Fresh Thinking Needed As War Enters Year Seven
Washington faces a rising Vietnam cost and casualty toll as seven years of conflict loom. With 375000 to 500000 Americans committed, 6400 deaths and 36600 wounded, the war expenditure nears 24 billion dollars this year. The defense budget climbs toward 75 billion, rivaling World War II peaks, prompting calls for reassessment.
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Horst Orthean
Alliance
Washington
U. S
Vietnam
North
South Vietnam
White Scott May Head Committees In NC Senate
State Senators Thomas J. White and Ralph Scott, both Democrats, may lead major money committees in the North Carolina Senate this year. White likely keeps appropriations and chairs the Advisory Budget Commission. Scott, previously vice chair of finance, may become finance chair, with possible links to Lt. Gov. Bob Scott’s 1968 gubernatorial bid.
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Raleigh
Thomas J. White
D-Lenoir
Ralph Scott
Alamance
North Carolina
Senate
White
Advisory Budget Commission
Scott
Higher Education
Finance Committee
Bob Scott
Glenn Ford Gets 30 Day Vietnam Active Duty
Actor Glenn Ford is ordered to active duty for 30 days in Vietnam by the Marine Corps. Naval Reserve Cmdr. Ford will serve with the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force after his World War II service as an enlisted Marine and later Naval Reserve officer.
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Los Angeles
Glenn Ford
Vietnam
Marine Corps
Naval Reserve
Cmdr. Ford
Corps
3Rd Marine Amphibious Force
Ford
North Vietnam rejects British peace talks move
North Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry officially rejects the British proposal for talks to halt the Vietnam war calling it an impermissible act. The U S and South Vietnam welcomed the idea while Hanoi demands U S troop withdrawal and an end to all war actions before talks. Arthur Goldberg discussed Vietnam with U Thant in New York but no new U S plan was presented.
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Tokyo
North Vietnam
Foreign Ministry
Vietnam
London
Hanoi
U.S
United States
South Vietnam
Sponse
George Brown
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
New York
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.N
U Thant
Goldberg
Thant
North Carolina Seeks Exemption to Keep Student Bus Drivers
North Carolina may face a bus driver shortage after February 1 as 18 year old students would be barred from hazardous driving under the Fair Labor Standards Act amendment. Dr. Charles Carroll seeks a special Labor Dept exemption. officials doubt quick response and note high replacement costs. Leaders including Gov. Moore and state education officials are coordinating on the issue.
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North Carolina
U.S. Department of Labor
Charles Carroll
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
The
Goldsboro News- Argus Today
DR. Carroll
Dan Moore
Frank Crane
State Board of Education
A. C. Davis
C. C. Brown
Missile veers off course in Gulf test from Florida
An unarmed Air Force Mace missile launched from Eglin Air Force Base veered from its programmed path and was headed for impact about 100 miles south of Cuba. The Defense Department said the weapon carried no warhead and provided limited details.
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Washington
Air Force
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Cuba
Pentagon
Defense Department
Air Force Proving Ground
Eglin Afb
Fla
State urged to pay full public school staff salaries
Alamance County commissioners propose that the state cover the entire salaries of teachers and administrators, removing local supplements. The proposal was adopted unanimously and will be presented at a Thursday legislative conference of central Piedmont counties. The plan aims to end wage competition among schools statewide.
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Burlington, N.C
Alamance County Commission
Greensboro
Legislative Conference of County Commissioners
Piedmont Counties
Ruby Returns Home In Death Buried Beside Parents
Jack Ruby who grew up on Chicago s West Side died of cancer and a blood clot at 55 in Dallas. He flew home to Chicago landing at O Hare after dying at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He will be buried beside his parents in West Lawn Cemetery. His death prompts mixed reactions from lawyers and Warren Commission staff.
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Chicago
Jack Ruby
West Side
John F. Kennedy
O’hare International
Dallas
Parkland Memorial Hospital
Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald
Earl Rose
Rose
New York
William F. Kunstler
Kunstler
Los Angeles
Joseph A. Ball
Warren Commission
Noted British speedster crashes to his death
Donald Campbell, Britain’s leading land and water speed challenger, died in a 310 mph crash on Lake Coniston while attempting to break the water speed record. His jet hydroplane Bluebird exploded and sank, with wreckage and Campbell’s oxygen mask found amid sea.
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Donald Campbell
England
Lake Coniston
Coniston
Britain
Stolen Paintings Recovered After Major London Heist
Eight paintings valued at seven million dollars were recovered intact five days after the largest art theft in history. Three Rembrandts two Rubens and two smaller works by Gerald Dou and Adam Elsheimer were found in a Streatham Common hideout and behind bushes near Dulwich College Gallery. Scotland Yard confirmed the recovery and said the curator identified the works. detectives questioned several men as investigations continue.
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Dulwich College Gallery
Scotland Yard
the Yard
Gerald Dou
Adam Elsheimer
Streatham Common
Dulwich Gallery
College Art Gallery
Britain
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