Defeated Volpe Tax Plan Spurs Lesser Bill in Boston
In Boston the House rejected Gov. Volpe's fifth sales tax plan 118 to 112 and moved to consider a $100 million plus $70 million balance budget alternative. Rep. Turner lambasted the proposal as unfair and taxpayers warned of new levies while Rep. Eaton kept the plan from advancing by shifting to refer it to the next annual session.
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House
Volpe
Ways and Means Committee
Overnor
Turner
Warren A. Turner
Rlee
Senate
John Eaton
Concord
Eaton
Berkshire
Edward Zelazo
R-Adams
Zelazo
Aes
Joseph Silvanio
Anthony DeFalco
First Cuban refugee airlift flight lands in Cuba
A Pan American DC7C carried 82 Cuban refugees from Miami to Varadero marking the launch of what UPI describes as the largest refugee airlift in history. The plan envisions up to 18,000 Cubans per year airlifted to the United States, with most resettled elsewhere while Miami remains a primary entry point.
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UPI
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Pan American Airways
Miami International
Varadero, Cuba
U.S. State Department
Key West
U.S
Florida
Castro
State Department
Varadero
United States
Bizarre crash and fire kills Pittsfield pair in Lanesboro
A 1937 Oldsmobile crashed at Balance Rock Park in Lanesboro, killing a 47 year old Pittsfield man, Walter Fulton Jr., and a woman believed to be 31 from Pittsfield. The car jumped a curb, struck a tree, and burned, with deaths due to smoke inhalation burns and carbon monoxide. Investigators sought to confirm the woman’s identity while noting the scene appeared accidental.
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Pittsfield
Balance Rock Park
Lanesboro
Walter Fulton Jr
Mill St
Fulton
Balance Rock
Irving J. Rubin
Rubin
George Katsas
Harvard School of Legal Medicine
Boston
Viet Battlefield Lull Triggers Leaflet Drop and Skirmishes
Communist guerillas slipped into Tam Ky city and attacked the American compound with grenades and small arms. Air force leaflet drops aimed at Hanoi marked the war’s largest single such operation. U S forces hammered targets around Hanoi and in the coast, while U S ships shelled Viet Cong positions. Weekly U S casualties rose to 248 killed 527 wounded and 14 missing or captured, with South Vietnamese losses at 459 killed 861 wounded and 185 missing while Viet Cong losses reached 1 539 killed in a three to one Allied advantage.
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Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Fis
Ticonderoga
Bon Homme Richard
Vinh
South Viet Nam
7Th Fleet
Kitty Hawk
Mansfield
Chu Pong Mountain
Ia Drang Valley
Viet Nam
NHRR Seeks to End Boston New York Passenger Trains
New Haven Railroad vice president Charles A. Goodwin told an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing that passenger service has fallen to 25 year lows with riders at their weakest since 1927. The line seeks permission to drop all passenger trains between Boston and New York amid a $710.5 million loss last year. He blamed cars and highways for eroding ridership and said trains are being financially overwhelmed.
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New Haven Railroad
Goodwin
Gromyko Presses Halt to Bombings in Viet Nam
In Moscow Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart that the war in Viet Nam cannot end until the United States stops bombing North Viet Nam and withdraws troops from the south. He urged U.S. action as part of a price for peace, while Stewart said Geneva conventions could guide settlement though Hanoi opposes it. The exchange followed Gromyko’s insistence that U.S. aggression end and evacuation of American forces be sought. Meanwhile in Maui Hawaii police pursued a ransom-demanding birdnapper after a macaw was stolen from a restaurant.
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Andrei A. Gromyko
Viet Nam
Gromyko
Michael Stewart
Foreign Ministry
Stewart
U.S
United States
Indochina
Britain
Hanoi
U. S
North Viet Nam
Oahama
Maui
Hawaii
Britain to defend Kariba power amid Rhodesia Zambia tension
Prime Minister Wilson said Britain would act to protect the flow of power from Kariba Dam to Zambia, moving Royal Air Force units to Kenya for possible entry into Zambia. He warned of a limited operation if needed and said Commonwealth Secretary Bottomley would discuss a British ground force with Zambia.
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Britain
Kariba
Rhodesia
Zambia
Wilson
Royal Air Force
Kenya
House of Commons
Eritain
Kenneth Kaunda
Commonwealth Relations
Arthur Bottomley
Kaunda
Copper
Ndola
Lusaka
Kaun
Tan Smith
Smith
Zambezi
Rho
Williams College faculty endorses six point Viet Nam policy
Fifty three Williams College staff and faculty sign a six point statement backing U S diplomatic and military aims toward a settlement in Viet Nam. The new statement supports negotiations without preconditions and continued use of military strength to enable real negotiations, contrasting a prior, more critical statement by 50 faculty.
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Williams College
U.S
Williamstown
Viet Nam
Russell H. Basted
MacAlister Brown
James M. Burns
Paul G. Clark
William B. Gates Jr
Fred Greene
Theodore G. Metin
Irwin Shainman
Robert C. L. Scott
Fred H. Stocking
Robert G. L. Waite
Ralph P. Winch
United States
South Viet Nam
Klan Enjoined Over Bogalusa Civil Rights Turmoil
A three judge U S District Court in New Orleans barred the Ku Klux Klan and allied groups from interfering with Negro citizens in Bogalusa Louisiana. The sweeping injunction targets Klan members and fronts, prohibiting obstruction of rights to vote use public facilities register and employment under the 1963 Civil Rights Act.
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U.S
Ku Klux Hian
Bogalusa la
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
anti-Communist Christian Association
Bogalusa
Justice Department
Louisiana
Aft Spring
Bosarusa
Klan
Senator Cotton Calls McNamara a National Menace
Senator Norris Cotton accuses Defense Secretary Robert McNamara of being a menace to the country during a Rotary Club talk in Concord New Hampshire. He warns that if the president does not dismiss him within five years the nation may be unable to defend itself. Cotton also comments on Pease Air Base Portsmouth Naval Shipyard phase-out and downsizing at Pease.
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Concord
N.A
UPT
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Robert S McNasha
Cotton
Rotary Club
McNamara
Pease Air Base
Portsmouth Naval
Pease
Five Day Forecast Temperatures Dip Ahead
Weather outlook shows temperatures through Monday averaging three degrees below the seasonal 31 degree normal. The period turns colder Friday through Monday with rain and snow chances. Forecast calls for continued cool air as conditions tighten.
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