Mud and Misery Mark Viet Nam Battle Report
AP dispatch from An Thi South Viet Nam describes U S cavalry fighting through trench mud near a village. Medics like Thomas L. Cole tend the wounded amid relentless shelling, rain, and a dying baby, while combatants flee behind palm trees and graves under napalm and air strikes. Local civilians suffer casualties as the dawn reveals a brutal mud soaked trench scene.
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An Thi
South Viet Nam
Thomas L. Cole
Richmond
Cole
Joe Sugdinis
Cornwall Bridge
Conn
Thomas Cole
1St Cavalry Division
South
Viet Nam
De Gaulle Ends Seven Month Boycott of Common Market
The European Common Market resumes work after French President Charles de Gaulle ends the boycott once five partners accept his veto power. Ministers agree to curb supranational powers and pursue unanimity while preparing to merge executive bodies, signaling potential end of Hallstein era.
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William Anderson
Luxemburg
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
France
West Germany
Italy
Holland
Bel‘gium
Luxembourg
United States
Maurice Couve de Murville
Couve
Pelepates
Coal and Steel Community
European Atomic Energy Community
Walter Hallstein
Hallstein
Europe
Britain imposes strict Rhodesia trade bans after imperial policy
Britain announces sweeping new restrictions on Rhodesia trade with export licenses limited to essential humanitarian goods or items for joint Rhodesia Zambia enterprises. No imports will be allowed. transit imports allowed only if arriving before Feb 20. Government aims to topple Smith regime within a month.
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London
UPI
Britain
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Board of Trade
Zambia
Salisbury
Rhodesian
Central African Airways
Central African Power Corp
Soviet Canning Unveils Four Shark Varieties
Moscow reports four new canned shark products Shark natural smoked fried and sliced were shown as the first batch of canned shark in Soviet history produced Wednesday at the Murmansk fish combine. Earlier reports noted canned whale meat octopus and seaweed.
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Trud
Murmansk
Trad
Jaycees Honor Top Quintet Of Young Texans
The Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce named fiveYoung Texans of 1965 with Ben Barnes of De Leon as House Speaker and Bill Hobby Jr. of Houston as legislature figure. Other honorees included George Schrader of Mesquite, Jack Strong of Longview, and Air Force Lt. Col. Edward White, Gemini 4 astronaut.
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Texas ‘Junior Chamber of Commerce
Rive
House
Ben Barnes
de Leon
Texas
Texas House
Bill) Hobby Jr
Houston
Houston Post
Texas Senate
W. P. Hobby
Oveta Culp Hobby
U.S
Tessas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association
Air Force Lit
Edward White HS
San Antonio
West Point
Japanese Seamen End Crippling Walkout After 61 Days
More than 130,000 members of the All- Japan Seamen's Union returned to work Sunday night ending the 61 day maritime walkout. A back to work order was issued to branches at 48 major ports after the union and Shipowners Association reached a new contract providing an average 16.8 percent wage increase.
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Tokyo
UPI
All- Japan Seamen's Union
Union and
Sukarno says he backs the army amid illness rumors
President-for-Life Sukarno told a Jakarta rally that he was in full accord with the Indonesian Army and denied reports of serious illness or plans to flee to Japan. Radio Jakarta aired the speech as authorities claimed border clashes with nine Nechom aircraft shot down and Communist activities crushed.
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UPI
Sukarno
Indonesia
Japan
Jakarta
Nahdatul Ulama
Islamic Scholars
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Tilness
Nicoboy
Askari
Merdeka
Indonesian Communist Party
Jacqueline Kennedy Tours Rome With Harvard Tie
Jacqueline Kennedy enjoyed private Mass and a horseback ride in Rome with a Harvard friend of John F. Kennedy. The host, Spanish Ambassador Antonio Garrigues y Diaz-Cañabate, did not accompany them, and Count Ver Nando Pecci Blunt hosted in the past. Kennedy plans a private audience with Pope Paul VI before rejoining family in Gstaad.
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UPI
Jacqueline Kennedy
Harvard
Antonio Garrigues Y Diaz Canabate
John F. Kennedy
Pecci Blunt
Washington
Pope Paul VI
Carolyn
John- John
Gstaad
Switzerland
Hurricane damages American Samoa as power fails
Tropical cyclone with winds over 110 mph sweeps American Samoa and nearby islands causing widespread damage to native homes. Governor Rex Lee reports no deaths but extensive destruction in Pago Pago, with the power plant damaged and the airport flooded.
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Honolulu
American Samoa
Ho Rex Lee
Samoa
Pago Pago
Theos
Pago
Page
Pan American World Airways
Honoulu
Lee
Navy
Society Ispene
Tahiti
United States to seek new world money at Paris IMF meeting
The United States plans a two part proposal at the Group of Ten meeting in Paris. It calls for a new reserve currency not visible to the public, to back expanding world trade and IMF credit operations. Nations would issue reserve units tied to gold value and distributed to participating governments.
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UPI
United States
Paris
U.S
International Monetary Fund
Johnson
Council of Economic Advisers
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