House Rejects Redistricting Bill Sent Back To Conferees
Washington AP The House rejected a proposed congressional redistricting bill and sent it to conferees to redo. Lawmakers warned that the measure could delay one man one vote, raising fears of statewide elections and court redistricting enforcement. Conference talks paused for a 10 day holiday recess.
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House
Senate
Emanuel Celler
N.Y
Congress
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
T ‘Hey
Populous
James C. Corman
Calif
John Conyers
D-Mich
Conyers
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Celler
Jones
Pentagon pledge to release information openly on mistakes
Washington AP reports a Defense Department directive implementing a new Freedom of Information Act requires the Pentagon to avoid withholding details that could embarrass officials. Signed by Deputy Secretary Cyrus R. Vance, the 21 page directive says Pentagon policy is to make information available governmentwide beginning Independence Day.
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Cyrus R. Vance
Pentagon
Nonaligned bloc seeks Jerusalem resolution at UN session
The General Assembly contemplates a 1949 Jerusalem internationalization resolution amid rival Western and Soviet proposals. The nonaligned plan urges immediate Israeli troop withdrawal behind lines from the 1949 armistice and U N mediation to enforce compliance, while Arab allies back a compromise aimed at peace negotiations.
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General Assembly
Jerusalem
Danilo Lekic
Yugoslavia
Assembly
Israel
New City
Jordan
Old City
Thant
U.N. Truce Supervisory Organization
United Nations
Security Council
Council
Middle East
Denmark
United States
Alexei N. Kosygin
U.S
U. S
George Brown
Jer
Bombardment Reports and Viet Cong Engagements Across Highlands
U.S. military reports detail 15 minute attack with no Marine casualties and multiple skirmishes near Dak To and Khe Sanh, with American deaths and enemy casualties noted. A paratrooper task force clashed with North Vietnamese forces in Kontum Province, while Vietnamese and U.S. forces repelled a five hour Mekong Delta outpost assault aided by flamethrowers and helicopters. Officials seek confirmation on the Hertz case and affirm new official use only information controls under Pentagon guidelines.
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Central Highlands
U.S. 173Rd Airborne Brigade
Dak To
Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
Kontum Province
1Vard Airborne Brigade
Mekong River
Kenneth F. Warren
Stewartville
Minn
Gustav C Heriz
Agency For International Development
Hertz
National Liberation Front
Moscow Deaths Stir Suspicion Over Political Motive
A report links a death by self harm in Red Square and a prior protest suicide in downtown Moscow. Observers doubt a direct tie to Middle East events and note an earlier self immolation tied to religious zealotry or protest against Soviet Vietnam policy.
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Red Square
Middle East
Moscow
Vietnam
Explosion shocks Mobile area community at LeFlores home
Mobile community promises five thousand dollars to aid investigation. Gov. Lurleen Wallace's office posted a one thousand dollar reward, with fifty and two hundred dollar boosts from local entities. FBI tests planned to identify the explosive as investigators describe a cratered wall and widespread window destruction. LeFlores recounts narrowly missing injury as the bomb detonated in the living dining area of their home.
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Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce
LeFlores
Myers
Lurleen Wallace
Mobile Dist
Carl Booth
Press Register
Mobile County Sheriff’s Office
Mobile City Commission
FBI
Washington Laboratory
LeFlore
Old Jerusalem Annexation Sparks US Protest and Local Attacks
The United States rejects Israel's quick claim to Jerusalem's old city after action that merged Old and New Jerusalem. President Johnson eyes diplomatic talks while local unrest notes a string of bomb and shooting incidents at LeFlore’s home. LeFlore, longtime civil rights activist, sits on Mabife Housing Board.
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Israel
Old Jerusalem
Jordan
Middle East
State Department
Holy
Jerusalem
2 Department
United States
White House
New Jerusalem
Christian
Veal
Nice
U.S
LeFlore
Mabife Housing Board
Guerrillas Kill Three, Wound Two In Bolivian Ambush
AP dispatches report guerrillas killed three soldiers and wounded two in an ambush in southeastern Bolivia. Separately, about 12,000 miners in Catavi and Huanuni district, 60 percent of the work force, held a 48 hour strike disrupting tin production and prompting army actions and talks with church mediators.
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Bolivia
LA Paz
Catavi- Huanuni
Joaquin Zenteno Anaya
Vallegrande
Santa Cruz
Cuba
Ernesto Guevara
Huanuni
Catavi
Heligian Mining Corp
Jorge Manrique
Bernardo Fey
Luis Adolfo Siles
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Juan Lechin
Tin Miners' Union
Paz
Rene B. Barrientos
Lechin
Paraguay
Price Rise Earning Record for Nonsupervisory Workers in May
Earnings of nonsupervisory production personnel hit $100.06 in May, a new high, while purchasing power measured at $86,565 in 1957 59 dollars, below a year earlier. Hourly pay rose to $2.64, yet benefits fell as consumer prices rose and the average work week shortened by three quarters of an hour from May 1966.
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