GOP Backers Of LBJ Viet Policy Close Ranks
Washington AP Republicans rally behind President Johnson's Vietnam policy and reject calls for a formal party statement critical of the war. Sen Bourke BeHickenlooper Iowa and Barry Goldwater urge unity as GOP opposition to disloyalty surfaces.
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LBJ
Washington
Johnson
Vietnam
Sen
Bourke BeHickenlooper
Iowa
Barry Goldwater
Johnagn
Senate
Goldwater
Republican Policy Committee
Area Student Helps Man Ambulance
Warren Warren student at Albion College in Michigan volunteers for Albion area 24 hour ambulance service. John Cease a sophomore oversees the ambulance from scene to hospital and decides triage priorities during calls. After each run the crew re paints and readies the vehicle.
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Warrion
Warren
Albion College
Michigan
Albion
Albion Ambulance Service
John Cease
Eugene Cease
Cease
Ulve
Westmoreland To Get Viet Troop Buildup
Washington sources say General Westmoreland is likely to receive at least one more Army division to boost forces in Vietnam with potential for two more. Each division adds about 25 000 to 30 000 men, lifting total U S troops toward the 470 000 target by year end while troops in Vietnam stand around 440 000.
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Washington (Ap
William C. Westmoreland
Vietnam
Westmoreland
U.S
South Vietnam
Youth Gang Loots Buffalo Stores Again
A gang of 200 youths aged 16 to 20 roamed Buffalo last night breaking windows and looting a pawn shop. Television sets and instruments were taken, some recovered, with two arrests for malicious mischief burglary and grand larceny. Police investigate possible professional agitators behind the outbreaks. Five youths were arrested Tuesday night after similar store break ins.
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Buffalo
Francis P. Gaughan
Viet Cong Attacks Hit pacification Drive in South Vietnam
Intensified Viet Cong offensives batter Saigon's pacification effort with 309 attacks in four months. 218 government workers killed, 299 wounded, 51 missing. Northern provinces hardest, many cadres deserted including 50 in Hue. Escalation threatens morale and U.S. role as page four continues.
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Saigon
Relative asks rerun of Custer battle to clear ancestor
Charles Reno of Jackson Heights New York asked the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records to restore full rank and honors to his great great grandfather Mar who fought with Col George A Custer at the Little Big Horn. A court of inquiry cleared the major of blame but he was cashiered as a drunkard and brawler four years after the massacre. The case drew on a long family dispute and a New York meeting with Col George Walton who has studied the matter for five years and written a book seeking exoneration titled Faint the Trumpet Sounds.
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Manhattan
Charles Reno
Little Big Horn
George A. Custer
Reno
Army Board For the Correction
Washington
Mar
Custer
George Walton
Wrightsville
N.C
Col. Walton
Jackson Heights
Queens
Waller
Walton
Nixon Seeks Unity on Vietnam Strategy Not Purpose
Pittsburgh AP Nixon says the Vietnam war’s strategy, not its purpose, is the debatable point. He calls the war a nonpartisan issue and notes unity in America is worth one million more troops in Vietnam. Remarks followed a Penn Almanac fundraising event.
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Pittsburgh
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
America
Vietnam
Pennsylvania Almanac
Johnson Plan to End Rail Strike Within 90 Days
President Johnson proposed Congress create a mechanism to settle the threatened railroad strike by voluntary means within 90 days or by a binding agreement after that if needed. A five member mediation board would work 30 days with six rail shop craft unions, then White House hearings would assess fairness and public interest. Findings and any modifications would be filed with Congress and the White House if no agreement by day 60.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
White House
U S Marines Face Heavy Fighting Near Laotian Border
U S forces intensified ground action in South Vietnam as Marines and Special Forces engage near the Laotian border and Lang Vei camp. U S reports show rising weekly casualties including 181 Americans killed last week, with 420 miles north of Saigon a Lang Vei incident fatally wounding two Green Berets among heavy Vietcong losses.
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Demilitarized Zone
Saigon
South Vietnam
Hoa Lac
U.S. Command
U. S
Lang Vei
Long Vei
U.S
Khe Sanh
Youth Golf Leagues Set By Corry YMCA
The Corry YMCA aims to form a youth golf league at the North Hills municipal course for ages 13 to 18 with morning play. Dittman asks signups, offering $1 morning greens fees for city youths, including boys and girls and women.
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Corry Ymca
Corry
North Hills
Richard Dittman
Golf Commission
Morial Hospital
Dittman
B. W. Feldt
Robert Bracken
Pakistan launches Rehbar weather rocket from Karachi
Pakistan announced yesterday the launch of the two stage Centaur powered Rehbar weather rocket from Karachi with 15 officials confirming the feat. The rocket reached a height of 100 miles.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Rehbar
Vietnam widow to receive Air Medal for Lt Nichols
The area's only Vietnam war widow, Mrs. Colin K. Nichols of Stansburg, will accept the Air Medal on Sunday for her husband, Lt. Colin K. Nichols, killed last July in the war zone. He previously received the Purple Heart last December. The ceremony, at the late soldier's parents’ home in Spar tansburg, will be conducted with a U.S. Army major presenting the medal.
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Colin K. Nichols
Stansburg
Nichols
Armed Forces Reserve Armory
Erie
Keith Nichols
Spartansburg
U.S. Army
Stolen Checks Found on Miami Pair
Naples Florida AP reports two Miamians, Ralph Almonte and Gilda Melina, were captured after a cashier found travelers checks on a loot list from a New York pier robbery. Detained in the supermarket lot, they faced bonds of 20,000 each on interstate transportation of stolen property and forged checks. Officials pursued questions on how the pair obtained the loot and notes of an attempted escape with a gun emerged.
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Naples
Fla
New York
Ralph Almonte
Gilda Melina
Fire destroys barn at Bolcratz farm. three cows perish
A $100,000 blaze swept a large barn on the John Bolcratz farm on Wheetertown road near Union City early this morning, destroying the structure and contents. Seventy cattle were in the barn. three cows died, others saved. A second fire at a vacant Harold Dewey farmhouse followed nearby. Fire marshals to investigate both incidents.
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John Bolcratz
Wheetertown Road
Union City
Bolcratz
Mill Village
Harold Dewey
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