Fighting Reignites in Vietnam Around Mekong Delta Clash
Reports from Saigon describe renewed heavy fighting between government forces and Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta near Tan Hiep. Two government soldiers die and 12 are wounded as Americans reinforce units and aid traps. Earlier, up to 200 guerrillas were said flushed out, and 101 Viet Cong killed in Wednesday’s engagement. A separate New Year raid on a Pleiku special forces camp left 30 Vietnamese dead and 26 wounded with one American casualty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Viet Nam
Mekong
Tan Hiep
Pleiku
Ambush Lifts Alarm Over Viet Cong Intelligence
U S military authorities report a Viet Cong ambush of South Vietnamese troops in helicopters southwest of Saigon. About 600 guerrillas waited for the fourth helicopter wave, killing and wounding many and shooting down five of fifteen choppers. Three Americans were killed and six wounded. The incident underscores ongoing intelligence failures and suggests a push for newer armed transport helicopters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tary
Saigon
White House
Viet Nam
Vermont shelter spaces listed for fallout use
The Defense Department says Vermont has 91,096 shelter spaces that could be used in nuclear fallout. Of these 73,343 could be used now if stocked with supplies, and a national fallout shelter survey identified about 46,000 more potential spaces in Vermont.
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Washington
Defense Department
Vermont
Department
Robert T. Stafford
R - Vt
De Gaulle opens door to NATO Polaris talks
A de Gaulle reply to Kennedy signals possible exploratory talks on a NATO Polaris armed force. The Nassau plan faces questions. France maintains a national nuclear capability while U.S. and Britain seek joint NATO control and French participation.
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Washington
Kennedy
Charles de Gaulle
France
NATO
de Gaulle
Palm Beach
Fla
Dean Rusk
Thomas K. Finletter
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Pierre Salinger
White House
Macmillan
Britain
U.S
NATO Council
Paris
Neighbors Petition Ban After Brave Dog Saves Family
In Lynn Massachusetts a family says their collie Lucky woke them during a fire that damaged their two story home. Mrs Camuso says without the dog they would have been dead. the blaze forced an evacuation including their six month old Anthony and uncle Albert Skropski.
Fischer, 21, Wins U S Chess Title in New York
Robert Fischer, a 21-year-old New Yorker, won the U S championship after defeating Arthur Bisquier of New York. Both players had won seven of ten games when their final match began, in a tourney sponsored by the U S Chess Federation.
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New York
U. S
Robert Fischer
Fischer
Arthur Bisquier
U. S. Chess Federation
Negotiations Bid as U.N. Forces Advance on Resistance
Area school directors ask the education board to defer the proposed reorganization of southwestern Vermont supervisory unions. A joint resolution calls for a three to six month study period before any action, pending the Union High School District No. 14 bond vote and Merger clarification. The move reflects needs to review implementation details and transition timing.
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Education Board
State Department of Education
Vermont
Bennington Southwest
Bennington South
United Front
Bennington
Bennington Southwest District
Union High School District No. 14
Bennington South Union
Bennington South Supervisory Union
Greater
Dock Strike Stalemate in Atlantic and Gulf Ports
Negotiators on both sides remain firm as the 13th day of the dock strike across Atlantic and Gulf coasts continues. The New York Shipping Association cites no optimism while the AFL-CIO International Longshoremen's Association insists on wage demands. Harvard professor James Healy acts as fact finder with Labor Secretary Wirtz returning as mediator as talks focus on wages and welfare issues. Prestrike wages averaged $3.02 an hour.
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NEW York
Atlantic
Gulf
Alexander P. Chopin
New York Shipping Association
Thomas Gleason
Afl-Cio International Longshoremen’s Association
Maine
Texas
James Healy
Harvard University
W. Willard Wirtz
Dripping Thaw Eases Deep Freeze Across England
A dripping thaw spread across southern England bringing relief from the Christmas deep freeze while warning of renewed floods as snow melts. Fog blankets Surrey Kent and Sussex as sub freezing pockets persist in the west and north. Snow continues in Hereford shire and Scotland with highways now passable in parts of the south and Midlands.
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London
England
Surrey
Kent
Sussex
Britain
Herefordshire
Scotland
Midlands
Europe
Skybolt Cutback Hits GE Plant In Burlington
The Skybolt program at General Electric Burlington will see about 50 of 200 workers temporarily reassigned for up to three weeks as the government orders a partial termination. Officials say rest of Skybolt R&D remains undecided. Over 600 more layoffs are expected by April at the plant.
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Burlington
Missile and Armament Department
General Electric
Skybolt
R. G. Leecher
Envoy Acts Without Direct Instructions Over Peasants
Washington reports that Ambassador Foy Kohler turned over Siberian peasants seeking refuge in the U S Embassy in Moscow to Soviet officials without seeking State Department guidance. Officials note the U S does not recognize embassy asylum and Kohler filed a full incident report.
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Washington
USS
Foy D. Kohler
State Department
U.S
Moscow
Kohler
United States
Katangan Leader Signals Negotiations as U.N. Advances
Katanga President Moise Tshombe told AP in Kolwezi he is open to talks if U.N. forces halt their advance and cease-fire conditions are met. He warned if Kolwezi falls the resistance will fight to the end in the bush. U.N. troops, including Indian and Ethiopian units, pressed toward Jadotville, while Katangan forces fled and sabotage damaged copper and cobalt facilities.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Moise Tshombe
U.N
Kolwezi
Tshombe
Adrian Porter
Associated Press
Jadotville
Katanga
Thant
Congo
U Thant
Ralph J. Bunche
Leopoldville
New York
Red China hints at nuclear understanding with U S
AP analysis reports Red China suspects Khrushchev to toy with a long term nuclear understanding with the United States. Peking argues for rapid buildup of nuclear superiority to press world revolution while warning against using weapons as a political lever that could derail Leninist aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red China
Khrushchev
U.S
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Red Chinese
Peking
Recess Called In Talks Over N Y Paper Strike
Federal mediator indefinitely recessed negotiations between International Typographical Union Local 6 and New York publishers after two meetings. The union and publishers remained far apart on wage offers with prestrike averages around 141 weekly. publishers proposed 9.20 weekly over two years while Local 6 demanded 18.45 weekly. Talks continue in Cleveland where Teamsters and publishers scheduled discussions amid a six week strike.
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N.Y
NEW York
Strikingnternational Typographical Union
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Concilaton Service
Printers’ Union
Simkin
Walther Thayer
The
Herald Tribune
Local 6
Cleveland
Teamsters Union
Stock Averages Report Noon Figures At Albany
Dow Jones industrials at 659.84 up 2.42. railroads at 146,754 up .70. utilities at 130.67 up .40. Composite average 233.43 up .88. sales totaled 2,520,000.
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U.S. Mili
Mekong River
Theodore von Karman
Hungary
Nassau Conference
Nassau
Harold
Barking Dog Saves
New Yorker
David Adler
Pownal
Bennington Southwest Union
Franklin A. Riley
Grandview St
Arlington
Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union
Southwest Union
Benning
Education Department
Rutland
State Board
Offi
Frankfurt
Rhine
Vienna
Austrian Alps
Denmark
Lille
Calais
Elisabethville
Union Miniere Installations
Joseph Derricks
Katangan
Peking People’s
Communist Party
Red
Palmiro Togliatti
U.S.S.R
China
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
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