Secret War In Viet Nam Grinds On At High Cost
Washington reports reveal the United States is deeply involved in a covert war in South Viet Nam with no public accounting of troops or costs. Diem’s regime faces corruption and repression while U S advisers and economic aid pour in. Strategic hamlets grow, villagers gain some political role, but clashes with Viet Cong persist as analysts warn the conflict will remain lengthy and costly.
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United States
Southern Furniture Exposition
Advisory Council
School of Engineering
High Point
South
Viet Nam
Washington
Cuba
Berlin
U.S
State Department
Geneva
Khrushchev
France
South Vietnam
N. Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Viet Cong
Pentagon
Will
AID
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ac Acnecn
Navi
Browne
Paolo Condore
South China Sea
Ent
Southeast Asia
Anti Filibuster Move Gains Bipartisan Momentum
A bipartisan push to change Senate Rule 22 to curb filibusters gains momentum after recent elections. New Democratic senators could tilt the balance, challenging Southern opposition and aiming to allow a three-fifths or majority vote to limit debate on civil rights legislation.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Thomas J. McIntyre
New Hampshire
Birch Bayh Jr
Indiana
Daniel B. Brewster
Maryland
Gaylord A. Nelson
Wisconsin
Daniel J. Inouye
Hawaii
John A. Carroll
D-Colo
Peter H. Dominick
Carroll
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Francis Case
R-S.d
Congress
Dixie
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Philip 8
Kenneth B. Keating
N.Y
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate Rules Committee
Mansfield
Rules Committee
Everett M. Dirksen
R. al
GOP
Peet
Coalition
GOP Facing Uphill Fight in 1966 Governor Races
Democrats hold 33 governor posts to Republicans 15 after a landscape where Republicans won in Michigan Pennsylvania Colorado Ohio Wyoming Oklahoma and New York while Democrats retained California Hawaii Iowa New Hampshire and Vermont. The GOP faces a national challenge with key swing states as pivotal bases.
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Washington
GOP
Kennedy
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Colorado
Ohio
Wyoming
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
Minnesota
Maine
Massachusetts
California
Nixon
Hawaii
Iowa
New Hampshire
Vermont
New England
Midwest
Far West
Armistice Day Riot Echoes From Centralia Massacre
On November 11 1919 Centralia Washington held its first Armistice Day parade. The event ended in the Centralia massacre a deadly clash between American Legion members and IWW Wobblies. Four veterans died and a mob later hanged Wesley Everest. Prosecutors later tried 12 men for Grimm’s murder.
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Centralia
Wash
Tower Avenue
American Legion
Industrial Workers of the World
Washington State
I.W.W
Wobblies
Chehalis American Legion
Lw.w. Hall
Seminary Hill
Union Hall
Europe
Warren O. Grimm
Arthur McElfresh
Ben Casagranda
Chehalis River
John Haney
Ers
Centralia J.W.W
Grimm
Everest
Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla
Lw.w
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S. Car
DEL
George Washington
All America
Leo J. Heer
Mgr
Southern Furniture Exposition Building
Malcolm Browne
Associated Press
U. S
Shiek
Omnes
Chi
Burma
Thailand
Vietnam
Cambodia
Rangers
Main Street
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