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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1966
Page
7
Belgrade reported dispatch cites growing differences between Beijing and Hanoi over peace strategy. Liu Shao chi rejects 1954 Geneva accords as void. Hanoi sticks to four points and arms support while denying a reconvened Geneva Conference as urged by Gandhi and others.
Former Vice President Nixon in Hong Kong declares North Vietnam mistaken about U S commitment to Vietnam and predicts a Republican midterm victory. He refuses to discuss policy details and reiterates that ground attacks on the North are not the solution to the war.
African Center in Johannesburg approves a 70 million downtown Carlton Center project featuring a 750 foot tall 51 story office tower, a 37 story luxury hotel, 150 shops two department stores and spaces for 3000 cars.
Manila reports the population of the Philippines is rising by more than a million people each year, signaling significant demographic growth and implications for urban planning and resources nationwide.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell predicts within 16 years about 20 U S cities will have a black political swing factor in elections. He cites Chicago Philadelphia New York Newark Los Angeles and St Louis as examples and insists Negroes seek power, not domination, while refusing to rule an all white administration.
A 850 pound photo lab satellite to be launched aboard an Atlas Agena rocket aims for 125 to 1150 mile lunar orbit to photograph nine areas and aid Apollo landing site selection. The mission follows a 90 hour transit with retrorocket burns to enter a low altitude graphic orbit and capture up to 353 pictures.
Sen Edward M Kennedy edged out Robert F Kennedy and 34 others to win the Wianna Seniors Regatta at Hyannis Port Yacht Club. Skippering the Victura owned by John F Kennedy, Kennedy completed an eight mile triangular course twice in 2 hours 18 minutes with crew Joan Kennedy Joseph Gargan and Ross Richards. Robert Kennedy finished 25th in the Resolute.
Taipei sources say the Nationalist Chinese government will not back the three nation peace effort led by the Philippines Thailand and Malaysia to end the Vietnam war. Foreign Minister Wei Tao mings message to Ramos may stress that talks and agreements will not work against armed forces.
Temperature and precipitation table compiled by the U.S. Weather Bureau at San Francisco for a 24 hour period ending at 4 a.m. PDT. The data reflects nationwide readings and forecasts.
Needles California recorded the highest temperature at 114 degrees while Sheridan Wyoming marked the coldest at 39 degrees in yesterday’s US Weather Bureau figures excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
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