U S Jets Bomb Vital Road Link Between North Viet Nam China
American jets dropped 250 tons of bombs and rockets on North Viet Nam cutting a highway near the Chinese border and hitting the Ban Thach hydro electric plant. The attack marked a second strike on the Ban Thach complex in four days, as pilots pushed closer to China than before. Ground actions shifted after a week of U S gains in South Viet Nam, with paratroopers and armored units aiding a convoy to Kontum and helicopter airlifts into the Mekong Delta.
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Viet Nam
Communist
China
Hanoi
Ban Thach
U. S
Communist China
Red China
Kontum
Pleiku
Kon
Vermont Road Death Rate Remains Nation's Highest
Vermont Motor Vehicle Commissioner James E. Malloy said the state’s fatality rate is the nation’s highest with 91 deaths in seven and a half months. He cited liquor, speed, and their combination as major factors, with most victims aged 21 to 45 and three quarters of operators being Vermonters.
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James E. Malloy
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Malloy
Rhode Island
Colorado
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nevada
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Underhill Youth Is 93rd Fatality
A 19 year old Underhill youth died when his car left a curve and struck a tree head on near Underhill. James W. Moss was the victim, marking Vermont’s 93rd highway death of the year as the toll stood at 82 earlier.
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Underhill
UPI
James W. Moss
Gemini Cleared for 47 Orbits in Moon Chase Mission
SPACE CENTER Houston UPI Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad enter the 3rd day of their eight day flight as Gemini 5 continues into the 47th orbit. They set up a four part maneuver to chase a phantom rocket while many experiments are pared back due to gear clutter and heavy workload. Both slept about 10 hours in 24, though meals were not finished. oxygen feed pressure rose to 100 psi as the mission aims toward rendezvous with an imaginary Agena and a future manned moon landing.
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Cooper
United States
Conrad
Gemini Control
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Florida
Mexico
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Christopher Columbus Kraft
Earth
Soviet Union
Stafford Says One Party Threatens American Politics
Congressman Robert T. Stafford warned at the Shawnee Leadership Institute in Orwell that rapid political change risks a one party system with centralized federal power. He urged the minority to field responsible candidates and cited recent laws as evidence of the drift left and erosion of the middle ground in U S politics.
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Orwell
Robert T. Stafford
United States
Shawnee Leadership Institute
Stafford
America
Congress
House
Peaceful Springfield tense after civil rights march
Springfield residents and officials awaited a promised follow up to a downtown civil rights protest shadowed by National Guard units. Pickets marched near Court Square urging a boycott while CORE leader Oscar Bright said the protest demonstrated broad aims beyond a few radicals.
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Springfield
Mass
UPI
National Guard
Court Square
Massachusetts
Yankee Infantry
Oscar Bright
The
Con
Bright
Deer Jacking Ring Nabbed Breakup Reported
The Associated Press says a deer jacking ring operating on the New Hampshire Vermont Connecticut River area has been broken up. NH conservation chief Jesse Scott says several members will face charges in court soon. Frederick Wood, 47, of Plainfield NH, pleaded guilty to cheering jacking charges and was fined 300 dollars with a suspended 30 day sentence.
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N. H
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut River
Associated Press
Jesse Scott
Frederick Wood
Plainfield
N.H
N.H. House of Correction
Hoff Family Vacation In Maine
Vermont Governor Philip Hoff starts a two week vacation at a Maine summer home owned by his mother in law He travels with his wife Joan and their four daughters It is a Hoff family tradition and he plans to return after Labor Day A Labor Day weekend speech is planned in the Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania for an ILGWU convention
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Mere Point
Maine
UPI
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Joan
Pine Tree State
Pocono Mountains
Pennsylvania
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Democratic Platform Raps GOP Obstructors in Barre
Vermont Democrats finished a four hour Barre convention on a 12 page platform attacking Republican obstructionism. They backed regional government expansion, a constitutional convention, and broadening state aid to schools, health programs, and tax reforms while backing a new Windsor medium security prison amid Hoff administration opposition.
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Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
Cation Board
Hoff
Maine
Chittenden County
Harold Raynolds
Raynolds
GOP
State House
Windsor
T. Wesley Grady
Underhill
Poverty No Excuse For Rioting Aiken Says
Senator George Aiken argues poverty is not a reason for riots and crime. He criticizes excusing criminal acts, calls for responsibility with privileges, and urges stronger law enforcement and possible legal changes. He comments on police brutality, UN peace efforts in Vietnam, inflation, and GOP unity.
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Washington
UPI
George Aiken
Aiken
Los Angeles
Metromedia
Congress
Inside Vermont reports immigration ruling hits ski instructors
The newspaper notes a new U S Immigration Service ruling affecting foreign ski instructors, signaling changes in employment eligibility for these workers. It highlights potential impacts on Vermont ski industry staffing and operations.
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Vermont
New Immigration Service
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John H. Volpe
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South
Dorset
Elks
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