Political Tidings Aired From POWs
In Hong Kong AP reports Vietnam for ten months has not mailed from American POWs to relatives in the United States. Mail from North Vietnam to prisoners and loved ones is restricted. Antiwar messages aired on Radio Hanoi date to 1967 or earlier. The last nonpolitical broadcast by an American prisoner was Feb. 11. A later surge of antiwar broadcasts appeared in April via Viet Cong Radio. Prisoners may still receive gift parcels up to eleven pounds as last year.
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Hong Kong
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Drunk Driving Demo Highlights Sobering Truths And Laughs
Middletown hosts a traffic safety demonstration where four volunteers drink to test impairment. Low alcohol levels yield measurable driving errors on a simulator as police record results and discuss a new state law lowering permissible blood alcohol.
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David Stitt
Middletown
Lowell
Thomas
Maryann Straub
Lavell
WPFB
Uncle Joe
Vi Parrella
Meg
Trenton
Alcometer
Brethlizer
James Line
Cecil Runyon
Ed Dobrozi
Lowell Thomas
Steet
Ghost Fleet moored ships of past battles in quiet harbor
Features recounts vessels once famed for danger and glory like the Missouri the New Jersey the Hornet and the Bonhomme Richard now mothballed in security at an unnamed harbor. Also notes Bella Abzug’s sharp rhetoric and rising SNOOPING trends by big business across America.
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Americas
At Oval Grevayerde
Pearl Hurbos
Boston
Missouri
New Jersey
Hornet
U S Attacks Radar Sites In North Vietnam Reported
Saigon reports U S escorting B52 bombers attacked three radar sites inside North Vietnam Friday. F105 fighter-bombers supported strikes, no damage to American aircraft confirmed, raising total North Vietnam strikes this year to 85.
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Saigon
Ho Chi Minh Trail
North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Demilitarized Zone
Mu Gia
Ban Raving
Sales Tax Boost Will Answer Balk
A one cent sales tax increase for education appears ready to move this week if the Gilligan administration balks at budget cuts and blocks income tax legislation. A 5 to 3 percent personal income tax is likely, with a sales tax bill kept in reserve. Conferees plan a budget of about 750 million in new expenditures over the biennium as Gilligan seeks 2.1 billion.
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Columbus
Gilligan
House
Senate
Howard C. Cook
Toledo
Stanley J. Aronoff
R-8
Cincinnati
Aronoff
Ohio Plans Atom Impact Study For New Nuclear Plants
Gov Gilligan announced a state ordered assessment of total effects from two proposed nuclear plants. Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus will perform the analysis under contract with the Department of Natural Resources at a cost of 53000 dollars and a seven month completion goal.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Department of Natural Resources
John J. Gilligan
Columbus Laboratories of Battelle Memorial Institute
U S asks UN backed cease fire over India Pakistan clash
The United States urged the UN Security Council to seek a cease fire and withdrawal of forces amid India Pakistan fighting. Pakistani and Indian ambassadors defended their positions, with India denying aggression and stressing East and West Pakistan tensions.
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U.S
United Nations. N.Y (Ap
United States
U.N. Security Council
India
Pakistan
Emergency Council
George Bush
Agha Shahi
Council
Inia
Samar Sen
East Pakistan
West Pakistan
Weekend Forecast Clouds and Rain Likely
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with a chance of rain today. Highs reach the mid to upper 40s, with overnight lows in the upper 30s. Monday remains mostly cloudy and warmer with a chance of rain, highs in the upper 40s to low 50s. Precipitation chances are 30 percent today and 40 percent tonight.
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Safety Council
Middletown Area Safety Council
Ralph Fussner
Patrol 9
Parrella
Bella Abzug
Ana
Big Business
Norman Peale
Thomas Collins
Cambodia
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