Four Allies Mount Attack On Viet Cong Stronghold
Four nations led a joint assault 20 miles north of Saigon, parachuting in and driving armored columns into a Viet Cong stronghold as part of a large weeklong operation. Casualties were reported among New Zealand, Australian, American, and Vietnamese forces with updates on weekly combat totals and air strikes across South Vietnam.
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Quant Tri
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Key White House resignations from Johnson staff
Washington AP reports President Johnson accepts the resignations of two key aides. Richard Goodwin will join Wesleyan University Center for Advanced Studies after leaving the White House. Horace Busby will become a Washington management consultant. Both resignations were described as reluctant. Greenfield Mass AP notes the Greenfield School Committee rejected a 36200 federal grant, deeming it too large and burdensome, opting against the Neighborhood Youth Corps project after supers Wright recommended the denial.
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White House
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Richard N. Goodwin
Horace Bushy Jr
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Center For Advanced Studies
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Busby
Austin
Tex
Greenfield
Mass
Greenfield School Committee
Sup
William Wright
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Wright
Beame Surges To NYC Democratic Mayoral Nomination
In New York City Democratic primary, Abraham Beame defeats Paul Screvane and others to become the party’s frontrunner for mayor. Beame leads with 327,934 votes to Screvane’s 263,991. Ryan and O’Dwyer trail. Wagner’s 12-year tenure and party divisions shaped a lively race.
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UPI
Robert T. Wagner
Abraham Beame
Fiorello
Paul BR. Screvane
Wagner
William F. Ryan
Paul O'Dwyer
Beamé
Lindsay
Screvane
Ryan
O'Dwyer
Beame
Paul O’dwyer
William O'Dwyer
Serevane
Brooklyn
Bronx
John V. Lindsay
YF Beame
la Guardia
Five Day Forecast Notes Temperature Shifts Through Monday
The forecast shows temperatures averaging three degrees above the seasonal norm of 68. Friday and Saturday will be colder, Sunday warmer, with additional showers late Friday and early Saturday and again on Monday.
Road Beauty Bill Altered For Debate
Washington sources report last minute changes to Johnson highway beautification proposals. The plan seeks 380 million dollars in federal aid over two years to remove billboards and junk yards along interstates and primary roads with 90 percent and 50 percent funding shares respectively, while states cover the rest. Administrations aims include requiring states to pay 25 percent of costs and limiting roadside billboard zones to commercial areas with commerce secretary approval.
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UPI
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Senate
Commerce Secretary
UMass Term Opens Amid Calls for Student Involvement
Amherst Professor Joseph Marcus urged a campus convocation to boost student involvement as a remedy for unrest. He warned against copying other schools and proposed a summit conference among students faculty and administration to tackle major student concerns. He noted roughly 10 percent of students carry most interest while 80 percent seem disengaged.
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Amherst
Joseph Marcus
University of
Americans Evacuated From La Hore War Zone
U S Air Force transports carried 606 Americans, mostly women and children, from La Hore Pakistan to Tehran Iran. They join 404 other American families awaiting in Tehran as India Pakistan fighting continues.
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Iran
U.S. Air Force
Lahore
Pakistan
U.S
Henry H. Mayer
Hope Rises For Peace With India
Pakistan's Ayub Khan asked President Johnson to help secure a cease fire with India and signaled willingness to compromise. UN Secretary General Thant said efforts to end fighting continue as he visited Delhi. Ayub softened three demand terms, proposing a plebiscite after a cease-fire, while Washington weighs bold moves to end the war.
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Thant Lef
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Andhe
Rawapindi
Lal Bahadur Shastri
New York
Associated Press
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Washington
Ayub
Fulbright Criticizes Extremes of U S Dominican Position
Senator A W Fulbright criticizes the Johnson administration as too timid at the start and too forceful in the Dominican crisis. He faulted diplomatic advisers for faulty guidance during Santo Domingo events and argued the U S could have steered the revolution more wisely without naming President Johnson.
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Domican Republic
Cardinals Battle Over Religious Liberty At Ecumenical Council
Vatican reports a heated open session as Francis Spellman and Richard Cushing lead a push for a new Episcopal Senate to guide pastoral affairs. The 14 page declaration asserts freedom of conscience and worship, while conservatives demand state supremacy in worship. The pope’s motu proprio formalizes the senate to advise the pontiff on church governance.
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UPI
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James Cushing
Boston
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Tarragona
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de Arriba Y Castro
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Cardinal Cushing
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St. Peter's Basilica
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
Sacred College of Cardinals
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Episcopal Senate
Charles Buswell
Pueblo
Colo
Pope May Meet U S Protestants In New York Visit
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI expressed interest in meeting American Protestant leaders in the United States. He will visit the United Nations in New York on October 4 to urge world peace. Bishop Fred Pierce Carson of the Methodist World Council proposed a Protestant meeting in New York as a unity gesture amid the peace plea. The Methodist Council claims 4 million members.
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UPI
Paul VI
United States
Vatican
United Nations
New York
Fred Pierce Carson
Methodist World Council
Ecumenical Council
Methodist Council
Indictment of deputy sheriff in Civil Rights death
A Lowndes County grand jury indicted a special deputy sheriff for first degree manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of Jonathan Daniels 26 of Keene New Hampshire a white civil rights worker. The jury also indicted Tom Coleman 52 charging assault and battery in wounding Rev. Richard Morrisroe 26 a Chicago priest.
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Ala
UPI
Lowndes County
New Hampshire
Tom Coleman
Chicago
Auditor Criticizes DPW for One Man Contractor
State Auditor Thaddeus Buczko faults the DPW highway division audit covering Jan 9 1964 to Mar 22 1965 for awarding three inspection of structural materials contracts to Carnes Co Inc of West Roxbury and notes Francis J Carnes did all the work on the contracts.
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UPI
Thaddeus Buczko
State Department of Public Works
DPW
Carnes Co., Inc
West Roxbury
Francis J. Carnes
Meteorologist predicts rainy fall and cold New England winter
MIT meteorologist Prof. Hurd C. Willett forecasts a rainy autumn and a colder winter for New England with normal snowfall. Eastern Massachusetts may see about 40 inches of snow, with winter running roughly two degrees below normal, based on hemisphere patterns and sunspot Cycle analysis.
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Hurd C. Willett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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