Hearings Could Develop Into Attack on Vietnam Policy
In Washington, lawmakers clash over congressional power in foreign affairs as Fulbright and Bartlett spar with State Department officials over Vietnam policy. Johnson defends presidential authority, while Wheeler notes military aims in Vietnam. Johnson also backs free elections in South Vietnam as pledged by military leaders.
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Wlater R. Mears
Washington
Congress
Vietnam
Nic Oholas Katzenbach
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Senate
White House
United States
State Department
Johnson
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Ruhl J. Bartlett
Tufts University
Foreig Relations Committee
Bartlett
China
Ralph W. Yarborough
D-Tex
North Vietnam
Yarborough
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
North
Wheeler
South Vietnam
Weather Station Report and Arkansas Louisiana Forecast
Weather data for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Thursday shows high 88 and low 61 with extended warmth through Friday. Arkansas forecasts partly cloudy to cloudy skies with scattered showers and possible thundershowers mainly north and east, more numerous Friday afternoon. lows 64 to 74, highs 84 to 92. Louisiana expects partly cloudy conditions through Friday with coastal and inland thundershowers, warmer nights with lows 69 to 75 and highs 84 to 90.
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Bruce 90 longtime farmer and mayor Bruce Memorial Church figure
Bruce 90 of Prescott died Thursday in a Prescott hospital. Son of Charles E. and Rachal Harrison Bruce he was a retired farmer and cattleman active in community affairs serving 30 years on the Blevins School Board and once mayor of Blevins. Survived by wife Ethel and sons Imon Elvin Lyal. daughters Henry Harris Hubbard Glenn Thelma. Services Friday 2 pm at Bruce Methodist Church. Burial Holly Grove Cemetery. Active pallbearers listed.
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Smackover
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Malvern
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Little Rock
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Hot Springs
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Arkadelphia
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R.C. Ekberg
Holly Grove Cemetery
Cornish Funeral Home
Lee Huskey
Paul Brock
Johnny Davis
Milburn Tippitt
Tollett Taylor
Bryson Honea
Bill Williamson
Dale Bonds
NFO threatens statewide boycott to force higher farm prices
National Farmers Organization leaders demand price increases from food processors or face a nationwide market boycott that could halt agriculture. Over 35,000 members approve the plan with slogans like No prices, no production. Staley says directors may order an all-commodity hold action if market conditions do not improve. He cites target prices for corn soybeans wheat milk and livestock and promises calm, businesslike action despite past violence reports.
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Des Moines
Iowa
National Farmers Organization
Plant of America
NFO
Oren Lee Staley
Rea
Hesie Tata
Poycott
NFC
Staley
America
Boyscotts
12 Negroes in State Guard in Arkansas
The Arkansas Military Department said as of July 1 there were 12 Negroes in the ground National Guard and the Air National Guard. Ground units had 7,622 members and the Air Guard 1,108. The 12 enlistees are men. Both Guard branches said they are not recruiting due to no openings. President Johnson's civil disorders advisory group urged adding more Negroes to state National Guards.
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State Military Department
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Air National Guard
Ground Guard
Air Guard
Johnson
Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
Iranian Army Seizes Retired General Bakhtiar Estate
Tehran AP reports the Iranian army prosecutor announced the confiscation of the vast properties of Ret Gen Teimour Bakhtiar former chief of the Security and Information Agency and once Iran s biggest landowner. Army prosecutor Gen Hassan Farsiyou accused Bakhtiar of illegal wealth accumulation profiteering and fabricating reports.
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Ian
Teimour Bakhtiar
Security and Information Agen
Iran
Army
Hassan Farsiyou
Bakhtiar
Difficulty Shown by Romney
AP reporting that Republican Governor George Romney faces criticism on Vietnam policy as GOP contenders wrestle with the war stance. Ford stays aligned with Romney’s cautious bombing view, while Chafee, Percy, Dirksen and Nixon move variedly toward tougher or extended bombing and nonpartisan handling of the war in 1968 politics.
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Jack Bell
Washington
George Romney
Ford
Romney
Rhode Island
John H. Chafee
GOP
Chafee
Governors’ Association
Providence
R.I
Charles H. Percy
R-et
Johnson
Cincinnati
Ohio
United States
Springfield
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Il
Dirksen
Senate
Red China
Percy
Vietnam
Minneapolis
Richard M. Nixon
North
Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Postcards From Vacationing Friends Share Old Ring
Hal Boyle collects travel postcard quips from vacationing friends revealing dated humor and travel credulity. Snippets mention Expo 67 in Montreal, Niagara Falls, Laotian lace, Niagara weddings, gas leaks, slides, Niagra slang, and playful exaggerations while noting travel fatigue.
Senate backs Johnson plea to restore model cities funds
The Senate moves to restore most of the House cut in the model cities program and to draft its own anti slum rebuilding plan. A housing measure for low income homes, and a broad antipoverty bill, are also under rapid Senate action, with committees widening proposals beyond the President's recommendations.
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Senate
Johnson
House
Senate Labor Committee
Senate Democrate Ie
Mike Mansfield
Ban Biight
Congress
Prisoner swap plan rejected by Guinea and Ivory Coast
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant says Guinea and Ivory Coast refused a deal to exchange political prisoners. Ivory Coast holds Beavogut Lansana and Marof Achkar plus a UPU official and family. Guinea holds Francois Kaemano, head of the Ivory Coast fund.
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U Thant
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Gale’ Nean
Beavogut Lansana
Marof Achkar
U.N. Universal Postal Union
Francois Kaemano
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