Supreme Court Rules On Hoffa Jury Tampering Case
The Supreme Court agreed to a limited review of James R. Hoffa conviction for jury tampering in 1964. The one question concerns whether evidence from a secret informer violated Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, prompting suppression in a later trial.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James R. Hoffa
Team Ster Union
Hoffa
Thomas Ewing Parks
Larry Campbell
Ewing King
Chattanooga
Tenn
Nashville
Justice Department
Z. T. Osborn, Jr
Osborn
Cavalry Pressed by Viet Cong Fire In Vietnam Clash
U S cavalry and South Vietnamese troops came under heavy fire from Viet Cong and local forces near a graveyard as CBS cameraman Vallop Rodbhoon was wounded by shrapnel. Other units fought Masher operations 280 miles northeast of Saigon while engineers built a 1000 foot air strip in under two days.
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Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Carl Sorensen
Rodbhoon
Sorensen
Saigon
7Th Regiment
12Th Cavalry
Man Leads Five Children to Safety From Apartment Fire
Five children were escorted to safety Sunday by a man drawn to their apartment by smoke. He helped them reach a safe area as firefighters arrived and contained the blaze.
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Saves Five St. Louis
Packers Hire Jerry Burns To Packers Staff
Jerry Burns was hired by the Green Bay Packers to fill the vacancy left by Norb Hecker’s resignation. Burns, previously fired as Iowa’s head football coach at the end of the 1965 Big Ten season, joins under Vince Lombardi who leads the NFL champions.
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Green Bay, Wis
Jerry Burns
Iowa
Green Bay Packers
Vince Lombardi
Burns
Packer
Norb Hecker
Atlanta Falcons
NFL
Baltimore Anti Poverty Leaders Refute Nixon Charges
Baltimore anti poverty officials deny former Vice President Nixon's claim that 70 percent of federal anti poverty funds in the city went to administrators. Richard Bateman and Stanley Mazer defend program efficiency while Parren Mitchell says he will review the figures.
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Nixon
New York
Baltimore
Richard Bateman
Bateman
Community Action Agency
Stanley Mazer
Mazer
Office of Economic Opportunity
Parren Mitchell
Hostage Robber Nabbed in Marion Iowa
A spree of armed robberies in the Cedar Rapids Marion area ended with the arrest of LeRoy Wesley Crawford, 22, of 1500 Third Avenue SE. He was captured on Collins Road NE after a holdup at the Sunray D X station. Crawford admitted six robberies including hostage cases and two grocery store holdups in Iowa City.
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Cedar Rapids-Marion
Marion
LeRoy Wesley Crawford
Third Avenue
Crawford
Collins Road
First Avenue
Joe Neuhaus
Orlan Handeland
Neuhaus
Sunray
Seventh Avenue
Colling Road
Richard Cayler
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Peo
Man Admits Attacks In Cedar Rapids and Iowa City
Cedar Rapids police report Oscar William Scheetz twenty admitted attacks on two Cedar Rapids women on November 22 and December 22. He also confessed to raping two University of Iowa students on Johnson County roads near Iowa City. Authorities charged him in related offenses. no injuries reported in the Cedar Rapids assaults. He was taken into custody Sunday for questioning.
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Cedar Rapids
Oscar William Scheetz
George Matias
Scheetz
Bever Avenue SE
Alice Mae Kramer
L Street
Carol Nuehring
Sixth Avenue SE
Matias
Asssailant
University of Iowa Co
Fecs
Johnson County
Iowa City
Kramer
Failure of Peace Bid is Revealed
Secretary of State Dean Rusk disclosed that the United States offered to extend the bombing pause over North Vietnam if Hanoi would agree to a peace gesture. He said Hanoi’s response was negative and unyielding while North Vietnam pressed to have the National Liberation Front recognized as South Vietnam’s sole representative.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
United. States
North Vietjnam
U.S
Hanoi
Rusk
United States
Ho Chi Minh
National Liberation Front
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Johnson
U.N
Allother
Goldberg
Red China
Peking
Paul VI
LBJ Urges Security Council to Meet on Vietnam Conflict
United States asks the United Nations Security Council to meet urgently to address the Vietnam war and seek a prompt peaceful solution. President Johnson announced the move in a nationwide address, and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg presented the request to Council President Roger Seydoux. The U N secretary general and nonaligned nations were cited as possible contributors to a peaceful settlement.
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United Nations
United States
USN
Security Council
Vietnam
U.S
Roger Seydoux
France
Council
Arthur Goldberg
Johnson
Goldberg
Thant
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul
U.N
U Thant
Universal draft calls surface amid Vietnam bombing reprise
President Johnson resumes bombing of North Vietnam as Sen. George Aiken urges universal military draft, higher taxes, and wartime controls. Aiken warns urgency before catastrophe. Senate Republican and foreign relations veteran presses action. Mansfield praises Aiken's public service amid war debate.
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Washington
Johnson
George Aiken
R-Vt
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Aiken
Vermont
Harvard medical students seek self study after lecture boycott
Twenty five Harvard medical students in Cambridge petitioned to skip lectures and laboratories for the rest of the year. Led by Andrew Weil they argue the lecture system fosters passivity and wasted time. Dean Robert Ebert approves a plan where students form study groups, take same exams, and attend only preferred lectures while maintaining progress with faculty advisers. The class is 106 in pathophysiology with 81 remaining in the traditional schedule.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Medical
Andrew Weil
Philadelphia
Medical School
Weil
Robert Ebert
Ebert
Harvard
Soviet says U S bombing resumption foils Vietnam peace move
Moscow claims Washington aims to mislead world opinion and prepare ground for further aggression after announcing renewed bombing of North Vietnam. The So viet statement notes the move contradicts a U.S. peace offensive and shows the United States does not want the war to end.
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Moscow
U.S
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Says Patrol Cars Are Piles of Junk
Iowa state Rep Kenneth Robinson told a legislative study committee that patrol cars assigned to the highway patrol are the cheapest and most poorly equipped models, alleging the 1965 cars are rolling piles of junk with brakes unworthy for duty.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Kenneth Robinson
D-Bayard
Towa Motor Vehicle Laws Study Committee
Robinson
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