Volpe Wins House Battle Over Sales Tax Bill
Massachusetts politics swirl as Gov. Volpe secures House passage 120 to 102 with cross party support including Berkshire County members. Senate fight looms as leadership signals opposition and debates shift to timing and revenue use conditions.
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Boston
Senate
Maurice A. Donahue
Doolyoke
John A. Volpe
Berkshire County Delegaton
Greenberg, Kilterman
Wojtkowski
Fittsfield
Sala
North Adams
Curtiss
Sheffield
Turner
Lee
Zelazo
James F . Burke
Brockton
Ways and Means Committee
Volpe
House
Donahue
Dead LES4 satellite revives with operational transponder
Lincoln Laboratory engineers reported an unexpected Christmas present from space as LES4, a Lincoln Experimental Satellite communications package, revived after initial failure. Fired with three other satellites, it ended in a polar like orbit far from target, but by Sunday afternoon its transponder powered up and first communications tests lasted over an hour despite earlier gloom.
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Lexington
Mass
Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln
John Kessler
Laboratory
East Coast
Westford
Four Day Truce Offered by Reds in Viet Nam
The Viet Cong offered a four day lunar new year cease fire for Vietnam as the United States maintains a moratorium on air raids. U.S. officials, including President Johnson and Defense Secretary McNamara, weigh peace talks while Ky’s regime seeks a military victory and is not fully consulted on the lull. The offer, broadcast from Hanoi, excludes Allied troops, with unclear scope.
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Viet Nam
U. S
North
Guam
South
Johnson
Hanoi
Texas White House
Defense
Robert §. McNamara
Nguyen Cao Ky
New Zealand
South Viet Nam
U.S
Pleiku
White House
McNamara
Harris Resigns House Seat For U.S. Judgeship
Representative Oren Harris of Arkansas resigns from Congress effective February 3 to accept a federal judgeship appointment made last summer. The move, urged to delay by advisers, opens the seat to a possibly wide open race with a minority candidate or Republican contender.
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Washington
UPE
Oren Harris
D-Ark
House Commerce Committee
Congress
U.S
Harris
House
Outnumbered 5-1 repulses Viet Cong assault at Bu Prang outpost
Government troops, outnumbered five to one, repelled two Viet Cong attacks on the Bu Prang outpost near the Cambodian border. About 500 attackers tried to overrun the post, while 109 Vietnamese defenders withstood mortars and recoilless rifles before air strikes forced the Viet Cong to withdraw at dawn. Casualties were reported as light. In Pleiku, 15 Montagnard leaders were sentenced to long terms for breach of national security after a Central Highlands uprising. four were acquitted.
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Saigon
UPI
North
Viet Nam
Bu Prang
U.S
Pleiku
Central Highlands
Pantani resigns as Italian foreign minister in peace talks controversy
Amintore Fanfani resigns as Italy’s foreign minister amid a dispute over his role in Hanoi peace feelers relayed to President Johnson. The move follows criticism over a La Pira interview and questions from the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Commission. Fanfani asks to resign effective Jan 6 to face critics while remaining foreign minister.
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Amintore Pantani
Viet Nam
Fanfani
United Nations General Assembly
Florence
Giorgioi la Pira
Johnson
Foreign Affairs Commission
Chamber of Deputies
Aldo Moro
Christian Democrat
la Pira
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
la Pha
Italy
Gianni Preda
Miss Preda
Il Borghese
Preda
United Nations
Mayor Faces Hurdle Over New High School Site
City leaders remain divided over paying for 40 acres on Valentine Road and 11 acres held by Anthony McNulty Jr. as the school site. Del Gallo considers two taking options, while the Petriceas demand 107000 for the land and the city weighs open Spaces Act reimbursements and bond funding.
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Petricca
Petricea
Valentine Road
Anthony E. McNulty Jr
Petriceas
McNulty
del Gallo
Arthur ©. Johnson
Peter Demus
Churchill Street
Blythewood Drive
T. Cea
Johnson-Demos
Petrieca
Johnson
Demos
Wat Tie Petrie
Curriculum, Textbooks Involved St. John's U in Union Fight
New York NANA reports a looming UFCT strike at St. John's University over union recognition and control of curriculum and textbooks. The union says 31 faculty were dismissed without stated cause, while the administration cites discredit from extracurricular activity. The dispute centers on whether colleges must bargain with faculty unions and grant academic freedom and due process.
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New York
NANA
United Federation of College Teachers
UFCT
Alf-Cio
St. John’s University
St. John’s
Israel Kugler
Th Vory
Joseph Cahill
St. John's
Robert Lieberman
Charles Cogen
American Federation of Teachers
Lieberman
Chicago
Licerman
Harold F. McNeice
St. John’s Law School
Msgr. Cahill
Liberman
Afl-Cio
George Meany
United Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
Afl-Cio Industrial Union Department
MIUD
IUD
New York Central Labor Council
Teacher’s Union
National Educational Association
American Association of University Professors
AAUP
U.S
Mayor Tidmore Reports Christmas Pellet Gun Vandalism
Lubbock Texas Mayor Max Tidmore said on Monday youths fired Christmas pellet guns at his front yard destroying the Christmas lights along his lawn and driveway.
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Lubbock, Tex
UPI
Max Tidmore
Tidmore
Elizabeth Leads British Marking Abbeys 900 Years
Queen Elizabeth II leads ceremonies marking Westminster Abbey's 900th anniversary with 2300 dignitaries including a Vatican delegate and a New York attorney who aided restoration. The abbey, founded by Edward the Confessor and consecrated in 1065, hosts monarchs, coronations, and a 28 million restoration begun in 1933.
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Elizabeth
London
UPI
Westminster Abbey
Commonwealth
Vatican
Msgr
Ignano Cardinale
Morris Ernst
New York
Edward the Confessor
St. Peter
Edward
Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill
Britain
Westminster
William the Conqueror
Henry III
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