Vatican Council looks to finish sessions before Christmas
Vatican notes foresee the fourth and final session of the Ecumenical Council ending before Christmas. Pope Paul VI will address 2,500 prelates in St. Peter's as the council debates lay life, missions, schools, orders, seminaries, and priestly reforms. Cardinal Doepfner notes no close date yet amid tensions from early sessions. The pope also denounces totalitarian suppression of the church and urges prayers for the United Nations visit while issuing the encyclical Mysterium Fidei reaffirming transubstantiation.
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Chou En Lai rejects U N seating as Viet Nam peace lever
In an interview broadcast from Peking on Sept 8 Premier Chou En Lai said Communist China cannot be seated in the United Nations as a step toward Viet Nam peace and that U S troops must withdraw as a prerequisite. He denounced the UN as US‑manipulated and urged wide Asian, African and Latin American unity to oppose the United States.
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Pope confronts terms on Eucharist in ecumenical note
The pontiff argues that the bread and wine symbolism in the Eucharist resembles Protestant views. He avoids naming theologians but rejects discussing the mystery of transubstantiation through terms like transignification or transfiguration.
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Dominican Rebels Accept Amnesty
Hundreds of unarmed rebels left the rebel zone in Santo Domingo singing revolutionary songs and chanting anti American slogans. They returned to their interior homes by bus truck and car caravan. Provisional President Hector Garcia Godoy ordered officials to allow a safe peaceful return. One shooting was reported with unclear details. Some militiamen and defected soldiers still hold arms.
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Nearly Quit After Attack Reveals Ike Resignation Doubt
New York Times reports Dwight D. Eisenhower considered resigning after his 1957 stroke. In his memoir Waging Peace 1956 1960 he recounts testing capacity by attending a NATO conference in Paris despite doctors concerns. He passed the test and stayed in office.
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Mounties Arrest Alleged Kingpin In Drug Traffic
Canadian Mounties, aided by two rookie decoys, conducted weekend raids in Montreal and Toronto, the largest eastern Canada narcotics roundup in years. Twenty one people faced narcotics peddling charges including Willie Lamy, linked to Lucien Rivard, with raids seizing a drug store size supply of marijuana to heroin. Lamy and others to be arraigned Monday. Rivard to appear in Texas on conspiracy counts tied to border trafficking.
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North Viet Nam accuses Saigon over bridge incident
Tokyo dispatch reports North Viet Nam charging South Vietnamese forces fired on a bridge post on the Ben Hai River at the 17th parallel. Hanoi says police at the southern end fired 28 rounds at the northern post on Saturday.
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Weekend Briefs on Bank of Hagland pound support
The Bank of Hagland announced new arrangements with the United States and nine other countries to back the British pound on the world market. France was notably absent, seen as a psychological setback. Treasury Secretary Fowler and Chancellor Callaghan said the move aims at economic improvements, not crisis. Ten months earlier the group plus Krange provided $3 billion during an emergency, and the Bank of England had raised interest to 7 percent.
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Vatican edits on deicide term in Jewish relation note
The Roman Catholic draft declaration on Jews in Christ’s crucifixion was altered by removing the word deicide and replacing it with other terms to heed bishops’ conditional approval last year. The text still cautions Catholics against portraying Jews as rejected or guilty of killing God.
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Eisenhower warns NATO may fail without unified command
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower told the New York Times that NATO cannot survive if France ends the alliance's joint military command. He warned that the alternative would be a coalition of separate forces and said coalitions historically fail.
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Nixon Sees Improvement in War and USO Expansion
Former Vice President Richard M Nixon said the United States had turned the corner in Vietnam and warned of two to three more years of intensive activity while considering a naval quarantine to halt war materiel. The USO agreed to expand rest and relaxation services for armed forces after prior cutbacks.
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Johnson Announces Nominations for Defense Posts
President Johnson said he would nominate John Foster Jr. to direct defense research, replacing Harold Brown who becomes secretary of the Air Force on October 1. Foster would assume the post November 3. Johnson also named Robert A. Brookes of Cambridge as assistant secretary of the Army for installations and logistics.
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Wagner Rejects Water Metering Policy in City
Mayor Robert F. Wagner rejected the water panel’s call for immediate metering of all water use. He did assign 300 firefighters and anti poverty trainees to inspect the water system and ordered metering for all city owned buildings.
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Riesel Forecasts Labor Council Overhaul This Year
National labor analyst Victor Riesel predicted 10 to 12 members of the AFL-CIO executive council will be replaced by year end. The 27 member council will see a younger, better educated leadership trend with names like James Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers and David McDonald of the steelworkers among those expected to depart their seats.
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FDR Aide Missing in Maine Near Lakeview
In Lakeview Plantation Maine a 78 year old former aide to Franklin D Roosevelt Brig Gen Andrew J McFarland was last seen Friday during a walk near the lakeside settlement. More than 30 searchers including bloodhounds civil defense workers airmen and volunteers hunted the area with helicopters converging on the scene. McFarland a former secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1946 and ex professor at the University of Maine is believed in weak condition but no trace has been found.
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Venezuelan Mayor Seized by Terrorists
Twenty armed men, believed to be members of a pro Castro guerrilla band, attacked the village of Concepcion in Portuguesa state, kidnapping its mayor and a local police officer. The incident was reported from Caracas, with authorities fearing further violence.
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Viet Montagnards Threaten Revolt in Central Viet Nam
U S officials fear a fresh Montagnard uprising in South Viet Nam's central highlands. Ban Me Thuot, 160 miles north of Saigon, grows tense as the government moves to crack down on the militant movement led largely by Rhode Island–aged militants seeking autonomous state status within South Viet Nam.
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