Johnson seeks five year foreign aid authority and split bills
President Johnson asked Congress for five year authority for foreign aid and proposed separate economic and arms aid bills. He sought 3.39 billion for next year and outlined a 1 billion program for food education and health abroad. He linked aid to ending world poverty and strengthening democracy.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
United States
Viet Nam
U.S
Agency For International Development
Viet Cong in Giant Vise as U S, Allies Hit North and South Viet Nam
U S air forces bomb North Viet Nam while ground forces close a three sided vise on Viet Cong along South Viet Nam coastal plains. In six days of heavy fighting 488 killed, 12 prisoners, 408 suspects, and 75 percent of the suspects identified as Viet Cong. Units of the 1st Cavalry Airmobile Division push from south and west. South Vietnamese and South Korean marines assault from other directions.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Air Force
Vinh
Radio
Hanoi
U.S. Army
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Mostly Rain Expected as North Carolina Storm Dims
A storm system moved toward North Carolina bringing mostly rain with scattered freezing rain in the mountains. Snow flurries were likely in the west as rain changed to snow tonight, while the Piedmont and coast could see intermittent rain. Temperatures climbed into the upper 80s before the colder air, with a record 29 below at Clingmans Peak last Sunday.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Clingman’s Peak
Piedmont
Taywood County
West
Raleigh
Charles F. Carroll
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sc Heels
Cherryville
Anital McGinnis
George McGinnis
Cheraryville
Greensboro
Wilmington
Florida citrus groves hit by cold spell and labor relief
Florida growers rush to harvest millions of boxes as subfreezing weather sweeps the state. Officials authorize offshore labor from West Indian workers to supplement domestic crews, with estimates of 15 million orange boxes and 4 million Valencia boxes remaining. Temperatures plummet to 14 in the north and near 19 to 37 in southern areas. Damage to crops including sugar cane and vegetables will delay replanting and affect harvest timelines.
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Miami
Fla
Secret Bulledge
W. Willard Wirtzident
Florida Citrus Mutual
Florida
West Operative
Wirtz
Haydon
Burns
Rutledge
Robert W.jesa
Tallahassee
Key West
Miami Beach
South Bay
Lake Okeechobee
John H. Causey
Palm Beach County
Everglades
Dayle Conner
U N Security Council Opens Debate on Viet Nam Peace Plan
The United Nations Security Council meets in urgent session to discuss a U S proposal for preparatory talks to set up a Viet Nam peace conference. Ambassador Goldberg urged discussions to fix place and date, while diplomats weigh whether North Viet Nam or the Viet Cong should be invited. The move follows Pope Paul VI's peace appeal and signals a shift to U N arbitration on ending the war.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Security Council
U. S
Viet Nam
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
U.N
North
Hanoi
United Nations
Goldberg
Congress
Paul VI
Council
Southeast Asia
Air Force counters squatters at deactivated Greenville base
Air Force flies about 10 officers and airmen to Greenville Mississippi to secure an abandoned base from Negro squatters and white civil rights workers. Maj George Hennickus says troops will not be armed and will use nonlethal means to deter demonstrators.
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John Hall
Greenville
Miss
Air Force
George Hennickus
George Andrews
Ilennrckus
Johnson Will Tighten Control On Viet Nam War Extension
President Johnson plans a cautious expansion of bombing in North Vietnam and will avoid targets in Hanoi or Haiphong for now. He seeks a middle course to limit arms and troop movement south while pursuing peace mainly through the United Nations and negotiations, with close White House oversight of operations.
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Washington
Johnson
Hanoi
Haiphong
Viet Nam
United Nations
U. S. Ammbassador
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.N
Conneth
Dean Rusk
Robert
McNamara
Beijing
Yugoslav actor Milosevic linked to Rooney tragedy
In Brentwood a double murder suicide ends a reconciliation attempt between Mickey Rooney and his wife Barbara Rooney. Milos Milosevic, the Yugoslav actor and Barbara’s alleged lover, shot her then killed himself. Rooney, recovering in hospital, had sought divorce and custody arrangements amid prior tensions and a taped discussion with Barbara. Police connected the sequence to jealousy and Rooney’s efforts to reconcile.
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Bob Thomas
Rooney
St. John's Hospital
Santa Monica
Philippines
Red Cuff
Mickey
Barbara
Milos
Milosevic
Los Angeles
Philippine
Monterey
Incubus
Cynthia Krensky
Andy Hardy
Herm Schlieske
Harold Abeles
Rejection of Speakers at UNC Campus Inquiries
UNC trustees' executive committee indicated denial of campus speeches by William Apthecker Herbert Apbeck er and Frank Wilkinson. Apthecker is a noted Communist theoretician. Wilkinson has ties to Communist front groups and served a jail sentence for contempt of Congress. SDS invited them for March talks as a test of the new campus speaker policy amid the Speak Ban law.
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William A. Shires
Raleigh
University of North Carolina
UNC
Shires Herbert Apthecker
Frank Wilkinson
Apbecker
United States
Wilkinson
Communist Front
Congress
Chapel Hill
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Apthecker and Wilkinson
Paul Sharp
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Ils
Charteree Plana
U.N. Council
Tion
South
Red China
USN
Soviet Union
Milos Milosevic
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