U.S. Jets Hit Haiphong Power Plant in Red River Delta
U S air force F 105 jets blasted the Uong Bi steam power plant 14 miles northeast of Haiphong, the first strike in North Vietnam's industrial heartland. The raid knocked out 15 percent of the country's electric power and the Hanoi Haiphong area was left without full supply. One F 105 was lost. Captain Harry De Witt was rescued with injuries.
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Saigon
Haiphong
North Vietnam
Red River Delta
Uong Bi
U. S
Hanoi-Haiphong
Harry de Witt
Moscow
Idaho
Enterprise
Can Tho
Mekong
Quang Ngai
de Witt
Haiphong Hanoi
Gulf of Tonkin
The Most Essential Engineer Qualification
A witty reflection on engineering credibility and the need to persuade superiors that an idea will work before explaining why it failed later. The quip underscores the tension between confidence, communication, and accountability in technical leadership.
Wreck May Be Lovelace Plane Wreck May Be Lovelace Plane
A helicopter pilot reported spotting wreckage on Independence Pass near Aspen Colorado of a light plane similar to the one that vanished with three aboard including Dr W Randolph Lovelace a pioneer in space medicine and his wife and Milton Brown the Albuquerque pilot. The location was 11 000 feet high and the craft appeared to have hit a mountainside with no signs of life observed.
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Colorado Springs
U.S
Space Medicine
Independence Pass
Aspen
Colo
W. Randolph Lovelace
Albuquerque
Milton Brown
U S and Australia Near Redstone Missile Share
Informed sources say negotiations are in final stages to permit firing Redstone rockets in Australia as part of a joint anti missile development effort.
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Canberra
Australia
U. S
Tucker Quits Linn G.O.P. Chairmanship
Tucker resigns as Linn County Republican chairman after a surprise move at a Tuesday night central committee meeting. A nominating committee will present candidates including Forrest K. Rosser Jim Smith Dan Stamy Dudley Taylor King Thompson Jack Walters and Martin Wiley with a special meeting set for Jan 11 to pick a successor.
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Linn County
Tommy Tucker
Cedar Rapids
Central Committee
Forrest K. Rosser
Jim Smith
Dan Stamy
Robins
Dudley Taylor
D. C. Taylor Company
King Thompson
Iowa Supreme Court
Jack Walters
Cedar Rapids Insurance
Linn County Republican Forum
Martin Wiley
McNamara Talks Chinese Nuclear Rise and ICBM Plans
Defense Secretary McNamara told NATO ministers that Red China could hold a small stockpile of nuclear weapons in two years and aim to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile by 1975. He warned European allies to prepare for a Chinese security threat within five years.
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Paris
Defense
McNamara
Red China
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Alliance
San Francisco
Berlin
Peking
NATO
Red
China
Soviet Plans Tests of New Space Landing System
Moscow warns ships and planes to avoid a Central Pacific area for five and a half months as it tests a new space landing system. Tass supplied coordinates about 500 miles south of the Aleutians and 2,000 miles east of Japan, with tests through June 1 and no details on target destination.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Central Pacific
Tass
Aleutian Islands
Japan
City Hears 1966 Budget Hike Of Over $1 Million
Ken Sullivan reports the city council schedules public hearings on the 1966 budget proposal totaling 12 221 390 up from 11 215 227 and notes the millage rate of 38 9782 will likely drop once state certified valuations set the actual rate. Additional appropriations totaling 478 000 are sought to cover unexpected 1965 budget overexpenditures across seven departments.
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Bob Johnson
State Tax Commission
Charles Werner
Gazette
Boys Damage School to Tune of 10000 in Augusta
Two boys aged 7 and 9 were jailed after police found them in an elementary school at 3 am. The vandals caused about 10000 in damages by breaking windows painting walls phones tearing a Christmas stage setting and ripping a curtain. The school closed for repairs.
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Augusta
H. E. Pound
Lloyd Usry
Gemini Teams Stage Historic Rendezvous
The Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 crews achieved the first space rendezvous, coming nose to nose 100 feet apart about 185 miles above the Philippines. Thomas Stafford and Walter Schirra piloted Gemini 6 while Frank Borman and James Lovell commanded Gemini 7 as mission control guided six hours of coordinated maneuvers.
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Associated Press
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Cape Kennedy
Schirra
Stafford
Gemini
U.S
Philippine Islands
Mission Control Center
Houston
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Sion Control Center
Galbraith urges presidential control of Federal Reserve
Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith urged Congress to grant the President ultimate authority over the discount rate and other Federal Reserve actions. He testified that such power could be achieved with a simple congressional resolution and branded the Fed board as improper and unwise to operate independently. He warned the authority exists only because it has not been used.
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Washington
UPI
Harvard
John Kenneth Galbraith
Johnson
Federal Reserve
Galbraith
India
Kennedy
Federal Reserve Board
Senate-House Economic Committee
Congress
Thomas Curtis
Treasury
Space officials say no special links for Geminis 6 and 7
Space Center Houston officials report no dedicated radios aboard for Gemini 6 and 7 to talk directly. They can communicate via standard ground station radios when in range, and any ground station can join a three-way conversation.
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Laos
Vietnam
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Death Valley
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Tucker
Linn G.O.P
Frank T. Nye
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Moon
Pacific
Europe
Southeast Asia
NATO Council of Permanent Representatives
Asia
Latin America
Western Alliance
Thailand
Africa
C.R
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Council
Public Safety
Trust and Agency
Howard Benedict
C. S.T
Curtis
Chris Kraft
Victory
Kraft
Borman
Lovell
Cape
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