Wisconsin adopts 1.1 billion budget without tax hike
The Wisconsin State Senate approved Gov. Warren Knowles’s 1.1 billion two year budget by a 27-6 vote. The measure, the first over a billion dollars without a tax increase, funds education heavily and awaits the governor’s signature to become law.
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James R. Polk
Associated Press
Madison
Senate
Warren P. Knowles
Assembly
Knowles
University of Wisconsin
Department of Welfare
Wisconsin
Israel Claims Breakthroughs as Sinai Battles Rage
Israel said it defeated Egyptian forces in five tank clashes in western Sinai and seized major approaches to the Suez Canal. Fighting centered around Mitla Pass while other fronts saw a mistaken Israeli torpedo attack on the U S Navy ship Liberty. Cease fires held on the Jordanian front as Israel extended control west of the Jordan River and into parts of the Dead Sea region.
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Israel
Sinai Desert
Suez Canal
Mitla Pass
Suez
Sinai
U.S
Liberty
Defense Department
Washington
Palestine
Jordan River
Dead Sea
Jordan
Egypt
U.N. Security Council
Bir Gif Gafa
Mitla
Hebron
Jerusalem
Old Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Sharm el Sheikh
Gulf of Aqaba
Tel Aviv
U.N
Ismailia
Republicans Force New Debt Ceiling Plan After Johnson Defeat
In Washington the Republicans routed the Johnson forces over a proposed 29 billion debt limit increase and pushed a plan to hold the ceiling at 336 billion through September 30. They argued cuts in domestic spending could reshape the fiscal picture and avoid tax hikes while preserving Vietnam War funding.
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Washington
Johnson
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
Middle East
Congress
U N S C Calls Urgent Session Over Middle East War
The United Nations Security Council meets at 1 p.m. CDT on request of the United States to push for a cease-fire in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The council unanimously backs a 3 p.m. CDT Wednesday deadline and considers a Canadian proposal to empower action through the president and secretary general. Egypt says it will continue fighting.
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United Nations, N.Y
United States
U.N. Security Council
U.N
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Israel
Jordan
Cairo
Egypt
Hans R. Tabor
Denmark
U Thant
George Ignatieff
Fedorenko
Council
County criticized WERB rules against Hillview dispute
The Wisconsin Employment Relations Board dismissed the unfair labor practices complaint by Hillview Home Local 750 against La Crosse County. Two commissioners favored dismissal while one issued a dissent. The path to a new representation election remains open as the dispute over a 1966 contract lingered since 1965.
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la Crosse Tribune
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
la Crosse County
Hillview Home
WERB
Morris Slavney
Zel S. Rice II
Arvid Anderson
Slavney
Rice
Anderson
Hillview
Robert Oberbeck
Oberbeck
Red Missile Base Damaged by Navy Air Raid
U S Navy carrier pilots struck deep into North Vietnam to damage a MIG airfield and destroy a secret missile base as rockets flashed across the sky. Ground fighting near the DMZ and Saigon continued with raids and a bridge destruction. weekly U S command casualties showed 214 Americans killed and 2 420 Communists killed, with South Vietnamese losses rising.
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George McArthur
Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Com
Jets Sweep Through Bombardment Area In Airstrike Report
Reports recount waves of Phantom Skyhawk and Intruder jets dropping bombs and rockets as explosions ring out with white orange and black smoke rising five thousand feet. Pilots describe missiles slipping from transport vehicles and activists watch burning wreckage and curling SAMs on the ground.
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Skyhawk
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Rosendale
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Sheboygan
Robert Knowles
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Wilfred Schuele
Norman Sussman
Wayne Whittow
Milwaukee
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West Wisconsin
Methodist Church
Frederick W. Freking
Stefan Guttormsson
English Lutheran Church
Freking
Guttormsson
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