Dirksen backs changes to voting rights bill amid deadlines
Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen supports amendments to a Negro voting rights bill while opposing further delays. House hearings proceed as Sen. Sam Ervin seeks broader measures to require court findings of race based voting rights violations.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Congress
Nicho- Katzenbach
Eee Mansfield
House
Judiciary
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Senate Judiciary Committee
Alabama
Alaska
Georgia
Mississippi
Louisiana
Viree Ee
North Carolina
Arizona
Idaho
Maine
Ervin
Iberia Plane Crashes Off Tangier Killing 51
A Convair flying from Malaga to Tangier crashed into the sea about three miles off Cap Espartel. Fifty one people died including 36 Swedes 11 Germans and 2 Britons. Three survivors were later rescued, with bodies recovered by fishing boats from Spain and Gibraltar.
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Tangier
Morocco
Gibraltar
Iberia
Malaga
Spain
Morocce
de Carmilo
Cap Espartel
Newspaper Walkout Averted
A planned newspaper staff walkout was averted as talks continued between management and union representatives. Executives and editors met with the union to resolve disputed pay and working conditions. A temporary agreement was reached pending a formal contract.
Scorched Earth Raids Hit North Viet Nam By 200 Warplanes
About 200 U S and South Vietnamese warplanes attacked six targets in North Viet Nam and near the border in the largest scorched earth raid to date. Napalm, phosphorus bombs, and fuel oil were dropped on a 19 000 acre jungle area northeast of Saigon. aircraft from U S Air Forces Navy carrier fleets Hancock and Coral Sea participated. One Hancock plane and an F 100 reconnaissance jet were reported lost. the pilot of the F 100 bailed out and was rescued. The operation followed the U S Embassy’s return to work under security measures.
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John T. Wheeler
Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
United States
U.S
Sai
Gon
Hancock
Coral Sea
Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
Cape Ron
Vinh Son
Hanoi
Peking
Boi Loi
Heat on the jungle frontline amid water scarcity
A U S Army helicopter-borne unit searches Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam, led by a disoriented pathfinder from Milford New Hampshire and Captain T Elliott of Greenwood South Carolina. They locate a landing zone under heavy Viet Cong fire and move south through treacherous jungle aided by a Viet Cong defector.
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Tay Ninh
T. Elliott
Greenwood
S.C
Racial Climate Improving Across Delta March Endpoints
AP report notes tentative improvement in racial climate in cities where the voting rights march started and finished and where services were held. Troopers and sheriff's departments present as tensions existed after reports of violence carried out by night riders.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Asked To Buy Land For Heritage Square
North Carolina legislators are urged to allocate 500000 dollars to buy land for Heritage Square housing the state library, art museum, natural history museum, and Archives History. Senator Lindsay Warren Jr. said it would cost 1100000 dollars to finance the first two court levels before 1971.
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Raleigh, N.C
North Carolina
General Assembly
Heritage Square
State Library
Art Museum
Museum of Natural Pes
State Department of Archives and History
Lindsay Warren Jr
Wayne
Joint Appropriations Committee
President Eyes New Embassy Policy Amid Vietnam Attacks
The article notes tensions over an embassy policy and cites ongoing U.S. bombing raids in Vietnam. It mentions a February 7 attack and indicates uncertainty about the breadth of the American response.
League Demands Full Opposition To Power Bill
Raleigh AP The League of Municipalities voiced full opposition to a bill allowing a power pact for three cities, warning the measure would grant expropriation powers and hinder local control. The group warned of incentives for expansion creating more danger than precedents.
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Raleigh
League of Municipalities
Howard Lands Advertising Contract
RALEIGH AP The J. T. Point has held a 402000 dollar per year advertising contract for the last four years and now repeats the award.
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Howard
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Ambrose B. Dudley
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