Poll Sees Squeaker Election for Johnson in 1968
Washington (UPI) Democratic leaders across all states and the District of Columbia say President Johnson would win by a slim margin if the 1968 election were held tomorrow. The poll of 24 governors and 51 party chairmen finds possible GOP shifts in Illinois or Pennsylvania could tilt the White House, with Nixon named as the strongest potential Johnson challenger by 15 of 36 respondents.
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UPI
Johnson
United Press International
District of Columbia
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Pennsylvania
White House
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Louis Harris
Gallup
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
California
Ronald Reagan
Michigan
George W. Romney
Senate
Ashmore Charges LBJ Squelched Viet Peace Feelers
Santa Barbara, UPI report says journalist Harry S. Ashmore charged that President Johnson personally cancelled a peace feeler to Ho Chi Minh written by two veteran American journalists. Ashmore cited high State Department involvement and described the action as brutal and effective.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
Ho Chi Minh
Johnson
Harry S. Ashmore
Ashmore
Reach Contract Agreement In Detroit Teachers Strikes
Detroit negotiators reached a contract to end the 13 day teachers strike while New York bargaining failed to break a week old walkout. The Detroit Federation of Teachers called an immediate meeting of its 11,500 members and Mary Ellen Riordan said she would recommend approval and return to class. Details of the deal were undisclosed and Dearborn reached a settlement, leaving nine other districts closed. 300,000 Detroit students were kept from school. The article also covers reactions from New York Mayor Lindsay and UFT President Albert Shanker amid ongoing tensions and broader Vietnam war notes.
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Detroit
New York
Detroit Federation of Teachers
DFT
Mary Ellen Riordan
Dearborn
John V. Lindsay
Albert Shanker
United Federation of Teachers
UFT
Jets Strike Close To Chinese Border
SAIGON U S jets struck nearer to Communist China than ever before hitting three targets inside Haiphong and staging bombing runs near Hanoi The mission included a Phantom jet lost to ground fire and a bridge attack by Maj Kenneth A Simonet The air strikes also hit a missile site rail lines and Haiphong rail yards while B52s conducted raids against North Vietnamese troops near Saigon and Viet Cong attacks wounded 34 U S soldiers and an unknown number of South Vietnamese at Nha Trang One civilian killed two wounded and 29 U S servicemen injured in a terror bombing at the rest resort The United States said no volunteers were known to be arriving from China or the Soviet bloc
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Baggs
United States
Hoover Ashmore
William P. Bundy
Bundy
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Hanoi
U.S
Vietnam
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Johnson
Saigon
UPS
China
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Kenneth A. Simonet
West Palm Beach
Fla
Khe Highway
U.S. Navy
7Th Fleet
South Vietnam
Nha Trang
Dayan vows Israel will keep lands seized in war
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Israel will retain the Arab lands captured in the June war. He stated cease fire lines would be translated into permanent borders and neighbors must be deterred from moving the Jewish state from those lines. Days after, Nasser mourned Abdel Hakim Amer, amid questions over Amer’s death.
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Middle East
Dayan
Israel
West Bank
Jordan River
Jordan
East Bank
Suez Canal
Sinai Desert
United Arab Republic
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Abdel Hakim Amer
al Ahram
Amer
Nasser
Jerusalem
Britain Frees Russian Physicist After Spy Thriller To London
A Russian physicist Vladi mir Kachenko aged 25 was flown to the Soviet Embassy from a secret location amid an international rift with Britain. British officials say he asked to stay in Britain while the Soviet side claims illness. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins ordered his return after doctors reported his health deteriorated. The man, reportedly drugged during removal from a plane at Heathrow, was taken back to the Soviet Union for treatment.
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London
UPI
Britain
Buckingham Palace
Vladimir Kachenko
Kachenko
Soviet Union
Roy Jenkins
Gromyko
Heathrow
Mt Washington cog railway crash claims eight dead
A single-car cog railway carriage derailed on Mt Washington near the summit killing eight people, including four children, and injuring 71. Gov. King and the Public Utilities Commission planned an on-site investigation as rescue operations continued and officials sought the cause of the disaster on the steep trestle line.
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Concord
John W. King
Mt. Washington Coy
Public Utilities Commission
Robert W. Rhodes
Dartmouth College
Henry N. Teague
Inside Hoosick Falls Hero Receives Distinguished Flying Cross
On the Inside Hoosick Falls hero receives Distinguished Flying Cross. Gerald Raftery makes a pun when he asks if Vermonters are weather rain. Mt. Snow golf tourney champs named.
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Hoosick Falls
Gerald Raftery
Mt. Snow
GM Hikes 1968 Car Prices
DETROIT UPI General Motors announced an average 110 dollar price rise for 1968 models about 3.6 percent over 1967. The increases ranged from 50 on the Chevrolet Super Sport 396 hardtop to 297 on the Cadillac Eldorado. GM cited higher material and labor costs plus safety and pollution control equipment as factors.
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Detroit
UPI
General Motors Corp
U.S
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motor Co
Beulah Churns Toward Texas Coast In Wide Gulf Course
The killer hurricane Beulah, moving west-northwest at about 12 mph with winds up to 105 mph, heads for the Texas Gulf Coast. Leaflets warn fishing camps as Red Cross sets up emergency centers from south Texas to coastal towns. Naval Air Station Corpus Christi crews brace for high winds while civil defense units stand by.
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Tex
UPD
Texas
Gulf Coast
Beulah
Gulf of Mexico
U.S. Weather Bureau
Mexico
Red Cross
Naval Air Station
Corpus Christi
Tampico
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