Agriculture Funds Are Approved By House Panel
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 5.18 billion dollar Agriculture Department budget, cutting 1.06 billion from last year and directing the agency to trim spending by reducing some Agency for International Development programs. It directs immediate tobacco and insecticide research funded at 3 million dollars and urges balanced costs. The panel notes tobacco findings linking smoking to cancer and aims to study tobacco properties to reduce harm.
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Communists clash over planned international party meeting
In Tokyo Peking denounced Moscow’s bid for an international conference of Communist parties this fall as a plot to split the movement. China said a meeting with the Soviet party is unlikely for four to five years or longer, citing need for preparatory steps and delays.
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Soviet Communist Party
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Johnson Grapples for Racial Justice in Atlanta Parade
President Johnson drew a massive, five hundred thousand strong crowd in Atlanta as he urged racial justice and denounced extremism. He rode in a motorcade, spoke from a convertible, and framed a call for constitutional rights and peaceful progress across the nation.
LBJVisits Tenant Farmer In Eastern North Carolina
President Johnson made a rapid two hour visit to Rocky Mount and spoke to a crowd estimated at 100000 as he urged broad support for his war on poverty. He met tenant farmer William David Marlow and family, sharing memories of hard farm times and stressing empathy from his own youth.
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Robert Douglass
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Lynda Bird Johnson
Truman Returns to Senate on 80th Birthday
Former president Harry S. Truman received a thunderous welcome on his 80th birthday as the first ex-president to address the Senate in an official session since a rules change. Overcome with emotion, he could not deliver a full speech but praised the rule allowing ex-presidents to address grave national problems. He also predicted President Johnson would fare as Roosevelt did in 1963, amid a busy impromptu news conference outside the White House.
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Cocked Pistol Found In Plane Wreckage
Investigators recovered a cocked .38 revolver amid wreckage from a Pacific Air Lines crash near San Francisco that killed all 44 aboard. FBI fingerprint analysis and Coroner Bogart’s team sought identifications as witnesses recounted the final moments and a survivor described the plane’s approach. A Reno Casino offer had lured passengers aboard for the flight from Reno via Stockton to San Francisco.
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Stopp
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Cambodians Take Viet Nam Vehicle Clash Near Saigon
Cambodian tanks engaged Vietnamese armor 40 miles northwest of Saigon while Cambodian forces reported capturing a Vietnamese personnel carrier. Military sources said several Vietnamese and Cambodian forces were killed or wounded in the frontier skirmish as Phnom Penh reported no American casualties and Khanh advocated restraint.
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Wanted Man Nabbed After Chase In Detroit Slugfest
A man sought for questioning in the slayings of two Virginia police officers was captured after a car chase in which his vehicle struck another, killing the other driver. Bruce Walter Leikett, badly injured, was taken to Wayne County General Hospital. Two guns and handcuffs from the Fredericksburg officers were found in his car. a pursuing vehicle with New Jersey plates had been linked to related pre dawn killings.
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