Arab guerrilla chief vows liberation war
Yassir Arafat, elected head of the PLO executive committee, vows an armed war of liberation across occupied Palestine. He says political solutions are rejected and escalated revolution will be a popular struggle. In Jordan and Gaza, Israeli air raids and Arab protests escalate tensions with Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan reacting to incursions and demonstrations.
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United Press International
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Yassir Arafat
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el Fatah
Nablus
Ramallah
Iraq
Mahmoud Riad
U.N
Thant
Gaza
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Soviet Communist Party Presidium
Alexander N. Shelepin
Senate panel sets probe into overseas troop commitments
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans hearings on overseas military engagements and their effect on policy. It aims to review the Pueblo seizure and seek a congressional veto power on troop commitments, with Mansfield noting close Defense and State ties and followups to last year’s Pueblo hearings.
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UPI
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Pueblo
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Department of State
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Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
North Korea
John Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sirhan expected to break long silence today
Sirhan B. Sirhan, who has spoken only two sentences since his arrest for Kennedy’s murder, was expected to testify today in a bid to suppress the indictment as unconstitutional. He and his mother, Mary, 56, were to give limited testimony on their poor financial status, defense counsel saying the grand jury was biased. Also, Irwin Stroll, 17, filed suit for 1 050 000 dollars for injuries from the Ambassador Hotel shooting.
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UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Fitts
Han
Mary
Grant Cooper
Superior Court
Herbert V. Walker
Sirhan
Irwin Stroll
Ambassador Hotel
Sen. Kennedy
Marines Lead Massive Dam Flood Cleanup Drive Across Santa Ynez
Marines and Airmen joined ranchers and volunteers from Camp Pendleton to repair flood damage in Santa Ynez Valley. Bridge work at FCI and 13th Street will finish by mid February. Operation Cleanup, led by Lompoc Farm Bureau, mobilizes area captains to survey damage and organize volunteer crews amid multi‑million dollar losses.
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Santa Ynez River
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Andrew Petersen
Buellton Bridge
Manny Laranjo
Santa Rosa Park
Alan Collier
Santa Rosa
Robinson Bridge
Henry Dettamanti
A Street
V Street
Edward Beattie
Bailey Road
Walt Manfrina
Floradale Avenue
Legge Avenue
Norman Glynn
Douglas Avenue
Ken Fairbanks
DeWolf Avenue
Jim Beattie
Artesia Avenue
Ernest Boncietti
Union Sugar
Virgil Phelps
Renwick Avenue
George Hutson
Francis H. Beattie
Lompoc County
Hutson
Navy Planned Raid to Free Pueblo but Was Denied Go
Testimony before a five admiral court of inquiry revealed the Navy drafted options to rescue Cmdr Lloyd Bucher and the Pueblo crew and to destroy the Pueblo’s intelligence ship in Wonsan after capture, but received no approval. Pearl Harbor command deemed North Korean attack risk minimal, delaying Air Force aid. arming planes on Okinawa would take over an hour as night fell.
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UPI
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Lloyd M. Bucher
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Mediterranean
Naples
Italy
Caseli
William E. Newsome
Pearl Harbor
U.S. Air Force
Bucher
Korean
U.S. Fifth Air Force
Pueblo
Cassell
Okinawa
Nixon discusses Mideast crisis with Johnson Eisenhower
President Nixon conferred with Lyndon Johnson by phone and with Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Hospital as he weighs new U S strategy for the Middle East crisis. He plans to outline decisions after today’s NSC meeting and at his second news conference.
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UPI
White House
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Middle East
U.S
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Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
Ronald Ziegler
National Security Council
Ziegler
Eisenhower
Mideast
Florida
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Ameri
County backs one cent tax hike for flood aid
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors urged the State Legislature to approve a one cent gasoline tax increase to fund flood damage repairs. Road Commissioner Leland Steward said $700000 is needed to restore county roads and bridges, including Montecito Carpinteria Valley and areas along the Santa Ynez River. Copies will go to Senate and Assembly leaders and to Lagomarsino and MacGillivray.
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Francis H. Beattie
Lompoc
Leland Steward
Santa Barbara
Montecito
Carpinteria Valley
Goleta Valley
Santa Ynez River
North County
Steward
Senate
Assembly
Robert Lagomarsino
W. Don MacGillivray
Sanentity
Ralph McGill obituary notes Pulitzer winner dies in Atlanta
Ralph Emerson McGill longtime Atlanta Constitution columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner died of a heart attack at age 70 after a birthday dinner. He spent three decades fighting segregation and the Ku Klux Klan and his final column condemned school choice plans that would sustain dual systems. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr praised him as the voice and conscience of the south.
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UPI
Ralph Emerson McGill
Friends
Holy Family Hospital
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Atlanta Constitution
the Constitution
Ivan Allen Jr
Voice and
Conscience of
South
The
Constitution
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