Johnson seeks productive talks as bombing halt studied
President Johnson weighs halting U S air raids on North Vietnam to test if Hanoi intends real negotiations. Secret channels probe whether Hanoi’s offer signals genuine peace feeler or propaganda. Johnson’s San Antonio formula demands prompt talks, productive discussions, and assurances troops won’t be reinforced during talks.
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South Vietnam
Crowded Cape Town Funeral Honors Heart Donor
Cape Town held the largest funeral in its history for Clive Haupt 27 whose heart now beats in Dr. Philip Blaiberg 68 after a five day transplant. Dr. Christiaan Barnard and Dr. Marthinus Botha attended as 5000 mourners gathered outside St Luke's Anglican Church and 2000 more at Wolte Made Cemetery.
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South Africa
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Izvestia Attacks Nixon and GOP in Campaign Analysis
The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia published a lengthy analysis denouncing the Republican party as not representing the American people and labeling Nixon a political chameleon. It portrayed Republicans as the party of big business while casting Democrats as appealing to the middle class, intellectuals, unions, and African Americans.
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Richard M. Nixon
Big Business
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Nixon
Nuns wounded by sniper in Columbus apartment raid
In Columbus Ohio a 20 year old former mental patient Janet Marie LaZarrus fired from a third floor window wounding two nuns. Sister Mary Leonard 33 sustained neck wounds while Sister Ricardo 24 was treated for a shoulder wound. Police described the incident as a barrage of rifle fire from the North Side apartment.
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Columbus State Hospital
Mary Leonard
Ricardo
St. Francis of Assisi Convent
Mary
New Haven
Conn
Mount Carmel Hospital
Dennis George
Columbus
Raymond Golden
Charles Beeler
Patrick Moran
Golden
Beeler
Moran
Weather Outlook Warns of Snow Flurries and Cold
The forecast calls for snow tapering to flurries with one to three inches possible. Expect cold conditions with overnight lows from zero to ten above.
Polar air blasts across midcontinent with record lows
A third polar outbreak grips the region with temperatures near 50 below zero in parts of northwestern Minnesota and subzero readings across the Great Plains and Midwest. Snow sleet and freezing rain disrupt travel from Idaho to New England as Chicago faces a snow storm. The Weather Bureau cites the jet stream pattern and compares to 1962 63 for severity.
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Midwest
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New England
Job Crisis Ahead in Central Cities by 1975
Washington AP The EDA forecasts a sharp rural to urban migration ending in 1975 with a potential shortage of 2.9 million urban jobs in the 25 largest metropolitan areas excluding California. About 7.1 million people may need to move or take new jobs at home as rural poverty drives migration.
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Economic Development Administration
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Commerce Department
California
Reds Attack Tan Uyen in Viet Nam Siege
Reds attacked Tan Uyen six miles from Bien Hoa air base, killing 14 South Vietnamese and wounding 46. Two village leaders were executed, and 19 Communists died as fighters burned homes and the new market. Eight militia defenders and six civilians, including a soldier’s wife and her two children, perished. US advisers and South Vietnamese militiamen were unharmed in the mortar and rocket barrage.
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U.S
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Augusta
Associated Press
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Tan Yen
Siamese Twins Separated in Johannesburg Operation
Siamese twins joined at the head were separated at Johannesburg's Children's Hospital. The twin daughters of Ronald and Mrs. O'Hare of Benoni, Shirley and Catherine, were born October 7 and were joined at the side of the forehead. If both survive, it would be the first successful separation of such twins.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Children’s Hospital
Ronald O’hare
Benoni
Shirley
Catherine
Inside the US Congress Power Shift to Committee Chairs
A glimpse into congressional power highlighting chairmen as the real influencers, often older and cantankerous, with many from the South. The feature notes their dominance over agendas and fittings of committee control.
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