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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1966
Page
3
U S B52 bombers struck the Ashan special forces camp near Saigon after it fell to North Vietnamese forces. The assault aimed to finish off defenders already accounted for with survivors evacuated. Other actions included Honolulu operation closure, Marine firefight near Da Nang, and a cultural drama attack in Binh Trung with Viet Cong suspected.
Senator Dirksen investigates an Internal Revenue Service inquiry into the tax exempt status of the National Right to Work Committee. Sources say he is checking the investigation while the group faced pressure, including a $1 million effort to defeat labor union shop legislation.
The White House announced President Johnson signed a bill authorizing 415 million dollars in foreign aid for Vietnam and other global trouble spots.
Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh announced his bid for the Democratic nomination to U S senator. He will face G Mennen Williams in a primary seen as a party splitter with labor backing Williams. Cavanagh calls for fiscal integrity and shared prosperity.
T Lamar Caudie, 62, who served a prison term for tax fraud, filed for the Democratic nomination in North Carolina's Eighth district. Pardoned last August by President Johnson, he had previously been fired by President Truman as assistant attorney general and later convicted for attempting to block prosecution of an income tax case. He served six months of a two year sentence.
U S radio station in West Berlin says a secret letter from the Soviet communist party accused China of preparing for war with Russia and of fueling a long war in Vietnam to provoke a U S Soviet clash. The letter, sent last February to foreign communist parties, instructed leaders to tell members by word of mouth. The broadcast, aimed at East Germany, cited Chinese rejection of Soviet border talks and alleged steps to block Soviet military aid to Hanoi.
FBI agents captured James Richmond 20, missing from the army since June 11, hiding in a tunnel he dug in a cellar in Old Hanover township. The tunnel measured four feet wide, twelve feet long and three feet deep, with an entrance concealed by a rock in his mother Dorothy Andrejko’s property basement in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
A Soviet built United Arab Airlines plane crashed in a desert sandstorm ten miles north of Cairo killing 30 people. All 25 passengers and five crew members died after altimeter failures were noted in pilot tower communications. One passenger Kenneth Gilbert, an employee of the U S embassy in Cyprus, was identified among the dead.
The remaining two of a set of quadruplets born Friday to Jean Cook died Saturday in Melbourne. Two of the brothers died shortly after birth. The AP report notes the loss as part of a tragic multiple birth outcome.
Senator Robert Kennedy spoke to about 5,000 at Ole Miss and Alabama, recalling the 1962 riots sparked by James Meredith. He blamed Gov. Barnett for the events and noted a Ku Klux Klan truck outside Ole Miss. He also teased Gov. Wallace and urged patience in Vietnam talks.
A witty saying contrasts borrowing and lending among acquaintances. It notes the edge of familiarity where one is comfortable to borrow but not to lend. The quip uses familiar social dynamics to poke gentle fun at borrowing norms.
After a three day pause the United States told Russia it is ready to sign a new cultural exchange pact. President Johnson reportedly blocked earlier provisions and two points remain under review. The agreement would enable a one for one exchange of students teachers artists and entertainers in 1966 and 1967.
A gunman Harvey Baker 33 held the Keeler family hostage in Eugene Oregon for four hours. A brave 22 year old woman Mrs Marvin Keeler grabbed the pistol during the final struggle and police Lt Pat Larson fired the shot that fatally wounded Baker. A passerby Milton Seligman 29 was shot and is stable. Baker died in hospital from head wounds. The incident began with a failed grocery store robbery and ended with a police pursuit through downtown Eugene. Baker had home towns listed as Modesto California and Salem Oregon on identification papers.
President Johnson accepted Lloyd Hand’s resignation as U S chief of protocol and named James Symington, a justice department official, as replacement. Symington, son of Senator Stuart Symington, heads the President's committee on juvenile delinquency and youth crime. Hand may run for California governor or lieutenant governor.
Officials say the long missing H-bomb on a steep slope near Palomares Beach Spain faces risk of slipping into the Mediterranean. U S navy technicians work to relocate it to a safer recovery zone amid mounting concern over the weapon’s fate.
The first board election for the new area vocational school district including Linn Benton Johnson Jones Washington and part Cedar will be held Tuesday May 10. Nominating papers can be obtained from the Linn County superintendent or offices in the seven merged counties with a filing deadline of April 20 at 5 p.m. Nine directors will be elected across nine districts. Cedar Rapids Community district voters elect two directors. Only electors in each district may vote for that district. The Cedar Rapids voting occurs within the Cedar River split.
An article marking the first space walk anniversary reports Voskhod II crashed in a snowy forest. Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev were found after 24 hours, cooled by rescuers who dropped warm clothes, with medical equipment still attached and trees felled to airlift them out.
The U S Chamber of Commerce chief economist Carl Madden told the fiscal policy subcommittee of the joint economic committee on Friday that the federal government should curb spending rather than raise taxes to combat inflation. He urged fiscal prudence during the hearing.
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