American Tanks Smash Communist Battalion
American tanks crushed a Communist battalion on a Saigon highway east of the city, leaving at least 81 Viet Cong dead with no American casualties. North of Hanoi, waves of U S jets bombed suburbs and depots in one of the war's largest raids near the North Vietnamese capital, while reports claimed several U S planes were shot down.
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Saigon
APS
Thailand
Hanoi
Air Force
Navy
U.S
North
Viet Nam
Radio Moscow
Delta
U.S. Navy
Mekong Delta
Ba Cang
Johnson forecasts healthy economy with cautious tax hike decision
President Johnson described the economy as very healthy and strong while weighing a possible tax increase. Gardner Ackley and other advisers presented mixed signals, with Ackley noting a recession cannot be ruled out and the adviser predicting a slower but balanced growth path for 1967.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Johnson
Gard
Ner Ackley
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Ackley
Congress
Draft calls hit two year low amid training push
The Defense Department set February’s draft call at 10,900, the smallest since March 1965, as part of a plan to train 150,000 new Reserve and National Guard enlistees and clear a long backlog of untrained personnel across Guard and Reserve units. The move aims to mobilize ready forces within six to eight weeks, with training spaces capped at 50,000 during the year.
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Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Reserve
National Guard
Pentagon
Defense
Army
Guard
Organized Army Reserve
Robert S. McNamara
Hoff Names Billings Superior Judge
Gov. Hoff named Franklin S. Billings Jr. to succeed Donald E. O’Brien as Vermont Superior Court judge in Burlington. O’Brien resigns effective Dec. 5 after 41 years on the bench. Billings, 44, a former House speaker and Harvard Law graduate, will be sworn in Monday.
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Hoff
Billings
Vermont
Harvard
University of Virginia Law School
Thant Pledges Personal Effort To End Viet War
United Nations Secretary General Thant accepted a second five year term by 120 to 0 with one invalid ballot, pledging to pursue a personal effort to end the Vietnam War. He urged peace efforts and noted holiday truces as a possible path to longer peace.
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United Nations
UPI
Thant
General Assembly
Security Council
Viet Nam
Foffer
Council
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
New York Lottery Likely as Rockefeller Backed Plan Gains Support
Governor Rockefeller and Assembly Speaker Travia indicate support for a 1967 fiscal year lottery to fund education. Senate Majority Leader Brydges had shown doubt but now backs speedy action, proposing a temporary committee to shape the lottery machinery and offer non-binding guidance.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
New York
Rockefeller
Assembly
Anthony Travia
Senate
Earl Brydges
Brydges
Travia
Jay Peak Director Injured in Accident
Newport Vermont UPI Walter Foeger originator of Natur Tek Nik skiing method and Jay Peak Weyerheuser ski area director suffered extensive head and facial injuries in a Route 105 crash near North Troy. He heads his own ski school and holds multiple ski association posts shaping state and national ski instruction.
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Newport
UPI
Walter Foeger
Vermont Development Board
North Troy
Foeger
Kitzbuehel
Austria
Jay Peak - Weyerheuser
Jay
Deane Mosher
Jay Peak
Vermont Ski Area Operators Association
American Ski Teachers Asso
Natar Teknik
United States Eastern Amateur Ski Asso
Useasa
Last of the Aranson Quintuplets Dies
The last of the Aranson quintuplets died at Magee Women's Hospital six days after birth. Roni Sue Aranson weighed 1 lb 11 oz at birth and died after brain damage and breathing difficulties. Private funeral services were held. parents Patti Aranson and Michael Aranson, 22, faced the loss of all five infants in the premature birth event once highly rare.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Aranson
Roni Sue Aranson
Magee Women’s Hospital
Lee Bass
Ronie Sue
Patti Aranson
Michael
United States
Aberdeen
S.D
Andrew Fischer
San Antonio
Tex
Inside page notes on chores and editorials
On the Inside Jean Wassick asks if you would believe her Christmas chores are all done. An editorial comments on U Thant's decision to seek a new term as U N Secretary general. Photographs illustrate a fine art practiced in a North Street business.
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France
Thant
Council
Security Council
Jean Wassick
U. Thant
U.N
North Street
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Glynn Morrissey
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LBJ
U.S. Army
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Finland
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