Immunity Is Violated by Red Guards In Peking Embassies
China and the Soviet Union faced a crisis as Red Guards breached the Soviet embassy in Peking and threatened diplomats while Russian youths entered the Chinese embassy in Moscow. The unrest followed frenzied anti-Soviet protests across Red China and reports of Mao loyalists routing opponents in Manchuria. In the United States, Cedar Rapids teacher Kenneth L. Freeman, 26, was arrested for armed robbery in Moline, Illinois, after a holdup at a local store. He is a Washington High School teacher and former Regis High School employee.
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Moscow
UPI
Peking
Moscow Radio
Cedar Rapids
Kenneth L. Freeman
Moline
Ill
Freeman
Washington High School
National Food Store
Quad Cities
Kenneth Freeman
Kremlin
Peking Radio
Mao
Changchun
Red China
Heilung- Kuang
Manchuria
Chao Erhiu
China
Yang Chih-cheng
National Defense Council
Ninth Avenue SE
Regis High School
Washington
Regis
United East
Elkader Cooling In Temperature Anomaly Reported
The article notes subzero readings across several towns in Iowa including Elkader and Decorah with near record lows followed by a forecasted warm up to the high 20s and 30s. It mentions speculation about Mao era tensions in China and various weather observations from multiple cities.
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Chao
Yang
Hong Kong
Mao
Peking Radio
Elkader
Chou En-lail
New Albia
Fayette
Decorah
Weather Bureau
Reds Shell Airfields on Truce Eve
Viet Cong shelled four airfields in South Vietnam on the eve of the Lunar New Year truce as U S and South Vietnamese forces reported 143 communist soldiers killed in ground fighting The final day of bombing before the cease-fire hit 79 missions amid poor weather A U S air force observation plane was shot down in North Vietnam and a rescue helicopter was downed leaving crewmen missing
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
U.S. Air Force
Quint Dies as Harris Quintuplets Drop to Three Survive
NEW YORK AP Talitha the smallest of the Harris quintuplets died of cardiac arrest after pneumonia complications. Three sisters and a brother remain in good condition. The quints born last Wednesday to Mr and Mrs Lionel Harris included one deceased at birth. The truce observed for Tet will start at 7 am Wednesday as Allied forces pull back. Viet Cong declared a seven day cease fire. MEXICO CITY UPI hospital authorities said a fourth surviving quint girl was out of sight during a Viet Nam peace efforts. The story continues on page 3 with related violence. WARSAW AP Polish and East German sources disclosed plans for a meeting of European communist bloc foreign ministers but time and place confusion hindered organization.
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New York
Talitha
Harris
Tet
Trons
Lionel Harris
Mexico City
UPI
Quinjsurge
South Viet
Warsaw
Iowa GOP Launches Big Remap Push
Des Moines Republicans press for immediate passage of HJR4 reapportionment and a temporary subdistricting plan to satisfy a Iowa Supreme Court order. They seek law to reduce 124 member House and 61 member Senate to 106 and 50 respectively by 1970, while opposing 1968 cut. Speaker urges swift subdistricting focus over equal population districts.
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Frank Nye
Des Moines
Iowa House
Senate
Republican House
G.O.P
House
Iowa Supreme Court
Russell charges laxity in guarding of airfields
Senate Armed Services Chairman Russell cites great derelictions in security at U S airfields and ammunition dumps in Vietnam. He faulted lack of bunker separation of planes and new tolls on losses, urging corrective action amid Pentagon figures doubling reported aircraft losses. In Cedar Rapids a Florida sailor, Gerald Soens, dies after plunging from a hotel window as a fire engulfs his room. witness reports and fire officials note possible smoking related causes.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
U. S
Ln Vietnam
Pentagon
U.S
Southeast Asia
Vienam
Vietnam
Laos
Thailand
North
Soens
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kenneth Anderson
Bureau of Fire Prevention
Jack Hagop Mekhsian
Beirut
Lebanon
Hagop Mekhsian
Collins
Cedar Rapids
Florida
Montrose Hotel
Gerald Soens
Tampa
Fla
Collins Radio
Plane hijack memo in Amman lands in Jordan
An Egyptian claiming UAR intelligence agent status hijacked a civilian plane with 41 aboard and forced it to land in Jordan. Forty passengers and five crew were to be sent back to Cairo. Initial reports of 31 UAR officers hijackers were later deemed erroneous.
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Amman
UPI
United Arab Republic
Jordan
Cairo
U.A.R
Goldberg to visit South Vietnam on fact-finding trip
Arthur Goldberg announced plans to travel to South Vietnam in about 10 days for a fact-finding mission lasting three to four weeks. He said the trip would cover about a dozen countries and may include Europe, stressing it is not a peace mission like his 1965 world tour.
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Washington
UPI
Arthur Goldberg
South Vietnam
U.S
U.N
Johnson
Goldberg
Europe
Pressure to meet schedules in Apollo program warned
Two NASA Marshall Space Flight Center engineers told an AIAA conference that schedule pressure tempts engineers to give superficial answers and skip steps. They urged single-shift work to improve information transfer, noting shift changes can cause disastrous communication gaps.
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Cape Kennedy
America
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Cocoa Beach
Tional Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Tory Chief
Marshall
Systems Test Division
Jesse Bradley
Bradley
Com
Snowstorm Paralyzes East Coast
Winter fury lashes the East Coast with blizzard snows blanketing New York and nearby cities. Schools closed and government operations halted from Washington to Boston as up to 14 inches fell, with drifts several feet high and airports shut. Mayor Lindsay considered banning cars in Manhattan as a record cold snap and 40 mph winds crippled transport and heat service.
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New York
UPD
Seaboard
Washington
Midwest
Carolinas
New England
John Lindsay
Manhattan
Eastern Air Lines
Logan
Boston
la Guardia
New Jersey
Connecticut
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C.R
Essen
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexei Kosygin
New China News Agency
Mao Tse-tung
Quint
Fifth Avenue
51St Street
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Iowa
Robert Rigler
New Hampton
HagopMekhsian
Hell
HagiopMekhsian
Daniel Driscoll
Test Labora
Apollo Launch Pad
Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
North American Aviation, Inc
National
District of Columbia
National Environmental Satellite Center
Maryland
Baltimore
Philadelphia
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