Weather and air raids limit North Vietnam strikes
Bad weather kept U S air attacks at a two month low with 31 missions by Air Force and Navy pilots. Ground fighting yielded 27 Communist dead in three skirmishes in the northern South Vietnam province, Leathernecks claiming 49 more. A captured Communist document cited Viet Cong losses and recruitment trouble. Radar aided bombing while carriers in the Tonkin Gulf logged nine missions.
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Navy
South Vietnam
U.S
Leathernecks
Saigon
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Mug Gia Pass
Tonkin Gulf
Thanh Hoa
Hanoi
Johnson asks new benefits for Vietnam era veterans
President Johnson urged Congress to pass a package of education and pension boosts for Vietnam era veterans. The plan would align benefits for those entering service after August 5, 1964 with World War I II and Korea veterans, costing about 260 million dollars in the first year with rising annual costs as veteran rolls grow.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Korea
Senate Finance Committee
Fade Out Seen for Viet War May Grindle Toward End
Edwin O. Reischauer told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Vietnam conflict may gradually dwindle and should be kept out of the 1968 presidential race. He called bombing a psychological blunder and urged prudent de escalation with ground holds to foster negotiations and avoid a hasty end before the election.
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Washington
Edwin O. Reischauer
Japan
Reischauer
United States
Fulbright
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S
Tokyo
Harvard
Asia
Stratfield Motor Inn appoints David C. Stafford as new GM
David C. Stafford, former Albany hotel and restaurant executive, named general manager of the Stratfield Motor Inn. He succeeds Walter Scheff, who resigned in March 1985. Stafford begins duties immediately and plans expansion of food and banquet operations and increased convention activity for the hotel complex.
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David C. Stafford
Albany, N.Y
Stratfield Motor Inn
Walter Scheff
Stafford
Hatty
Seve
United Investors Corporation
Own &Rs
Veterah
Schine-Ten Eyck
Albany
Cattlemen’s
New York City
Keeler's
Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge
Ithaca
N.Y
Westbury
Automobile Association of America
Washington
Motor Inn
New U.S. warheads pierce antimissile curtain claim
The Atomic Energy Commission reports new nuclear warheads have greater explosive power for a given amount of material and can penetrate a defensive missile curtain. The disclosure, tied to Nevada tests and a broader U.S. debate on an antimissile system, may influence policy toward Soviet cooperation.
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U.S
Nevada Proving Ground
Congress
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Executive Waves Iron Pipe and Traps Plant Intruders
An official of a West End manufacturing plant brandished an iron pipe to stop two teenage intruders carrying knives. Adrian Mitchell, 52, of 1621 Noble Avenue, secretary of Mitchell Brothers Co, ordered the youths to lie on the floor until police arrived at 6:30 a.m. The suspects, Richard Ryan, 17, and Henry A. Wierzbicki, 18, both of New York City, are held on $1,000 bail.
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West End
Adrian Mitchell
Noble Avenue
Mitchell Brothers Company
Railroad Avenue
Mitchell
Richard Ryan
Henry A. Wierzbicki
New York City
Fairfield and Milford grand lists rise sharply
Fairfield reports a preliminary grand list increase of 18.046 million, with Fairfield taxes at 30 mills yielding about 541 thousand more revenue next fiscal year. Milford shows a 14 million grand list, and hearings begin today by the Board of Tax Review.
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Fairfield
Herbert K. Shay
Adn
Milford
Ropert Dunphy
Board of Tax Review
Shay
Former Shelton cop Moore found dead in car
Richard A. Moore a 37 year old former Shelton police officer was found dead in the back seat of his car in the garage at his home on 60 Providence Avenue. Authorities said carbon monoxide poisoning and ruled it an apparent self inflicted death.
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Shelton
Richard A. Moore
Providence Avenue
Moore
Thomas Carey
Joseph Pag- Hare
George J. Finn
Finn
Fifth Circuit Court
Ansonia
Mao Claims Control of Fifth City
Peking Radio reported Mao Tse tung forces have gained control of a fifth city once an American air base. The broadcast said pro Mao rebels are taking citadels but admitted trouble in two cities. Also noted were anti-Mao coup plots and Chou En lai orders affecting Sinkiang amid protests in Peking and across China.
