Strife in Red China Reported by Wall Posters
Tokyo reports from Peking describe deadly clashes in western China as Red Guards and anti Maoist factions fight over Mao era policies. Wall posters cite hundreds killed or injured in Chengtu and across Sichuan with boats rammed on the Yangtze and water supplies poisoned.
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Tokyo
Wall
Peking
China
Mao Tsetun
Red Guard
Chengtu
Communist Party
Mao
Lu Shao-chi
South China
Szechwan
Teng Hsiao-ping
Liu
Peking People’s Daily
Tsinghai
Tientsin
No Way to Check Material Stolen in Vietnam Program
The GAO told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there is no reliable method to determine how much material stolen or misused occurred in the Vietnam import program financed by the United States. The report suggests losses may exceed AID estimates, and cites limited accountability data as making precise identification of losses difficult.
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Washington
Vietnam
United States
General Accounting Office
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
J.W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Elmer B. Staats
Agency For International Development
South Vietnam
AID
Johnson
Senate
Rutherford M. Poats
Poats
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Congress
GAO
Film Actor Hecht Jailed on Murder Suspect Charge
HOLLYWOOD AP Theo dore Hecht a 61 year old motion picture actor of the 1940s was jailed on suspicion of murder after his wife Jean 45 died in a hospital from injuries found by friends. Police said she showed bruises contusions and died hours later. The couple had been married 21 years and Mrs Hecht was a dancer. Hecht was a cousin of Ben Hecht the late author.
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Hollywood
Theodore Hekt
Jean
Pulitzer Prize overrulings surprise readers in 1967 awards
Newsweek reports the Pulitzer Prize advisory board rejected the journalism jury’s call for national reporting honors to Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. The board instead awarded Wall Street Journal reporters Stanley W. Penn and Monroe W. Karmin for crime and gambling ties in the Bahamas.
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New York
Newsweek Magazine
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Stanley W., Penn
Monroe W. Karmin
The
Wall Street Journal
U. S
Bahamas
Kansas Lawmakers Vote Aboard Various Congressional Measures
Kansas members of Congress are listed by roll call in Washington. Senate votes include passage of an Appalachia bill with 68 to 13 and a rail strike resolution at 72 to 2 with Carlson and Pearson voting for the measures in both cases. A postal leases amendment failed 44 to 23 with Carlson and Pearson for the amendment. In the House, a $1.36 billion Interior bill was rejected 231 to 158 to send back to committee with 5 percent cuts, and a redistricting guidelines bill passed 289 to 63. A 47 day rail strike prohibition resolution passed 301 to 56 with Carlson and Pearson voting against the motion.
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Appalachia
Carlson and Pearson
Williams, R-Del
Carlson, Pearson
Long
D-La
Bow
Ohio
Interior Department
Dole
Mize
Shriver
Skubitz
Winn
Shriver, Skubitz
Three Prisoners Escape Then Nabbed in Kansas City Yard
Three inmates escaped a fifth floor cell by pulling a hacksaw blade line to the window grill and later fled toward a courthouse yard eight blocks away. A former officer and his 17 year old stepson surprised and recaptured them within 30 minutes.
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Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte County
Eugene Price
Ronald Allen Hubbard
Scotty Hanks
AJ. Sorrell
Benton Harding
Price
Hubbard
Hanks
Harding
Magnus Carnahan
William Mootz
Mootz
Edward Egnatic
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Adriatic
Croatia
Zagreb
Yugoslavia
Topeka
Chanute
Concordia
Dodge City
Emporia Ft
Leavenworth
Goodland
Olathe
Russell
Salina
Pittsburghes
Pulitzer Snubs
J. Anderson
Harrison Salisbury
New York Times
North Vietnam
R. John Hughes
Christian Science Monitor
Indonesia
Pearson and Anderson
Thomas Dodd
D-Conn
Erwin D. Canham
Boston
Kansas
SUN & Fun
W. Main
Gingham
Stefania Careddu
Rome
Carcare
Chanute Tribune
Eddie
Khe Sanh
Hill 881
Eases
Feriesy
Tiega Hotel
Bidg
Take Command
CL Ren
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