Conservative Gains Two Seats From Labor In Britain
Britain's Conservative party captured two parliamentary seats from Labour in special elections, seizing Walthamstow and Cambridge seats left vacant by deaths. In Walthamstow, David Lane held a slim majority over Labour’s Eric Peakins, while Cambridge swung to Conservative David Lane with 5,978 votes ahead of Labour. Anthony Barber hailed the results as a blow to socialism, signaling Conservative strength amid three years of Labour rule.
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Britain
Conservative
Labor
London
Walthamstow
Bailiwick
Clement Attlee
Harold Wilson
Fred Silvester
Laper
Silvester
House of Commons
Wilson
Cambridge
David Lane
Shell International Petroleum Co
Anthony Barber
Labor Party
A. L. Williams
Tax surcharge debated amid calls for restraint and relief
At a luncheon attended by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long and House Ways and Means officials, Johnson defended a tax increase as preferable to an economy in shambles. Fowler said credits and wage controls were hypothetical, noting inflation would rise without action. He cited wartime price trends and estimated the surcharge would cost a $10,000 family about $111, with inflation adding $285 in yearly costs. He urged patience on spending cuts until more appropriations pass, while noting air force pilots destroyed cargo barges near Dong Hoi.
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Russell Long
D-La
Senate Finance Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Fowler
Johnson
Air
Wage
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Congress
Middle East and Vietnam War Toll Escalates
Reports say Israeli forces fired on an Egyptian fishing boat, killing a fisherman, and hit homes in Suez City and Port Taufiq, with four civilians dead and 14 injured. U.N. observers had no confirmation of Egypt’s claim of armed soldiers on the canal. In Jordanian-Israeli talks, renewal of Arab refugee repatriation was delayed. Explosions hit Givat Haim and Al Arish, with injuries and arrests reported. In Vietnam, U.S. Marines fought near Con Chien and DMZ shelling produced multiple casualties, while a destroyer and Air Force units joined the effort as overall seven-day American deaths neared 236.
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Suez City
Port Taufiq
United Nations
U.N
Israel
Jerusalem
Jordan River
West Bank
Colombo
Ceylon
Dudley Senanayake
Indira Gandhi
Givat Haim
Sinai
al Arish
Ong Hoi
South Vietnam
U.S
Con Chien
9Th Marine Regiment
Mekong
Saigon
Dmz
Morton
William C. Westmoreland
1St Corps
South
Vietnam
Vietnam Deaths Count Inonhostile Listed Causes
The Pentagon reported 22 such cases last week of deaths listed as inenhostile. In air warfare, Navy pilots struck 28 miles east of Haiphong and said they destroyed a storage building and damaged a camouflaged boat.
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Pentagon
Navy
Haiphong
UN official urges active UN role in Vietnam settlement
UN Goldberg reiterated the United States seeks active participation of the United Nations and its organs in a Vietnam settlement. He noted no reference to Thant's proposal for a closed door Security Council meeting and said a mood of reconciliation is needed in the Middle East. He urged a complete draft treaty on nuclear weapons, and noted US steps toward a limited anti-ballistic missile system. Krag called for halting bombing in North Vietnam as a first step to negotiations.
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Goldberg
United States
United Nations
Vietnam
Security Council
U.N
Thant
Dean Rusk
George Brown
Gromyko
Couve de Murville
Middle East
U.S
Johnson
Washington
Geneva
Soviet Union
Red
China
Jens Otto Krag
Denmark
Jose de Magalhaes Pinto
Brazil
Krag
North Vietnam
The
Expo 67 hit by Montreal transit strike cuts attendance
Montreal transit workers walked out delaying Expo 67 access as rain and winds worsened jams. About 2,000 buses and 41 trains were disrupted, with some fans hitchhiking or walking long distances to reach the fair. Officials warned the strike could cost up to 5 million dollars weekly in lost attendance and up to 300 layoffs at the site.
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Montreal
Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien
Cles
Canada
Montreal Island
Lntrance
St. Lawrence
Expo
Montreal Transporta
Texas Beulah flood toll crops and towns hit hard
A Texas hurricane Beulah caused wide flooding and wind damage across South Texas. Beulah left at least six deaths in Texas and heavy losses in Lower Rio Grande Valley crops, with Cuero and Victoria severely flooded. Beulah’s center moved toward Laredo as rivers rose, power failed, and towns like Raymondville evacuated. The disaster prompted potential federal aid and a request to declare a disaster area.
