North Vietnamese Missiles Hit at B52 Raids Amid DMZ Tension
North Vietnamese fired four surface to air rockets at B52 bombers raiding within the DMZ but all missiles missed. Smaller bombers attacked missile sites while pilots said three sites were knocked out. U S ground forces clashed with Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta, reporting 46 guerrillas killed, 18 American deaths and 50 wounded. Mortar rounds hit My Tho near Saigon.
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Humphrey Returns From African Tour With Aid Appeal
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey said Africa’s future depends on the United States meeting its world responsibilities after a nine nation goodwill tour. He noted warm welcomes in Tunis, the trip’s final stop at 26 500 miles, and that African nations seek faster American aid while doing what they can to help themselves.
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U.S
Tunis
Humphrey
Johnson
Israel Egypt Agree on General Prisoner Exchange
Geneva reports that Israel and Egypt agreed on a general exchange of prisoners of war announced by the International Red Cross Committee. The exchange would occur soon at Ismailia along the Suez Canal cease fire line, marking the first large release since the June Arab-Israeli fighting.
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Israel
Egypt
International Red Cross Committee
Ismailia
Suez Canal
Sweden Takes In 3 More GIs Defected to Avoid Vietnam
A government committee recommended asylum for three American GIs Thursday. Police later reported three more deserters arrived in Sweden to avoid Vietnam service, raising the total believed in Sweden to 16. Eleven, including the latest three, have applied for asylum.
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Sweden
Vietnam
Farmers Threaten Strike in Corn Belt Campaign
CORNING Iowa The National Farmers Organization pledges no price no production in a new campaign to raise agricultural prices by withholding farm products from market The initial target is grain with meat milk and other commodities to follow President Oren Lee Staley says the action will shut down the American agricultural plant until a fair price is secured for members products
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Iowa
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Post Office Plans All Airmail Service Reform
The Post Office Department announced plans to abandon separate airmail and move all first class letters by plane. Congress will be asked in 1969 to create a single class priority service for distant destinations.
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Post Office Department
Lawrence
O'Brien
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Swift & Co Five Building Complex Destroyed by Fire
East St. Louis Illinois A Swift and Co complex comprising five buildings burned on Thursday causing an estimated two million dollars in damage with meat losses totaling four hundred fifty thousand dollars according to early reports from local authorities and plant managers.
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Swift & Co
Polish Expels U S Attache Over Photo Incident
Poland expelled Lt Col Edward H Metzger of the U S Army after he and a Canadian officer were allegedly caught taking photographs of a Polish military installation. The men resisted and were detained nearly 12 hours, with U S protests lodging in Warsaw and Washington. Metzer faced questioning while not allowed to contact the embassy. the incident involved potential action against Kenneth Jefferson.
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Edward H. Metzger
Quincy
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Stanford Heart Patient Breathing Without Respirator
Mike Kasperak, one of two surviving heart transplant patients, began breathing periodically without his artificial respirator on Thursday. The 54 year old, who received a heart in a Stanford operation, shows no signs of rejection and his kidney and liver functions are improving. he remains on the critical list as doctors report progress and cautious optimism.
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Norman E. Shumway
Stanford University
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
Baiberg
Yugoslavian girl among second survivors of artificial heart pump
Houston Methodist Hospital announced that Marta Acman, 16, of Sostary Yugoslavia, is the second person to survive after an artificial heart pump. She received the left ventricle bypass on Oct 26 and kept her natural heart beating for four days, now hospitalized for kidney failure. The first survivor was Esperanza Del Valle Vasquez of Mexico City.
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Yugoslavia
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Mexico City
Panicked Vic tor Tedesco scales with 1614-foot python
Parks Commissioner Vic tor Tedesco volunteered to be weighed by a 1614-foot Asiatic python at St Pauls Como Park Zoo. The snake coiled around him and tightened, prompting Tedesco to panic and withdraw from future weigh-ins. June Clark underwent nose surgery after years of sneezing fits. Dr Martin Luther King recruited 3,000 people for a jobs program in Washington. An arrest warrant for Dr Antonio Zappala over alleged exporting of human heads was issued in Brazil.
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Out of Hospital Actor Dana Andrews Discharged
Dana Andrews was released from Barnes hospital in St. Louis after seven days recovering from a skull fracture. The report notes the actor's timely return to activity and details surrounding his hospital stay.
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Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Civil rights figure Judge Waring dies at 87
J. Waites Waring, a South Carolina native and former U S District Judge, died in a New York City hospital at age 87. His 1951 dissent in a civil rights case helped spur the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation ruling. Waring was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942.
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Supreme Court
New York City
Waring
Hame
South Carolina
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