Outpost at Khe Sanh Echoes Dien Bien Phu Battle
U S Marines at Khe Sanh wait in a fortified outpost similar to Dien Bien Phu as Gen Vo Nguyen Giap surrounds them. Unlike the French campaign, American air power and supply lines through airlift may determine the siege outcome.
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Khe Sanh
U.S
Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam
Indochina
Ccrete
Beatrice
Huguette
David Lownds
George McArthur
Gold Stocks Slide Again in 31 Year Low
New York AP reports the nation's monetary gold stock fell $100 million last week to $11.884 billion, the lowest since April 28 1937, with the drop entering the Treasury's Stabilization Fund. The Fed notes the decline is the first weekly drop this year and cites past losses during pound devaluation and 1967 gold speculation.
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New York
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Exchange Stabilization Fund
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Botswana Native Ends Baker University Stay
A 25 year old Botswana native, Douglas D Moeketsi, left Baker University after six months in the United States studying radio techniques. Sponsored by the State Department Baker University and the Kansas Association of Radio Broadcasters, he toured Syracuse University and several Kansas towns. He trained about 20 Baker students and faculty to teach Botswana language and culture this summer, while Botswana, a one year old nation in South Africa, grows to about the size of Texas with 660 000 people.
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Baldwin
Africa
United States
Douglas D. Moeketsi
Botswana
U.S
State Department
Kansas Assn
Syracuse University
New York
Lawrence
Manhattan
Colby
Kansas
Moeketsi
Baker
South Africa
Texas
Salina selects Max Bishop for civic center design
Salina city commissioners pick Max Bishop, Salina architect, to design a combined sports arena exhibit hall and convention rooms. Mayor Carl Rundquist says the design should fit the adjacent governmental center. Bonds would fund construction on Memorial Hall and courthouse site if voters approve.
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Salina
Max Bishop
Carl Rundquist
Patler free on bond in Rockwell murder case
John Patler remains free on bond while seeking to overturn his first degree murder conviction for the August 25 1967 shooting of American Nazi party leader George Lincoln Rockwell. A February 23 hearing is set on a defense motion to set aside the verdict with possible appeal if denied.
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John Patler
George Lincoln Rockwell
Patler
Rockwell
Patter
American Nazi Party
Secretaries of Defense
Army
National Cemetery
National
Culpeper National Cemetery
Culpeper
Hoisington Man Killed in U S 281 Auto Crash
Paul G. Karst, 33, of Hoisington, was killed Thursday night in a one car wreck on U S 281 K4 near Hoisington. Passenger Ruth Strops, 22, also of Hoisington, was hospitalized.
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Kan
Paul G. Karst
Hosington
U.S. 281
Here
Ruth Strops
US and West Germany drop vertical takeoff jet project
The United States and West Germany reportedly abandon joint development of a vertical takeoff and landing jet fighter after investing about 6 million dollars. Sources cited budget pressures from the Vietnam war and noted previous Pentagon efforts in VTOL tech yielded disappointing results, though both nations will continue research in the field.
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United States
West Germany
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Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Congress
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McNamara
South Vietnam
South Vietnam Expels AFP Reporter Mazure
Saigon orders Francois Mazure of Agence France Presse to leave within 24 hours over articles deemed detrimental to South Vietnam. The government accuses AFP of pro Viet Cong reporting and cites Mazure’s brief capture by North Vietnamese in Hue.
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Francois Mazure
Agence France Presse
Mazure
South Vietnam
Nguyen Ngoc Linh
Information
AFP
Linh
Hue
Everett G. Martin
Newsweek Magazine
Two Horseback Classes Start Saturday at Motts Stables
Lawrence Adult Education program offers two Saturday horseback riding classes at Motts Stables. The morning session runs from 9 30 to 11 and the afternoon class from 1 30 to 3 p m.
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Lawrence Adult Education Program
Motts Stables
Kansas Senate advances careless driving bill in Topeka
The Kansas Senate approved a bill creating a careless driving category with penalties up to 10 days in jail and 100 dollars fine, lighter than reckless driving penalties. The measure heads to the House along with other budget and licensing actions and a conference committee on non partisan school board elections.
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Kansas Senate
Keith Sebelius
R-Norton
House
Senate
Nuclear Energy Advisory Council
Commission On Civil Rights
Kansas American Legion
United Spanish War Veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The
Academy of Science
Kansas National Livestock Show Association
State Board of Education
Governor Docking urges Kansas cities to craft urban improvement plans
Governor Robert Docking urged Kansas cities to prepare workable community improvement programs with state help. Speaking to the Kansas chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, he said urban areas face major problems and noted a legislative proposal to elevate urban concern and coordinate efforts.
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Kan
Kansas
Robert Docking
Docking
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
City programs shift to Department of Community Affairs
Reform proposal would fold major urban oriented programs into the Department of Community Affairs. If acted favorably by the legislature, aid to communities would be substantially increased and improved.
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Department of Community Affairs
Inventor Charles Adler Jr Honored on Traffic Signal Anniversary
In Baltimore Maryland the Safety Engineering Club honored inventor Charles Adler Jr aged 68 on the 40th anniversary of the first traffic acted traffic signal.
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Baltimore
Safety Engineering Club of
Charles Adler Jr
J W Reporter Wins Contest In Kansas AP Papers
Gary Burge of the Lawrence Journal World won the January short feature contest among Associated Press newspapers in Kansas. His piece tells how a family of three received an expense paid five day New York visit from an unknown benefactor. The father was ill and out of work, and the trip included Broadway shows luxury hotel meals and a clue from a travel agency naming a Lawrence resident as donor.
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Gary Burge
Lawrence Journal- World
Associated Press
Kansas
New York
Lawrence
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