Flexible Response: NATO Adopts New Defense Strategy
NATO defense ministers from 14 countries approve a three step flexible response doctrine replacing massive retaliation. The plan lowers reliance on nuclear weapons and relies on forward conventional forces with potential use of small battlefield nukes before escalating to strategic weapons. McNamara absent. Nitze attends as deputy secretary.
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William Beecher
New York Times News Service
Brussels
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West
NATO
France
Soviet Union
McNamara
Secretary of Defense
Princi
Pal
Paul H. Nitze
Johnson
Alliance
Berlin
Debut Opinion Feature At The Decatur Daily
The Decatur Daily launches a new feature inviting readers to air opinions pro or con. The program starts this Sunday and aims to broaden reader participation in editorial discourse.
Speak Out to Debut as The Daily’s Test Feature
The Daily plans a Sunday debut for Speak Out a new test feature. It promises a fresh format and a bold approach making the daily newspaper stand out.
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DAILY
United States
Will Not Be Deterred LBJ vows to press Vietnam policy
President Johnson tells AFL-CIO delegates he will not be deterred by critics or polls as he says he will press on with his Vietnam war policy. He pledges to hear proposals but remains committed to his course for the nation.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Johnson
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor
Shawn Peterson Goes Visiting Triggers Neighborhood Panic
Two and a half year old Shawn Peterson wandered from home in the Southeast Decatur area on a Tuesday afternoon causing local concern as residents searched for him. Police and family issued calls for information while neighbors organized a search and kept watch along nearby streets. The child was later found safe and returned home.
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Decatur
Bryce Long
Shawn Peterson
Cora Blair
Interplanetary Weatherman Pioneers Solar Warning Network
Cape Kennedy reports a robot weather probe launched to orbit the sun to help alert astronauts to solar radiation storms as part of a broader solar warning network. In Washington the unemployment rate fell four-tenths of a percent in November, the steepest drop in over six years per the Department of Labor.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Earth
Pioneer 8
Washington
Department of la
Missing boy Shawn Peterson sought after toy plane ride
Mr and Mrs E M Peterson of 2319 Springdale SE reported their son Shawn went outside to play with a toy X 15 around 4 pm. He appeared to change his mind and disappeared after she failed to hear him. Neighbors joined the search by 4 45 pm and nothing was found by 5 pm. See continuation on page A3.
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E. M.peterson
Springdale
Shawn
Peter
U S Airlift Expands Viet Nam Troop Presence
The United States pushes its Viet Nam troop level toward 475,000 with two more brigades from the 101st Airborne arriving. Maj. Gen. Clint M. Barsanti confirms the division is present for combat as Westmoreland reports progress at Bien Hoa.
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George McArthur
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
United States
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
Screaming Eagles
Basaan
Pacific
101St
Clinto M. Barsanti
Bien Hoa
William C.westmoreland
101St Airborne
101
Greece's King Calls for End to Military Rule and Restore Democracy
King Constantine of Greece urged the people to help oust the military regime and restore democracy, his dramatic appeal raising the specter of civil war across the nation in Athens.
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Athens
Greece
Constantine
Possession Law is Challenged in Alabama Suit
TUSCUMBIA Alabama AP State Rep Bryce Graham of Colbert and Franklin counties filed a federal suit in Birmingham asking a ruling on whether a person may possess liquor for personal consumption in a dry county He argues his 14th Amendment rights have been violated after being arrested three times on lowg charges of illegal possession of alcoholic beverages in a police action.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Alabama
Bryce Graham
Colbert
Franklin
Graham
Federal District Court
Birmingham
Markets At A Glance Steady Stocks as Cotton Declines
NEW YORK AP reports stocks higher while cotton falls. CHICAGO corn declines amid hedging and weather. hog slaughter slower by 25 to 50 cents with receipts around 9,000 and top prices near 27.50.
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New York
Chicago
Virus Outbreak hits Decatur City Schools
An illness tied to a state outbreak caused high absenteeism in Decatur schools. About 20 percent of Decatur High students were absent on Monday, with 700 total absences across 8,700 pupils in 14 city schools. Attendance trends show a downturn then gradual recovery.
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Decatur City
Supt. H. R. Leeman
Decatur High
Genuine Shoe Sale at John W. Lee Shoes Ady
First quality footwear at low prices advertised by John W. Lee Shoes on Highway 67 in Ady. Local shoppers urged to visit for deals on men and women’s shoes during store sale.
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John W. Lee
Hwy
Air Products announces multi million dollar plant in Decatur
Air Products and Chemicals Inc of Allentown Pa announced plans to build a multi million dollar nitro gen and oxygen plant at Ratliff Industrial Park in northwest Decatur. Completion is planned for late 1968 with an estimated investment around 5 million and 50 to 100 workers.
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Air Products—and Chemicals, Inc
Allentown
Decatur
Decatur Daily
Air Products
Ratliff
Nasser open to Sinai pullback if Israel demilitarizes zone
Cairo informed sources report President Gamal Abdel Nasser would keep Egyptian forces out of a portion of the Sinai Peninsula if Israel withdraws and agrees to demilitarize an equivalent area on its side of the border.
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Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sinai Peninsula
Israel
Demilitarization Talk Seen With Cairo Backing Hope
Report from unidentified sources in Cairo signals possible demilitarization plans for a major Middle East area. Supervising by the United Nations could occur if Israel withdraws from the peninsula seized in June. U N Middle East envoy Gunnar Jarring arrives in Beirut as the Security Council backing is reviewed.
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Cairo
United Nations
Israel
U.N
Middle East
Gunnar Jarring
Beirut
Security Council
U. N
Thant
Jarring
Swene
Greek coup attempt fails as Constantine flees villages
Athens radio interrupted its music program to announce that the attempted coup against the Greek military regime has completely failed and that King Constantine is fleeing from village to village, according to monitors in Istanbul.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Athens Radio
Constantine
Greece King vows no compromise amid military coup clashes
As troops and tanks mass around key buildings and government radio proclaims readiness to defend itself, the 27 year old king denounces disobedience, promising merciless suppression. He appeals to the people to support him, invoking a historic communist civil war to justify action.
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Larissa
Greece
3Rd Armored Corps
Salonika
Heating Sales Ad Makes Service Call to Dell Davidson
Classified ad notes heating sales and service by Dell Davidson with contact number 353-4623 and mentions JUICKIES by Ken Reynolds.
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Dell Davidson
Ken Reynolds
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Ed Bruchac
Korea
Vietnam
William C. Westmoreland
Olinto M. Barsan
Specter
Vircus
Obinson
Sinai Mideast
Eric Pace
New York Times
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