Civil Rights Road Bill Faces Lengthy Senate Battle
Southern opponents plan a strategy session as the Senate prepares to take up a civil rights measure with President Johnson's support. Senator Russell leads Dixie forces in possible weeks or months of debate and a potential double filibuster. Senator Mansfield will move to consider the bill, raising the prospect of extended obstruction.
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Washington
Senate
Richard B. Russell D.ga
Dixie
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Fighting resumes in Ktima as Cyprus cease-fire collapses
Heavy fighting breaks out in Ktima on Cyprus west coast ending a brief truce. Greek Cypriot forces push to control the town as Turks retreat and hostages are freed, with ongoing fire and failed peace bids. Gyani rushed to mediate with Makarios amid urgent discussions.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Ktima
U.N
Prem Singh Gyani
Makarios
Ktima-Paphos
Dimitri Papageorge
Gyani Papageorge
Gyani
Kuma
Global flare in Cyprus as ceasefire breaks amid hostages held
Greek Cypriot security forces launch an all out attack in Kt ma despite a cease fire and release by the Turks of about two hundred hostages. In Washington President Johnson plans to push to lower the draft age to seventeen to broaden wartime poverty programs. The Senate opens its civil rights debate as indecision colors the New Hampshire primary outcome.
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Ktma
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
New Hampshire
Frank Sinatra Jr
Indianapolis
Washington
LBJ to ask Congress cut draft age to seventeen
President Johnson will seek to lower the draft age from 18 to 17 to advance the war on poverty effort. About 500,000 yearly failures of the General Classification Test would enter special work schools with education and vocational courses. The move would not affect overall callup timing, but would enlarge the eligible pool with 17-year-olds at the bottom of the list.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Army
Sargent Shriver
War On Poverty
New academies echo CCC camps with focus on study
The planned academies will bar underprivileged youths from harsh home lives and offer education and vocational projects rather than outdoor labor, resembling CCC work camps in structure but emphasizing schooling.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Johnson urges broad manpower policy to fight unemployment
President Johnson asked Congress for wide legislation to create jobs and train workers as part of a new active manpower policy. He warned the nation faces persistent unemployment despite 800,000 new February jobs, citing insufficient skills and youth entering the labor market alongside automation.
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Johnson
Congress
Copilot Dies As Plane Crashes Into Chicago Home
A chartered DC-3 bound for O Hare slams through utility lines and into a Hoffmann Estates home in misty night air. Copilot Daniel Jordan of Gary Indiana is killed. pilot Virgil Provost is hospitalized in critical condition. Eleven survivors from the 23 men and 5 women onboard escape as the plane clips a two story house.
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Chicago
O'Hare International
Michigan
Hoffmen Estates
Victor Golubski
Daniel Jordan
Gary
Ind
Carl Selka
O'Hare
Golubski
Indecision Clouds N. H. GOP Primary
Concord based report on the New Hampshire presidential primary where voters debate loyalties among Goldwater Rockefeller and Lodge. Write-in hopes for Nixon and Lodge risk reshaping the field as the five official candidates contend ahead of California’s June primary.
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Rockefeller
Goldwater
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
South Viet Nam
Lodge
Richard M. Nixon
California
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
New Hampshire
Washington
Chuckle Chairman urges heed to who makes suggestion
The Chuckle Chairman declares a suggestion but warns not to forget the source of the idea. The remark, tagged Copr Gen Fea Corp, hints at oversight or commentary on corporate governance.
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Copr
Gen
Fea, Corp
McNamara Sees Viet War Tactics in Mekong Delta
In Saigon U S Defense Secretary McNamara and aides visit the Mekong Delta to study Viet Cong fighting and a new Vietnamese plan to shift troops south. Premier Nguyen Khanh accompanies the trip as plans for increased U S Vietnamese cooperation and active command are discussed. The party tours seven hours of briefings while questions focus on South Viet Nam rail logistics and its vulnerability to disruption.
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Viet Nam
U.S
Robert S. McNamara
Mekong
Nguyen Khanh
McNamara
Can
Aew
Namese
Khanh
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
John A. McCone
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Arthur Sylvester
Defense
Sylvester
South Viet Nam
Five Die In N E Weekend Fatalities Rise
A weekend crash toll in New England includes a Plymouth Connecticut triple fatality and a Boston Jamaica Plain double death. Roland Belanger 23 his wife Helen 23 and Dalton Caron 2 die when their car leaves Route 6 and overturns. Geraldine White 18 and Barbara Bigwood 18 die in Boston area crashes. Michael O Leary 89 is struck by a car in Cambridge Mass while Weldon Bates 31 dies when a car overturns in Mapleton Maine.
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New England
Plymouth
Conn
Roland Belanger
Thomeaston
Helen
Dalton Caron
Lewiston Maine
Jamaica Plain
Geraldine White
Roslindale
Barbara Bigwood
Michael O'Leary
Cambridge
Mass
Prospect Street
Weldon R. Bates
Presque Isle
Maine
Mapleton
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