Navy Blasts Sampans in Saigon Coast Clash
A U S Navy patrol boat sank 45 of about 125 Communist sampans off South Vietnam's northern coast. In a separate push, U S infantry tanks planes and artillery trapped a Red unit near Quang Ngai, killing 17 in three days. The sampans afloat fled after the firefight. No U S casualties. Earlier Viet Cong bombs hit two US billets in Saigon, killing two GIs and wounding 19.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Quang Ngai
Hoi An
Peace Talks Begin Saturday in Vietnam Negotiations
In Paris Allied and Communist negotiators agreed to start full scale Vietnam peace talks Saturday after Henry Cabot Lodge met for over an hour with South Vietnam's Ambassador Pham Dang Lam. In Saigon Premier Tran Van Huong dismissed hopes for success.
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Paris
Vietnam
Saigon
Tran van Huong
Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Vietnam
Pham Dang Lam
Czech protest death sparks pledge for elections and reforms
Jan Palach's self immolation prompts the Czechoslovak government to pledge free parliamentary elections, looser censorship, and a Communist Party congress. Premier Cernik cautions against crisis renewal while Dubcek and leaders reportedly back reforms in a Monday meeting with students and unions. Another student is in critical condition after self immolation in Pilsen.
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Prague
Jan Palach
Communist Party
Oldrich Cernik
Alexander Dubcek
Palach
Pilsen
Airlift completes Reforger 1 troop deployment near Czechoslovak border
An airlift of 5000 U S troops to maneuvers near the Czechoslovak border ended with the arrival of the 62nd and last C 141 jet. The 33 hour air bridge delivered the final main element for Operation Reforger 1 and follow on exercises January 29 to February 4 about 20 miles from the frontier.
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Mernberg
Germany
United States
WHO urges extending narcotics control to new drugs
The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged extending international narcotics control to LSD and marijuana derivatives. The move coincides with a U.N. commission debate on updating treaties and counters calls to remove marijuana from controls, echoing a British commission recommendation.
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Geneva
World Health Organization
U.n.’S Commission On Narcotics Drugs
National Terror School Closed Down
Brooklyn's Franklin K. Lane High School will shut for three days to craft a reduction plan for overcrowding after a teacher was beaten and a fire set at the stairs. Police guarded the building as teachers threatened to halt instruction until closure.
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New York
Franklin K. Lane High School
Brooklyn
Johnson Dwarfs World Worries Chases Deer at Ranch
On his first day as LBJ leader in five years Johnson left security behind to tour the LBJ Ranch. He chased deer with Secret Service nearby as his daughters Luci Nugent and Lynda Bird Robb spoke of life beyond the White House. FBI charged Tyrone E. Austin and Linda Austin with hijacking an Eastern Airlines flight to Havana using a child as hostage. Paul R. Ignatius was named president of the Washington Post.
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Washington
The
House Committee On UN
D-Fla
Edwin Edwards
Louisiana
Richardson Preyer
North Carolina
Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
LBJ Ranch
Pedernales
LBJ
White House
Luci Nugent
Lynda Bird Robb
Secret Service
Luci
Lynda
Tricia Nixon
Robb
Nugent
Queens
FBI
Eastern Airlines
Havana
Tyrone E. Austin
Linda
Cuba
Kennedy Airport
Austins
Miami
Austin
Brooklyn
Land Post
Paul R. Ignatius
Navy
Washington Post
Ignatius
Los Angeles
John W. Sweeterman
Washington Post Co
Red Skelton
Skelton
Charles G. Cannon
Colorado
Cannon
Colorado State Prison
Cape Coral
Fla
Cook
Steward I. Leopoldo T. Osano
Kennedy
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Philippines
79th Wedding Anniversary for Macon Couple
The Macon couple Mr. and Mrs. Ward McDaniel mark their 79th wedding anniversary living in a four room house with their 12 grandchildren noting odds of such a long marriage at 8 750 000 to one. He is 100 and she heads toward 100 in May.
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Ward McDaniel
Macon
U.S. Department of Commerce
Daniel
Independent Classified Listing Details
The page shows contact numbers for the Independent newspaper dated Wednesday January 27 1969 with publication data for Long Beach California. It lists office addresses Sixth Street and Pine Avenue and notes legal adjudication by Los Angeles County Superior Court in October 1964 Cree No C 10280 and mail delivery statements.
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Sixth St
Pine Ave
Long Beach 12
Calif
Long Beach 2
Superior Court
Los Angeles County
Abrams' Family War In South Vietnam Rising Officers
1st Lt. John N Abrams, 22, son of Gen. Creighton W Abrams Jr, now commands Troop C of the 2nd Squadron 1st Cavalry 4th Infantry Division in the central highlands. He previously served 18 months as a platoon leader and executive officer. His older brother Capt. Creighton W Abrams III leads a battery and is stationed at Fort Sill Oklahoma.
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John N. Abrams
Creighton W. Abrams Jr
South Vietnam
Troop C
1St Cavalry
4Th Infantry Division
Capt
Creighton W. Abrams
Ft. Sill, Okla
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Czech
Giant Airlift
International ‘Pot’ Control
Shaw
New Orleans
Clay Shaw
Irvin Mason
Oliver M. Schultz
Nonopinion
HUAC
Minot
N.C
Minot Air Force Base
Memphis
Tenn
R. H. Edwin Espy
National Council of Churches
Espy
Council
Citizen Lbj
Mr. and
Mrs. Ward McDaniel
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Jacqueline Kennedy
Kennedy Library
Byron Rogers
Dcolo
Vickie Drake
Stanford University
van Nuys
Miss Drake
North Hollywood
Abrams’ Family War
Lakewood Cewren
Arrees
Galle Lakewood Center
VisaVie
Clark Ave
Lakewood
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