Foreign Aid in Focus For Congress Week
The Senate studies a $3.35 billion foreign aid bill with a two year cutoff and a plan to funnel more aid through international lenders. Fulbright backs separating military and economic aid and boosting OAS role in Latin America. Dirksen proposes a $100 million add on Formosa forces uplift. The House opposes changes to aid form, setting the clash for the year.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J. W. Fulbright
Lang
Fulbright
Organization of American States
U.S
Latin America
OAS
Everett M. Dirksen
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Two New England Marines Die in Viet Nam Coast Collision
The Defense Department identified six Marines killed in a Saturday collision off South Viet Nam. Two more aboard the helicopters were missing. Dead include Capt Paul F McNally of Hawaii and Cpl Gary D Tracey of Maine, with families listed in Fitchburg Massachusetts and Fort Fairfield Maine.
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Washington
Defense Department
South Viet Nam
Paul F.mcnally
Sally J
Keneohe
Hawaii
William H. McNally
Harrison Ave
Fitchburg
Mass
Gary D. Tracey
Margaret Theresa
Richard E. Tracey
Fort Fairfield
Maine
Connecticut Girl Wins Northeastern Baton Twirl Title
Lois Payette, 14, an eighth grader from Lisbon Connecticut, won the eighth annual Northeastern Open Championship Baton Twirling Festival at Mountain Park, beating about 400 competitors from Maine to New Jersey.
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Holyoke
Mass
UPI
Lois Payette
Lisbon
Muskie eyes 800 million a year for water pollution grants
Senator Muskie a Maine Democrat leads hearings in the Northeast proposing 800 million dollars annually in federal grants for sewage collection and waste treatment plant connections to curb stream pollution. He also hints at extending tax incentives for firms building treatment or collection facilities and seeks authority for matching grants to communities.
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Washington
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Senate
Portland
Philadelphia
U.S. Public Health Service
Delaware Estuary
Delaware River
Delaware River Basin
Delaware River Basin Commission, Embracing New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Delaware
Health, Education and Welfare Department
House
John A. Blatnik
D-Minn
Senate House Conference Committee
Sen
Graduate Sought in Triple Slaying Bank Robbery
Duane Pope, 22, a Kansas farm boy and recent McPherson College graduate, is the subject of a federal warrant for the Farmers State Bank of Big Springs robbery in which three bank employees were killed and one wounded. Authorities describe Pope as well dressed with a crew cut, and a manhunt spans across central Kansas after a green 1965 rental car aided the investigation.
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Salina
Kan
Kansas
Nebraska
Duane Pope
Here
Roxbury
FBI
Farmers State Bank of
Big Springs
Neb
Franklin Kjeldgaard
Kjeldgaard
Denver
Andreas Kjeldgaard
Glenn Hendrickson
Lois Ann Hothan
R. E. Richards
Due County
Pope
Richards
Floyd Stahl
McPherson
Cocaptain
Duane
D. W. Bitlenger
Johnson Urges Communists Toward Peace Walk
President Johnson appeals to Communist world leaders to join the United States in a walk toward peace. In speeches at Catholic University and a Chicago fundraiser, he invites Soviet Union and Eastern Nations to reason together and avoid arms races, emphasizing a moment of opportunity for peace.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
United States
Catholic University of America
Chicago
Soviet Union
Europe
Southeast Asia
Master Park Plan Aired by Rockefeller
Albany governor Nelson Rockefeller proposed a master plan to preserve and beautify the Hudson River and Adirondack Catskill Forest Preserve, linking lands into a single park and blocking federal plans for a Hudson Highlands Scenic Highway. He urged rapid action to study and acquire private woodlands and create a Hudson River Valley Scenic Corridor from the Adirondack Park to the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge.
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Rockefeller
Albany
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Hudson River
Adirondack-Catskill
Hudson
Palisades
Yonkers
Newburgh
Richard L. Ottinger
Jonathan 8. Bingham
D-Ny
Putnam
Westchester
Jacob K. Javits
Robert F. Kennedy
Adirondack Park
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Hudson River Valley Commission
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Congress
N.E
Viet Nam
Baton Champis
Knights OF the KU Klux Klan
New Bern
N.C
Associated Press
Edward J. Michelson
Cashiers Victims
Miss Ohio
Miami Beach
Fla
Columbus
Ohio
Sue Ann Downey
U.S.A
Arizona
Jane Nelson
Tularasa
N.M
Julie Andrus
Maysfield
Dianna Batts
District of Columbia
Buane Pope
LT Tee
Pittsfield
England
Wanda Trepacz Beauty Salon
North St
Woolworths
North Street
Pioneer Credit Corporation
Great Barrington
Main Street
Englands
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