Pentagon Papers Outline U.S. War Pressure Policy
Secret Pentagon documents reveal Johnson rejected premature action against North Vietnam in 1964 while building a strong South Vietnamese base for possible later action. They describe planned military pressure, pacification efforts, U.S. covert operations, and escalating bombing as the 1965–66 period unfolded.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
North Vietnam
Pentagon
South Vietnam
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Johnson
Saigon
Henry Cabot Lodge
McGeorge Bundy
Walt W. Rostow
South
Bundy
Lodge
Maxwell Taylor
Taylor
White House
Vietnam
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Laos
U.S
United States
John McNaughton
Defense
McNaughton
Ho Chi Minh
North
Robert S McNamara
da Nang
Hue
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nixon weighs Viet Cong peace plan motives
Washington officials scrutinize the seven point Viet Cong proposal by Mrs. Nhu yen Thi Binh. They see positive elements like a joint withdrawal and prisoner release, but fear aims to destabilize South Vietnam and end Vietnamization. U.S. stance remains to reject any step that would hand South Vietnam to the Communists.
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Washington
White House
State Department
U.S
Paris
Nguyen Thi Binh
South Vietnam
Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Nixon
South
Ronald L. Ziegler
New Community Near Kings Island Takes Shape
Warren County commissioners rezoned 850 acres for a Kanter Corp and Town Properties project to build about 4000 homes over ten years. The town near U.S. 22 and Columbia Road will include a town center, church school complex and a mile-long lake, a mile south of the Kings Island park opening in 1972.
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Lebanon
Ohio
Warren County Commissioners
Kanter Corp
Town Properties
Cincinnati
Eldon L. Johnson
Forest Park Inc
Forest Park
Hamilton County
U.S. 22
Columbia Road
Kings Island
Fay Kuhn Jr Seeks Logan School Board Seat
Fay H Kuhn Jr 747 Third St became the first candidate to file nominating petitions with the Hocking County election board for a Logan school board seat. Two seats will be filled in November, with terms for Carl Risch and James Moore expiring.
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Fay H. Kuhn Jr
Third St
Logan School Board
Hocking County Election Board
Carl Risch
Logan Rt. 2
James Moore
Logan Rt. 3
Cecil O. Eveland
South Bloomingville Rt
Benton Twp
Pearl Linton
Logan Rt
Green
David Tucker Jr
Rockbridge
Good Hope
Fairfield Youth Dies Of Injuries
Robert Acker aged 17 of Baltimore Ohio died at Grant Hospital Columbus from injuries from a two car crash on Ohio 158 south of Baltimore Tuesday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert Acker
Baltimore
Grant Hospital
U S Planes Hit Red Guns in North Vietnam
US fighter bombers struck gun positions in North Vietnam inside the demilitarized zone. One 37 mm anti aircraft gun was destroyed, seven enemy troops killed, and ten secondary explosions occurred. US aircraft suffered no damage per the spokesman.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Smead Plant Tornado Damage Could Top One Million
Smead Manufacturing Co. faces potential damages nearing 1 million dollars after last Friday's tornado. Plant manager James Heinlein says roofing loss, destroyed files, and ruined machinery threaten a record local industrial loss. Roof repair by Strunk Maintenance is 90 percent complete. female workers remain off until Tuesday.
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Smead Mfg. Co
James Heinlein
Heinlein
Strunk Maintenance Co. of
Columbus
House OKs 3.5 billion for medical training plan
The House approved three health bills totaling 3.5 billion dollars over three years to reform medical training and staff, aiming to shorten curricula, add medical schools, and place doctors in shortage areas, with provisions against sex discrimination.
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Washington
House
Senate
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
Public Health Subcommittee
Army Corps reports 10 percent apply for river pollution permits
The Buffalo district says about 10 percent of the region's industries filed for federal discharge permits by the Thursday deadline. The permit system is part of a federal plan to curb waterway pollution.
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Cleveland, Ohio
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Buffalo
N.Y
Unemployment Dips to 5.6 Percent in June
The government reports the unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent in June while more than a million workers lost jobs. The figures reflect a sharp drop in joblessness despite a sizable decline in employment.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington
Coffey Resigns as Ohio Commerce Director to Return to Teaching Law
Ronald J. Coffey stepped down as director of the Ohio Department of Commerce and will return to teaching law. Deputy Director Gerald Werden was named acting director. In Tel Aviv, Israeli troops chased Arab guerrillas back into Lebanon, killing one and wounding another.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ronald J. Coffey
State Department of Commerce
Gerald Wedren
Tel Aviv
Lebanon
Last-Minute Coastwide Longshore Strike Grips West Coast
A coastwide ILWU strike halts most dock work from Seattle to San Diego on its second day. Negotiations stalled hours before the five year contract expired, with wage, pension, and guaranteed hours demands unresolved. Picket lines stay peaceful as ports brace for delayed shipments and rippling effects beyond Hawaii and Alaska.
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San Francisco
Seattle
San Diego
James Robertson
Pacific Maritime Association
West Coast
International Longshoremen's and
Joe Glick
ILWU
Los Angeles
Teamsters Union
Harry Bridges
Hawaii
Alaska
British Columbia
Gulf
East Coast
Pleasant Hocking Valley Weather Today
A pleasant morning in the Hocking Valley with 11 a.m. temperature at 76 degrees and an early low of 61. Thursday’s high reached 81 with sunny skies. Saturday is forecast to stay sunny with little temperature change and warmer, more humid conditions over the weekend.
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Hocking Valley
Final tribute for Salute mission cosmonauts at Kremlin Wall
Three Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev who died near completing a space voyage were buried at the Kremlin Wall Red Square ceremony attended by Brezhnev Kosygin Podgorny and U S envoy Thomas Stafford The crew of the Salute space station was honored for pioneering long term manned spaceflight and space exploration vows to press on were voiced by surviving cosmonauts and officials
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Moscow
Kremlin Wall
Georgy T. Dobrovolsky
Vladislav Volkov
Viktor Patsayev
Red Square
Mstislav V. Keldysh
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Keldysh
Lenin
Soviet Union
Space
Vladimir A. Shatalov
Holiday Closings Slated Monday
Government offices and most businesses close Monday for the Fourth of July. Logan Post Office lobby open. windows closed. No Logan Daily News edition Monday. publication resumes Tuesday. Recreation facilities gear up for a busy weekend.
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Hocking County
Logan Post
Logan Daily News
Special Holiday Hours Set For Swimming Pool
The Logan pool will be open 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday and closed other evenings to avoid interfering with the 4th of July on the LHS athletic field. Regular hours return Monday. closed Tuesday for cleaning. An adult moonlight swim is planned next Wednesday night.
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Logan
Harry Westfall
LHS
Westfall
Stock Market Dips as Jobless Rate Drops in June
New York AP reports a sluggish trading day as the Dow Jones average falls 3.65 points to 889.38 at noon. The decline comes despite news that unemployment decreased in June.
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New York
Laurelville Plans Centennial Celebration in July Festivities
Laurelville marks its 100th birthday with a five day event July 20 to 24 alongside the Firemen's Festival. Activities include a queen contest parade beard judging pie eating pony pull and dances with appearances by Mr Happy and Flippo the Clown. A centennial history by Claude Chilcote will be sold and details life in Laurelville prior floods.
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Laurel
Salt Creeks
Mr. Happy
Flippo the Clown
Laurelville
Claude Chilcote
Columbus and Southern Railroad
Thomas Ebert
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