GIs clash in bunker complex near Mekong Delta
In a 17 hour battle about 69 miles southwest of Saigon, 54 Viet Cong dead were counted as U.S. forces from the 9th Infantry Division fought hand to hand and with automatic weapons in concealed bunkers. Eight Americans were killed and 11 wounded. several AC47 gunships and air strikes supported the operation. The Viet Cong slipped away, while a humanitarian release by Saigon freed 10 prisoners of war at a bus stop.
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Mekong Delta
Mekong River
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Mekong
South Vietnamese
Defense Ministry
House Votes Boost In Presidential Pay
The House voted to raise the President's pay to 200000 a year doubling Nixon's salary, with Senate expected to approve. The package also covers expenses and travel allowances, while a broad pay-boost plan for top officials awaits Johnson's final decisions. Critics argue the rise overlooks fiscal restraint and warns of wider taxpayer costs.
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Washington
UPI
House
Richard M. Nixon
Senate
State of the Union
Capitol Hill
Nixon
Congress
Johnson
France imposes total embargo on arms shipments to Israel
Paris announced a complete ban on arms and military spare parts deliveries to Israel in response to the Beirut Airport raid of December 28. The action aims to curb French-made aircraft parts for Israel while France cites danger to regional peace and the Israeli Air Force.
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Paris
UPD
France
Israel
Beirut
Middle East
Charles de Gaulle
Nuns Dismissed for Teaching Evolution Versus Creation
In Staten Island, three Roman Catholic nuns, including principal Sister Mary Ellen, were dismissed from St. Mary of the Assumption School after parish letters criticizing their teaching on evolution versus creation were published. Msgr. John J. Cleary ordered the removals following the lay faculty complaints.
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New York
UPI
Staten Island
Mary Ellen
Bernadette Brown
Madelon Weter
St. Mary of the Assumption
John J. Cleary
Patricia E. Sohm
Sohm
Msgr
Joseph P. Riordan
St. Mary’s Parish
Solons Reject Challenge To Elector's Independence
In Washington lawmakers rejected Muskie and O'Hara challenged elector Lloyd Bailey for switching his North Carolina vote from Nixon to Wallace. Senate 58-33, House 229-169, to certify Nixon with 301 electoral votes. Debates urged reform while hearings planned on constitutional amendments and electoral reform.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Richard M. Nixon
George C. Wallace
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
James O’hara
D-Mich
Lloyd W. Bailey
Rocky Mount
N.C
Bailey
Nixon
North Carolina
Wallace
Muskie
Emanuel Celler
Dn.y
House Judiciary Committee
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Romney proposes parochial schools leave secular education to state
Detroit report notes Gov. George Romney's surprising call that Michigan parochial schools take no secular instruction and let public schools provide it. MANS leader calls the idea absurd while citing tax savings from nonpublic schools and the high cost of expanding public facilities. The 1969 session looms with plans to revisit Catholic and other private schooling amid statewide private school enrollment figures and regional concentrations.
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Romney
Detroit
UPD
George Romney
Michigan
Michigan Association of Nonpublic Schools
MANS
Housing and Urban Development
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Chiotz
Grand Rapids
Bay City
Rare 1776 Declaration broadside to sell at Philadelphia auction
A first edition Declaration of Independence broadside printed by John Dunlap in 1776, one of seven known, was found in Leary's bookstore during liquidation prep. The item, valued over 30000 dollars, will be offered at a January 14 public sale with the exact auction date set in about six weeks.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Leary’s
John Dunlap
John W. Dixon
Edward R. Poole
Pennsauken
N.J
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