Riots in Malaysia Turn Violent Across Penang and Kuala Lumpur
Chinese and Malays clashed for a second day in Penang amid racial rioting sparked by Labor party accusations over a currency devaluation. Disorders spread to Kuala Lumpur as police used tear gas, with eight killed and 126 injured reported in Penang and a wave of anti-government demonstrations continuing in the capital’s Chinatown.
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Penang
Malaysia
Labor Party
Kuala Lumpur
Britain
Tunku Abdel Rahman
Rahman
Butterworth
Enemy Intentions at Dak To Still Mystery
The Dak To battle began November 3 as Communist forces struck U.S. infantry and paratroopers fought to Hill 875. After 21 days of heavy fighting, Allied commanders remain mystified about the enemy’s true goals in the central highlands as initial theories of overrun outposts prove inadequate.
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Dak
U.S
Central Highlands
Dak To
Demilitarized Zone
173Rd Airborne Brigade
U S Catholic Magazine Declares Viet War Immoral
The U S Catholic editors denounce U S participation in Vietnam as immoral saying the war is wrong unjust and must end before it harms the nation They condemn napalm arbitrary uprooting of people and the draining of resources while noting military setbacks at Dak To and predicting grim consequences from further victories in a nonconventional war
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Chicago
U.S
Vietnam
Claretian Fathers
Poison Bread Kills 75 in Colombian Towns
AP reports 75 townsfolk died and 600 ill after bread contaminated with parathion. Families perished in Chiquinquirá as authorities say insecticide accidentally mixed with baking powder. Many victims, including children, died in agony in the streets.
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Bogota
Colombia
Chiquinquira
Donated building materials halted at border bound for San Felipe
Thirty truckloads worth $300,000 in donated building materials were turned back at the Mexican border en route to the Palo Indian Reservation Mission after Mexican officials claimed missing federal permits. California Junior Chamber of Commerce leaders said officials assured entry earlier. The convoy, organized after a September tropical storm, rerouted to San Diego County.
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Calexico
Calif
San Felipe
Mexico
Bill Brubank
California Junior Chamber of Commerce
Burbank
Palo Indian Reservation
San Diego County
Seven Strike Forces to Target Organized Crime Areas
Washington AP reports seven Strike Forces to focus on major organized crime activity. Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced the federal effort, naming no specific seven areas but indicating initial operations will concentrate in the East and Midwest, including Northern Illinois centered activity.
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Washington
Ramsey Clark
Midwest
Clark
Strike Forces Target Cosa Nostra Across Multiple States
A federal plan forms long range crime probes across Chicago, New York City and Brooklyn, plus sites in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Louisiana, Florida, Kansas City and St Louis. The Strike Forces draw from Treasury and Labor agencies under DOJ coordination, with an anticipated $2 million cost through June 1969. The Buffalo Project earlier yielded 14 indictments and several convictions in a probe into armored truck robbery schemes connected to Cosa Nostra activity.
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Chicago
New York City
Brooklyn
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Scranton
New Jersey
Louisiana
Florida
Kansas City
St. Louis
Buffalo
Frederico Randaccio
Pasquale Natarelli
Steven Cino
Charles Caci
Louis Sorgi
Sherman Oakes
Calif
Beverly Hilton
Los Angeles
Randaccio
Natarelli
Cosa Nostra
Experts Say No Firearms Used in Control of Riots
Three military experts told the Presidents Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that riot control should rely on non toxic gas rather than firearms. Gelston Hill and Hollis urged guardsmen use gas, avoid machineguns, and emphasize restrained force to restore order with minimal casualties.
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Washington
Johnson
Advisory Commission On
Roderic Hill
California
George Gelston
Maryland
Harris Hollis
Army
Gelston
Hill
Hollis
Read-in by Minnesota students to start in Morris
Twenty University of Minnesota students in Morris will start a 400 hour read-in Monday, part of a campus literacy effort.
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Morris, Minn
University of Minnesota
Low-Income Farm Survey Set To Begin This Week
Washington AP Secretary of Agriculture Freeman starts a weeklong regional survey to learn what federal farm programs low income farmers want and need. Six meetings in Denver Philadelphia Chicago Kansas City Atlanta Dallas Fort Worth will outline procedures for the opinion survey and present 30 tentative program ideas for financial technical help and cooperative management.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Freeman
Johnson Administration
Denver
Philadelphia
Chicago
Kansas City
Atlanta
Dallas-Fort Worth
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Escapes Ropes and Fires On Robbers Killing Two
In New Port Richey Florida a liquor store owner bound by three robbers escaped, ran outside and fired a carbine killing two of the attackers and seriously wounding a third. Police said the fourth man fled in a getaway car as bloodhounds swept the area for the missing suspect.
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New Port Richey
Fla
Pinellas County
Mark Frassrand
U.S. Highway 19
Tarpon Springs
New Port Rich
Audit Shows Big Iowa Rise in Tax Penalties
Iowa State Tax Commission waived over sixteen times as much income tax penalties in 1966-67 as the prior year. The audit by State Auditor Lloyd Smith notes a sevenfold rise in penalty waivers, driven mainly by late second-half payments under the new withholding system started in 1966. In 1966-67, 769 income tax penalties totaling 51397 were waived, versus 198 penalties totaling 3190 the previous year.
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Des Moines
State Tax Commission
Lloyd Smith
Smith
Office of Tax Commission
Iowa
The
Tax Commission
Bandits Return Part of Loot in Portland Robbery
Portland police report two bandits held up Eugene Atkinson of Portland on Friday taking all he had. He handed over $12 and the robbers returned $2 before fleeing the scene.
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Portland, Ore
Eugene Atkinson
Portland
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