Reds Bombard Border Bases In Vietnam Clash
Communist guerrillas breached Khe Sanh outer perimeter and planted loud speakers urging South Vietnamese Rangers to defect. Marines answered with mortar fire and silenced the propaganda. North Vietnamese fired over 540 rounds into three U.S. bases near the border, including Khe Sanh, while suffering 109 men lost at Dong Ha. Leathernecks held in bunkers at Khe Sanh and Dong Ha.
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Saigon
UPI
Khe Sanh
Dong Ha
Cua Viet
Dmz
U.S
North Vietnam
Haiphong
South
Ban Thac
Red River Delta
Thanh Hoa
Hanoi
Haiphong Highway
Gold Bill Sidetracks Ethics Code
Senate sidetracks ethics code to push gold backing repeal measure. House backed proposal would remove 25 percent gold backing, freeing 11 billion in gold to stabilize the dollar amid European gold rush. Debate over partial financial disclosure and tighter ethics rules stalls as lawmakers weigh the broader currency move.
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Washington
UPI
Iin
Senate
Code of Ethics
U.S
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Ethics Committee
House
Europe
Bobby Baker
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Stennis
Mike Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
Rockefeller urged by moderates to seek GOP nomination
In New York GOP moderates including seven governors and three senators pressed Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to enter the presidential race as an announced and active candidate. The group, meeting at Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue apartment, backed his candidacy while noting the need for unified party leadership. Rockefeller heads to Albany for talks with aides and party leaders as Nixon campaigns in New Hampshire and weighs a possible challenge.
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New York
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Albany
Goldwater
Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue
Gov. Rockefeller
William E. Miller
Lockport
N.Y
Barry Goldwater
Miller
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Romney
New York State
Candidates in Home Stretch of Tuesday's N H Primary Race
Concord reports name calling between Democratic factions over President Johnson and Senator McCarthy on the eve of New Hampshire's first 1968 presidential primaries. Nixon is atop the Republican field with Rockefeller a potential write in. Johnson supporters tout troop support in Vietnam while McCarthy denounces the war debate as political. Nixon accuses campaigns of personal attacks over patriotism. Rockefeller seeks 15,000 write in votes as GOP turnout nears 90,000.
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Concord
N.H
Johnson
New Hampshire
Richard M. Nixon
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
McCarthy
Vietnam
Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
America
U.S
John W. King
Thomas J. McIntyre
Hanoi
Rivier College
Nashua
Issues and Answers
ABC
King
McIntyre
Sen. McCarthy
William C. Westmoreland
WBZ
Boston
Hoff Receives Home Mortgage Agency Bill
Vermont Gov. Philip Hoff is set to sign the bill creating a Vermont Home Mortgage Credit Agency. The measure, backed across party lines, authorizes bond issuance and use of state credit to back home loans, with guarantees for up to 20 percent of loans or down payments on homes up to 20 000 dollars. It also lets the agency buy state bank mortgages to free funds in tight money times.
Burlington Soldier Plans White House Picket
2nd Lt. Dennis Morrisseau, 25, of Burlington Vermont, prepared to return to Washington to picket the White House over the Vietnam War after being detained for picketing without a permit. He previously opposed the war at a Hanover New Hampshire rally for Sen. McCarthy and had his security clearance stripped. Morrisseau was en route from Fort Devens Massachusetts to Fort Davis Panama Canal Zone for jungle training before deployment to Vietnam.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
White House
Dennis Morrisseau
U.S. Park
Morrisseau
Secur
Eugene J. McCarthy
Hanover
N.H. Morrisseau
Burlington
Ft. Devens
Mass
Ft. Davis
Panama Canal Zone
Vietnam
The
University of Vermont
Inside Columnists Each Offer Nations Compared
On the Inside columnist Gerald Raftery draws an analogy between Korea and Vietnam. Alan Sophrin weighs the legislative process. Manchester day care center plans move forward as officials outline steps and timelines.
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Gerald Raftery
Korea
Vietnam
Alan Sophrin
Manchester Day Care Center
Rusk Defends Tonkin Story at Senate Hearing Clash
Secretary of State Dean Rusk sharply denied charges that the administration falsified the Tonkin Gulf incidents to justify broader war powers. He asserted there were two attacks by North Vietnam torpedo boats and defended U.S. air raids after the second strike. The hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led by Fulbright, featured pointed exchanges on Vietnam policy and the administration's aid request.
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Washington
UPT
Dean Rusk
Tonkin Gulf
U.S
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Gulf
Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. William Fulbright
Fulbright
Senate
Tonkin
Johnson
United States
Southeast Asia
Senate Passes Civil Rights Bill
The Senate approved a three-stage housing discrimination ban affecting about 68 percent of homes with a 61 to 19 vote and sent the measure to the House amid uncertain prospects. The bill also includes federal anti riot measures and protections for civil rights workers, with exemptions for certain single family homes and private properties.
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Washington
Senate
Mallary Warns Of Possible Tax Increase In Vermont
Speaker Richard Mallary of Fairlee warns Vermont may raise taxes despite GOP pledge. He cites revenues from a Sunday racing bill, expected reversions, inheritance tax changes, and tax estimating revisions to cover a 3 million budget shortfall. He prioritizes highway legislation and supports a Burlington beltline and passes for Bennington and Rutland with possible funding tweaks.
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Burlington
UPI
Richard M. Mallary
Fairlee
Mallary
Wcax-Tv
GOP
Mallory
House
Philip Hoff
Special
Vermont
Bennington
Rutland
Vatican relaxes excommunication for Catholics joining Free Masonry
Vatican sources say Catholics may now join the Masons in the United States Britain and most other countries without automatic excommunication though the European Grand Orient branch remains viewed as anti Catholic or atheistic. The change is not an official revocation of the law but a new guidance from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Vatican City
UPI
Vatican
Order of Free Masons
United States
Britain
Theuropean Grand Orient Lodge
Italy
France
Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith
Free Masons Orders
Arson Suspected in Fire at Watervliet Textile Mills
A five story abandoned Jupiter Textile Mills building in Watervliet burned Sunday night, with the blaze jumping to the Neweely Co bell foundry across the street. About 40 residents evacuated. one injury reported to a former Latham fire chief. Officials say causes are cigarette smoldering or arson, with three false alarms supporting arson suspicions. Fire crews from many area companies fought remaining walls and stacks by 10 p.m.
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Watervliet
N.Y
Jupiter Textile Mills
Neweely & Co, Inc., Bell Foundry
Latham
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