IMF backs 1.4 billion pound loan to Britain
The IMF announced a 1.4 billion standby loan to Britain to cover balance of payments needs using 17 currencies and gold sales. West Germany leads with 274 million, the United States 250 million, and France 231 million backing the arrangement. A new foot and mouth outbreak in Lincolnshire raises outbreak totals to 1,657 with 275,881 animals slaughtered since October.
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International Monetary Fund
United Kingdom
Britain
London
Lincolnshire
England
Midlands
Wales
Ministry of Agriculture
Free World
IMF
GAB
France
West Germany
United States
Heart transplant patient shows steady recovery in Cape Town
Louis Washkansky, first heart transplant recipient, makes progress at Groote Schuur Hospital. His wife Ann says he remains courageous and unchanged in personality. Doctors caution the critical period may last three months and a return home by Christmas is possible if improvement continues.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Louis Washkansky
Groote Schuur Hospital
Ann Washkansky
Washkansky
Christian N. Barnard
Unknown Enemy Vietnam War Is Worst Airman Says
Sgt. Frank Musick of Lubbock recalls three wars and two global trips in twenty five years in the Air Force. He calls Vietnam the worst and describes booby traps snakes monsoon damage and disease he faced there along with his Berlin airlift service. He continues to serve on the maintenance crew at Lubbock Municipal Airport and plans to stay in the Air Force longer.
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Michigan
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Jean Lacanuet
Center Democrats
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David Butler
Avalanche-Journal
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Musick
Vietnam
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America
Nixon cites race war as top threat to U S stability
Former VP Richard M Nixon told National Association of Manufacturers at Waldorf Astoria that racial strife is a greater threat than Vietnam. He urged total mobilization of resources, called urban violence guerrilla warfare, and warned the nation has not been so divided since the Civil War.
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Mexican Official At Waco Event
Mexican Director General Melchor Cardenas Gonzales will represent Mexico at a Baylor University luncheon honoring Col. Homer Garrison Jr. The event precedes groundbreaking ceremonies for Ft. Fisher, a Texas Ranger memorial complex. Governor Connally and others will speak as national debates frame civil unrest and federal policy.
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Texas Ranger Memorial Museum
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