06 Feb 1967
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1967
Page
1
Nearly 100 Soviet refugees, including many children, returned from China after being hissed at and spat upon by Red Guards who detained them for 11 hours before their departure by plane from Peking. They described being surrounded by hundreds of Red Guards during the incident.
Reports quoted reliable sources say Liu Shao-chi and Teng Hiiao-ping have been purged from top posts in China. Mao’s supporters crush rivals amid Sino Soviet clashes as Moscow recalls staff and evacuates embassy families from Beijing.
Reports of movement toward Vietnam peace talks circulated in Washington despite denials from officials. Rostow warned no serious negotiating offer existed while Tet cease fire nears. Kennedy reportedly received a peace message through Paris, outlining a three stage process. Tass reported North Vietnam willing to join talks despite Johnson’s denial.
Robert Penn Warren of Fairfield and Stratton Vermont has won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, a $5,000 biennial award given by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. Warren, Yale English professor since 1961, was cited for Selected Poems New and Old 1923 1966 published by Random House, with the prize decided by a three member Yale faculty panel.
Michelle Raym, a 28-year-old French journalist, was released after three weeks with the Viet Cong in the Central Highlands. She described two days in a bunker under air strikes and said captors were “very gentlemanly,” though she was moved constantly near the An Lao Valley.
President Johnson urged Congress to pass the Safe Streets and Crime Control Act including firearms restrictions and a full wiretap ban. He cited nearly $3 billion annual property losses and 7 million daily contacts with justice agencies, urging reform from federal to local levels and funding for police facilities.
Berlin reports the Communist bloc foreign ministers meeting was moved from East Berlin to Warsaw. East Germany shifted location to curb West German contacts after Romania signed a diplomatic accord with Bonn. Romania sent its minister elsewhere. Hungary and Bulgaria were ready for relations with Bonn.
Soviet Premier Kosygin arrived in London for a week long visit to Britain focusing on Vietnam and hinted that Britain can play a positive role in settling the conflict. He met Prime Minister Harold Wilson amid fog and demonstrations as security tightened for five planned talks and informal discussions.
EAST NASSAU New York: Dr Andrew C Fleck Jr a former county health commissioner is on the New York State Bar Association public health committee pressing legislative action to stop treating chronic alcoholics not charged with serious crimes as criminals. The group urges a public health approach with detox units medical and social facilities and a revised penal law to ease jail burdens and curb revolving door confinement as public intoxication penalties shrink next September from six months to 15 days.
Gerald Raftery addresses a reader in a column on page 4. A doctor claims the Banner’s sole dentist for a million people in her province travels on foot to reach them, noted on page 6. A West Arlingtonian surveys the Expo on page 7.
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