30 GOP House Members Demand Probe of Draft
Thirty Republican House members call for an immediate investigation of the draft saying the system is haphazard and bogged down in red tape. They urge congressional scrutiny of Defense and Viet Nam manpower efforts and foresee a possible surge in U.S. forces in Southeast Asia.
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GOP House
Washington
Viet Nam
Capitol
U.S
Southeast Asia
Defense Department
House Armed Services Committee
Selective Service
Congress
Accidents Cost U S Economy Billions In 1965
The National Safety Council reports accidents cost the United States 17.3 billion dollars in 1965. The tally includes wage losses medical expenses overhead insurance property damage and indirect costs of workplace accidents. The death toll from all accidents reached 107000.
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Chicago
U.S
National Safety Council
Mansfield Aims to Kill Rider on Viet Fund Bill
Senator Mansfield said he will move to strike any policy rider from the Viet Nam military supply bill stationing in the Senate. President Johnson, House Speaker McCormack, and Morse position frame a quick vote as Morse plans to offer a rider to rescind a 1964 authorization on use of force in Asia.
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Mansfield
Rider
Viet Fund
Washington
House
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Senate
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
John W. McCormack
Johnson
Morse
Asia
McCormack
House Appropriations Committee
Viet Nam
Senate Filibuster Ends On Viet Nam Bill Without Amendment
Seventeen senators who stalled the $12.3 billion Viet Nam emergency funding debated on the Senate floor for 14 days. They decided not to offer an anti-escalation amendment while signaling ongoing concern over U S polices in Southeast Asia. Senator Fulbright urged not to deprive troops, and Senator Morse prepared a separate amendment to terminate the Gulf of Tonkin authority, risking a procedural clash with administration leaders.
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Istration
Senate
Johnson
Administration
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arkansas Democrat
South
Viet Nam
Fulbright
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Congress
Gulf of Tonkin
Southeast Asia
Tight Budget Hampers U S Space Probes
Space program funding squeezes planetary missions as Soviet Venus probes Venus 2 and Venus 3 succeed, while Voyager and Mars plans slide from 1969 to 1973. Mariner 2 earlier achieved close Venus approach revealing Venusian conditions amid budget constraints and Viet Nam war impacts. Predator hunt in Phillips area canceled due to lack of snow.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
U.S
Space Agency
Viet Nam
Mars
Venus
Madison
Phillips Area
Johnson proposes broad health and education program
President Johnson asks Congress for cradle to old age health and education initiatives to feed poor children and aid the elderly. He proposes a 10 year hospital modernization project costing 6 to 8 billion dollars with 40 percent funded by the federal government and the remainder from states communities and private sources. He pushes cutbacks in subsidized milk for school lunches and urges financing by those able to pay. See aid page 2.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Five Die In Wisconsin Crashes On Monday And Today
Appleton motorist Michael W. Barrington 23 was killed when his car split in two after skidding into a utility pole on Highway 96 near Little Chute. Thursday tally includes Ora Capello 48 of Darlington and others in crashes across the state, raising Wisconsin’s toll to 128 this week.
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Associated Press
Appleton
Wisconsin
Michael W. Barrington
Highway 96
Little Chute
Barrington
Ora J. Capello
Darlington
Lafayette
Soviet Venus Landing Marks First Space Achievement
The Soviet Union announced Venus 3 landed on Venus, possibly crash landing, carrying a pennant. Tass reported Venus 2 passed 14 900 miles from the planet as Cosmos 111 launched. Venus 3 may have stopped signaling on approach, with Venus 2 continuing orbit alongside Cosmos 110.
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Tass
Mars
Venus
Moscow
Soviet Union
America’s Mariner 2
Earth
605 Reds Slain In 8 Day Drive
In Bong Son sector U.S. air cavalry and Vietnamese troops decimated a Communist company as Marines and Vietnamese forces battled the elusive 1st Regiment in three actions northward. The drive has killed about 605 Viet Cong since it began eight days ago, with marine and air support claiming dozens of enemy fatalities and hundreds of weapons seized.
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Thomas A. Reedy
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Bong Son
Hue
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
South China Sea
Bong Sor
Quang Tri City
17Th Parallel Demilitarized Zone
Vo Dat
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Predator Hunt
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Matt Richdorf
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Charles V. Herzog
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