Record Air Strike Reports 61 Missions in North Vietnam
AP dispatch details a record overnight air strike with 61 missions targeting a missile site in North Vietnam. In the South, 665 communist troops were killed in heavy fighting near Quang Ngai, with allied forces suffering light overall casualties and three aircraft lost.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S
Quang Ngai
Quang Ngai City
101St Airborne Division
Tuy Hoa
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Highlands
Venus 3 sterilized before descent Tass reassures on Venus 3 contamination risk
Moscow’s Tass reassured Western scientists that Venus 3 was sterilized before descent to destroy terrestrial microbes and prevent contamination of Venus. The agency said radio and communications failed before contact was lost and noted plans for two satellites Venus 2 and Venus 3 data collection, with several corrections attempted.
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Tass
Venus
Earth
Moon
Zond
Church Bulletin Chuckle Quip On Entrance
A light church bulletin joke says you are not too bad to come in and not too good to stay out, reflecting a playful message about openness and welcome.
Censoring of Morse Words in Vietnam Hearings
Washington UPI reports the Fulbright senate foreign relations committee hearings on Vietnam will publish transcripts with Sen. Wayne Morse censored. An angry salvo aimed at Gen Maxwell Taylor on Feb 18 is heavily edited. Morse’s quip and reference to a smear artist were removed.
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Washington
UPI
Fulbright Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vietnam
Wayne Morse
Morse
Maxwell Taylor
Government Printing Office
Dore
Taylor
North Dakota Guards Mobilized to Aid Snowbound State
North Dakota was declared a disaster area as Lt. Gov. Charles Tighe mobilized 1 100 national guards men to rescue the sick and stranded and recover the dead from a three day blizzard. The storm claimed at least two young farm girls Carla Welk 6 and Betty Diede 13. 545 people were stranded 495 rail travelers and 35 missing. Civil defense and air support coordinated rescues with helicopters and a state plane. Air flights resumed into Bismarck as crews aided vehicles and passengers trapped in snow.
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North Dakota
Charles Tighe
Carla Welk
Strasburg
Lawrence Welk
Betty Diede
Jamestown
U.S. Weather Bureau
Trapped coaches rescued after 50 hours of blizzard ordeal
Three high school basketball coaches from Fort Yates and Mandan were found after more than 50 hours trapped in a car by a historic blizzard. They described praying, burning cushions and fence posts for warmth, and surviving on rolls and snow until rescue by a rotary snow plow near Mandan.
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Mandan
N.D
Weather Bureau
James Barret
Fort Yates
U S Paratrooper Wounded in Santo Domingo Shootings
An American paratrooper and three civilians were wounded by gunfire in separate downtown Santo Domingo incidents. Violence returned to the capital as authorities investigated.
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Santo Domingo
Mossler Murder Jury Deadlocks In Miami Trial
The Mossler murder case jury reported itself deadlocked in Miami as jurors split on guilt for Candace Mossler and Melvin Lane Powers. Judge Schulz ordered continued deliberations and a fresh note kept the panel in session through Sunday.
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Miami
Mossler
George Schulz
Candace Mossler
Melvin Lane Powers
Jacques
Powers
Viet Cong Groggy Says General At Johnson Ranch
Brig. Gen. Ellis Williamson told President Johnson the Viet Cong cannot win and the war looks like a five rounds into a ten round bout. He advocated continuing pressure, and he supported mining Haiphong as a military base to deny its use. Williamson returned from Vietnam recently and spoke at the White House press center in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Johnson
Vietnam
Ellis Williamson
173D Airborne
Haiphong
Williamson
Congress
Washington
Johnson City Ranch
White House
Police code would require warnings and taped interrogations
A proposed prearraignment code from the American Law Institute would require police to warn arrestees they may remain silent and consult counsel, tape record questioning beyond brief moments, and limit certain arrests. It envisions court appearances soon after arrest and restricts lie detector use without consent.
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Washington
American Law Institute
Ford Foundation
James Vorenberg
Johnson
National Crime Commission
Paul Bator
Vorenberg
Harvard Law
The
Law Institute
Turkish Scions In Free-for-All
In Ankara AP report five deputies were injured as fighting broke out in the national assembly on Saturday amid heated disputes.
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Ankara
National Assembly
Churchill Curtain Talk Remembered At Westminster College
Fulton Missouri AP Twenty years after the speech Winston Churchill described an Tron Curtain descending across the continent A Westminster College observance aired his 1946 remarks The church remnants from St Mary Aldermanbury will be rebuilt on campus as a Churchill memorial Missouri faculty recalled his breakfast remark calling it pig at the peak of its evolution
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Norfolk
St. Mary Aldermanbury
Westminster
Churchill
Leif Dahl
Winston
Dahl
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