Thant Pleads For All Sides To Accept Peace Plan
UN Secretary-General U Thant urged all Viet Nam warring parties to adopt his three-point plan as the path to peace. He called the war one of history’s most barbarous and urged a cease-fire, scaledown of operations, and talks with combatants to enable a Geneva framework.
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United Nations, N.Y
U Thant
United Nations
Viet Nam
Thant
U.N
U.S
North
South Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
Johnson
Misplaced infantrymen echo Army foulup in Wisconsin
Hartman recalls being drafted into a mechanized division by error after the Wisconsin National Guard was ordered into intensive summer training. A faulty Army computer misclassified engineers as infantry 11B, sending 53 men to field duty before the mixup was discovered. They were returned home by June 15, luggage lost in Chicago, with no immediate Pentagon comment.
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Hartman
Wisconsin National Guard
Defense Department
Army
St. Louis
Wisconsin
Chicago
Pentagon
Dodd Hearing Opens On Documents and Klein Ties
Senate ethics committee begins closed hearings into Senator Dodd and his links to Julius Klein and West Germany. Witnesses discuss copying and sharing documents with reporters Pearson and Anderson, while Dodd seeks to prove the trip aided by Soviet policy concerns and to clear his name.
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Dodd
Jack Anderson
Drew Pearson
Boyd
Pearson
Anderson
Sen. Dodd
Stennis
Julius Klein
Chicago
West Germany
Germany
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Klein
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Viet Nam curfew tightens as protests flare in Saigon
In Saigon a tight curfew followed antigovernment Buddhist demonstrations that erupted into violence with anti American overtones. U S Coast Guard cutters intercepted a blockade runner headed to Viet Cong forces near Saigon. The 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division fought a daylong clash with Viet Cong units. B52 bombers hit a Viet Cong area near the Cambodian border. Monks reported cholera and widespread hunger at the Buddist Institute where protests began.
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U.S
Saigon
U.S. Coast Guard
01St Airborne Division
Guam
Zone C
Cambroidian
Beseiged Buddhist Institute
International Red Cross
Geneva
De Gaulle Visits Soviet Union in Historic Western Leader Tour
De Gaulle begins an 11 day Soviet trip without seeking new treaties, aiming to discuss European security and Germany's status. Podgorny and Kosygin greet him. Brezhnev not present at the airport welcome. De Gaulle plans stops in Novosibirsk, Leningrad, Kiev, Volgograd with Kosygin and Brezhnev to join talks on unity, security, and balance of progress.
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Soviet Union
France
Western Alliance
Kremlin
de Gaulle
West Germany
Paris
Bonn
North ‘Atlantic Treaty Organization
Podgorny
Alexei N. Kosygin
Europe
Unon
Germany
Kosygin
Novosibirsk
Siberia
Leningrad
Kiev
Volgograd
Stalingrade
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Brezhnev
Communist Party
Nation's Crime Rate Rises Six Percent in First Quarter
The FBI reports a 6 percent national rise in crime for Q1. Suburban crimes up 9 percent, rural up 8 percent, cities vary 2 to 20 percent. Aggravated assault up 9 percent nationally, larceny 11 percent, murders and robberies up 4 percent each. Regional gains: Northeast 7 percent, North Central 8 percent, Southern states 8 percent, West 3 percent. The largest regional surge is 22 percent for races in North Central states.
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Washington
FBI
West
North Central States
Northeast
South
Contempt cited in school board funding dispute case
Plaintiffs include four Negro children represented by Rev. L Francis Griffin NAACP state president. The board of supervisors led by W W Vaughan C W Gates H M Jenkins Charles B Pickett John C Steck and H E Carwile Jr allegedly decided to spend funds for a private school, contending the board overstepped its general authority. The action centers on the board’s assertion of power to appropriate funds for private schooling.
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Board of Supervisors
W. W. Vaughan
C. W. Gates
H. M. Jenkins
Charles B. Pickett
John C.steck
H. E. Carwile Jr
Rev. L. Francis Griffin
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Look Ahead Look South boosts Southern industry growth
A U S Chamber of Commerce estimate links new factory jobs to broader gains. Every 100 new workers adds 100 households and 359 people, with $710000 more annual personal income and 65 new non manufacturing jobs. Southern Railway notes benefits as industry moves here. Industrial Development departments push sites along rail lines and promote Look Ahead Look South to attract long term growth. In 15 years, South business leaders invested $8 billion in over 5,000 major developments creating 285000 new jobs. Washington, we
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Partment
South
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