Milwaukee demonstrator chains self to construction gate
A 20 year old demonstrator chained himself to a gate at the MacDowell school construction site during a five day protest led by MUSIC. Work continued inside as crowds of about a dozen demonstrators remained outside while a judge delayed related cases to December 16. Prominent figures James Farmer and Rev James Groppi joined for brief portions of the protest.
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Edward McDowell
Milwaukee
Gema| Bundy
Cnstrator
MacDowell
Rupert Bundy
Ied School Integration Committee
MUSIC
Christ T. Seraphim
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
James E. Groppi
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church
Soviet top leadership reshuffle elevates Shelepin and Podgorny
Alexander N. Shelepin is assigned a powerful post at the peak of the Communist Party and Nikolai V. Podgorny becomes president. Podgorny, 62, relieves Anastas I. Mikoyan after four decades in the top Soviet command.
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Henry S. Bradsher
Moscow
Alexander N. Shelepin
Communist Party
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Podgorny
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Shelepin
Committee For
Podigorny
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Secretariat
Soviet Union
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Ukraine
Khrushchev
Committee of
People Control
Pavel Kovanov
Gemini 6 set for Sunday rendezvous with Gemini 7
Gemini 6 crew prepared for a Sunday morning firing to chase Gemini 7 in a historic United States space rendezvous. Borman and Lovell planned circular orbit maneuvers, aiming to meet within feet or inches as the two craft fly in formation at high speed.
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Space Center, Houston
U.S
Borman
Lovell
Mission Control
Houston
Eugene Kranz
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
United States
Moon
Earth
Viet Cong Battle Rages 15 Miles From Tam Ky
South Vietnamese troops clash with a Viet Cong regiment in central Viet Nam near Tam Ky. Casualties mount on both sides as U.S. artillery and jets support a search-and-destroy mission in the contested highlands between Chu Lai and Da Nang. Two U.S. advisers killed, four missing. air strikes total 206 tons of bombs and 397 sorties. A C130 crash near Chu Lai leaves one American dead.
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Tom Reedy
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
U.S
U.S. Marine
U.S. Army
Tam Ky
Chu Lai
da ‘Nang
Britain proposes 12 nation appeal to end Viet War
London reports Britain drafts a multi nation appeal to North Vietnam urging quit and peace talks. The note targets the Soviet Union and others from the 1954 Geneva talks and Viet Nam Control Commission to circulate the message. Moscow rejects any U S involvement.
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Britain
London
Britain Today
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Laos
Soviet Union
Geneva
Moscow
United States
Truax to Lose 737 Men by June
Truax Air Force Base in Madison will shed 737 military personnel by June 30 through phased withdrawal and inactivation of two units. Col James W Twaddell Jr says personnel will transfer to bases where needed and F 102 jets will replace older F 89 planes with the Air National Guard.
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Madison
Truax
James W. Twaddell Jr
30Th Air Division
30Th Division
Twaddell
Air National Guard
Lecanuet Declines Endorsement in French Runoff
Paris AP Jean Lecanuet, who finished third in the first round, refuses to back Charles de Gaulle or Francois Mitterrand for the December run off. He urges voters to consider a united Europe, citing opposition to a united Europe from De Gaulle and Communist-aligned backing for Mitterrand. De Gaulle led with 44.63 percent, Mitterrand 31.71, Lecanuet just under 16 percent.
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Paris
Jean Lecanuet
Charles de Gaulle
Francois Mitterrand
Lecanuet
Europe
Mitterrand
de Gaulle
Lecannet
Center
Administrative problems in Cuba limit refugee airlift
In Miami 594 Cubans flew in the first nine days of an expected 800–900 weekly airlift. Empty seats and shifting policies frustrated refugees including Laudelina Sardinas and Juan Castro Avila families who left behind sons. State Department cited Cuban administrative issues and warned kinks must be ironed out at the source to reach the goal of nine flights weekly.
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Miami
Fla
Laudelina Sardinas
Juan Castro Avila
Cuba
State Department
Uelner Named Plant Manager For La Crosse Facility
Roy W. Uelner of Milwaukee is named general plant manager of Allis-Chalmers La Crosse plant succeeding Williard H. Tanke who becomes consultant to the farm equipment division manager in Milwaukee. Tanke, a longtime Allis-Chalmers engineer and inventor, will stay in La Crosse for an engineering study as Uelner leads modernization efforts.
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Williard H. Tanke
S. 24Th St
Allis - Chalmers
la Crosse
Roy W. Uelner
Milwaukee
C. E. Warner
Tanke
Allis-Chalmers
Eral
Mother Killed In Crash In Barron County
A Barron County mother Shirley Blechinger 31 of Rice Lake died after a car rolled over leaving her two children Randy 1 and David 3 exposed and waiting more than three hours for help. The accident also killed Milwaukee’s Mrs Alfred Graefe 68 who was struck while crossing a street.
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Associated Press
Barron County
Wisconsin
Shirley Blechinger
Rice Lake
Blechinger
Barron
Randy
David
Milwaukee
Alfred Graefe
Bayh urges using busing funds to improve schools
Sen Bayh says spending on busing to mix races diverts money better spent on facilities teachers and core study. He spoke at Carthage College on rights liberties noting that de facto segregation needs more than transport and stressing equal opportunity to pursue dreams with student involvement.
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Kenosha
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Carthage College
Bayh
Labor Convention Opens With Meany Pay Raise Report
AFL CIO Executive Council approves a 25 000 annual raise for President George Meany boosting his salary by more than half to 70 000 while convention opens in San Francisco 1 000 delegates gather to map two year labor goals and political strategy with Democrats courting labor support for 1966.
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Meany
San Francisco
The
Aflcio
Labor Federation
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor
Congress
Civic Auditorium
Johnson
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AP Aerospace
Mission Control Center
Gemini
Kosygin
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Caucasus
Anastas I, Mikoyan
Andrei A. Gromykov
United Nations Assembly
Gromyko
Russia
Dean Rusk
New York
ST. Paul
Naval Reserve Training Center
Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center
Minneapolis
Walter J. Ladik
U.S. Marine Corps
Defense Department
Sun
Mitterand
Uelner
Dubuque
Iowa
Iowa State University
Allen Bradley
Sev
Willard H. Tanke
By Neil Gilbride
John Gronouski
Poland
Edward Ochab
Council of State
Belvedere Palace
Warsaw
Ambassador Gronouski
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