De Gaulle Outlines France’s Global Strategy for 1968
President de Gaulle argues France will push an independent foreign policy in 1968 with aims to resolve conflicts, push for European union, and support decolonization. He endorses a strong common market, opposes Britain’s entry under current terms, and signals nuclear deterrence plans while aiding underdeveloped nations. His New Year address was carried on color television.
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de Gaulle
France
Vietnam
Middle East
Israel
Gulf of Aqaba
Suez Canal
Jerusalem
Elysee Palace
Union of All Europe
Europe
Britain
Quebec
Canada
Rozelle Announces Nine Pros On Service Tour
Commissioner Rozelle disclosed nine NFL players will take a post season Far East tour. Two groups will travel to Vietnam Thailand and to hospitals in Japan the Philippines Okinawa Guam and Hawaii. The line up includes Bobby Bell Bill Brown John David Crow Jack Kemp Lance Alworth Ernie Green Hart Starr Wayne Walker. The trip runs 17 to 24 days departing January 24 or 45 from Travis Air Force Base.
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Oakland
Calif
Peta Rozelle
Rozelle
Houston
Far East
South Viet Nam
Thailand
Japan
Philippines
Okinawa
Guam
Hawai
Bobby Bell
Kansas City Chiefs
Bill Brown
Minnesota Vikings
John David Crow
San Francisco 49Ers
Jack Kemp
Buffalo Bills
Andy Russell
Pittsburgh Steelers
Fachiey
Lance Alworth
San Diego Chargers
Ernie Green
Cleveland Browns
Hart Starr
Green Bay Packers
Wayne Walker
Detroit Lions
Viet Nam
Travis Air Force Base
NFL
Snow Greetings or Travelers As ’67 Departs
State troopers reported 12 accidents on the Connecticut turnpike and Merritt Parkway this evening none serious. Frank Grosz 29 of Fairfield escaped injury when his car struck a guard rail at the Sherwood Island connector Westport treated and released. Trooper Eugene Terry said his car skidded on the turnpike ramp and hit the guard rail. He received a summons for improper turn and a warning for driving after drinking.
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At & O'Clock
Connecticut Turnpike
Merritt Parkway
Frank Grosz
Old Stratfield Road
Fairfield
Sherwood Island
Westport
Grosz
Norwalk Hospital
Eugene Terry
Turnpike
Traffic Toll in 1967 Marks Worst in 25 Years
Police list 1967 traffic deaths across many dates with multiple fatalities from January to November. The record includes Mrs. Vincenza Aparo and Robert Heffernan among others, detailing crashes at intersections and on highways. Police urge strict speed control and law enforcement to reduce future fatalities.
Hit and Run Victim Improves in Park City Hospital
Andrew Varalyai, 59, of 2331 Fairfield Avenue, was struck by a hit and run vehicle Saturday night at Hansen Street and Fairfield Avenue. He is listed as fair and under treatment for a fractured left leg and facial and head injuries as investigators review information from a witness couple.
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Vera Lockhart
Columbus Piece
Main
Frank Streets
Harry A. Zoeller
Park Avenue
Lewis Street
Eva Vincent
Trumbull Avenue
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Sylvan Avenue
Clifton Place
Shelby M.forlin
Bidg
Panik Village
Andrew Varalyai
Fairfield Avenue
Hansen Street
Park City Hospital
Varalyai
Bridgeport Driver Sought in 58 Year-Old Man's Death
Bridgeport police pursue a hit and run driver after 58 year old Philip Jones was struck on Evers Street Saturday night and died from a broken pelvis and internal injuries. A youth found his body in a snow pile near the roadway.
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Bridgeport
Philip Jones
Glen Place
Evers Street
Jones
Burke Trend
Order of the Bath
Evan Maude
Washington
Salina
Nalice
Alastair Buchan
Institute For Strategic Studies
British
Epee
Alan Waple
British Information Services
New York
Order of the
British Empire
Louis
Cools-Lartigue
Dominica
Allen Montgomery Lewis
The
West
Indies
Associated States Supreme Court
Ian Graham jTurbott
Grenada
John Waller
Washingtn
Unn Porter
Young Women's Christian Association
Queen honors extend to trade and arts figures
A broad honours list includes replacements to the royal household and trade leaders. Recipients include former Gordonstoun headmaster and Buckingham Palace staff, Captain Cecil Boyd Rochfort, Col. Mike Ansell, cricketer Tom Graveney, pilot Sheila Scott, Australian swimmer Linda McGill, and five life peers such as William Berry and Sir Harry Pilkington. Exporters gain nine knighthoods among 30 total. Other honorees include Derek Pritchard and auto leaders Loveday Farmer and David Brown. The bid to widen Lords membership adds three live peers and a Brethren secretary.
