Government draws line against Dr Spock in draft case
Justice Department officials say indictments against pediatrician Benjamin Spock and four others are not a crackdown but a formal charge. The group including Yale chaplain Rev William Sloane Coffin Jr and three others is accused of organizing a nationwide resistance to the Selective Service System. The 11 alleged acts include interrupting draft center operations and counseling registrants to resist the draft.
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Washington
Justice Department
Benjamin Spock
Spock
Yale University
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Selective Service
Selective Service System
Department
Coffin
Spock and four others indicted in Vietnam draft case
Five defendants including Spock Coffin Raskin Goodman and Ferber face federal charges for allegedly conspiring to resist the draft. Indictments cite acts from Boston New York Washington and Cambridge during demonstrations and distribution of antiwar material. Conviction could bring up to five years in prison and a 10000 fine.
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Spock
New York City
Boston
New Haven, Conn
Marcus Raskin
Washington, D.C
Institute For Policy Studies
Mitchell Goodman
Temple, Maine
Michael Ferber
Harvard University
Raskin
White House
Kennedy
McGeorge Bundy
National Security
FBI
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service System
Justice Department
Arlington Street
Washington
Department of Justice
Coffin
Goodman
Resist
Cambridge
U.S
Vietnam
Surveyor 7 Launches Toward Moon Highlands
Surveyor 7, America’s last unmanned lunar probe, set for an early Sunday liftoff from Cape Kennedy aboard an Atlas-Centaur booster between 12:55 a.m. and 3:12 a.m. EST. It is the 29th U.S. moon shot in about nine years, carrying a TV camera, soil chemistry lab, a small trenching shovel, and magnets to detect metallic materials as it aims for a highlands landing near Tycho crater.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
America
Tycho
U.S
Sponge Cake Recipe Sparks Kitchen Debate
A lighthearted note circulates about a new real sponge cake recipe causing chatter over borrowed ingredients and kitchen sharing among neighbors. The tale highlights communal baking and playful food borrowing in a friendly community setting.
Johnson Eshkol To Meet At LBJ Ranch
President Johnson plans a private 22 hour ranch meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol at the LBJ Ranch near San Antonio to discuss Middle East peace. Topics include water desalting projects and Israel seeking American jet fighters to offset Soviet arms.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Middle East
Levi Eshkol
Eskhkol
Eshkol
Randolph Air Force Base
Lbj Ranch
Here
Israel
U S Plane Losses Top 1000 Mark
U S Command reports four more jets lost in raids over North Vietnam pushing total combat plane losses past 1 000. Hanoi claims five American jets downed Friday, total 15 since monsoon lift. US warplanes raid near Chinese border and rail lines as weather allows. State Department apologizes to Moscow over Haiphong incident uncertainties.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Red China
North Friday
North
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
U.S. State Department
Moscow
Soviet Union
Robert J. McCloskey
Constable Bit Young For Job
William Gibney seven years old is certified constable in Carbondale as no ballot candidates stood for the post. A judge and court clerk certify the election though the boy cannot meet the age requirement by 14 years.
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Carbondale
William Gibney
Pennsylvania
Gibney
Cold Wave Grips Midwest with Subzero Readings
The Midwest endures a severe cold spell with International Falls at minus 35 and Minneapolis-St Paul at 17 below before dawn. Massena New York hits 19 below near the Canadian border while some areas edge into the 20s and 30s, as more frigid air is forecast to return by Sunday. Hazardous driving warnings span Kansas Missouri and neighboring states with glaze warnings possibly extending into southern Illinois and Kentucky after the New Year ice storm.
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Minnesota
International Falls
Minn
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Great Lakes
New York
New England
Massena
N.Y
Canadian
Midwest
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Kentucky
Novotny Ousted as Czech Communist Leader
President Antonin Novotny loses his long held position as first secretary of the Czech Communist Party after a four day secret caucus. Alexander Dubcek, 46, Slovak, is elected to lead with liberal reform backing, while Novotny remains as ceremonial state president until next year. Brezhnev congratulates Dubcek and signals no intervention to save Novotny.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Antonin Novotny
Communist Party
Alexander Dobcek
Dubcek
Slovakia
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Romania
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Novotny
Plenum
Transplant patient Blaibergs to share heart film profits
Cape Town AP reports Mrs. Philip Blaiberg attends the Haupt funeral as her husband benefits from the transplanted heart of a 24 year old man. The Blaibergs plan to share NBC film profits with Denise Darvall’s father and brothers, while doctors report Blaiberg in very satisfactory condition and in good spirits after the operation. The Haupts were married three months before he died from a stroke, and the couple’s family is connected to NBC’s exclusive coverage deals. Capetown Mayor Gerald Ferry planned to attend the Salt River church service.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Blaibergs
Clive Haupt
Haupt
Blaiberg
Gerald Ferry
Haupts
St. Luke’s Angli
Salt River
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
Tion
Denise Darvall
Louis Washkansky
Snow Accumulation Forecast for Miami Valley Tonight
An accumulation of two to four inches of snow is forecast for the Miami Valley by nightfall. Temperatures will dip after a brief respite, with a low of zero to 10 above. The morning low in Middletown reached 25 degrees.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
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Lucille Miller
Vermont
William Coffin JR
Surveyor
Haiphong Harbor
North Dakota
Weather Bureau
Alexander Dubcek
Heart
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