Weather report page two 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Wednesday
The Arkansas and Louisiana forecast calls for fair weather with little temperature change. Central Arkansas will see a low in the low 20s and a high in the 40s, while Northwest and Northeast regions expect fair skies and modest warmth Thursday. Southwest and Southeast Arkansas forecast similar mild conditions with nights in the 20s and daytime highs in the 40s.
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Aussies Seek Clues to Bombing at Yugoslav Consulate
Australian detectives questioned scores of Yugoslav migrants seeking clues to a bombing that disrupted a New Year Eve party at the Yugoslav consulate. Police suspect a home made bomb tossed by anti Communist Yugoslavs as a warning. The blast injured no one but damaged a second story office during a party for Consul General Nikola Zic and 15 guests. There are about 20 000 Yugoslavs in Australia.
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Peace Talks Rejected by Communists in Vietnam
North Vietnam rejected Britain's call for talks to end the Vietnam War as a U S backed plan to convene discussions drew a sharp rebuttal. London pressed for immediate talks among the United States and both Vietnams, while Hanoi accused London of serving U S war aims. U S Ambassador Goldberg in New York briefed UN chief Thant but offered no new peace plan.
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Democratic Republic of Vietnam
New York
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.N
Thant
Five Arkansas firms merge to form Arkansas Best Corp
Five Arkansas firms combine into a holding company with annual sales of 45 million dollars and assets near 24 million. Subsidiaries include Arkansas Best Freight System Riverside Furniture Twin Rivers Furniture Data-Tronics and Arkansas Bandag Corp Bandag is based in North Little Rock. The Delaware-incorporated firm operates from Fort Smith with R A Young Jr as chairman and Hugh L Hembree as president.
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First Italian woman pilot joins civilian airline
Fiorenza de Bernardi, daughter of Italy’s jet ace Mario de Bernardi, earned her license and will join Aeralpi Airline as Italy’s first female civilian pilot. She starts work immediately aboard flights between major cities and Alpine resorts.
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Hoffa Busy Shaping New Contract
Teamsters President James R. Hoffa drives final wage demands for about 500000 workers as talks open January 17 in Washington. With potential prison time looming, Hoffa vows a settlement without a strike and notes some carriers may raise rates to cover higher labor costs. He has until February 4 to seek a new Supreme Court hearing.
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Shortage of Pilots Brings Older Men Back
Washington AP reports a 2,300 aging airmen are to be recalled to flight status as the Air Force expands pilot training, reactivates Randolph base as a ninth training site, and estimates a 300 million dollar five year program to meet needs across services.
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Couple Married In Emergency Room Home Wedding
Ronald K. Palmer and Janine Bergeron wed in Wilmington General Hospital after Palmer cut a hand while breaking a window. The Rev. Ross B. Rainey officiated in the waiting room with witnesses present as nurses and a doctor watched.
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Janine Bergeron
Newark
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Edward Edge
Baking Company
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Ambassadors Married In Quiet Nepal Ceremony
In Katmandu the United States two ambassadors, Ellsworth Bunker and Carol Lasse, tied a quiet wedding at her residence. The couple, longtime colleagues, begin a 40 day honeymoon in southern Nepal after careers in India and New Delhi. Lasse, 48, a career foreign service officer, and Bunker, 72, a widower, previously worked together in the 1950s.
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Nstory
Himalayas
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Carol Lasse
Lalse
India
Viet Cong Wounding Tactics Include Arrows Punji Sticks
Three Army doctors at the 2nd Surgical Hospital in Vietnam report Viet Cong wounds from arrows to captured U S M16 rifles. In five months of 1966, four of 1196 patients were arrow victims and 243 suffered punji stick punctures. They note M16 bullets cause the most destructive tissue wounds. Observations by Maj. Norman M. Rich, Maj. Egon V. Johnson, and Lt. Col. Francis 2. Dimond Jr. appeared in JAMA.
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Vietnam
2Nd Surgical
U.S
Norman M. Rich
Egon V. Johnson
Francis 2. Dimond Jr
U.S. Army Medical Corps
The
American Medieval Association
Conflicting Reports on China Purge
Tokyo AP reports conflicting accounts from Mao and Lin’s circle and Liu Shao-chi on the ACFTU. Tass and Ceteka claim the 21 million member union was dissolved and its newspaper shut down. A later Peking dispatch says leadership was seized by a Mao Lin oriented group, ACARR, not disbanded.
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China
Mao Tse-tung
Lin Piao
Liu Shao-chi
Tass
Ceteka
All China Federation of Trade Unions
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Peking
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Red Guards
Liu
Red Guard
Lin
Havana plans new revolution in Western Caribbean
Havana radio announced formation of a committee to promote revolution in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The coordinating group is said to have headquarters in Port au Prince and aims to topple the Francois Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Balaguer government in the Dominican Republic, linking both governments to U.S. imperialism.
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Fla
Dominican Republic
Havana Radio
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvaller
Joaquin Balaguer
U.S
Armed Africans Attack Leribe Police Station
Police opened fire early to drive off about 50 armed Africans who attacked Leribe police station in northern Lesotho. The assault comes amid a power struggle between King Moshoeshoe II and Prime Minister Jonathan thereafter. Lesotho chiefs meet to decide action against the king as tensions rise around independence era governance.
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Moshoeshoe
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Jonathan
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