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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1966
Page
4
Congratulatory messages from heads of state and faithful flood in as Pope Paul VI, marking his 69th birthday with no special observances beyond papal flags. The pontiff urged theologians to preserve doctrine while allowing study and development, in Rome for a major Ecumenical Council gathering.
At the United Nations India Czechoslovakia and the Soviet bloc rejected the Viet Nam peace plan. Vaclav David said delegates of the United States must reject attempts to relieve the United States of responsibility for the aggression. Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko held private talks as Goldberg and Fedorenko met in public. Razak urged Asia led talks with Marcos plan to forge an all Asian peace conference.
Jesus Rangel, urged by family to seek official age records, died Friday in Trujillo state. Claiming 132 years old, he was reportedly Venezuela’s oldest man and had married once at 80, fathering five children. He recently planned to wed a 21 year old partner in Valera but died before the wedding.
A small group of 15 pickets gathered near Harlem’s $5 million Intermediate School 201 as civil rights leaders press for black power in Negro education. Police cordoned a block around Madison and Park Avenues while Principal Stanley R. Lisser arrived with detectives before the brief action ended.
Dr. Melvin Griem of the University of Chicago and Argonne Cancer Research Hospital reports radioactive chromium wires used to treat cancer show promise. About a dozen patients have received the tiny wires irradiated in a pile for tissue insertion, with results pending further analysis.
A Chicago report states 52 percent of American doctors do not smoke and many have quit recently due to evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer. A tablet that reduces nicotine craving helped under 2 percent of 150,000 users, and readers can request free information by mailing name and address to the Anti-Tobacco Center of America in New York.
Former Vice President Richard Nixon in a UPI report says 1966 could yield surprises as national figures emerge from landslide victories. He notes Romney and himself as top GOP contenders for 1968 and projects gains in House, Senate, governorships, and state legislatures. He cites issues including foreign policy and domestic economic policy.
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