Hopes Dashed For Settlement Of British Seaman Strike
London AP reports Britain's 65,000 seamen union proposed a plan to end the 26 day maritime strike but quick hopes for settlement faded.George Woodcock of the Trades Union Congress spoke after the meeting saying little changed. The union seeks a 40 hour week with subsidy, while the government report to cut 56 to 48 hours immediate and 40 later was rejected. Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces a make or break test as the pound fluctuates on the news. Initial market reaction saw a slight rise in the pound.
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London
Britain
National Union of Seamen
Trades Union Congress
George Woodcock
Congress
Woodcock
United States
Seaman
Harold Wilson
Teamsters Probe Reveals Loans and Kickbacks Case Details
The Chicago based Central States pension fund, under investigation, approved 300 of 435 loans in 1964 65 funding hotels and hospitals. Hoffa appeals a separate eight year sentence for 1964 jury tampering. The grand jury seeks fund meeting minutes and trustee records before a Monday deadline.
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Baer
Florida
Teamsters
Hoffa
Pension Fund
Central States
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
William B. Herlands
Grand Jury
Arthur Karger
Karger
U.S
Navy Man Hits Jackpot At Mail Call
In Norfolk Virginia Edwin J. Pfiffner an electronics technician aboard a heavy cruiser received 66 letters from fourth graders at Queens of the Universe School Levittown Pennsylvania. The class wrote as a learning exercise to support servicemen and sent gifts from gum to Batman pictures and even a telephone number from one girl detailing a personal contact.
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Norfolk, Va
Newport News
Edwin J. Pfiffner
Queens of the Universe
Levittown
Pfiffner
U.S
Batman
Cuba challenges U S ban on sports travel at games
U S officials say Cuban athletes were granted visas by Mexico City consulate with third country travel rules while warning that any direct Cuban arrival would be seized. The Cuban crew portrays a large delegation to boost performance and avoid return-home embarrassment.
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Coast Guard
U.S
United States
Cuba
U.S. State Department
Castro
Florida
Havana
Mexico City
Mexico
Washington
Political campaigning at Randolph Henry High School
Reports from Charlotte County outline campaign activity with Boothe in Lynchburg and Roanoke promoting broadcasts. Robertson gains support from Mrs. Inez D. Baker of Portsmouth, pledging a six year term and potential future term, while Battle notes misrepresentation in relation to right to work law. Greenwood in Asheville advocates study to make Western North Carolina College the fifth UNC campus.
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Charlotte County
Randolph- Henry High School
Boothe
Lynchburg
Roanoke
Spong
Robertson
Inez D. Baker
Portsmouth
Virginia General Assembly
Byrd
Battle
EL Ww
Willey
Richmond
Virginia
Virginie
Membersip
Asheville
Gordon H. Greenwood
Buncombe County
Western North Carolina College
Consolidated University of North Carolina
Greenwood
State Board of Higher Education
Bus Crash in Caroline County Injures Nine
A bus crash near Caroline County left nine injured. Survivors were removed via emergency rear door and side windows as debris from the smashed camper scattered 75 yards along the highway. Injured include Helen Crum 33 and Mary Beth Crum 6 of New Castle Pennsylvania. radiomen and seamen from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Authorities at Mary Washington Hospital identified the victims with conditions ranging from fair to critical.
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Servation
Caroline County
Here
Mary Washington Hospital
Helen Crum
New Castle
Mary Beth Crum
Ronald Stare
Harrisburg
Melvin Hagner
Glen Burnie
Joseph Allegro
Baltimore
Ronald Burke
Interior Communications
Peter A. E. Edwards
Francisco Salila
Robert Fowler
Ruby's Sanity Trial Set To Start Monday
Dallas AP report says Jack Ruby's sanity hearing will open Monday with no witnesses or evidence from his defense. Judge Holland denied motions to delay or withdraw an insanity affidavit and ordered jury selection to proceed.
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Ruby
Dallas. Tex
Jack Ruby
Texas
Holland
Phil Burleson
Dallas
Joe Tonahill
Jasper
Burleson
Tonahill
Dallas County
Oswald
Warren Commission
Sassin
John F Kennedy
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Eva Grant
Dist
Atty
Henry Wade
Bill Alexander
Criminal Appeals Court
Wade
Two Space Pilots Return To Their Homes In Texas
Gemini 9 astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan returned to Texas from Cape Kennedy aboard a space agency plane. They were greeted by loving families and spoke of a great experience while preparing for further briefings. In North Carolina, twenty one new NASA astronauts met the press at Morehead Planetarium as they begin intensive training with wary acceptance of potential space losses.
