Hoffa gets eight year sentence in jury tampering case
CHATTANOOGA Tenn AP Teamsters President James R Hoffa was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 10000 for attempting to tamper with a federal jury in Nashville. Co defendants Ewing King Larry Campbell and Thomas Parks received three years. all await appeal. Hoffa vowed to appeal and defended his innocence.
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Eeeeae Vembs Agu Tan Son
Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Wilson
International
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Jimmy Hoffa
Union
Charles Bell
Washington Joint Conference of Teamsters
Bell
Nashville
Ewing King
Nashville Teamsters
Larry Campbell
Detroit Teamsters
Campbell
Thomas Parks
U.S
Flooding Downstream Pressures Three States During Ohio River Crest
The Ohio River and its tributaries inundated Kentucky Indiana Ohio and surrounding areas as floodwalls were closed and evacuations rose. Nine deaths were reported with at least 110000 homeless and millions in damages. Louisville an area towns faced crests near 46 feet while Wheeling Huntington and Parkersburg endured high water. Authorities warned of rising crests across southern Indiana and Pennsylvania as Susquehanna and Ohio waters spilled into city suburbs and downtowns.
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Ohio River
Kentucky
Indiana
Army Engineers
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Continued Aid To Viet Nam Urged
U S Defense Secretary Robert McNamara drafts a report urging continued and possibly increased aid to win the Vietnam War. He meets with Premier Nguyen Khanh and top officials, vows future support, and speaks to a 30,000 person Hue rally praising the new government. Khanh and Ambassador Lodge accompany McNamara on his Hue visit.
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Saigon
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U. S
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McNamara
Washington
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Khanh
Johnson
Hue
Viet Nam
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Henry Cabot Ledge
Man Guns Down Wife In Durham
In Durham North Carolina a Concord man named James Lawson Deese shot his estranged wife Catherine 25 at the Laxewood shopping center. A bystander wrestled away the gun and struck Deese, who was wounded. Catherine Deese was hospitalized at Duke Hospital.
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Laxewood l
James Lawson
Deege
Catherine
Deese
GOP Leaders Split Over Federal Pay Raise Debate
Washington AP report shows House GOP leader Halleck opposing a $10 000 annual congressional raise as ill timed while Senate GOP leader Dirksen backs the increase, citing Kennedy era recommendations. The debate includes potential cuts to 7500 and a broader 1.7 million federal workers set for raises, with Congress facing a roll call vote and political pressure from both parties.
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Congress
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
House
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Halleck
Dirksen
John S. Kennedy
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Thelc
U S Teams Barred by Soviets After Plane Downing
Washington reports the Soviet Union barred American teams from the East German crash site of the U S plane shot down on Tuesday. State Department spokesman Richard Phillips said the aircraft was on a training mission, unarmed, and not on a spy mission. The U S demanded the three airmen be returned and for wreckage, with uncertainty remains over their location and if they will be treated as spies.
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Washington
U.S
East Germany
State Department
Moscow
RBGG
Richard Phillips
Phillips
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Johnson
Region of high energy radiation found beyond Van Allen belts
NASA announced IMP satellite measurements reveal a new region of intense radiation about 40,000 miles from Earth outside the main Van Allen belts. Scientists say the moon could encounter these particles during parts of its lunar orbit, though no immediate hazard to astronauts is indicated.
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Earth
Space Agency
IMP
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kinsey A. Anderson
University of California At Berkeley
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Anderson
Witness Says Ruby Was Insane in Oswald Killing
AP report describes defense psychiatrists asserting Jack Ruby was legally insane when he killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Dr. Walter Bromberg testified Ruby lacked knowledge of right and wrong and acted in a suspended consciousness state. Other expert Dr. Manfred Guttmacher corroborated, as trial nears conclusion with Ruby not taking the stand.
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Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Walter Bromberg
New York
Ruby
Bromberg
Oswald
Manfred Guttmacher
Baltimore
John F. Kennedy
Old Pros Of GOP Ponder New Hampshire Primary
Washington AP report shows seasoned Republicans divided over New Hampshire results. Lodge write-in win shifts attention to Goldwater Rockefeller and Nixon comments, with many GOP leaders sensing more primaries ahead and a long battle toward the July nominating convention.
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Harry Kelly
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Red Press
Henry Cabot
Publican Party
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Fidential
Derby
Barry Goldwater
Ari
Zona
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Goldwater
New Hampshire
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Iew
California
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