Aussie Bomber Disrupts Soviet Trawler Near Australian Fleet
Royal Australian Air Force Neptune bomber forced the Soviet trawler Van Gogh to change course near 17 Australian fishing boats in the Gulf of Carpenteria. Canberra maintained patrols while Moscow called the incident piracy and backing away from further confrontation.
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Australia
API
Royal Australian Air Force
Gulf of Carpentaria
High Seas
Neptune
John Gorton
Ron Taylor
Air Force
Canberra
Ivan S. Stenin
Solyanik
Gulf of Carpenteria
Stenin
House Passes Tough New LSD Laws Nationwide
The House approved a bill by 319 to 2 making LSD and related hallucinogens illegal to use or possess without prescription, with penalties up to five years and 10,000 dollars for traffickers. The measure, sent to the Senate, expands federal control and adds treatment provisions, plus a separate authorization for health service funding and drug treatment programs.
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Washington
UPI
House
The
Food and Drug Administration
Justice Department
Hughes Bid For ABC Stock Faces Federal Challenge
In New York the ABC president urged a federal judge to block Howard Hughes from buying 43 percent of ABC stock arguing the move imperils a merger and could drive affiliates away. The tender offers $148.5 million for 2 million of 4.7 million shares at $74.25.
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New York
UPS
American Broadcasting Company
Howard Hughes
ABC
Leonard Goldenson
U. S
Hughes Tool Co
Hughes Tool
Hughes
Goldenson
Dudley Bonsal
L. Walter Lundell
CIT
Bonsal
John O. Gilbert
James E. Duffy
Geldenson
Leon Silverman
Loeb Rhodes and Co
Federal Communications Commission
Las Vegas
Postal Reductions Threaten National Post Office Service
The Ways and Means Committee warned that Congress must reverse a manpower cap to avoid severe post office cutbacks. Watson said 83,238 positions would be eliminated unless vacancies are limited and rural routes may be consolidated. He announced Saturday closures expand to Sundays and Saturdays with reduced mailbox pickups, while rural post offices would not fill vacancies. Rep. Byrnes suggested action may wait until January.
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Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Watson
House
UN Chief Thant Guarded in Dublin Amid Threats
U Thant faced life endangerment in Dublin while receiving an honorary degree from Trinity College. Police, aided by plainclothes detectives, shielded him after an anonymous caller warned he would be shot. The threat linked to demonstrations over Ireland politics and Orange Day tensions in Belfast.
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Dublin
UPI
United Nations
U Thant
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Thant
Trinity College
Ireland
England
Eddie McAteer
Major attack feared in Saigon as Viet Cong strike
Viet Cong on a motorbike killed an American GI in Saigon as South Vietnamese forces sealed a mile square zone near the National Police HQ. Officials warned of a planned noon attack by the C10 sapper battalion, though the assault did not occur.
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Saigon
UPI
U. S
Ben Lue Bridge
Demilitarized Zone
Mekong Delta
Delta
South Vietnam
U.S
Cholon
Regents Put Approval On Researchers
Regents approve changes reflecting university funded research and new administrative alignments. Tensions rise over reorganization as Dale Beaumont defends existing programs and Chancellor Humphrey coordinates between universities and DRI amid a broader push for structural changes.
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Mordy
Neil D. Humphrey
DRI
Delta Flight Hijacking Ends When Gunman Surrenders
Senator Eastland and passengers remained calm as a hijacker aboard a Delta flight from Key West to Miami threatened crew and demanded Havana. The gunman surrendered near St. Petersburg after flying toward Havana and was taken into custody by FBI agents.
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Hawes
Senator Eastland
Dines
Miss Hawes
Eastland
Miami
Delta
Havana
Key West
Fla
Cletis Massangill
Court Reform Declared Nations Number 1 Issue
A speaker calls court reform the top national issue noting Nevada has never impeached a judge. He urges streamline and modernization to handle growing population and future needs, asserting judges must have opportunity to foresee the road ahead.
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D-Calif
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D-N.y
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Labor and Welfare Subcommittee On Health
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
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William C. Westmoreland
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Vietnam
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Del
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John W. Byrnes
R-Wis
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Protestant Alliance
Frederick H. Boland
U.N
Yank
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Doug Warren
Delta Front
Nui Co
Donnybrook
College of Agriculture and
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Agricultural Experimental Station
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Reno
Moyer
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Bureau of Business and Economic Research
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