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Senators defend CIA funding of student trips abroad
Senators Kennedy and Russell defend CIA support for student travel to foreign meetings as a tool against communist propaganda. Russell says the program did good and should be understood, while Kennedy notes CIA acted under presidential orders across Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations.
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Passenger Service Vital Yet Threatened In U S Railroads
The article discusses the long standing struggle to maintain dependable railroad passenger traffic amid chronic losses. Railroads have tried faster schedules, better coaches, and targeted lines, yet cut branch routes to save costs. Despite competition and uneconomies, railroads insist on their unique capability to carry large passenger volumes during emergencies, asserting we will always need railroad passenger service.
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Criticism of U.S. World Role By Historian Com mage
Historian Henry Steele Commager testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warning that the United States has overextended itself as a world power. He cited a moralistic obsession with communism and a messianic belief in promoting democracy, urging restraint and a longer view in engaging new nations amid turbulence.
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Henry Steele Commager
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Intellectual isolationism and the Vietnam dilemma analyzed
A professor critiques US foreign policy for self sufficiency and world avoidance while offering no concrete plan to reverse overextension. He questions disbanding alliances and criticizes aid programs, leaving Vietnam as the sole test case for potential policy change. The Senate testimony adds little guidance for alternatives.
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China
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Special Interest Agencies Debate New Cabinet Office
President Johnson’s proposal to merge Commerce and Labor sparks talk of creating a single Economic Affairs department. Meany warns against excluding agriculture and other special interests. The idea includes housing, transportation, and potentially ending cabinet control of the Post Office.
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Get Chilled If You Like It
The piece questions common beliefs about being chilled causing or worsening a cold. A NIH study in JAMA found no extra cold risk from cold exposure, while noting readers' own ritual remedies. It also parries Soviet press criticism of Bob Hope and frets about wishful thinking versus thinkful wishing.
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American Medical Association
Investia
Bob Hope
Asia
Moscow
Population Still Rising Buoying and Bothering Nation
Sylvia Porter argues that reaching 200 million in 1967 marks a warning rather than a celebration. She warns overcrowded cities, strained highways, and overwhelmed parks, urging broader family planning and restraint to avoid economic decline as WWII baby boomers reach marriage and childbearing years.
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Sylvia Porter
Canada
France
America
Comic Dictionary Snapshot of a Domestic Dispute
A comic dictionary entry lampoons a wife as a contradicting creature who complains she has no urine to wear and then spends time dithering about which dress to wear. The tone is humorous and satirical about domestic fashion fuss.
Johnson and Humphrey clash over CIA student ties
National reaction shows Johnson aides fault Humphrey for harsh CIA critique at Stanford. Humphrey calls the CIA student link a sad time for public policy, while Johnson aides say he approved the gist but balked at the Vice President’s tone. Johnson personally dictated a line to AP and defended CIA oversight amid calls for tighter controls.
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Union Leaders Warn Conservatives Threaten War on Poverty
AFL-CIO executives voiced alarm at renewed congressional conservatism they say imperils Johnson's antipoverty program and civil rights efforts. They cited reduced funding, a blocked fair housing bill, and a dire need for job opportunities, education, housing, and strong civil rights enforcement to lift the poor.
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White House
Chinese New Year Parade Sets City Records in San Francisco
Chinatown’s 14 block parade featured 247 floats and a 125 foot dragon drawing the largest crowd and loudest celebration for the Year of the Raindrew. Eleven women suffered firecracker burns and traffic snarls persisted as a float tangled in trolley wires. a ricksha also needed repairs. A topless show girl from North Beach was ordered to cover up.
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Bomb strikes Saudi defense ministry in Riyadh
A bomb believed planted by the underground Arabian Peninsula People's Union exploded at the Saudi defense ministry in Riyadh on February 11. It was the third blast at the ministry in two months, with no casualty details reported.
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UPI
Arabian Peninsula
Balance in GOP Youth and Elders At Leadership School
An observer notes a playful balance between young and old Republicans as the Young Republican National Federation opens its leadership training at the Sheraton Park Hotel. Ray Bliss, GOP chair, shifts from data driven talks to a broader philosophy of America and party unity, signaling maturity and shared purpose across generations.
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Young Republican National Federation
Sheraton Park Hotel
Rane Fet
Wiayuc
Tom van Sickle
Kanas
Buz Lukens
Ohio
Barry Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
Hugh Scott
Ray Bliss
GOP
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Land of Opportunity
Dean Burch
Tolstoi
Bonn Ultimatum on British Troop Costs Across Germany
LONDON AP The British government warned West Germany that unless costs of keeping the Rhine army are offset by German purchases, British troops will be withdrawn. Chancellor Callaghan said Britain will reduce forces to balance foreign exchange costs in Deutschmarks, with a three power meeting of Britain West Germany and the United States planned to review defense needs and funding.
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Wales
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India
United States
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Tokyo Students Clash With Police Near U S Base
Radical students and labor unionists clashed with police outside a U S base in Tachikawa. About 1,200 protesters demonstrated against a reported expansion plan. In the confrontation, 500 protesters charged police and rocks were thrown. ten students were arrested for obstructing police. No injuries reported.
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Tachikawa
Christens Undersea Center For Navy Tests In Florida
Vice President Humphrey commissioned a 130 million undersea test center at West Palm Beach as the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center AUTEC. The facility aims to advance oceanography and national security with sonar and anti submarine weapons tests in the Tongue of the Ocean trench near Andros Island, Bahamas.
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