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Auxiliary Forces Association
Gordonstoun School
Prince Charles
Buckingham Palace
Queen Mather Elizabeth
Michael Adeane
Cecil Boyd Rochfort
Mike Ansell
Tom Graveney
Sheila Scott
Linda McGill
House of Lords
William Berry
Daily Telegraph
Harry Pilkington
Thomas Johnston Taylor
Lewis Wright
Trades’ Union Congress
Humphrey Trevelyan
Britain
Aden
Derek Pritchard
National Export Council
Latin America
Europe
Africa
Farmer
David Brown
Jack Scamp
Joint Labor Council For
Ernest Payne
The
Baptist Union of Britain
World Council, of
Churches —Order of the Company of Honor
Traffic division probes clues in fatal hit-and-run
Police say clues point to a white or gray car as the hit-and-run vehicle that killed Mr. Jones. Services for Mr. Jones are set for Tuesday at 8:45 p.m. at A.G. Baker funeral home in Stratford avenue with burial at Sky View Memorial Park Tamaqua. He worked for Bridgeport Brass and is survived by a daughter Marjorie, two brothers Daniel and Elwood, a sister Mrs May Nagie, and a niece and two nephews.
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Bridgeport
Chopsey Hill
Fairfield Avenue
Ritz Ballroom
Park Avenue
James Kelly
Milne Street
Congress Street
Edward J. Gdovin
Windsor Avenue
Stratford
Hastings Street
Gerald A. Monroe
High Ridge Drive
Boston Avenue
Jennie Hogg
Herkimer Street
Eaton Street
Moses Williams
P.T. Barnum Project
Bridgeport Hospital
Bunnell Street
Crescent Avenue
Martha Block
Thorme Street
Jones
A.G. Baker
Stratford Avenue
Sky View Memorial Park
Tamaqua
Bridgeport Brass Company
Marjorie Jones
Daniel Jones
Philadelphia
Elwood Jones
Bethlehem
Pay
May Nagie
Humphrey Tours Ivory Coast Voices Support and Skepticism
U S Vice President Hubert Humphrey visited Abidjan and Monrovia, drawing cheering crowds among Americans and local Peace Corps workers. In Ivory Coast he defended Peace Corps growth amid French suspicion, while Africans welcomed him with music and markets, contrasting with thinner crowds than in Abidjan.
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Liberia
Monropia
Spriggs Payne
Humphrey
Severa
Ivory Coast
Abidjan
Treichville
U.S. Peace Corps
Peace Corps
U.S. Senate
Robert Bourgeois
Boston
Mass
Richard Heath
San Francisco
United States
Africa
New Zealand Rainbow Takes provisional Sydney to Hobart win
In Hobart Australia Rainbow II provisionally won the Sydney to Hobart yacht classic on handicap as Pen Duick I I and Salacia trailed. Eric Tarbarly captained Pen Duick II to cross first on the line but Rainbow II led on handicap, preventing a French double victory since 22 years.
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Hobart
Australia
UPI
Harbor
John Wingworth
Rainbow
Pen Duick JI
Sydney
Salacia
Alumni Swim Team Beats Harding 61 to 34 in Meet
Alumni coach Tom Gargiulo and Ted Schott each won two events to lead a 61 34 victory over the President varsity in a meet at the Orcutt Boys Club pool. The Alumni swept most events with Louis Hernader taking the 61 yards butterfly and Gargiulo anchoring the 400 yard freestyle.
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Iarding High School
Tom Gargiulo
Ted Schott
Mermeén
Orcutt
Louis Hernader
Vonosy
Jordin
En Ony
Arealilegel Tayos
Teasstvie
Gorquia Fee Ab Gmane
He Lapinski
Sehoit
Hernoder
Loughiin
Cedtey
J. Yanosy Roe
Sale
Yanosy
F. Gargiule
Alea
Manyara Bate
Hernader Ri
Hampel
Vaytes
Wren Sehott
ZoBetker
S—Lopinshian Timo
Oy Jordin
Qe Almendinger
Aly
H. Ee
Ora Alumal
Hdgeland
Gargiuto
New TV Like Is Added To Shrine Statistics
In San Francisco AP report statistician Don Bradle added a new entry to the Shrine East West game stats. The halftime sheet listed television commercial time outs and the figure changed from four to seven by game's end.
