Johnson Seeks World Goodwill Amid Foreign Policy Criticism
President Johnson tells Internal Revenue Service officers the United States remains a beloved people worldwide despite policy differences. He cites postwar aid goodwill, urges finding areas of agreement, warns critics align with enemies, and recalls the Cuban missile crisis and Bay of Pigs as past concerns. He notes friction with Nixon and Goldwater over handling foreign problems.
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UPI
Johnson
Internal Revenue Service
White House
United States
Panama
Viet Nam
Laos
Bay of Pigs
Johnsson
Khrushchev
China
Richard M. Nixon
Barry Goldwater
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Truant Officers Alerted Over Boston Boycott Plan
Boston’s 33 truant officers have been told to take any legal action needed after a public school boycott plan. School Committee Chairman William O’Connor said attendance officers should target leaders who induce children to skip school. Attorney General Edward W. Brooke had ruled the boycott illegal and left enforcement to the committees.
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Boston
Wiliam O'Connor
Atty
Edward W. Brooke
Capital Penalty Kept in Georgia House Vote
Atlanta Georgia legislators rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish capital punishment except for murders of policemen and guards The House decision preserves the death penalty with limited exception pending further action in the state capital
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Georgia Atlanta
Georgia House
Mental Health Measure Signed by President
President Johnson signed a bill funding a new mental health program and emergency financing for three existing programs. It allocates 41.8 million for community mental health centers and teacher training for mentally retarded children, 216.2 million for school districts, 41.1 million for the NDEA college loan expansion, and 595,000 for another year of the Mexican farm labor program. The measure also expands federal aid to urban areas and introduces a population-based matching formula for library services and construction funds.
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Washington
Johnson
Library Legislation Signed Into Law Expands Federal Library Aid
New York AP reports President Johnson signed a law authorizing a vast three year 135 million dollar federal aid program for libraries. The measure aims to provide library service to 38 million people in rural areas across the United States.
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Direc
Washington
Johnson
Lincoln's Message Auctioned for 16000 Dollars in New York
The hand written message of President Lincoln to the defeated Union Army at Fredericksburg Va was sold for 16000 dollars. The Carnegie Book Shop bought the document at a Parke-Bernet Galleries sale as the only known Lincoln hand written version. The message praised the army and thanked the nation.
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New York
Abraham Lincoln
Army of the Potomac
Fredericksburg
Carnegie Book Shop
Manhattan
Lincoln
Parke-Bernet
Legal Battle Threatens Plea to Free Boston Strangler Suspect
In Boston a Civil Liberties Union attorney threatens a legal fight to release a 57 year old strangling suspect held for 100 days observation at the Mental Health Center. The man, linked by police to 12 eastern Massachusetts stranglings, was urged to be freed amid warnings from the state attorney general to avoid CLU intervention.
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Boston
UPI
Civil Liberties Union
CLU
Louis M. Nordlinger
Massachusettts
Picketing Is Halted At Cape Kennedy Space Center
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order halting missile center picketing that blocked about 213 million in space construction. U S District Judge George C Young ordered the stop through 5 pm Thursday after a late night Orlando hearing. The NLRB sought the order against Local 85 of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, accused of aiding four striking rail unions in an illegal boycott.
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UPS
U. S
George C. Young
Orlando
At & A.m
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Kennedy Space Center
Florida East Coast
FEC
Young
Whooping Cranes Wintering in Texas
The Interior Department reports 33 endangered whooping cranes wintering at the Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas Gulf Coast. The flock, the world’s largest, migrated 2,500 miles from nesting grounds near Great Slave Lake in Canada, last fall.
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Washington
UPI
Interior Department
Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge
Texas Gulf Coast
Great Slave Lake
Canada
Northwest Territoree
AT&T Offers $1.3 Billion Stock Rights to Holders
AT and T offered 2.25 million stockholders $1.3 billion in common stock at $160 per share, about 43 beneath market price. The plan, the largest corporate financing in U.S. history, funds a $3.25 billion growth modernization program for 1994 and may finance Communications Satellite Corp. rights issues.
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U.S
Communications Satellite Corp
ATET
Kennedy Slain Linked to Communist Timetable Claim
New York dispatch reports a John Birch Society article in American Opinion asserting Kennedy was assassinated for lagging in the Communist timetable for U S takeover. Prof Revilo P Oliver writes that Communists set 1963 as the date for capture and Oswald’s action disrupted their plan.
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UPI
John Birch Society
Kennedy
United States
Revilo P. Oliver
Classics
University of Illinois
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oliver
Berkshire Eagle Subscription Rates By Carriers And Mail
Rates listed for Berkshire Eagle subscriptions by carriers and by mail with zone distinctions. Includes weekly, monthly, quarterly and six month options, plus change of address instructions and request to notify both post office and Berkshire Eagle to avoid service interruption.
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Post Office
Seachuset
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