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Texas
Houston
Tex
Eugene A. Cernan
Teresa
Cernan
Barbara
Air Force
Thomas P.stafford
Faye
Dionne
Karine
Navy
Cmdr
Stafford
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
Space Center
Space Twins
Earth
Chapel Hill
N.C
Morehead Planetarium
Edgar D
Mitchell
Vietnam War era politics in Ky regime souring amid inflation
Amid rising prices and social unrest in South Vietnam, Ky seeks to stay in power after elections while Buddhist agitation and a Hue riot threaten his plans. The United Nations debates observers for the September vote as Ky avoids a broad draft ban tied to North Vietnam ties.
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Hue
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Consultative Assembly
Saigon
Buddhist Institute
United Nations
U.N
Hine
Security Council
Frank H. Corner
New Zealand
New York
Corner
GE Faces Union Split Allegations Over 1968 Talks
The Justice Department dropped charges in 1959 about Communist infiltration of the UE. GE accused eight AFL-CIO unions of colluding with UE leadership to pressure a national contract while suggesting talks with UE cover only information exchange on reopening vacations, pensions, and insurance set for 1968. GE says seven unions negotiate plant by plant, while IUE seeks a national pact.
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Communist Party
Justice Department
Afl-Cio
General Electric
TUE
National Labor Relations Board
Aftlcio International Union of Electrical Workers
Brezhnev Pushes Soviet Help for Viet Cong Victory
Soviet leader Brezhnev said Moscow would mount new efforts to speed a Viet Cong victory in South Vietnam. He warned there would be no West-East disarmament breakthrough until two main problems are solved: ending American aggression in Vietnam and ensuring European security. Brezhnev spoke to parliament constituents, signaling a tougher line than Kosygin on Vietnam and European security.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Lon Viet Nam
Alexei N. Kosygin
Germany
West Germany
Communist Party
Kosygin
United States
U.S
Three Youths Die In Rainy Highway Crash
Three high school boys on a fishing trip were killed when their car collided with a tractor-trailer on a rain slick road near Beaumont. The surviving teen was critically injured. The truck drivers escaped harm. Names of the deceased: Dennis Pryce 18, Franklin Antosh 15, Jerry Morackowski 16. William Stahley 15 remained in critical condition at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital.
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Tunkhannock
Beaumont
Dennis Pryce
Franklin Antosh
Jerry Morackowski
William Stahley
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital
Kingston
Henry Ladd
Adams St
Winston- Salem
N.C
Gerald Bowers
Ladd
Trial set again in Bay Village murder case
Sheppard calls for facts and chain of evidence as Bay Village case moves forward after his 1954 conviction for murder was overturned. The next trial will target a second degree murder charge with jurisdiction pending a Supreme Court decision expected around July 1. Corrigan refused to comment on location or timing.
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Clared
Marily Sheppard
Bay Village
Sheppard
Lake Erie
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
Dayton
F. Lee Bailey
Boston
Cuyahoga County
Corrigan
Supreme Court
Vietnam and Korea to Attend Nine-Nation Conference
Report outlines ongoing battles in Kontum near Laos Cambodia and South Vietnam as U.S. and Vietnamese forces press operations Hawthorne El Paso Two and Makiki. Casualties and air sorties rise while raids target Viet Cong and North Vietnamese positions.
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South Korea
Kontum Plateau
Laos
Cambodia
South Viet Nam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Saigon
Associated Press
al Chang
U.S
Pleiku
Washington
White House
William Ss. Carpenter Jr
U.S. Military Academy
Moore calls for law over self rule at North Carolina event
Gov Dan Moore warned against taking the law into individuals hands amid noted turmoil in North Carolina In a Montreat Methodist Men address he cited law and order as essential to a free society and unveiled measures like the Law and Order Committee and the State Good Neighbor Council to curb violence and promote racial dialogue.
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Gov. Moore
North Carolina
Montreat
Dan Moore
Orth Carolina Methodist Men’s Conference
Montreal
Moore
Law and Order Committee
Good Neighbor Council
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United Auto Workers
International Association of Machinists
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
American Federation of Technical Engineers
Sheet Metal Workers International Association
Allied Industrial Workers
American Flint Glass Workers Union
Russia
Paul Revere
Tay Ninh
Quang Ngai
Vung Tau
North Viet Nam
Haiphong
Peking
New China
el Paso
Highway 13
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Holiday Inn Restaurant
Lillian W. Yates
Hugh
Kossoff
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