They're Off And Running Presidential Primaries Begin Today
The 1968 presidential primary season opens with New Hampshire filing deadlines and runs through Illinois on June 11. The piece weighs primaries versus convention influence, citing Kefauver and Dewey as examples, and lists 1964 primary results and convention allocations from 15 states and the District of Columbia.
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Washington
UPI
New Hampshire
Illinois
District of Columbia
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Dtenn
Kefauver
Adlai E. Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Barry
Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell Willkie
Wisconsin
Willkie
Hubert H. Humphrey
Kennedy
West Virginia
Ugly American Faces New Laos War Secrecy
In Laos the United States operates with heavy secrecy as thousands of American personnel and hundreds of millions of dollars back the military effort. Attaches, CIA roles, and bombing campaigns along the Ho Chi Minh trail are described amid questions over neutrality and public acknowledgment.
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Vientiane
Laos
Southeast Asia
United States
Thailand
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vietnam
Prince Souvanna Phouma
Central Intelligence Agency
Plain of Jars
Phouma
Picket Line Or Pulpit Debate Divides Ministers Viewpoints
The piece contrasts Dr. Billy Graham and Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr. on church roles in society. It notes Graham emphasizes individual conversion while Moore urges social and political action, yet both affirm Christ's lordship and compassion. The author cautions against a split over evangelism versus social action.
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Billy Graham
Graham
Paul Moore Jr
Episcopal Diocese
Washington, D.C
Moore
Paul Moore
Jesus Christ
Dr. Graham
Bishop Moore
Christ
Jesus
Purge of The Communists Castro Takes Direct Aim At Moscow
Fidel Castro purges 11 old guard leaders in a secret three day central committee meeting. Anibal Escalante, Jose Matar, and Ramon Calcines are among those expelled, signaling a rift with the Kremlin over Moscow backed aid and Cuba’s future path.
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New York
UPI
Fidel Castro
Moscow
Castro
Havana
United States
Latin America
Fidelistas
Kremlin
Central Committee
Red China
Bucharest
Communist Party
Anibal Escalante
Jose Matar
Ramon Calcines
Calcines
Tribal Feuds Surface In Balkan Power Struggles
In a New York dispatch, Phil Newsom notes that Eastern Europe’s Communist bloc is fractured by enduring tribal feuds. The latest flare involves Yugoslavia and Bulgaria over Macedonia, with Bulgarians arguing Macedonians are Bulgarians and their language a dialect, a dispute tracing to 1911 1912 and World War I.
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New York
UPI
Europe
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Macedonia
Alexander the Great
Greece
Albania
Greek
Kingdom of
Serbia
Moscow
Russia
Romania
Transylvania
Czechoslovakia
Belgrade
Zagreb
Dear Abby Advice From Aged Clergy And Flirtatious Teens
Dear Abby columns present readers with varied concerns from a clergyman wary of aggressive housewives and a grandmother driver to a young girl confessing compulsive flirting. The letters discuss ethics, safety, dating rules, and seeking guidance, with Abby offering measured responses.
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Pennsylvania
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George C. Wallace
Alabama
Scranton
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Wallace
Robert F. Kennedy
Convention
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Harold Stassen
Matthew Welsh
Ohio
Margaret Chase Smith
Nebraska
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Rockefeller
Florida
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California
Pat Brown
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
New Jersey
South Dakota
Smith
Berry’s
NEA, Inc
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Francis L. McCarthy
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Soviet Bloc
By Phil Newsom
Miso Pavicevic
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Sammy
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