Viet Cong Plan Uncovered For Attack on Da Nang Base
In Da Nang South Vietnam officials disclosed a three stage Viet Cong attack plan against the U S Da Nang Air Base. The plan envisages civil unrest and terror campaigns before Viet Cong infiltrators strike the base to unleash main force attacks. Vietnamese students distributing leaflets face possible death sentences if convicted.
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Midway
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Phu Qui
Viet Nam
Peace Bid Fails In Pakistan
Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri said Pakistan rejected British cease fire proposals for the Rann of Kutch conflict. Artillery exchanges continued as India shelled a Pakistani outpost six miles inside the border while Shastri urged restraint and morale maintaining measures.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Pakistan
Rann of Kutch
Karachi
Biarbet
India
West Pakistan
Shastri
Congress Party
Vermont House acts on aid to dependent children term
The Vermont Legislature wraps up the 17th week in Montpelier with the Senate advancing a major aid bill extending support to age 21 for dependents in high school or tech programs. The House defeats a bill to raise auto accident damage reporting from 35 to 100 dollars and the session tables a 25000 personnel study. The Senate passes five minor measures and the House proposes a 5700 appropriation to repay farmers for milk price errors since 1951.
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Pearson Receives Honorary UVM Doctorate in Vermont
Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson was awarded an honorary doctor of laws by the University of Vermont during Honors Day on campus in Burlington. Governor Hoff praised Canadian ties as Pearson urged mutual respect and differing opinions, while Pearson joked about voting in Vermont if he paid the poll tax. Hoff and Aiken attended as Pearson sat at the head table and became an honorary Vermont citizen.
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Burlington
UPI
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Lester Pearson
Laws
University of Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Lyman Rowell
Canada
United States
Washington
Hoff and Son
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Vermont
Marine killed as rebels press in Dominican capital
UPI reports a U.S. Marine was killed and 13 other American servicemen wounded in clashes near the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo amid a civil war. Some 3,500 Marines and paratroopers surrounded civilians, while loyalist Dominican forces moved to crush rebel nests. Rebels seized the Ozama fortress and the town of Bonao as fighting raged through the city.
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UPI
U.S
Elias Wessin
82Nd Division
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Boxer
Ozama
Bonao
Dominican
Laos Officials Claim Chinese Fight in War Report
Laotian army high command said Friday that about 6 000 Chinese Communist and 20 000 North Vietnamese troops were fighting government forces in Laos. Western observers questioned those figures noting about 10 000 North Vietnamese soldiers present and Chinese forces mainly along border areas.
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Vientiane
UPI
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Sam Neua
Pathet Lao
National
North
Viet Nam
Johnson cites left wing influence in Dominican crisis
President Johnson on national TV said a cease fire in the Dominican Republic existed but was not being observed. He urged the OAS to act quickly to enforce it as left wing elements trained abroad were said to gain influence. U.S. Marines and paratroops expanded a neutral zone in Santo Domingo with one American dead and 13 wounded. The Vatican envoy mediated, while the OAS prepared a ministers meeting to consider direct action.
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Jose Mora
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Vermont judge selection drew fire at Rotary program
State's Atty. R. Marshall Witten condemned Vermont's method of choosing Superior Court judges as "very poor" saying lawmakers often pick the most popular, not the most qualified, in elections by the General Assembly. He, with Robert E. Cummings Jr., spoke at a Law Day Rotary event in Bennington outlining system inadequacies and proposed reforms.
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Bennington
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Waldo C. Holden
Vermont Bar Association
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Witten
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Supreme Court
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Inside Scoop: Legislator gains boost in Cohen column
Local politics get a lift as a small town legislator receives renewed attention from Ron Cohen on page four. Other features include art visuals in Living with Art on page five and a new pastor welcomed in Manchester on page eight. Page ten highlights Dave Ordway striking out seventeen for Benhi.
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