Workers Clash With Chinese Army in Canton
Rightwing press reports describe hundreds killed as Communist troops clashed with striking Canton factory workers armed with shovels, stones, and clubs. Reports note Maoist rifts within the army and campaigns to suppress dissent as spring farming faces disruption.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Canton
New Life Evening Post
South China River
Pearl River
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Senate probes Dodd testimonial dinners prompt new questions
Senate Ethics Committee hearings probe whether then Vice President Johnson knew he aided Sen. Thomas J. Dodd’s personal coffers by speaking at two Connecticut testimonials in 1961 and 1963. Documents show over 150000 of about 170000 raised went to Dodd’s personal accounts, while Dodd asserts gifts were tax-free and unlinked to campaign funds.
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Sen
Thomas J. Dodd
Connecticut
Senate Ethics Committee
Washington
Dodd
UPI
Senate
Johnson
Ivan Sinclair
Matthew
Mat) Moriarty
Arthur B. Powers
First Selectman
Berlin
Conn
Boyd
Sinclair
James Boyd
Nuremburg
Grace
Smuggling Arms to Reds Gun Runner Captured at Sea
U S forces captured a 100 foot gun running trawler 325 miles north of Saigon after intense clashes with guerrillas. Inland fighting killed 78 Communists and left one American dead and 75 wounded as U S warplanes and B 52s pounded North Vietnamese bases. General Westmoreland pressed to cut supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh trail and the DMZ area.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S. Navy
U.S
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
North
South Vietnam
William Co. Westmoreland
Vietnam
South China Sea
Central Highlands
4Th Infantry Division
Soviets Detail Red Chinese Interference
The Soviet report details Chinese disruption of rail traffic to North Vietnam. At Grodekovo in Soviet Kazakhstan the Red Guard allegedly threatened station staff and blocked war materiel shipments to Hanoi. Moscow released the account in Washington to spotlight Beijing's tactics and obstruction.
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Washington
UPI
Soviet Union
North Vietnam
Red Guard
Grodekovo
Soviet
Kazakhstan
Mikhail Maguta
Novosti
Alexander Tilyin
China
Hanoi
Peking
Moscow
Trawler Finds Bomb in Nets Off Cape Hatteras
Coast Guard reports fishing trawler Crisway near Cape Hatteras snagged a bomb in its nets and sought urgent help. The incident recalls the 1965 Snoopy torpedo explosion in the Atlantic graveyard of ships that killed eight sailors.
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Portsmouth
UPI
Coast Guard
North Carolina
Crisway
Washington, D.C
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Atlantic
Senator Dodd listens as allies and foes testify
In Washington, Senator Thomas J. Dodd sat unmoved while friends and enemies spoke up during the testimony. The scene showed attention from both sides, yet his facial expression remained unchanged as the proceedings unfolded.
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Washington
UPI
Sen
Thomas J. Dodd
RFK Denies Time Report On Interview with Johnson
Senator Robert F. Kennedy denied a published report of a 45 minute White House confrontation with President Johnson on February 6 after RFK returned from Europe. The New York Times story claimed Kennedy called Johnson an s o b during the exchange. Kennedy rejected the account as untrue and misleading.
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RFK
Johnson
New York
UPI
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
White House
Europe
Postponed reshuffle clouds French cabinet crisis
Paris sources report President Charles de Gaulle delaying any cabinet reshuffle despite heavy losses by Gaullists in elections. Premier Georges Pompidou said there will be no changes now, citing a slim majority and April parliamentary session. Aides denied Time magazine's accounts of talks with Kennedy and Johnson. The Senate Ethics Committee hearing into Senator Dodd revealed vast expenses and debts, with witnesses describing a long, costly political saga.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
de Gaulle
Elysee Palace
Pompidou
Maurice Couve de Murville
Time Magazine
Frank Mankiewicz
Time
Kennedy
North
Vietnam
Mankiewicz
Johnson
Hanoi
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
Walt Rostow
Survivors Sought From Plane Crash in South Africa
A Cuban Premier's former airliner crashed near East London, South Africa. At least 21 died with four aboard missing. Among the dead is Audrey Rosenthal, 27, a California native and University of Michigan graduate. A French naval plane also went missing near Brest. The SA Airways Viscount had flown Kennedy on a 3000 mile tour and crashed during bad weather en route from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg.
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California
University of Michigan
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Brest
France
Cap Finistere
Atlantic
Castro
Kennedy
Johannesburg
Indonesian Militia Rally for Suharto Amid Turmoil
About 30 000 Civil Defense Corps members rallied in Jakarta to show loyalty to acting president Gen. Suharto. They blocked traffic for two hours while pledging to destroy opposition to the congressionally backed succession. Military leaders warned against noncooperation as Sukarno’s health and status remained in question.
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Jakarta
UPI
Indonesia
Civil Defense Corps
Suharto
Malaysia
Radio Jakarta
Supardjo
Sukarno
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
Bogor
New York Keeps Property Ownership for Office Holders
In Albany a bill to allow tenants and non owners to hold elective or appointive office was defeated 27 to 24 in the GOP Senate with four Republicans crossing and four Democrats changing sides. Supporters called ownership an outdated concept while opponents argued it underpins local government. the measure remains technically alive but unlikely to reach the floor again.
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Albany
N.Y
Senate
Louis J. Lefkowitz
Inside Arling ton Eagle Page six note on life and rates
A brief page six item notes a new edition of the Arling ton Eagle and a feature on bettering human relations in group life. It mentions North Benningtonians possibly cheering a tax rate cut, indicated on page seven.
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Arlington Eagle
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