Big Guns and Choppers Pry Into Saigon Fight
U S artillery and armed helicopters bombarded North Vietnamese troops northeast of Saigon as spotters tracked infiltration trails. In Song Be area 85 miles northeast of Saigon one more enemy killed, bringing two day toll to 115. Reports say fresh NVA troops may have moved in, with helicopters firing to force enemy from concealment. Cobras with heavy rockets supported paratroopers in hitting targets.
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Saigon
U.S
Song Be
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Phuoc Long
Bing Long
Tay Ninh
Bomb blasts hit Milan bank near cathedral
A bomb tore through the headquarters of Banca Nazionale Dell Agricoltura in central Milan near the cathedral, killing 14 and wounding 90. Firefighters contained the blaze as ambulances rushed to the scene. Within an hour, three more explosions in Rome injured 17 near Via Veneto and the Vittoriano monument.
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Milan
Italy
Banca Nazcionale Dell’Agricoltura
Piazza Fontana
Antonio Spasciani
Rome
Banca Nazionale del Laguero
Via Veneto
Victor Emmanuel Menument
Piazza Venezia
Brown University to Seek Tuition Increase Next Year
Brown University plans a tuition hike from 2300 to 5000 dollars for next year to cover an estimated 4.5 million dollar operating deficit. Malcolm Stevens, the university vice president, said the Brown University Corp. will be asked to consider the raise at the January 9 meeting.
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Providence, RI
Brown University
Malcolm
Stevens
Brown University Corp
Brown
Gov Sargent to Meet on Student Trustee Voting
Gov Franis W Sargent travels to Framingham State College Monday to discuss elections for student trustees on boards of the University of Massachusetts Southeastern Massachusetts University Lowell Tech and state college boards. He will hear an interim report from the committee and meet with student members after the briefing. The plan, first proposed at Holy Cross College commencement, envisions student representation on both public and private college boards.
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Boston
Francis W. Sargent
Framingham State College
Sargent
University of Massachusetts
Southeastern Massachusetts University
Lowell Tech
Holy Cross College
160000 Handicapped Get School Aid in 1967 68
The U S Office of Education reports about 160 000 handicapped children received special educational services in the 1967 68 school year. About 32 5 million dollars were spent to supplement state funds to local schools of more than 1 billion dollars for the program.
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Washington
U.S. Office of Education
Vatican approves document to improve Catholic Jewish ties
A Vatican approved 12 page document on Catholic Jewish relations urges reforms including joint prayer and recognizing Israel's religious meaning. Cardinal Lawrence Shehan announced the plan, which calls Christians to pardon past persecutions and integrate Judaism into Catholic education and texts.
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New York Times News Service
New York
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan
Baltimore
Vatican Secretariat
Rome
Cardinal Shehan
American Bishops’ Secretariat For
Catholic Jewish Relations
Bishops' Conferences
Israel
Benjamin R. Epstein
Anti- Defamation League of B'nai Brith
Eugene Barowitz
Conferences of Bishops
United States
Gaig
Edward H. Flannery
Secretariat For
Vatican
Father Flannery
Christian Unity Secretariat
Italy U S Fight Over Hijacker
Washington reports the Minichiello case pits U S and Italy over extradition for the Trans World Airlines hijacking to Rome last Nov 1. Indicted in Brooklyn on kidnapping and air piracy, he holds dual citizenship and may face differing penalties, with Italy leaning leniently and the U S threatening death for certain charges.
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Washington
Raphael Minichiello
United States
Italy
U.S. Marine
Trans World Airlines
California
Rome
Minichiello
U.S. State Department
New York
Brooklyn, N.Y
Justice Department
State Department
Vietnam
Mente Irpina
Naples
Pietro Guli
Guli
Virginia O Hanlon Douglas Hospitalized in Hudson
Virginia O Hanlon Douglas, the author of the famous Yes Virginia Santa Claus letter, is hospitalized in fair condition with a heart ailment in Hudson New York. The 80th Christmas marks her hospitalization after entering the hospital Thursday night as a retired school teacher.
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N.Y
Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas
Onte
New York
Douglas
New York Sun
Santa Claus
Pap
The
Old Sun
Virginia
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