Hoff Delivers Plan for 11.3 Million Vermont Surplus
Gov. Philip Hoff unveiled a spending plan for Vermont s 11.3 million surplus prioritizing employee pay raises regional airports welfare vocational education and post high school training The proposal calls for 7.4 million in the current year and 1.9 million in supplemental non recurring projects including a new state employee pay plan and a regional airport program with participation from Barre Montpelier Middlebury Newport Bennington and Springfield Readiness to shift airport control to the state is noted while Burlington and Rutland resist transfer The plan also includes 1.6 million to help towns meet welfare costs as social reform proceeds and 7 million earmarked for education to expand vocational facilities and establish a two year post high school institute of technology.
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Apt
Edward Knapp
House General Committee
Knapp
Vermont
Philip Hoff
Barre- Montpelier
Middlebury
Newport
Bennington
Springfield
Burlington
Rutland
Hoff
Institute of Technology
New Bill Would Create Regional Road Districts
In Montpelier Gov. Philip Hoff pushes to regionalize Vermont highway administration with an 11 member commission to draftdistrict boundaries for regional road districts. The plan would allow taxing power, shift local highway maintenance from towns, and create a two tier system of regional and state highways.
Vermont House Approves Interim District Court Judges Bill
The House unanimously approved a measure granting Gov. Hoff power to appoint interim district court judges from February to March 1 with Senate consent. Terms of present judges expire Jan 31 and Judicial Selection Board handles biennial appointments. Rules were suspended and the bill sent to the Senate for consideration.
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Senate
U S Forces Capture Cong Command Center
U S forces sweeping the Iron Triangle near Saigon overran a main Viet Cong command center with bunkers, mess halls, and about 30 bunkers. The operation Cedar Falls moved forward after air strikes and sniper fire, with 189 guerrillas killed, 40 captured, and 256 detained.
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Saigon
CPI
Iron Triangle
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
U.S
Nist
Cedar Falls
Viet Battle Losses Drop In First Week Of 1967
UPI reports US battle losses in the first week of 1967 fell to the lowest in weeks. 67 Americans killed and 479 wounded, with 2 missing, partly due to the New Year truce. Vietnamese and Communist casualties dropped. Allies held a 3.2 to 1 kill ratio. Air strikes limited by monsoon rains. Operations in the Iron Triangle, Cedar Falls, pushed Communist dead to 189.
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Air America
Quang Ngai
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nui Dat
U.S
North Vietnam
Enterprise
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Binh Thu
Air Force
Iron Triangle
Mrs Taylor May Be Named To State Education Board
Speculation that Marian Taylor of the Mt. Anthony Union School Board may be appointed to Vermont State Board of Education drew praise from an Hoff aide. Gov Hoff likely to select Taylor to succeed Helen Brown of Castleton, term ends in March. Hoff expected to announce additions, possibly Harold Raynolds and E Dean Finney. Taylor helped plan the new union high school and received a local Outstanding Achievement award.
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Art Ristan
Taylor
Montpelier
Hoff
Harold Raynolds
Windsor
E. Dean Finney
St. Johnsbury
Mt. Anthony Union School
Union High School
Greater Bennington Association
Inside Columnist Praises Vermont Trees and Planning
On the Inside columnist Catharine Foster comments on Vermonts grand trees. Regional planning faces another vote in Manchester. Manchester schools report a budget surplus.
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Catharine Foster
Vermont
Manchester
Mao Orders Purge of Red China's Army
Communist party leader Mao Tse-tung and the Central Committee ordered sweeping changes in the army. The Liberation Army Daily backed the purge as protecting the revolution, amid signs Mao regains influence after a power struggle with Liu Shao-chi and Teng Hsiao-peng.
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Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Central Committee
Communist Army
Peking
Liberation Army Daily
Army
Mao
Lin Piao
Liu Shao-chi
Teng Hsiao-peng
Peking Radio
Chou En-lai
Party Central Committee
Foreign Office
Kinya Niliseki
Tokyo
Lin
Communist Radio
China
Red Guard
Party
Central Military Committee
Cultural Revolution
Peoples (Chinese Communist) Liberation Army
Chiang Ching
Mme
Chiang
Wheeler Says Reds Will Be Crushed in Vietnam War
Gen Earl G Wheeler chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Saigon declared the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have no chance of military victory. He praised Westmorelands 1967 plans to press the war, vowed ongoing support, noted enemy losses, and rejected a bombing pause as undesirable.
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UPI
Earl G. Wheeler
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vietnam
Wheeler
U.S
William C. Westmoreland
South Vietnam
Westmoreland
North Vietnam
Russia shifts stance on nuclear test ban and nonproliferation pact
Moscow signals priority to a nuclear nonproliferation pact with the United States and Britain and pulls back from extending the test ban to underground explosions. Soviet officials and diplomatic quarters suggest the move aims to preserve testing for anti missile defense work while pursuing peaceful uses. western officials demand some international policing, and a planned scientists meeting in Moscow was cancelled.
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London
UPI
Russia
United States
Britain
Moscow
Kremlin
Leningrad
Doctors Strike Threat Ended Over Harlem Hospital Reinstate
NYC health sector crisis ended when Dr. Donald Meyer announced that medical supervisors at Columbia University and city officials had capitulated to demands to reinstate Dr. Morris Eisenstein at Harlem Hospital. The doctor had been dismissed for critical remarks to Senator Seymour Thaler.
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UPI
New York City
Donald Meyer
Doctor’s Association of the Health Department
Columbia University
Morris Eisenstein
Harlem Hospital
Seymour Thaler
Queens
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Orwell
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Tunbridge
Henry Fairbanks
Winooski
Mrs
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Red China
Mme. Chiang
Canton
Gen. Wheeler
Republic of Vietnam
Republican Campaign Committee
Clifford P. Hansen
Wyoming
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
N.Y.C. Averts Doctors’ Strike
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