Swift War Caught U.S. By Surprise
Washington officials admitted to congressional leaders that the rapid Arab-Israeli fighting caught the administration off guard. Secret sessions with Rusk McNamara and Helms drew 56 senators, who questioned leaks and openness while linking Middle East events to U.S. limits in Asia.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Richard Helms
Central Intelligence Agency
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Senate
J.W. Fulbright
Fulbright
Rusk
Everett M. Dirksen
Edward W. Brooke
Rmass
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Vietnam
Middle East
U.S
Asia
Magazine Photographer Dies In War
American Life photographer Paul Schutzer, 35, of New Rochelle, killed when Egyptian fire hit the Israeli halftrack in the Sinai Desert. He was the first newsman to die in the new Arab Israeli war. Life’s Michael Mokr survived unhurt. NBC producer Ted Yates was wounded.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Paul Schutzer
Life Magazine
Schutzer
New Rochelle
N.Y
Sinai Desert
Life
Michael Mokr
New York
Ted Yates
NBC
Senators Rush To Pay Bills At Restaurants
In Washington a publicity threat prompted payment in full of restaurant bills totaling $17,000. The Senate Appropriations Committee learned of the settlements after a report that some senators left unpaid checks of up to $5,000 over several months.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Power Flows Normally Through 4-State Area
New York AP reports power moved normally through the four state region hit by a massive blackout. Federal Power Commission Chairman Lee White warns summer demand could raise recurrence risk for New Jersey Delaware and portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland. He notes the region’s reserve capacity is below ideal and cites two plants under construction as potentially delaying a restart. He avoids predicting another outage and muses that widespread air conditioner use could be a factor. The blackout caused huge losses to businesses and industries with hundreds of thousands given pay and others called to work overtime.
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New York
Lee White
Federal Power Commission
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
White
Cutback in Social Security hike eyed by House panel
Washington AP The House Ways and Means Committee nears a slight reduction to Johnson's proposed Social Security benefit increases. Discussions in closed sessions aim for an average rise near 13 percent, with limited wage-base tax increases opposed. For top earners, base changes would lift the annual tax from 290.40 to 343.20 in 1968 and 626.40 by 1987.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Johnson
Middle East problem baffles United Nations for 20 years
United Nations has spent two decades attempting to resolve the Middle East conflict marked by Jewish Arab tensions. Despite many meetings and large aid costs, no peace formula emerged. The 1947 partition plan, Arab rejection, and wars left Israel control, Jordan territory, and no independent Arab state or Jerusalem international zone.
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United Nations
N.Y
Middle East
Israel
League of Nations
B.C
Abraham
Arabian Desert
Canaan
Palestine
Britain
U.N
Jerusalem
General Assembly
Jordan
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