Small Skirmishes Hit American Patrol In Mekong Delta
An American patrol of nine GIs and two Tiger Scouts was overrun 30 miles southwest of Saigon, leaving six Americans and one scout dead and others wounded. The attack came amid a broader wave of rocket and mortar assaults on outposts, airfields, and camps across the Mekong Delta and western approaches to Saigon, with over 400 South Vietnamese and additional Americans wounded and multiple helicopters damaged.
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Saigon
Mekong
9Th Infantry Division
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Paris
Mekong Delta
U.S. 5Th Infantry Division
Binh Thuy
Delta
Can Tho
My Tho
Kidnapping Case Hearings Detail Barbara Mackle Abduction
FRANK MURRAY reports in Miami that U S Commissioner finds probable cause that Gary Krist, 28, an escaped convict, kidnapped Barbara Mackle and buried her alive in a grave filled with instructions on how to bail out the coffin. Witnesses described the living grave and the attempt to murder the victim.
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Frank Murray
Associated Press
MIAMI
U.S
Gary Krist
Barbara Mackle
Krist
Barbara
Automakers Hit By Justice Dept Antitrust Suit
The Justice Department sued General Motors Ford Chrysler American Motors and the Automobile Manufacturers Association in Los Angeles charging they conspired since 1953 to restrain trade and delay pollution control device installation. The suit seeks penalties for limiting development and disclosure of antipollution tech.
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Washington
Justice Department
Big Four
Los Angeles
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Corp
The
Automobile Manufacturers Association
California
Murrow Heads for Raleigh to Seek Senate Seat in 1969
The Sunday Enterprise reports High Point candidate Murrow plans to run for the North Carolina Senate in the 1969 General Assembly. He shares views on the upcoming session as medical advances, including heart transplants, rise in public interest.
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Coolidge Murrow
High Point
Raleigh
North Carolina Senate
General Assembly
Sunday Enterprise
Murrow
Nixon retains Ray Bliss as Republican chairman
President-elect Nixon ends internal debate by asking Ray C. Bliss to remain as Republican National Committee chairman for a substantial period. Bliss, 61, emphasizes his focus on organization politics and his public role remains limited.
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Walter R. Mears
Associated Press
NEW York
Nixon
Republican National Committee
Ray C. Bliss
Bliss
National Committee
White House
Wrixon
Right To Work Is Number One Target
House Democrats launch a dual push to repeal key Taft Hartley provisions amid four labor bill proposals. Measures target section 14B and 142, seeking to curb union membership conditions and ease organizing for farm workers while loosening construction worker secondary boycott limits. Outcomes depend on AFL CIO stance and committee support.
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Meany & Co
George Meany
Afl-Cio
House
Senate
Meany
Johnson
John Conyers
D-Mich
Detroit
Legislators Favor Higher Sales Tax and Tobacco Levy
North Carolina lawmakers back raising the sales tax to four percent and adding a tobacco tax. The extra one percent would fund counties and cities, with a statewide option favored by most counties per a Tax Research Department study.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Department of Tax Research
New York Dinner Praises Space Pioneers Borman Lovell Anders
In a Waldorf Astoria gala Gov. Rockefeller hosted a state dinner that became a love in for Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders. Security struggled as hundreds pressed for autographs and photos while the trio fielded questions about the moon mission and zero gravity.
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New York City
Anders
Borman
Lindsay
Lovell
Rockefeller
New York
Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom
Nelson A. Rockefeller
James A. Lovell Jr
Navy
General Borman
Air Force
Frank Borman
William A. Anders
Budget Figures Await A Decision On Surtax
Washington AP reports the Johnson budget is delayed as the 10 percent income surtax decision hinges on whether to extend it. Johnson and Nixon must concur, affecting the fate of a $13 billion revenue stream and the timing of the fiscal 1970 budget and State of the Union plan.
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Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
Surtax
Washington
Bureau of the Budget
Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Congress
Budget Bureau
Ceel
White House
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D-Mame
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
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