Johnson Pressed to Act on Antiriot Panel Report
Washington urges President Johnson to adopt firm stance on the antiriot commission's sweeping recommendations to prevent the two week old report from languishing in limbo. Senate leader Mansfield doubts the will or funds exist to implement them given ongoing Vietnam war pressures.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Antiriot Commission
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United States
Vietnam
Commission
Robert C. Weaver
Congress
Sen
Edward Www. Brooke
R-Mass
Brooke
Brooks
Mansfield
Concessions Granted To Rioting Prisoners
Rioters at Oregon State Penitentiary forced major concessions after a 16 hour uprising in Salem. Officials report 700 inmates participated with 4 guards held hostage and later released after Warden Clarence Gladden resigned. Damages cited at 2 to 5 million dollars with fires in library dining hall and workshops.
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Salem
Ore
UPI
Oregon State Penitentiary
National Guard
Clarence Gladden
Ron Schmidt
Tom McCall
George Randall
State Corrections Division
Gallup Poll Finds 49 Percent Call Vietnam War a Mistake
A UPI report from Princeton shows 49 percent of Americans questioned believe U S entry into Vietnam was a mistake. Only 33 percent think progress is being made, compared with roughly 50 percent who felt progress last November.
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Princeton
N.J
UPI
Gallup
United States
Vietnam
U.S
Klan Leader on Trial For Firebomb Slaying in Mississippi
A Kleagle of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan goes on trial for the 1966 firebomb slaying of Vernon Dahmer. Eight white men face murder and arson charges. one defendant pled guilty and may testify. Dahmer died from burns after Molotov cocktails were thrown into his home and store.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
UPI
FBI
State Kleagle
White Knights
Ku Klux Klan
Vernon Dahmer
Mississippi
Dahmer
Stanton Hall
Cecil Victor Sessum
Ellisville
Sam Holloway Bowers Jr
Imperial Wizard
Meridian
Philadelphia
Miss. Dahmer
Ellie
Betty
Marine Commander Sees Victory in Khe Sanh Battle
UPI reports Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Cushman asserting Khe Sanh can be held and the Allies can win. About 6,000 Marines with South Vietnamese rangers guard the fort against up to 70,000 North Vietnamese troops. Cushman said Westmoreland agreed he should hold Khe Sanh despite daily shelling and potential enemy attacks around March 13, noting heavy fighting since Tet with about 20,000 enemy killed in recent weeks.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
UPI
Robert Cushman
Khe Sanh
Cushman
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Dien Bien Phu
France
Indo-China
I Corps
South Vietnam
Bankers Pool Seeks to Stabilize Gold Price at 35 an Ounce
Basel reports bankers from the six gold pool partners reaffirmed their resolve to maintain gold at $35 an ounce to curb speculation that threatened the dollar and the pound. The Basel declaration, approved after pressure from William McChesney Martin, signals renewed U.S. and U.K. balance of payments cooperation and aims to halt the gold drain for now.
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Basel
Switzerland
Europe
U.S
America
United States
William McChesney Martin
U.S. Federal Reserve Board
Frankfurt
Germany
Britain
Martin
Federal Reserve
Robbery at Chicago Armored Car Theft Ends With Missing Cash
Two men armed with pistols robbed an armored car in Chicago on Saturday. They escaped with a bag of cancelled checks and left behind a sack containing an undetermined amount of cash.
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Chicago
UPI
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