Hanoi visitor urges halt bombing to aid peace talks
Beverly Hills AP report describes Harry S. Ashmore private visit to Hanoi. He urged stopping bombing as a gamble toward Geneva peace convocation in May. He said Hanoi showed interest but could not concede victory or negotiation terms. He noted four points were not discussed with him.
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Hanoi
U. S
Beverly Hiels
Calif
U.S
North Vietnam
United States
Harry S. Ashmore
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Geneva
Tom
Ashmore
The
Center
Santa’ Barbara
Fund For the Republic
Peace of Earth
Ho Chi Minty
City Teachers Seek Changes in Pm Pact in Bridgeport
Bridgeport Education Association representing 1 100 teachers releases a nine point request for improved conditions. Delegates vote for state mediation if talks with the Board of Education and City proceed. A meeting is set for Jan 30 with the School Board and a joint conference with Mayor Cur ran on city insurance coverage is proposed.
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Bridgeport Education. Association
Board
BEA
Central High School
Connecticut
William F. O'Brien
Curran
Bridgeport Police Jocal
Bridgeport Municipal ‘Employes’ Association
Charles E. Campbell
State Board of Education
Black Rock Firm to be Acquired by Detroit Company
Black Rock Manufacturing faces reorganization under Chapter X with a plan to be acquired by American International Aluminum Corporation of Detroit. The plant at 129 Osborne Street will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. Feb. 10 is final date for stockholder and creditor acceptance.
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Black Rock Manufacturing Company
Detroit
John L. Schwab
Black Rock
U.S. District Court
New Haven
American International Aluminum Corporation
Michigan
United
Editor Visits Bombed City Nam Dinh Vietnam
Miami News editor Bill Baggs describes Nam Dinh as a textile center of about 90 000 before bombing with shattered buildings and extensive destruction. He cites streets and neighborhoods hit on April 6 and May 15 1966 and notes residents doubt official military targets claims.
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Miami
Fla
North Vietnam
Bill Baggs
Miami News
Nam Dinh
Harnel
Baggs
Hang Thad
Mare
Homs
Board bars move of battleship Maine turret
Monroe County School Board denied a request to transfer the Maine battleship turret from a local schoolyard to Lighthouse Museum. The turret, removed from the sunken ship about 95 years ago, sits on a Harris schoolyard monument as the local art and historical society sought a more prominent site. Public sentiment favored keeping it in place.
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Key -West
Fla
Monroe County School Board
Maine
Lighthouse Musseum
Harris
Art and Historical Society
Anti Maoist Resistance in Peking and Shanghai
Reports say Maoist opponents hold out in Peking and Shanghai as clashes spread across China. Liu Shao-chi allies press resistance while Liu and his son face spying and arrest rumors amid party purges and propaganda.
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Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Red
Soviet Union
Liu
Kyodo
Japan Broadcasting Corp
Peking
Liu Yun-ju
Mao
Chaiga Ching
People’s Daily
Maoi
New China
Sid
Par
Powell album uses Harlem leader Powell title Keep the Faith Baby
New York AP reports Adam Clayton Powell plans a self titled recording with extemporaneous speeches. The album includes lines urging Black people to earn through education and votes and features Powell comparing himself to Julius Caesar and criticizing Jesus Christ in some remarks.
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New York
Harlem
Adam Clayton Powell
Powell
Bombers Strike North Vietnam Rail Yards Fourth Straight Day
U S bombers pounded three rail yards northeast of Hanoi for the fourth straight day with damage to boxcars and tracks. Navy planes hit anti aircraft sites as Hanoi claimed three U S planes were shot down. Cedar Falls push reports 548 Viet Cong killed since Jan 8 with 1 194 Americans killed wounded or missing through Jan 14. A government sweep in An Xuyen Province follows a Marine clash leaving 12 Communists killed.
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Saigon
Hanoi
U.S
Air Force
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Cedar Falls
Iron Triangle
U.S. Command
South Vietnam
Hue
An Xuyen
GOP Urges 200 Per Pupil School Grants Plan In 1975
Hartford AP Republican leaders unveiled a plan to raise education grants to a uniform 200 per pupil by 1975 with a gradual transition. The proposal also boosts growth factor aid for fast growing towns and increases state funding for special education to 15 million in the next biennium.
