Soviet U S Reach Space Treaty Agreement
The United States and the Soviet Union have reportedly reached a basic agreement on a treaty for peaceful exploration of the moon and space. The plan would allow all countries to sign, paving the way for China and others to join, with U.N. General Assembly approval targeted in the coming weeks.
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Soviet Union
U.S
U.N
China
East Germany
North Vietnam
North Korea
Arthur Goldberg
Platon Morozov
U.N. General Assembly
Johnson
Assembly
Plan to summit Vinson Massif in Antarctica
Washington AP Eleven American climbers will attempt the first surface ascent of Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica at 16860 feet. The National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation sponsor the expedition with the American Alpine Club. Fossil finds amid ongoing geological work underscore the scientific value of the climb. The massif lies in the Sentinel range of the Ellsworth mountains, about 1300 miles from McMurdo Sound and 1500 miles from South America's tip.
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Washington
Vinson Massif
Antarctica
National Geographic Society
National Science Foundation
Society
American Alpine Club
American Scientific Community
Sentinel Range
Ellsworth Mountains
U. S
McMurdo Sound
South America
Lincoln Ellsworth
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services Committee
Henry Jackson
Seattle
Tentative Agreement In Youngstown Strike
The board of education tentatively agreed Saturday night to a collective bargaining election for striking teachers. The Youngstown Federation of Teachers was ordered back to work by a court order earlier Saturday after leading the city’s 46 schools on strike last Monday.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Board of Education
Youngstown Education Assn
Youngstown Federation of Teachers
U S Officials Fear Cong Truce Proposal
U S officials gauge a Christmas truce offered by Viet Cong as a potential lull in fighting but fear a bargaining ploy for a prolonged bombing halt. Johnson advisers worry halting air strikes would aid communist movement in the South, fueling debates on how tough to be in peace talks.
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Washington
Satururday
Vietnam
Johnson
North Vietnam
U.S
South Vietnam
Ohio Patrolman Learns He's Become Celebrity
Steubenville Ohio patrol corporal Edmund McGowan became a national story after chasing a speeding train to warn a wrecked car driver James Maumaw 23 of Mingo Junction. The engineer stopped the train about 2000 feet from the crash. Maumaw was in satisfactory condition at a Warren hospital.
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Edmund McGowan
James Mauman
Mingo Junction
McGowan
Maumaw
Warren
Crossing carrier pigeons with owls for night letters
A humorous note suggests biology students try crossing carrier pigeons with owls to create nocturnal message carriers. The idea reads like a lighthearted classroom joke rather than practical science.
War reports repeat across shrinking battlefield map
Associated Press writer Hugh Mulligan describes the routine nature of Vietnam engagements near Pleiku including landing zone Hawk five miles north of the Ia Drang river. Huey helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division fly Charlie Company into the area on Friday night November 18.
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Pleiku
Vietnam
Ben Cat Bong Son
Drang Chu Phong
1Stair Cavalry Division
Charlie Company
Hawk
Ia Drang River
Rendezvous with Death in Tall Grass Ahead of Thanksgiving
In a Vietnam era battlefield vignette Captain Harold Wunsch commands Charlie company in 71 days of field duty. They anticipate Thanksgiving at LZ Hammond for hot turkey and laundry, while night noises and the memory of prior ambushes haunt the plains and ravines.
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Charlie Company
Seventh
Wunsch
Paul Revere
James Smythe
Fayetteville
Australia and New Zealand back U.S. Vietnam policy
In Sydney and Wellington, voters returned governing coalitions that backed U S policy in Vietnam. Australian Prime Minister Holt pledged support as Labor’s Calwell promised to pull troops if elected. New Zealand’s National Government defeated Labour, which opposed the artillery battery deployment.
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Sydney
Australia
New Zealand
Vietnam
Harold Holt
U. S
Labor Party
Arthur Calwell
South Vietnam
Keith Holyoake
National
Holyoake
Wellington
GOP Leader Drafts Tax-Sharing Setup
House GOP leader Rep. Charles Goodell proposes a federal tax sharing plan to send 50 percent to states, 45 percent to localities, and 5 percent to strengthen state administration. Distribution based on population with 10 percent targeted to poorer states. plan includes annual reporting and a four-year review. The scheme aims as an alternative to Great Society programs.
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House
Charles Goodell
R-N.y
GOP
Goodell
Great Society
Republican Planning and Research Committee
Washington
Walter W. Heller
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
White House
Henry Reuss
D-Wis
Heller
Congress
Jayne Mansfield Son Attacked by Lion in Jungleland
Jayne Mansfield's six year old son Zoltan was mauled by a movie lion at Jungleland and underwent brain surgery. He regained consciousness briefly and doctors described his condition as satisfactory. He is the son of Mansfield's former husband Mickey Hargitay, who and Mansfield divorced last July.
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Thousand Oaks
Calif
Jayne Mansfield
Jungleland
Miss Mansfield
Conejo Valley Community Hospital
Zoltan
Mickey Hargitay
Prisoners Recaptured After Jolting Escape From Allegheny Jail
Six inmates escaped Saturday armed with zip guns and sharpened spoons shot at a pursuing guard and held a city officer hostage in a car. All six were seized within two hours in Millvale. Officer John Daniels was unharmed and Guard Frank Connell, 22, is in good condition with a right arm wound.
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Pittsburgh
API
Allegheny County
Frank Colnnell
Allegheny General Hospital
Millvale
Allegheny River
John Daniels
Pravda Editorial Attacks Mao Era China in Broad Critique
Pravda denounces Mao Zedong and Lin Biao by name in a sweeping editorial, urging opponents within China to halt what Moscow calls the erroneous course. The piece aligns the Kremlin with dissatisfied Chinese elements, signaling a new Soviet effort to rally world communist parties against Beijing and warn of anti Soviet brainwashing in China.
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Moscow
Pravda
Mao Tse-tung
China
Peking
Mao
Soviet Communist Party
Lin Piao
Chinese Communist Party
Communist Party
Communist
Budapest
Hungarian Communist Party
Communist Movement
Krag Abandons Coalition Bid in Denmark
In Copenhagen Premier Jens Otto Krag said his Social Democrats will govern as a minority after failing to form a coalition. The move ends his bid for a broad alliance and keeps the party in power without a formal majority.
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Copenhagen
Jens Otto Krag
Social Democrats
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United Nations
Kurt Waldheim
Austria
Outer Space Committee
Manfred Lachs
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Roseland
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Orient
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