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South
Texas
Beulah
Gooding
Freeport
Tex
Bridgette Laverne Anthony
Mexico
Caribbean
Beauly
Cuero
Victoria
Guadalupe River
Dewitt County
U.S. 87
Dewitt
Gonzales
Rio Grande Valley
Laredo
Johnson
Connally
Ausin
Rio Grande
Tamaulipas
Red Cross
Nueces
Corpus Christi
Lake Corpus Christi
Calallen
Corpus Corisli
Gulf of Mexico
San Antonio
Raymondville
Weather Bureau
del Rio
President Johnson
LBJ
Walnut Creek
Antarctic Ice Core Drilling At Byrd Station To Reach Bedrock
Hole dation and the Navy back a $7.7 million scientific program at Byrd Station 800 miles from the South Pole. Ice cores from 700 feet drilled last summer will extend to about 8,000 feet by February 1968, revealing snow accumulation rates, temperature histories, meteoric dust deposition, ice and bedrock conditions, and ancient atmospheric composition including radioactive carbon-14 for dating ice.
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Dation
Navy
Coast Guard
Byrd Station
South Pole
U. S. Army Cold Research and Engineering Laboratory
Hanover
Antarctica
Boston
Millenia
Senate Passes Johnson Plan for Slum Clearance and Rent Help
The Senate approved 77 to 5 a $10.49 billion measure for 24 federal agencies, delivering Johnson’s priorities for urban renewal and rent subsidies. The package includes $40 million for rent subsidies and $537 million for model cities, with House differences to be resolved in conference. The bill also authorizes sales of loan certificates to offset deficits and adds $10 million for disaster relief, bringing that fund to $25 million.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
House
Housing and Urban Development Department
Veterans Administration
John J. Williams
Del
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Jack Miller
Strom
Thurmond
R-5.c
Ernest F. Hollings
D-S.c
Ing
Loase
Federal National Mortgage
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Warren
G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Magnuson
Yarborough
Beulah
Texas
Stanford Marriage Reveals Space Age Groom and Rusk Kin
A Stanford Daily wedding joined a Georgia born Secretary of State kin with Ames Research Center staff. Bride Anne Rusk wore a peau de soie Empire gown with Chantilly lace while groom, a data processor at Ames and Army reserve lieutenant, faced Vietnam as family notes hinted secrecy and a future in aviation.
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Anne Kogler
Santa Ana
Calif
Lagunita Court
Ames Research Center
National Space Agency
Sunnyvale
Army Reserve
Smith
Vietnam
Robert Ames
Ames
David Patrick Rusk
Washington
Richard Geary Rusk
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.Y
F.P
Rusk
Jack Fossie
Los Angeles Times
Alfred Davancens
Menlo Park
Davancens
Young
Postal pay and rate bills face budget gaps and delays
The postal pay raise appears $74 million above administration plans, with the 1968 remainder costing $635.4 million and the rate bill bringing in $539 million if enacted by Oct 1. Delays cost the government $13.5 million weekly. The package, likely to pass House in about two weeks, faces Senate inaction.
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Post Office Department
House
Senate
White House
Morris K. Udall
Dariz
Johnson
Mummies Case Reveals Hidden Past in Local Family
Solomon testified to police that his wife was previously married to a man who died in 1916, and that she had been a widow until their 1923 marriage. He claimed no knowledge of her ever bearing children and said he did not know about a trunk until Hartnett brought it to attention.
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Evening Journal
Solomon
Hartnett
Computer budget study questions congressional control over appropriations
Dav and colleagues used computer simulations to test if budget decisions follow simple rules. They found agencies tend to base requests on current appropriations and lawmakers grant fixed percentages, with padding and creep. Differences with real outcomes were small, suggesting room for improvement and noting creeping incrementalism.
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Davis
Congress
Fatal hospital fire injures patients four victims found
Four patients died in a hospital fire on the second floor while two wards and two staff were located in hallways. Authorities believe the blaze started in a locker in a first floor dayroom and was likely accidental. Attendants Ortiz and three colleagues aided evacuations, two succumbing to smoke.
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Tom Barnett
Ortiz
James W. Wegner
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