Middle Fight Near Cambodian Border Steels Sgt Ridey
Sgt Mark Ridey and his 12 man patrol fought a brutal ambush 480 yards from the landing zone near the Cambodian border during a fierce New Year truce violation. American and enemy casualties mounted as air strikes and artillery covered the perimeter while Ridey directed fire and saved his post.
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Associated Press
Burt
Vietenam
Mark Ridey
Iean
Ridey
San Anstonio
Fafe
Perimester
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
NVA
Saregeant
Leonard Daems
Bozeman
Mont
U.S
Col. Daems
Daems
Nats Fishing Burglar Nabs Goods in San Francisco
San Francisco AP report says police arrested two suspects Tuesday in a fishing style burglary. They used a bamboo pole and a hook made from widfield 127 to pull several thousand dollars worth of women’s apparel through a hole in a store ceiling.
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San Francisco
Widsfield
Ceils “Ab
Final Count 376 Deaths Reported During New Year Holiday
Fragmented text reports 376 fatalities during a three day New Year period. Text mentions the Chicago area and a council predicting 460 to 546 deaths, with garbled words indicating a casualty count and casualty-related discussions. Names and official sources are unclear due to OCR errors.
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Pet
Rae Council
Attorneys for Hawkins Ask Dismissal
Attorneys in a taxpayers suit against Conway County Sheriff Marlin Hawkins failed to prove he misused funds or conspired to defraud. The motion asked Special Chancellor Bobby Steel of Nashville to dismiss the case, with alternative motions to invoke the statute of limitations and to suppress state police tickets and daily reports as evidence.
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Morriston
Ask
Conway County
Marlin Hawkins
Chancery Court
Bobby Steel
Nashville
Nathan Gordon
Morrisson
Jack L. Lessenberry
Lite Rock
Steel
Hawkins
Richard S. Arnold
Texarkana
Oscar Fendler
Blytheville
Gordon
Lassenberry
Gordon-Lessenberry
Lessenberry
Winthrop Rockefeller
Republican Party
Cuba imposes gas rationing amid Castro push
Havana requires gasoline coupons for cars from eight to twenty five gallons a month after Fidel Castro orders rationing on the revolution anniversary. Government vehicles also face controls as Cuba taps Soviet fuel supplies and urges conservation amid a hard year ahead.
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Fenton Wheeler
Associated Press
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Soviet Union
Revolutionary Plaza
Committee For the Defense of the Revolution
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Nonvieolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
United States
Robert Fletcher
Jennifer Lawson
Ralph Featherstone
Willie Ricks
Carver Neblet
Mexico
Barbara Dane
New York
Peter Hening
Susan Sythelm
Change Tax Rates Yearly From Economy Council View
Washington reports on the President's Council of Economic Advisers endorsing annual tax rate adjustments. Dr Arthur M Okun and Gardner Ackley advocate small year to year changes to stabilize prices and wages, balancing tax cuts and rises as needed. They note Congress resisted a temporary surtax in 1967 and emphasize public education on countercyclical tax policy.
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Washington
President
Okun
Gardner Acksley
Ackley
Council
James Buesenberry
Kennedy
Johnson
Congress
Twenty Fifth Wedding Anniversary Celebration
The Negro Community notes Nancy Jo Scott Brown hosted a party honoring her parents Eula and Fred Scott on their 25th wedding anniversary Monday evening December 25 1967. About 28 friends from Hope and Prescott Ark attended with guests from Dardanelle Detroit and Kansas City. Centerpiece featured a large silver bell inscribed 25th and the yuletide decorated house.
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Nancy Jo Scott Brown
Fred Scott
Eula
Fred
Milliken fills in for Romney on world tour
In Michigan Lt Gov William Milliken acts as governor during Romney’s world tour. Milliken says he might visit again and plans to return periodically. He has filled in for Romney since 1964, with increasing stints as acting governor while Romney campaigns for the Republican nomination.
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Lansing, Mich
Michigan
George Romney
William Milliken
Romney
Milliken
Romsney
House of Representatives
Senate
Ais
de Romney
Washington
Cams Palo
New Hampshire
Dope Addicts Riot Quelled at California Rehabilitation Center
About 250 narcotics addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center near Norco seized control, burned buildings, and fought guards before massed law enforcement restored order. One inmate, Leroy M. White, 20, died from gunshot wounds. About 51 inmates were moved to a maximum security facility in Chino. Cause remains officially undetermined though liquor and prior disturbances are noted.
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California
NORCO
Calif
Sia
Los Angeles
Roland W. Wood
Chino
Riots Fallout Presses Courts With Hundreds Charged
The Associated Press reports that six months after summer riots in Newark and Detroit, courts still handle hundreds of arrests. Detroit jails 4,200. 1,200 felony trials begin next spring. Newark holds 330 cases. Detroit minor cases disposed within weeks. Many defendants pleaded guilty to lesser charges. approximately 1,000 pled guilty overall.
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Associated Press
Newark
Detroit
Jay Nolan
Wayne Couply
Election of Supervisors for Hempstead County Soil and Water District
Notice sets January 23 1968 polling for three Hempstead County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisors from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm at Hope Arkansas Courthouse voting place. Only landowners within the district may vote. Keith Jackson, Executive Director of Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission, notes pending trials. Newark grand juries indict 808 of 1,300 arrested for looting and killings. many cases unresolved amid jail crowding and docket backlogs.
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Hempstead
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