Bomb damages Yugoslav and Cuban missions in New York
A large blast damaged the Yugoslav and Cuban missions in midtown Manhattan near East 67th Street, shattering a residence facade and fire escape. Fire officials described the device as heavy and noted it followed other foreign office incidents since April, despite heightened security. Yugoslav officials allowed reporters inside to view the damage while police and fire units secured the area.
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REIA
United Nations
Contegular
Agerid
Stortly Sitter 1 Fm
East 67Th Street
Forth Avenue
Army approves 376000 claim for slain Utah sheep
Salt Lake City AP Army Claims Service approves a 376,685 claim for 6,300 sheep killed during March nerve gas tests at Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley Utah. Anschutz Livestock Co. manages Hatch Ranch owned by Fred Anschutz of Denver. Deaths include 6,727 ewes 142 purebred Suffolk ewes and 380 bucks. The claim awaits confirmation by the secretary of the army.
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Salt Lake City
Army Claims Service
Utah
Skull Valley
Wallace F. Bennett
Dugway Proving Ground
Bennett
Anschutz ’ and Livestock Co
Hatch Ranch
Fred “Anschutz
Denver
Army
Secretary of the Army
Housing Bill Near Victory in the House
Washington AP reports Johnsons 5.5 billion, five year housing bill edging toward House approval. It would subsidize interest for low and moderate income buyers with an amendment limiting eligibility to families earning no more than 30 percent above the public housing eligibility line. The measure also extends similar limits to subsidized rental and cooperative housing.
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Washington (Ap) — Pressfot
Johnson
Arkansan Heads Negro Med School
Dr. Lloyd C. Elam of Little Rock becomes president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, urging more scholarships and counseling to boost Negro representation in medicine. He notes a national 2 percent Black doctor rate and discusses access, internship, and rural practice patterns. Local leaders praise civic progress in Hope and Hempstead County with calls for white cooperation to attract new residents.
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Pete Young
Associated Press
Little Rock
Lloyd C. Elam
Elam
Meharry Medical College
Nashville
Tenn
Arkansas
Dunbar High School
Dunbar Junior College
Flam
Roosevelt University
Chicago
University of Washington
Seattle
University of Chicago
Moharry
Schools of Medicine
Medical Association
Counery
Meharry
Nesgross
Guy Grigg
Hope« Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce
Vincent W. Foster
Hempstead County Industrial Foundation
Hope Kiwanis Club
Grigg
Chamber
Foster
Industrial Foundation
Hope
Hempstead County
Johnson Returns to White House After Latin Trip
President Johnson, after a week away, met top military and diplomatic advisers at the White House. The luncheon focused on a July 20 summit with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in Honolulu. Johnson had traveled over 6,000 miles, visiting Central American nations and the HemisFair in San Antonio, with further Latin travel anticipated.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Johnson
White House
Dean Rusk
Defense
Clark Clifford
Honolulu
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Saigon
Secretary of Commerce
C. R. Smith
Air Force One
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Texas
San Antonio
Central America
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Honduras
Guatemala
South America
Exporteimport Bank
Silver dollar surplus puzzles U S Treasury and Congress
A Treasury vault holds about 3 million silver dollars worth far above their face value. The Joint Commission on the Coinage plans to discuss the issue Monday, with Treasury suggesting selling at collector market value. Congress debated selling for private profit in 1966, while the coins’ bullion value rises above $2 an ounce.
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Joesph R. Coyne
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Treasury Department
Treasury
Joint Commission On
Congress
Commission
Robert A. Wallace
the Treasury
Department
Carson City
Nev
Heart and Cancer Societies
Opposition to Fortas Weakening Surfaces in Washington
Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen said four GOP senators have abandoned their opposition to President Johnson’s Supreme Court picks Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry. Dirksen declined to name the four, while 15 other Republicans still oppose the confirmation and a possible filibuster. Senator Wayne Morse urged Republicans to stop partisan tactics, accusing Nixon of promoting a spoils system.
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Fortas
Washington
Républicar
Everett M. Biekeen
GOP
Johnson
Dirksen
Abe Fortas
Jusice
United States
Homer Thornberry
Dirkgen
Ren. Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Spock Receives Two Year Prison Sentence
In Boston AP report Dr Benjamin Spock is sentenced to two years in prison and fined 5000 for conspiracy to aid abet and counsel young men to avoid the draft. Co defendants also get two year terms with varied fines and stays of execution while appeals are filed.
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Boston
Benjamin Spock
U.S
Francis J. W. Ford
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Yale
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Michael Ferber
Harvard
Mitchell Goodman
Temple
Maine
Hope Arkansas Proclaims Poppy Day 1968
The mayor proclaims Saturday July 11 1968 as Poppy Day in Hope Arkansas urging citizens to wear Buddy Poppies and buy them to aid disabled and needy veterans and orphans. The text also references related legislative debates on federal versus state gun registration and licensing, including Tydings and Johnson proposals.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Donal Parker
City of
Hope
Arkansas
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
House Judiciary Committee
Johnson
House Rules Committee
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
Arkansas sheriff Hawkins ousted over funds
Hawking said he would meet Atty Gen for a full legal review as Arkansas troopers kept peace in Morriston. Gov Rockefeller sworn in Childers as sheriff in Little Rock as Hawkins loses office after a judge ordered $10,082 payment to Conway County. The note recalls the USS Reuben James’ 1941 sinking before U.S. entry into World War II.
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Motfilton
Eleen
Cu Ders
Hawkins
Robert Moore
Desha County
The
Associattion
Hawking
Morriston
Rockefeller
Conway County
Childers
Little Rock
Arkansas
Bobby Steel
Reuben James
Iceland
United States
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