U S Pushes For Long Term Vietnam Cease Fire Talks
Washington reports multiple U S efforts to extend the Christmas truce in Vietnam into a broader cease fire under agreed terms. Communists show negative response with no signs of a lengthy break. U Thant and Pope Paul VI urged talks while officials caution against extended bombing pauses without reciprocity.
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Washington
United States
Vietnam
U.N
U Thant
North Vietnam
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Thant
Pope Paul VI
United States weighs thin Nike X antiballistic system
Indications show a Nike X defense priced at 3 to 6 billion dollars with a dozen Nike Zeus batteries possibly along the northern border. Decision in January or February hinges on Soviet restraint and budget debates in the Defense Department.
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Bob Horton Washington
United States
Defense Department
Suade
Soviet Union
Europe
Atlantic Alliance
Johnson calls McNamara to Texas ranch on defense budget talk
President Johnson summoned Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to his Texas ranch to discuss military spending and national security. A conference with two American diplomats was arranged to review Latin American affairs and plan a possible Western Hemisphere leaders’ meeting next year. The defense budget is expected to top 70 billion dollars with decisions on Vietnam and potential anti ballistic missile deployments.
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Frank Cormier
Austin
Tex
Johnson
Robert S. McNamara
Texas
McNamara
United States
Atomic blast set off underground near Beatty Nevada
An atomic device was fired 4040 feet underground under Pahute Mesa at 7 30 am and the blast, described as possibly the United States largest, caused only a weak rocking motion felt in Las Vegas Reno and Beatty where about 75 residents gathered in the street to witness the event. The Mint Las Vegas reported a gentle sway while Reno noted two faint pulses and Beatty saw a red blinker light sway briefly.
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Robert M. Shaw
Las Vegas
Nev
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Riverside
Reno
High Desert
Beatty
Pahute Mesa
B52s Haul Bomber Campaign Beyond Demilitarized Zone
U S aircraft raid the southern half of the buffer zone to disrupt infiltrating North Vietnamese troops in a sixth raid in three days. Over North Vietnam, B52s target an oil depot near Hanoi as 121 missions yield 350 to 400 sorties amid heavy flak and MIG defenses.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Air Force
National Liberation Front
Maddox
Executive Sent To Jail For Criticizing Decisions
Danville Virginia A Dan River Mills executive W Leigh Taylor was convicted of contempt for criticizing a judge's rulings related to civil rights demonstrations in Danville in 1963 He received 10 days in jail a $50 fine and court costs with eight days suspended by Judge A M Aiken Taylor was education and training director at the mill and he criticized the judge for sentencing demonstrators to jail.
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Danville, Va
Dan River Mills
Danville
W. Leigh Taylor
The
Mills
Corporation Court
A. M. Aiken
Taylor
Aiken
Kennedy Hopes For Compromise In Kennedy Book Dispute
Sen Edward Kennedy says a compromise may be possible amid the legal fight over The Death of a President a book about John F Kennedy's assassination Look magazine and Harper Row defend publishing the work while Mrs Kennedy seeks to block it A Dec 27 court hearing is set with informal talks continuing to settle out of court.
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New York
Edward M. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Massachusetts Democrat
Boston
WHDH
Channel 5
Look Magazine
William Manchester
Canfield
Manchester
Pair Tried In Soviet Court
In Leningrad, Soviet prosecutor seeks a five year labor camp term for 25 year old Wortham while asking a $1,111 fine for 24 year old Gilmour in a currency violation. Both pleaded guilty as experts valued a hotel bear statue at 300 rubles.
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Henry S. Bradsher
Leningrad
U.S.S.R
Buel Ray Wortham Jr
Craddock M. Gilmour Jr
Salt Lake City
Wortham
North Little Rock
Ark
Fyodr Rozhdestvesnky
Gilmour
Alexander Borodankov
Soviet Union
Siberia
Borodankov
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