Middle East crisis prompts new international efforts
France and Britain urged joint action by the four powers to ease the Middle East crisis as Egypt moved to block Israeli shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba. U Thant started peace talks with Egypt as Israel pressed for an open Gulf, and Johnson condemned the blockade as illegal.
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Britain
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Red Sea
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U.N
U Thant
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Thant
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Johnson
Middle East Crisis Drives Global Powers into Action
Paris proposes joint action by France the United States Britain and the Soviet Union to ease the Middle East crisis. London says a UN backed solution is possible and Gulf of Aqaba access may be kept open. Iraq pledges land and air forces to aid Egypt and Syria in the battle of honor.
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Britain
Soviet Union
Paris
Associated Press
Middle East
London
Harold Wilson
United Nations
Gulf of Aqaba
Israel
Africa
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Mediterranean
Baghdad
Iraq
Egypt
Syria
Council of Ministers
Bartch
Pearce
Security Council Hears Gulf Crisis Amid US British Talks
The United States and Britain launched urgent talks on freeing the Gulf of Aqaba as Egypt blocks the channel. President Johnson backs UN action to protect Middle East stability and Israel's sea passage rights while the Soviet Union seeks to sidetrack the UN debate.
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Israel
Gulf of Aqaba
Graf
United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U.N. Security Council
United States
Council
Middle East
France
Bulgaria
Mali
India
Roger Seydoux
Liu
Traffic Fatalities Log Shows May Toll In Kansas
Kansas traffic death log lists 41 fatalities for May 1967 and 204 for the comparable 1966 period with 235 for the 1966 period. One previously unreported fatality is included.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wellington man dies in two car crash
Edward Stinson Jr. 23 of Wellington was killed Tuesday night in a two car collision on a county road southeast of Wellington. He was pinned in his car for about an hour.
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Wellington, Kan
Edward Stinson Jr
Wellington
Public Opinion Survey Planned for Neosho County
The Neosho county planning commission authorized a county wide public opinion survey to be conducted by Leslie Frazier of Kansas State University. Rural families will receive one third of the questionnaires and Chanute families one fifth. Question topics include store selections police protection community spirit and job opportunities with responses on good fair or poor. Questionnaires are to be mailed in about three weeks after county approval at a courthouse meeting attended by Chanute officials.
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Erie
Neosho County
Chanute
Swers
Frazier
Planning Commission
K-State
Five Year Old Boy Dies In Hutchinson Fire
A 5-year-old Hutchinson boy named Tyrone Carter died in a house fire. Firemen found him after a neighbor alerted the alarm and firefighters forced entry. A relative said he was to be at a babysitter while his mother attended a business school.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Tyrone Carter
Joann Carter
U S Planes End 24 Hour Truce With North Vietnam Raids
U S planes resumed strikes after Buddhas birthday truce ended, targeting rail yards near Hanoi and the Red River delta. In the central highlands near Pleiku, two U S infantry companies faced heavy mortar and rocket fire. five men were killed and 14 wounded. Air and naval raids continued along the supply lines south toward South Vietnam amid reports of repeated truce violations by North and South Vietnam forces.
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Saigon
U.S
Hanoi
Red River
4Th Infantry Division
Pleiku
North Vietnam
Thai Nguyen
Red Capital
Red
Haiphong
South Vietnam
Workshop on Kansas Retirement Plan Draws Local Officials
About 60 people attended a KPERS led workshop at the Memorial building for southeast Kansas aimed at teaching local government staff how to enroll in KPERS, process data, and manage retirement procedures. Dean Kelley chaired the session with Chanute city workers and Neosho County staff among registrants.
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Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
KPERS
Dean Kelley
Chanute City
Neosho County
Store Fire Toll Mounts in Belgium
Police in Brussels say the department store fire at the Innovation store caused 38 deaths and 64 injuries with 222 missing, though officials reported 320 missing. The blaze occurred Monday during a rush hour, trapping shoppers inside the building.
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Brussels
Belgium
Innovation Department
Two Trucks One Owner in County Road Collision
A 1959 Dodge truck and a 1966 Chevrolet pickup owned by Dwight Foust of rural Erie were heavily damaged in a county road crash southeast of here about 4 50 p m yesterday. The sheriff said the vehicles met on a curve. Drivers were Gary L Adams 21 of Thayer and Melvin Janssen 19 of Erie Janssen sustained minor injuries. The accident occurred two and a half miles south and half a mile east of Erie.
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Erie
Dwight Foust
Here
Gary L. Adams
Thayer
Melvin Janssen
Janssen
Asylum Granted in Cuba for U S Officer and Son
Granma reports U S Army Maj Richard Harwood Pearce, a Vietnam veteran cleared for top secret material, and his 4½ year old son were granted asylum in Cuba. Pearce says he left the United States for reasons of conscience.
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Havana
Cuba
Richard Harwood Pearce
Granma
Pearce
United States
Richard Jr
Liberty
Washington
State Department
Carl Barthh
U.S
Bartch
Slaying of Research Aide to Sen Carlson Stuns Capital
Judith Robeson 24, a Carlson staffer and University of Kansas alumna from Shawnee Mission, was found beaten and choked in her Southwest Washington apartment. Police report no forced entry or theft. rape test pending as investigators pursue leads.
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Washington
Frank Carlson
R Kan
Judith Robeson
Miss Robeson
Shawnee Mission
Kan
Carlson
University of Kansas
Anthony Armenta
Mark Robeson
Washington Post
Europe
Robeson
Tribune Phone Contact Ad Amid Carrier Hours
A short notice instructs readers to contact a Tribune by phone and provides an after hours dialing option HE 13409 after 6 p.m. The text implies a communication channel when the main line is unavailable.
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Tribune
Long to Quiz IRS on Fee Leak in Life Magazine Story
Senator Edward V Long plans to question the Internal Revenue Service about how Life magazine learned of fees he shared with St Louis lawyer Morris A Shenker. He suggests the IRS leaked the information after an IRS audit of his 1963 and 1964 tax returns.
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Washington
Edward V .Long
Internal Revenue Service
Life Magazine
St. Louis
Missouri Democrat
IRS
Life
Long
Senate
Morris A. Shenker
Shenker
Long’s
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Hoffa
Leng
Lona
Jimmy Hoffa
Sheldon Cohen
Cohen
Lon
Weather Area Forecast For Kansas Warm Through Thursday
The Weather Bureau expects mid summer temperatures across Kansas today with highs from west to east ranging from the upper 90s to mid 90s and south winds 20 to 30 mph. Tonight remains fair and warm with lows around 60 to 65, Thursday highs reaching mid to upper 90s. Readings yesterday ranged from 97 at Bellville to 85 at Pittsburg, with overnight lows from 57 Chanute to 64 Dodge City.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Bellville
Pittsburg
Chanute
Dodge City
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