Giant underground nuke creates 4000 foot crack in Hot Creek Valley
A giant underground nuclear test in Hot Creek Valley Nevada left a 3000 to 4000 foot long crack in the desert floor with 10 to 100 feet width and up to 23 feet deep. The AEC said damage was minor and no formal claims were filed. Windows cracked at Ely High School, 100 miles away, and minor highway damage occurred along U.S. 6.
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Hot Creek
Hiroshima
Ely High School
Ground Zero
Brown
Eureka
Nev
Nevada
United States
Pentagon
AEC
Las Vegas
Hot Creek Valley
Reno
Khe Sanh Evacuates Civilians Ahead of Major Battle
U S and North Vietnamese forces trade artillery near Khe Sanh as evacuation of about 2000 civilians proceeds. U S planes bomb surrounding fortifications while Marines defend the DMZ fortress. Officials call this a kickoff of a new North Vietnamese offensive in the area.
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Saigon
UPS
Khe Sanh
U. S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Laos
U.S
UPI
Alvin C. Webb Jr
David Edward Lownds
Plantation
Fla
Lownds
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Cedar Falls
Pentagon Deploys Copters and Dogs in Greenland Bomb Hunt
The Pentagon says helicopters and dogsled teams are involved in locating hydrogen bombs from a B 52 crash over Greenland’s arctic ice. Five crew members were rescued. Captain Curtis Criss Jr. is hospitalized with frostbite and a broken shoulder.
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Pentagon
Washington
UPI
Greenland
Arctic
Baffin Bay
Denmark
Copenhagen
U.S
Curtis R. Criss Jr
North Wayne
Maine
Defense Department
John M. Haug
Phoenix
Ariz
Frank F. Hopkins
Jim Barrows Named SUN City Editor
James G. Jim Barrows named Las Vegas SUN city editor by publisher H. M. Greenspun. Barrows has two years as SUN staff writer and a 1951 University of Maine journalism degree. He held bureau chief roles at Bangor Daily News and Hartford Courant and later worked at Scottsdale Daily Progress and Phoenix Evening American.
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James G
Jim” Barrows
Las Vegas
Sun City
H. M. Greenspun
Barrows
SUN
University of Maine
Infantry
Bangor
Daily News
Hartford
Scottsdale
Ariz
Daily Progress
Phoenix
Evening American
Arizona
Nelson
Nevada
The
Wilson Kosygin Talks Deepen Vietnam Peace Efforts in Moscow
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson conferred four and a half hours with Soviet Premier Kosygin in Moscow on Vietnam peace moves. Thompson delivered a note from President Johnson. The talks followed Wilson's planned discussions with Brezhnev and covered ICC, Hanoi talks, and Anglo Soviet relations amid the Vietnam war.
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Moscow
UPI
Harold Wilson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Wilson
Vietnam
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Kosygin
Sheremetyevo
U. S
Llewellyn Ek
Thompson
Johnson
Kremlin
Hanoi
Russia
International Control Commission
ICC
Kasygin
Washington
London
George Brown
Brown
Wallace and Peace Party Gain Ballot Spots in California
California Secretary of State Frank Jordan announced Wallace's American Independent Party and the Peace and Freedom Party both surpassed required signatures to enter the general election ballot. Wallace aides expect a possible presidential bid while Peace and Freedom highlights strong San Francisco Bay Area support and student donations.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
George Wallace
Antiwar Peace and Freedom Party
California
Frank M. Jordan
Jordan
Wallace
American Independent Party
Peace and Freedom Doves
Peace and Freedom Party
San Francisco
John McKiney
Lurleen Wallace
Alabama
Los Angeles
McKinney
Mort Vicker
Vicker
Peace and Freedom
Walace
Charles Warren
U. S
Eugene McCarthy
Johnson
Eartha Kitt Criticized For Rudeness
Washington D C UPI report says Eartha Kitt's interruption at a White House luncheon for "women doers" drew national backlash. Katherine Peden, on the Presidents Commission on Civil Disorder, called the outburst a disservice to women addressing crime and poverty, while defending First Lady Mrs Johnson and noting Kitt did not intend offense.
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Washington
UPI
Eartha Kitt
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Katherine Peden
President
Commission On Civil Disorder
America
Women and Children of
Miss Peden
Kitt
Paden
D.C
Johnson
Headstart
Kentucky
Miss Kitt
Baez Leads Tax Refund Suit Against War Tax Rule
Federal Judge Alfonzo J. Zirpoli dismissed the group Taxpayers Against War led by Joan Baez seeking a refund of income taxes spent on the Vietnam War. He ruled the claim violates the First Amendment freedom of religion and that moral arguments are irrelevant to the law. Baez said she opposes all war and wants her money back while vowing an appeal.
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San Francisco
UPI
Joan Baez
U. S. Dist
Alfonzo J. Zirpoli
Miss Baez
Santa Rita Prison Farm
Oakland Army Induction Center
Zirpoli
Post Mortem Underway On Heart Transplant Patient Kasperak
A post mortem at Stanford seeks to confirm heart transplant findings on 54 year old Kasperak who died after two weeks with a wife s heart in Palo Alto California. Doctors fought stomach hemorrhaging while the body showed no organ rejection and plans moved to return him to Cleveland for funeral services.
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Cleveland
Palo Alto-Stanford Medical Center
Stanford University
Kasperak
Norman E. Shumway
Ferne
GOP Telecast Tonight To Answer State of Union
Republicans set a 60 minute CBS telecast from the Senate Office Building to respond to President Johnson’s State of the Union address. Sen. Everett Dirksen is sidelined by illness. Rep. Gerald Ford headlines with nine House members and eight Senators under Sen. George Murphy’s direction. The program promises positive proposals and critique of administration policies.
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GOP
Union
Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Johnson
CBS
Everett M. Dirksen
Gerald R. Ford
Jerry Show
Dirksen
Ford
Sen
George Murphy
California
Egypt charges U S plot to overthrow Nasser in coup case
Cairo briefing says 54 former officers and civilians plotted a bloody coup under American leadership to topple President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Mutiny followed Egypt’s June war defeat, with seven main defendants facing death. 12 appeared in court as 42 others were left outside due to space.
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Cairo
UPI
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Aly Noureddin
Israel
Nasser
UAR
Noureddin
Egypt
U S Admits Troops Entering Cambodia During Clash
The United States acknowledged an allied patrol crossed about 75 yards into Cambodian territory during a firefight with Viet Cong forces. A note to Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s government expressed regret for Cambodian casualties and stated no hostile intent while reserving limited self defense penetrations.
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Washington
UPI
United States
State Department
Prince Norodom
Sihanouk
U. S
Cambodia
William Bundy
Peam Montea
Robert J. McCloskey
McCloskey
Kieng Tuong
Vietnam
Prey Veng
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Salah Nasr
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