GM And Union Strive For Agreement On Pact For 380000
GM and United Auto Workers bargainers pressed toward a national pact covering about 390000 GM workers with a midnight deadline passing without public word of agreement. Talks began 9:30 a.m. Thursday and continued with a long dinner break as secrecy prevailed under a news blackout. union sources noted some plants faced walkouts and local disputes while the national talks could influence holiday pay and future wage gains across the Big Three.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
American
Three Motors Corp
UAW
Ford
Itan Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
AMC
Walter P. Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
Reuther
Chrysler
Vietnam War Casualties Deepen In Weekly Toll
In drenching rain U S Army Americal Division battles the Communists in the northern 1st Corps area reporting 56 enemy killed Wednesday. South Vietnamese troops suffered 380 dead and 6839 wounded last week, a yearly high. U S combat deaths reached 194 with 1643 wounded, for the period Nov 26 to Dec 2. Allied losses totaled 595. South Vietnamese command tallies 1818 enemy killed, while overall U S casualties since 1961 reach 15,459 killed and 96,746 wounded amid illnesses and accidents. Most action centered in the central highlands along the Laos and Cambodia border.
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U.S. Army
Americal Division
1St Corps
U.S
Vietnam
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Gold Pool Shifts Strain Paris as London Holds Supply
Gold continued to frustrate buyers in Paris while dealers report limited supply from usual sources. The gold pool nations agreed to screen requests and curb speculative demand as France reportedly exits the pool. London dealers indicated looser ash sale restrictions but no credit trades, with Paris volumes dropping while London trade remains robust at the $35 an ounce peg.
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Paris
United States
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Britain
Switzerland
France
London
Bank of England
Flight officer discusses MIG bases in China and Vietnam
Col James cites Pentagon no comment on his views while noting U.S. pilots may not cross into China even in hot pursuit. He says Vietnam moved MIG fighters to Chinese bases this year as U.S. leaders aimed at destroying home bases. About 15 MIGs are in North Vietnam, with 40 to 50 in China for safety and repairs. James warns the Communists may strike from home bases then retreat into China or fly directly from China near the border. No official U.S. statement confirms MIGs cross into Red China.
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China
Defense Department
Col. James
U.S
James
Red China
NATO seeks realistic steps for East West Europe settlement
NATO ministers endorse Harmel plan to reunify Germany under a peace treaty and establish a continental security system for peaceful Soviet Western bloc ties. They press arms control and balanced cuts while noting Soviet budget and force expansion and protecting the Mediterranean flank amid Greek Turkish tensions. The communique stresses Soviet US participation for European security.
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Europe
NATO
West Germany
Mediterranean
Maurice Couve de Murville
France
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Willy Brandt
Hans Tabor v
Maniio Brosio
Congress and Jute Session Aims for Final Adjournment
Congress races to resolve disputes on school aid allocation and church-related funding while conferees finalize antipoverty funding at 1.773 billion dollars. Senate action on Social Security benefits faced a resolved vote after filibuster threats, with Friday deadline looming.
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Carl D. Perkins
D-Ky
Sot House
Senate
House Senate
House
Office of Economic Opportunity
Pailer Testifies He Was Not Near Shopping Center
In Arlington AP dispatch, Patler testifies he was not near the Arlington shopping center when George Lincoln Rockwell was killed. Det. Walter H. KaDe says Patler’s father in law and wife testified he left home at 11 a.m. on the day of the shooting. Patler disputes calling Rockwell an evil genius and denies urging him to be stoned. Final arguments pending Friday.
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Arlington
Monwealth
William J. Arlington
Hassan
Rockwell
John
Patler
Ing
George Lincoln Rockwell
Sping Center
Walter H. Kade
Hassa
Sam Ervin
Ervin
Alice
Patter
Tynet J
Pearson minister and cabinet names in leadership talks
Pearson minister Mitchell Sharp aged 58 transport minister Paul Kellyer aged 34 Health Minister Allan MacMachen aged 46 discussed as possible successors. Other names expected before the party meeting. Stanfield, the Tory leader, stated he would not indicate any preference for a successor.
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Mitchell Sharp
Paul Kellyer
Allan MacMachen
Stanfield
Pearson
Greek king’s countercoup collapses as troops realign
News from Greece details a swift royalist bid to seize control. Constantine II announced takeover of government and armed forces, but the junta rapidly surrounded key cities including Salonika and Larissa, arresting royalist commanders while the king fled to Kavalla and then Rome with his family.
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Navy
Elelsis Air Force
Athens
Crete
Greece
Papadopoulos
Junta
Salonika
3Rd Corps
Dimitrios Paulis
3Rd Army
George Pericles
Kavalla
Tatoi
Larissa
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Kayalla
Kavala
Constantine
Rome
Alexia
Anne-Marie
Paul
Irene
Frederika
Constantine Kollias
Constantine Dovas
Social Security bill passes amid debate and schedule shift
The House approved a Social Security measure 388 to 3 to boost benefits by at least 13 percent starting next March. The plan raises minimum payments, increases caps, and taxes on higher earners, with some senators opposing strict welfare provisions for families with absent fathers. The vote was set for 11:30 a.m. after a brief delay.
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Russell B. Long
D-La
Long
House
Garney E. Shriver
Rehan
Fred BR
Harris
Oklahoma
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
Joseph D. Tydings
Dmd
Assassination shocksSaigon region loses Rep San
SAIGON AP A South Vietnamese representative Bui Quang San was killed in his home near Saigon. The government blamed Viet Cong terrorists, noting his anti Communist militia role in Quang Nam and his political ties. His wife six children and mother were later killed in a Viet Cong mortar attack onHoi An three months earlier.
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Saigon
Quang Nam
South Vietnam
Sanjual
San
V.N.Q.D.D
Flan
House of Representatives
Miliia
Hoi An
Cap
Stanford and Kornberg team create synthetic DNA virus
A Stanford team and Dr. Arthur Kornberg describe copying the PHI X 174 virus DNA in a test tube to build fully active synthetic viruses that can invade bacteria. They identify DNA polymerase and ligase as key enzymes and discuss potential cancer research implications and the broader significance for understanding viral replication and life.
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Stanford
Robert L. Sinsheimer
Cal Tech
Kornberg
Goulian
Proceedings
National Academy of Sciences
Sinsheimer
Pasadena
Havel
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