Questions From Action Line Readers Puzzle The Public
A compilation of typical Action Line inquiries on legal age for leaving home, window fogging solutions, military mail delays, employment law exemptions, domestic disputes, the meaning of tongue in cheek, and access to Koerner's Folly. The column provides concise, practical responses from local advisors, including missing mail logistics, pay exemptions for small firms, and welfare considerations.
Peace prospects dim for early Vietnam settlement
AP analysis notes high officials in Saigon view the path to a negotiated peace that bars Communist takeovers in South Vietnam as increasingly unlikely. Factors include a weakened allied position in the north, perceived antiwar sentiment in the United States, and pressure to halt the air war against North Vietnam.
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Saigon
John T. Wheeler
Associated Press
South Vietnam
Hanoi
America
North Vietnam
Laos
U.S
United States
Vietnam
House OKs Federal Pay Raise Bill
Washington AP report says the House passed a federal pay raise bill with two key members criticizing high spending. The bill would be financed partly by postal rate increases while pressuring President Johnson to cut spending if a tax hike is pursued.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
White House
Comet Jetliner Crash Off Turkey Kills 66
A BEA Comet 4 jetliner operated for Cyprus Airways crashed into the Mediterranean off Turkey near Kastellorizon. All 66 aboard are presumed killed. The flight ran from London to Athens to Nicosia with 59 passengers and seven crew. Rescue ships recovered wreckage and bodies but no survivors were found. The British RAF and U.S. forces aided the search as weather remained clear. The incident marked the second Cyprus bound crash in five months.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Turkey
Royal Air Force
British European Airways
Cyprus Airways
London
Athens
Dodecanese
Kastellorizon
BEA
RAF
Air Force
U.S. Air Force
Katellorizon
Thieu to Seek Meeting With Ho Chi Minh Soon
South Vietnamese Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu said he would soon propose a one week bombing pause and a face to face meeting with Ho Chi Minh. U.S. officials said they had no prior knowledge of Thieu’s peace initiative as air and ground fighting showed a general slackening. The Mekong Delta town of Chau Doc faced renewed shelling, civilians wounded, and American casualties were reported alongside rising South Vietnamese losses.
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George McArthur
Associated Press
Saigon
North Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Ho Chi Minh
Thieu
U.S. Command
U.S
Government Calls More Klan Witnesses In Rights Slayings
Meridian Mississippi AP Justice Department summons more Ku Klux Klan members to testify in the 1964 slayings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Evidence cited includes statements by former Klan member Carlton Miller and FBI ballistics linking close range gunfire to .38-caliber pistols.
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Meridian
Miss
Justice Department
Miller
Klan
FBI
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
New York
James Chaney
James Edward Jordan
Jordan
Georgia
Asst
U.S. Atty
John Doar
Edgar Ray
Killen
Schwerner
Neshoba County
Goodman
Chaney
Philadelphia
Mass
George Burley
Gardner Urges Civic Unity Amid Dissent at UNC
Health Secretary Gardner warned that fissures in society are deep and called for renewed community ties At UNC he urged citizens to bind together rather than tear apart He said addressing poverty rebuilding cities and improving schools require a great surge of citizen dedication and personal participation He was honored with a Doctor of Laws degree on UNC's 174th anniversary
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North State Telephone Co
North State
North Carolina
G.M
Chapel Hill
N.C
Gardner
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By Wohl
United Feotere Syndicate