MacBride Forms Red Ribbon Committee After Reapportionment Hearing
Republican candidate Roger MacBride walked out of a Vermont reapportionment hearing and announced a new bipartisan “red ribbon committee” to monitor redistricting. He accused Legislative Reapportionment Commission chair Partridge of bias and said the panel would defend voters’ rights with a cautious approach. Plans show Rep. W Arthur Simpson among initial members as the dispute heads to further coverage.
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Halifax
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Sanborn Partridge
Proctor
Partridge
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W. Arthur Simpson
Aid Bill Delayed By Dirksen Rider
Senate action on a trimmed foreign aid bill faces a delay over a Dirksen rider on state legislative apportionment. Dirksen insists on adding the rider, while Democrats seek a compromise to allow a final vote on the $3.25 billion aid package and possible adjournment before the Atlantic City convention. Justice Department talks with Dirksen continue as the dispute risks pushing the bill into next week.
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Negro Rioting Breaks Out In Two New Jersey Cities
In Paterson and Elizabeth unrest erupted with several hundred rioters in Paterson’s 25 block area and roving attacks in Elizabeth. Mayor Graves mobilized 200 police and warned of state police involvement while meeting NAACP and CORE to discuss housing and rent issues.
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Paterson
UPI
Elizabeth
Here
Francis X. Graves
Graves
NAACP
Jersey City
Arthur Jones
Third Ward
Inside Dorset storekeeper paints between sales
A Dorset newspaper page highlights a storekeeper painting during a slow sales period and notes a span of pages with other features. A columnist urges support for an artists center and describes local civic plans.
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Dorset
Goldwater Rejects Extremist Support at GOP Unity Summit
At Hershey, Barry Goldwater told GOP leaders including Eisenhower and Nixon that he seeks no extremist support from either wing. He defended his stance on Johnson and urged party unity, stressing the Lincoln party must welcome all shades of opinion while repudiating violence and extremism.
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William E. Miller
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Webb Takes Control of Goldwater Drive
The Vermont Republican State Committee assumed leadership of the Barry Goldwater campaign in Vermont. William Franke handed over to GOP State Chairman Derick V. Webb after a Tuesday Middlebury Strategy meeting. A Vermont branch of Citizens for Goldwater will form under Luce and Doolittle.
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Vermont
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William Franke
Rutland
Goldwater
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Derick V. Webb
Goldwater For President
Franke
Citizens For Goldwater
Berlin Wall Marks 3rd Anniversary
UPI reports on the eve of the Berlin wall third anniversary four wooden crosses along Bernauerstrasse remain as memorials. East Berlin houses face the street while West Berlin ends the road with a 10 foot concrete barrier and border guards.
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UPI
Berlin Wall
West Berg
RFK Poised to Enter New York Senate Race
New York Times reports Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy plans a formal declaration next week to run for U S Senate in New York and resign as attorney general. Kennedy would seek backing from Mayor Robert Wagner and state Democrats with possible GOP opposition from Senator Kenneth Keating in November.
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UPI
Robert F. Kennedy
U.S. Senate
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Robert F. Wagner
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Kenneth B. Keating
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Prophetess Surrenders to Northern Rhodesian Government
Alice Lemshina, leader of the Lumpa sect, surrendered to government troops in eastern Northern Rhodesia. The government reported 491 Africans killed and 344 wounded in operations to end Lumpa violence, with unofficial tolls up to 1,000. Kaunda said authorities learned of the surrender 48 hours earlier but provided few details.
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Northern Rhodesia
UPI
Alice Lemshina
Lumpa
Northern
Winston Churchill
Kenneth Kaunda
Alice
Picket at U S Embassy as Turkish flights halt over Cyprus
Pickets marched on the U S Embassy in Nicosia blaming the United States for Turkish air attacks while Turkey halted reconnaissance flights after a UN Security Council appeal. The scene saw 59 demonstrators with Greek and English signs, no incidents, as Greek and Turkish Cypriots prepared for further conflict amid troop movements and renewed artillery shifts.
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Cyprus
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Security Council
New York
Turkey
Greece
Mediterranean
181st American Dies in Big Viet Nam Heliborne Attack
An American helicopter pilot, first lieutenant, was killed by Communist machine gun fire during the largest heli-borne assault in South Viet Nam. The HU1B pilot slumped at the nose as .50 caliber rounds hit him. Co-pilot ferried the craft to Saigon after the 29 mile north of Saigon landing zone. More than 100 helicopters took part in the operation, described as the biggest to date. U.S. and Hanoi tensions rose as workmen prepared for civilian air raid shelters and Ambassador Taylor warned the scale of hostilities would depend on Hanoi.
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South Viet Nam
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Viet Nam
Saigon
Delk M. Odeen
U.S. Army Support Command
U.S
Maxwell Taylor
Ha Noi
Hanoi
Taylor
United States
Free World
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