Admitted Sex-Slayer Boston Strangler Escapes
Albert DeSalvo, the self-styled Boston Strangler, escaped Bridgewater State Hospital with two other mental patients. Guards found beds replaced by stuffed dummies and a wall-climb exit on the second floor. Police searched Bridgewater through snow as DeSalvo faced Massachusetts slayings claims tied to 1962 1964 cases.
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Westford
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Mao Signals Red Guard Shakeup and Army Strife
AP reports a new purge in the Chinese army and a directive placing the Communist party in charge of military purges in Peking Shanghai Tientsin and Lata. Wall posters question Lin Piao and Mao’s grip on power while signaling lower ranks challenge officers and political commissars.
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Peking
Mao
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Lin Piao
Communist Party
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Tientsin
Lata
Dairen
Port Arthur
Peking Wall
Liberation Army Daily
Party Central Committee
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New Orleans Fund Backing Garrison Probe Grows
The New Orleans business community pledged private funds to support District Attorney Jim Garrison in his investigation into the Kennedy assassination. Joseph M. Rault Jr led the effort, saying donors would cover costs for months or years and could exceed government spending. Garrison warned arrests could come in months and even considered borrowing personally to finance the probe. Editorial noted on page 4.
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Associated Press
Joseph M. Rault Jr
Raul Petroleum Corp
New Orleans
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Garrison
District Attorney
Indira Gandhi Faces Crisis as Congress Slumps in India
AP reports growing danger to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as Congress loses ground in elections. With 180 of 520 seats counted, Congress holds 92, just ahead of the opposition. Seven cabinet ministers and key leaders fall, while Kamaraj loses his Madras assembly bid, signaling a potential government collapse.
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Swatantra
Gandhi
Kumaraswami Kamaraj
Madras
Thant Won’t Officially Meet North Vietnamese in Burma
U N Secretary General U Thant arrived in Rangoon and said he would not confer officially with North Vietnamese representatives during his eight day stay while keeping an open mind about a personal meeting. The visit comes as North Vietnam declares its consul general Le Tungson will return to Hanoi for consultations and a spokesman declines to comment.
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US shells North Vietnam from South Vietnam guns
SAIGON AP American forces began long range artillery strikes into and beyond the demilitarized zone using 175 mm guns based in South Vietnam. A military spokesman said the action, the first of its kind in the war, was not reported to the International Control Commission as far as he knew.
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International Control Commission
Nazis Convicted In Dutch Mass Murder Case
In Munich a German court convicted former SS Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Harster and two aides of aiding the murder of 82,854 Jews deported to extermination camps during World War II. Sentences ranged from five to 15 years amid spectators shouting hang them and bravo. Anne Frank was among those hunted. Harster previously led security police in Holland 1940 to 194? and later headed Bavarian finance.
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Harster
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Anne
Chuckle Letoure Time Phrase Joke
A quip suggests the humor amidst domestic search chaos as a playful take on timing and marriage. It frames locating a spouse as a lighthearted theme rather than a serious incident.
Mantrap Junction City targets Viet Cong bases
U S forces launch Junction City a 250 square mile sweep northwest of Saigon aimed at destroying Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bases. Pentagon officials say about 10 000 enemy fighters including political arm leaders may be trapped or killed while vast intelligence materials are expected to be seized though many may escape into Cambodia.
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South Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Pentagon
Cambodia
General's Judgment Questioned Over War College Seminar
Air Force chief Gen. John P. McConnell reported Maj. Gen. Jerry D. Page showed lack of sound judgment at a secret Air War College seminar where Page criticized Vietnam policy. The Pentagon classified the findings, later deemed a mistake, as controversy over Page’s reassignment and secret discussions with Gov. Samuel P. Goddard Jr. Reports note secrecy rules of the War College and undisclosed sources for the remarks.
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Air War College
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John P. McConnell
Senate Armed Services Committee
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War College
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313Th Air Division
Okinawa
Arizona
Samuel P. Goddard Jr
Goddard
Air Force Reserve
Maxwell Air Force Base
Ala
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Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Lebel
Harold Brown
Associated Press
McCo
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Pentagon
Senate
Vietnam
Michael J. Jackson
New York
Weather Update Foretells First Subzero Night Of Winter
The mercury may drop below zero tonight marking a first for this winter. Saturday offers fair but cold conditions with long range highs in the low 30s and lows in the teens. A small warmup is due early next week with light snow often. Yesterday’s high 27, overnight 4, 11 a.m. 1 above zero. Winds to 40 mph. Middletown reports another inch of snow.
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