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Tokyo
Radio Peking
Mao Tse Tung
Kweiyang
Mao
Nihon Keizai
Mainichi
Wall
Peoples Liberation Army
Sinkiang
Peking
Chou En- Jai
Chou
China
Soviet Union
Tsingtao
Mao Tse-tung
Shanghai
Taiyuan
Commerce sets milder auto safety rules for 966 cars
The Commerce Department reduced 20 auto safety standards issued Tuesday night from earlier proposals and gave manufacturers four extra months to comply with them on 966 model cars. Fourteen standards are in fiscal form. six carry amendments for later adoption. Seatbelt hardware standard takes effect March 1. others become effective January 1, 1968.
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Washington
Commerce Department
William Haddon Jr
National Traffic Safety Agency
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
American Motors
Frank Piccolo Freed In Federal Gambling Tax Case
Frank Piccolo, 43, of Stratford, was cleared of a federal gambling tax stamp charge in U S District Court New Haven. Judge William H Timbers granted a motion to dismiss as key witness Augustus Pace refused to answer questions about his ties to Piccolo. Pace testified voluntarily at the U S attorney’s office and before a federal grand jury but declined further testimony, saying it would not influence the outcome.
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Frank Piccolo
Peace Street
Stratford
U.S District Court
New Haven
William H. Timbers
Piccolo
Augustus J. Pace
Cut Spring Road
Pace
District Court
U. S. Court of Appeals
U.S. At
Torney
U.S
Jon O. Newman
Newman
Congress
Timbers
Eight Astronauts Laid to Rest in Arlington and West Point
Three Apollo 1 astronauts died in a Cape Kennedy fire and were buried with full honors. Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee interred at Arlington National Cemetery while Edward White rests at West Point. President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey attended, with NASA officials and lawmakers present. A son of Chaffee gave a touching moment at Arlington as mourners paid tribute.
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Johnson
Air Force
Virgil Grissom
Mark
Washington
Virgil ,J
Grissom
Navy
Roger B. Chaffee
Arlington National Cemetery
Potomac River
Edward H. White
West Point
New York
Hudson River
Arlington
Grissom and
Chaffee
Hubert H. Humphrey
White
Stephen Chaffee
NASA
Humphrey
Aeronautics and Space ° Administration
Congress
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Des
Federal minimum wage rises to $1.40 per hour today
The new $1.40 federal minimum wage takes effect today, boosting pay for about 3.7 million workers. Government official Clarence Lundquist notes the impact on payrolls is small, under 1 percent, with an estimated $1.1 billion in added wages this year for 4.7 million workers earning below the minimum.
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Washington
Creal
Clarence T. Lundquist
Department of Labor
Lundquist
Congress
51 000 Taxpayers Refunds In The Mail
Washington UPI Income tax refund checks totaling 6.6 million are already in the mail to 51 000 taxpayers. Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon S Cohen urged others to file early to avoid delays and errors. Returns for 1966 are due by April 17. automatic data processing will be used for all returns this year.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue
Sheldon S. Cohen
Cohen
Woodbridge Man Left $500000 In Curriers Wills
In New York a Surrogates Court filing seeks probate of wills of missing philanthropists Stephen R. Currier and his wife. Executor Lloyd K. Garrison asks the court to determine if they are dead, noting no evidence of death beyond simultaneous disappearance on a January 17 chartered flight. The couple were en route to a Caribbean yachting cruise from San Juan to St Thomas.
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New York
Stephen R. Currier
Lloyd K. Garrison
Curriers
Currier
San Juan
P.R
St. Thomas
V.J
Garrison
Second Man Dies In Apollo Like Space Cabin Fire
Flames in a pure oxygen space cabin simulator at the School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio killed two airmen during maintenance. The first died within an hour and the second 22 hours later at an Army hospital, in an accident linked to the recent Apollo tragedy.
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San Antonio
Tex
School of Aerospace Medicine
NASA criticized over Apollo deaths disclosure
The article questions NASA's handling of information after the Apollo tragedy at Cape Kennedy. It cites differing statements about fatalities and inside program communications, asking why the agency implied only one death and when authorities acknowledged all astronauts were dead.
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NASA
Space Agency
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