant, then Washington for a second Johnson talk.
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United Nations, N. Y
UPI
Harold Wilson
United States
U.N
Thant
Johnson
Viet Nam
Wilson
Washington
Patrick Gordon Walker
Southeast Asia
London
Hanoi
Peking
Gordon Walker
Britain
France
Russia
China
Inside Reports on Pownal track sale denied at meeting
A brief note reports the denial of a sale proposal for the Pownal track during a stockholders meeting. The columnists question whether the topic relates to baseball and reference Elizabeth Dwyer. Additional pages survey President Lincoln's assassination and the Lincoln family ties in Manchester across pages six and seven.
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Pownal
Lincoln
Manchester
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Daniel Chester French
Stockbridge
Mass
Bennington County
Hoff Warns of End to Death Penalty in Vermont
Vermont Governor Philip Hoff announced he will sign an abolition bill Thursday that ends the electric chair for first time murders, save where the victim is a prison guard or police officer. He warned of an approaching severe drought potentially causing an emergency water shortage within a month as Lake Champlain nears its all time low and rainfall remains well below normal.
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Gree
House
Senate
Hoff
Vermont
Vermont GOP leaders denounce 19th Century thinking
House Speaker Franklin Billings and Ways and Means Chair Byron Hathorn assailed conservative elements at a Woodstock meeting of Windsor County Young Republicans as backward. They urged moderates to unite for a responsible, forward looking Republican party and warned that the party may fail if such thinking prevails.
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GOP
Vermont
Barry Goldwater
U.S
George Aiken
Peole
Hathorn
Billings
New York Enacts 2 Percent Sales Tax Amid Budget Crisis
In Albany a bipartisan coalition pushed a 2 per cent sales tax through the assembly by an 82 to 67 vote to help balance the governor’s high budget. The measure now advances to the Senate as New York faces a budget gap since April 1.
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Albany, N.Y
UPID
Assembly
Senate
Van Santvoord Star Pupil In Survey of Legislature
Vermont lawmaker Edward Conlin released education statistics on the Legislature. Van Santvoord of Bennington is named star pupil with Yale and Oxford degrees and honorary degrees from Williams Princeton Yale. Foley of Norwich is a retired Dartmouth professor.
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van Santvoord
Conlin
George van Santvoord
Dennington
Yale
Oxford
Williams
Princeton
Norwich
Allen R. Foley
Dartmouth
Hoff Education Bonus Boosts Vermont Schools
Governor Hoff announced a 270000 education bonus funded by federal changes in the Manpower Development Training Act. About 150000 will aid special education, with 200000 offset by retraining funds, and Holden urged bigger, regional districts to maximize federal programs and meet rising educational needs.
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House Appropriations Committee
William Kearns
A. John Holden
Vermont
Holden
Democratic Legislative
President Johnson Tours Midwest Disaster Areas
President Johnson toured tornado and flood disaster zones in Indiana Minnesota and Ohio pledging maximum federal assistance. He visited Elkhart Goshen South Bend and Minneapolis St Paul as floods drove 31000 from homes and a Palm Sunday tornado outbreak killed at least 236 with over 2000 injured. He planned further stops and will meet governors and officials to coordinate aid.
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Johnson
UPI
Middle West
Indiana
St. Paul
Minn
Washington
Midwest
Elkhart
Ind
South Bend
Minnesota
Mississippi River
Toledo
Ohio
Goshen
Minneapolis
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
White House
Three in Reed Death Free on $10,000 Bonds
Three men linked to the street beating of Rev. James Reed were freed on $10,000 bonds after a Dallas County grand jury indicted them for murder following a March 9 assault on the unitarian minister. The trio, William Hoggle, O Neal Hoggle, and Elmer Cook, were charged in Selma Alabama.
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Reed
Selma, Ala
UPI
Dallas County Grand Jury
James Reed
Boston
William Hoggle
O’neal
Duck) Hoggle
Elmer Cook
R. B. Kelley
Ist
Birmingham
Selma
Montgomery
Alabama
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
Liuzzo
Lowndes County
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Air Force
Elizabeth Dwyer
Chaska
Minnesota River
Federal Office of Emergency Planning
New York
Bendi
Bennington High School
Hassenpflug
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