Marines Hold Hill 689 As Khe Sanh Siege Intensifies
American Marines on Hill 689 and near Khe Sanh challenged North Vietnamese forces for a fifth day. The fighting left 350 Communist troops dead, with additional clashes near Con Thien and Saigon. An air strike downed a MIG-17 while a Crusader jet destroyed one Mig before it hit the ground. Clark Clifford may visit Vietnam for on the spot defense assessment after a Honolulu meeting with Johnson and Thieu.
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Johnson Acts on Three Foreign Policy Fronts
President Johnson resumed work at the LBJ Ranch after a Central America tour and prepared for a Hawaiian summit with South Vietnam leader Nguyen Van Thieu. He sent the nuclear nonproliferation treaty to the Senate, and signed loans liberalization for overseas U.S. companies to address balance of payments.
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Senate Labor Panel OKs $18 Billion in School Aid
The Senate Labor Committee authorized over 18 billion dollars in federal school aid to be spent in the next four years after a day long closed session. The bill was reported to the Senate floor for action.
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Senate Labor Committee
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ABC Sues Hughes to Block 2 Million Share Offer
New York ABC filed in U.S. District Court to block Hughes Tool Co. and related entities from acquiring 2 million ABC common shares. The network seeks an injunction against Howard Hughes and investment bankers Loeb, Rhoades & Co. for the proposed deal.
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Paris shakeup as Pompidou ousted for Murville
Georges Pompidou splits with Charles de Gaulle over social reforms and will be replaced as premier by Maurice Couve de Murville. De Gaulle’s plan to involve workers and students in factory and university management sparked the crisis after May and June riots.
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Faith in world money eases gold in Europe
Lower gold prices in London and Zurich reflect renewed faith in the international monetary system after the US and 11 Western allies pledged standby credits to aid the faltering pound. Bullion closed at 39.80 dollars in London and 39.50 in Zurich.
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Lindsay Acts to Halt Taxi War in Brooklyn Unrest
Mayor John V. Lindsay orders a police probe into escalating taxi violence in Brooklyn neighborhoods Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant as licensed cabs burn amid alleged unlicensed gypsy drivers. Brooklyn District Attorney Aaron E. Koota calls the acts shocking and dangerous amid racial tensions.
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Howard R. Leary
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Bedford-Stuyvesant
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Free Love Talk From Two Miss Universe Contenders
Two teenage Scandinavian beauty queens in Miami Beach defend their nations as free love havens. Tone Kaaran of Oslo and Anne Marie Hellquist of Hallberg say premarital living together is common and argue that free love discussions are not unique to Scandinavia.
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