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Hartford
House
Nicholas A. Lenge
Lucy Z. Hammer
Branford
Senate
Frederick Pope Jr
Lenge
GOP
Hammer
Pope
Puzzle 660 Fails to Win. Prize Rises to 375
Blue rustlers scramble for Sunday Post crossword glory but fail to hit the 350 dollar jackpot in Puzzle 660. Old Maestro holds the greenbacks for a week and adds 25 to reach 375 for Puzzle 661. Clue 12-Down spanks ego and 22-Across prompt quick replies as puzzlers stumble.
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Sunday Post
The
Masked Gunman Robs Urbana Bank for Over Eight Thousand
A masked gunman robbed Urbana Savings Bank around 12 45 p m taking more than eight thousand dollars. He abducted cashier Bonnie Richart 28 and forced her to remove all clothing except a brassiere before fleeing in a stolen car toward Waterloo. Police searched the Waterloo area about 30 miles northwest and later stopped a car near Urbana as Richart described the suspect as a middle aged Black man in a hooded sweatshirt.
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Urbana
Towa
Apy
Urbana Savings Bank
Bonnie” Richart
Waterloo
Iowa
Richart
John Suchomel
Benson County Sheriff's Fees
Black Hawk County
Cedar Rapids
Peking Plans to Resume U S Talks with United States
Warsaw AP dispatch reports U S Ambassador Gro must meet next Wednesday with Chinese Ambassador Wang Kuo-chuang in a session rescheduled from Iran for administrative reasons. The move follows upheaval in mainland China and recalls of many Chinese diplomats, though Wang remains at his post in Warsaw.
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Warsaw
Poland
U.S
John A. Gronouski
Wang Kuo-chuang
Iran
China
Peking
Wang
Elm City Bank Heist Eyed as Connecticut’s 1967 Wave
Three gunmen robbed the Long Wharf Branch of First New Haven National Bank near the Connecticut Turnpike in New Haven. They grabbed 981,856, ordered five employees and a customer to the floor, and fled by car as cameras recorded the crime. Police searched but found nothing.
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New Haven
Connecticut Turnpike
Long Wharf
New Haven National
Woodmont Road
Milford
Donald Bradley
Second National Bank
Chapel and Olive Streets
Connecticut
Editors Frozen Body Found Trial Pended
The frozen body of Arnold Rudahl , 52, editor of a scientific journal, was found on the front stoop of his Greenwich home. Police reported no violence and an autopsy was ordered to determine death cause while he awaited trial for negligent homicide in his wife Carol’s death last April.
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Greenwich
Arnold Rudahl
Carol
Rudahl
Massicotte Heads City Fire Board For Fifth Time
Mayor Curran appointed Joseph J. Massicotte to a fifth term as chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners at the monthly meeting in Fire Headquarters. The board accepted the resignation of Pumper Engineer Donald W. Boehm of 49 Lealand Avenue effective Feb. 1, with a Civil Service probationary appointment to fill the vacancy. Boehm, a 42 year fire department veteran promoted to pumper engineer in December 1958, will graduate from the University of Bridgeport this spring with a bachelor’s in accounting and join Norma Hoffman Bearing in Stamford as tax manager on Feb. 1.
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Curran
Joseph J. Massicotte
Board of Fire Commissioners
Donald W. Boehm
Lealand Avenue
Boehm
Civil Service Commission
University of Bridgeport
Norma Hoffman Bearing Company
Stamford
Republicans Outline Domestic and Foreign Policy Program
House GOP Leader Gerald Ford unveils a broad program calling for stronger Social Security and veterans benefits, education reform, anti poverty efforts, and commissions to study city issues and government structure. Senate Leader Dirksen backs firm Southeast Asia policy and a Western economic union as Trade Expansion Act nears expiration.
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Washington
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Johnson
Ford
Congress
GOP
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Vietnam
Dirksen
Southeast Asia
Illinois
Common Market
Bipartisan plan calls for major U S troop cuts in Europe
Washington reports more than 40 senators from both parties back a resolution urging sizable reductions of American forces in NATO. Senate leaders push hearings on troop levels while criticizing allied dependence and calling for a clearer U S policy in Europe amid mounting debate in the 90th Congress.
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Washington
U.S
Europe
NATO
Senate
Democratic Policy Committee
Mike Mansfield
Montana
France
Mansfield
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