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San Francisco
Don Bradle
Teamsters Safe Robbed of $250 Over Holiday
Burglars broke into International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 191 in the former D Elia building at 1330 Fairfield Avenue and escaped with 250 dollars. The incident was the third break in the city in 10 days. Police noted two other incidents at French Cleaners and Dyers on Main Street and a service station at Main and North avenues with losses estimated at 30 dollars in tools.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Raymond Beardsworth
D’elia
Fairfield Avenue
Main Street
North Avenue
County Schools Hold Eighth Annual New Years Party
The County schools hosted their eighth annual New Years party at the Elks Clubrooms on Fairfield Avenue. Hosts were Domenic and Joseph Monaco with a program of entertainment and dancing. Attendees included staff members such as Mrs. Marie Falk Mrs. Nora Czukowski Sidney Goldstein Vincent Gentile and others along with numerous couples and guests from local families and Braniff Airlines and the social action department.
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Main Street
Elks
Allies List Casualties in 7 Violations
The article reports aerial clashes as a truce nears with North Vietnam. A U.S. jet was shot down near Dong Hoi after marking targets. the two crew were rescued. In the Mekong Delta a Viet Cong volley shot down four U.S. helicopters, leaving one American dead and three wounded.
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North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Dong Hoi
Panhandle
Hanoi
Mekong
Mao Plan to End Incentives Faces Resistance in China
Hsieh Fu-chih told the Peking Revolutionary Committee grain output in 1967 surpassed 1966 by 9.9 to 11.4 million tons, with no total. He cited 1957 as a benchmark and noted five deaths in Peking attributed to Cultural Revolution zealots. Meanwhile in Taipei, factions in Yunnan clashed, defying Mao's directive to form an alliance.
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Hsieh Fu-chih
Peking Revolutionary Committee
Hsieh
Peking
Red China
Canton Wenke Tunghsun
Tokyo
Taipei
Yunnan
Mao
Fairfield Woman Charged After Parked Car Collision
Patricia A. Carroll, 39, of 39 Falmouth Road Fairfield, was charged with failure to drive to the right after a two thirty p m accident on Church Hill Road near Stratfield Road Fairfield. Her auto struck a parked car owned by John P. Kelly of 196 Woodridge Avenue Fairfield.
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Patricia A. Carroll
Falmouth Road
Fairfield
Church Hill Road
Stratfield Road
William Mockalis
John P. Kelly
Woodridge Avenue
Furnace Call Brings Fairfield Firemen
Firefighters responded to a defect in a furnace at 62 Center Street Southport yesterday at 11 39 a m. No fire was found as firefighters from three four companies answered the alarm.
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Robert J. Shedden
Center Street
Southport
Ong Jand
Milford Man 26 Is Asphyxiated In Parked Car
Harry R Ridgway 26 of Second Avenue Milford was found dead Sunday morning in his car parked in his garage. Police say accidental asphyxiation from engine exhaust while keeping warm. Survived by wife Elaine, son Harry R Ridgway Jr, and Ridgway family. services Tuesday 2 PM at Cody-White Funeral Home. Burial Kings Highway Cemetery. Born Toms River New Jersey, resident Milford seven years.
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Litchfield
Ciertrude Gangletf
Thomaston
Main Street
Guilford
Hans Grassman
Deep River
Portland
Ethel Warron
Middlesex Memorial Hospital
Cantebury
Zygmunt Andrzejczyk
Milford
Harry R. Gilguey
Second Avenue
Harry R. Ridgway
Second Avenue Extension
Laurel Beach
Hilton Construction Company
New Haven
Cody-White I
Broad Street
William C. Wapner
United Church of Christ
Devon
Bu ‘Vial
Kings Highway
Toms River
N.J
Ridgway
Elaine Hopkins Ridgway
Midford
John F. Ridgway
Wichita
Kansas
Edward W. Ridgway
Pine Beach
Robert B. Ridgway
Seaside Park
M. J
Ida Drzewnicki
Jackson
N. J
Susan Bowcock
Leigh Cornelius
Perth Am
Gran Carnevale Two Day Affair Sought Entries
Italian Community Center of Greater Bridgeport seeks entrants for Miss Gran Carnevale of 1368 contest to be held February 7 and 18 at Holy Trinity hall Seo field avenue. Joseph Monaco says entries register at ICC offices North Park avenue. Prizes include a $10 Savings bond and runner up honors. Proceeds boost the Italian Community Center Building Fund with masquerade balls for adults and children.
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Thetalian Community Center
Greater Bridgeport
Holy Trinity Hall
Seofield Avenue
Joseph Monaco
ICC
North Park Avenue
Monaco
Camerale
Congo Budget Shows 4.22 Million Surplus for Mobutu Era
The 1968 budget released by President Joseph D. Mobutu reports a 4.22 million surplus. Finance Minister Paul Mushiete announces income taxes will be lowered during the year.
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Kinshasa
Congo
Joseph D. Mobutu
Paul Mushiete
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Jennings Road
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