Camp Happiness Training at Fort Benning
At Fort Benning Georgia a mock prison named Camp Happiness trains officer candidates for potential capture in Vietnam. Lt Col Fred Cleary says the 23 week program teaches how brainwashing and torture tactics work to strengthen resistance. Capt J C Reid oversees the drill as prisoners endure pain to grasp demoralization and resilience under enemy methods.
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Viet Nam
Ft. Benning
Fred Cleary
J. C. Reid
Richburg
S.C
Reid
Korea
Cleary
High Court Upholds 1965 Voting Rights Act Provisions
The Supreme Court affirmed key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It upheld Congress authority under the 15th Amendment to suspend state literacy tests and similar qualifications and allow the attorney general to appoint federal examiners to register qualified voters nationwide.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Congress
Attorney General
Farmer’s Witty Take On Marriage From a Bygone Era
An old farmer explains he never married because he’d rather want what he lacks than have what he does not want. The quip reflects a rural, humorous perspective on life choices and contentment.
Marines and South Vietnamese Crush North Vietnamese Regiment
In a three day action along the central coast near Saigon, U S Marines with Vietnamese allies destroyed a 2 000 man North Vietnamese regiment. About 533 enemy bodies were counted with 95 weapons seized as U S and Vietnamese forces captured the command post. The battle ended with heavy Marine losses but a decisive victory in Operation Utah.
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Saigon
U.S
Viet Nam
South
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Utah
Bruce Jones
McLean
Army
Peter Dawkins
West Point
Senate to Begin Voting on $6 Billion War Taxes
The Senate plans to start voting today on President Johnson's $6 billion tax bill to finance the Vietnam war. House passage came February 23 as members seek to restore excise taxes on telephone calls and automobiles, with Senate debate expected to continue this week.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Congress
House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Communists Make Ill-Fated Stand Near Chu Ngai
North Vietnamese forces held a fortified position around Chu Ngai seven miles north of Quang Ngai city. They fought from caves trenches and holes and were described as well disciplined and well armed by an American spokesman. They refused to withdraw from the fertile rice fields choosing to stand and fight.
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Chu Ngai
Quang Ngai
Senate scrutinizes Humphrey pledge on Southeast Asia aid
Secretary Rusk faces questions on if all necessary assistance to Southeast Asia includes fighting. Fulbright warns of risk if aid becomes open war policy. Hearing aims to clarify U S commitment as Thailand hosts 20 000 plus troops and tensions with China rise.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Hubert H. Humphrey
Southeast Asia
Senate
Fulbright
China
Dent
Asia and
the Pacific
Humphrey
United States
Thailand
U.S
Blizzard-Battered Dakotas and Minnesota Readied for Relief
Rescue crews and plows battled to free stranded travelers as 16 people died in the blizzard. Ranchers faced heavy livestock losses across the Dakotas and Minnesota while helicopters and bulldozers sped to aid rural and urban communities in the storm's aftermath. A boy from Sterling found an elderly farmer dead near his windmill, one of many stark reminders of the disaster's toll.
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Fargo
N.D
Dakotas
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Orion Auck
Sterling
Lowell Brown
Get-Tough Rules On Rights for Desegregation Policy
The government unveils guidelines to speed compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They tighten freedom of choice in school desegregation, demand full anti discrimination reporting from hospitals and nursing homes, and require transportation provisions for students in segregated neighborhoods.
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Washington
South
FCC proposes voluntary rate cuts for overseas calls
The Federal Communications Commission urged telephone companies to cut overseas call rates voluntarily. The commission noted traffic has risen even as costs have fallen, citing a letter to the firms.
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FCC Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Weather forecast and past temperatures for Middletown
The Weather Bureau predicts clear and cold tonight with a low near 18. Tuesday will be fair and warmer with a high near 40. Wednesday will be partly cloudy and warmer. Middletown had a high of 31 yesterday and a overnight low of 17 with half an inch of snow. Temperatures will average 3 to 5 degrees below normal all week.
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Weather Bureau
Middletown
Prairie blizzard traps families and rescues unfold across Dakotas
Crews labored around the clock to open roads clogged by drifts up to 25 feet deep. The North Dakota Highway Patrol said 55 people were rescued from stranded vehicles. Near Ipswich South Dakota a CAP pilot signaled for aid and a sheriff used a truck to break through drifts to reach an ill man. Rancher Otto Mettler 48 his wife and seven year old son Lyle endured nearly 60 hours in a stranded car near McLaughlin South Dakota aided by candy and extra clothing kept in the trunk for warmth.
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North Dakota Highway Patrol
Ipswich
S.D
Civil Air Patrol
Otto Mettler
Lyle
McLaughlin, S.D
Mettler
Average Weekend Toll Maintains Firefly River Statewide Calm
The Ohio Turnpike crash that killed five Michigan men shattered the safety record while weekend traffic deaths statewide ran about average at 19. Four of the fatalities occurred in double-fatality collisions near Oxford and Akron Sunday night. An Akron couple died when their sedan hit a tractor-trailer on an icy road. Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, 58, of Toledo, was killed in a Saturday one-car crash. Two Miami University students were among ten people in a two-vehicle head-on collision.
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Associated Press
Ohio Turnpike
Michigan
Oxford
Akron
Toledo
Elizabeth Mills
Miami University
Fireworks Plant Blast Injures Several In Dayton
An explosion at a west side Dayton fireworks plant injured several people with at least one serious. Good Samaritan Hospital said three women employees of United Fireworks Manufacturing Co were admitted and more victims were en route. One patient was severely burned while the others had cuts.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton
Good Samaritan Hospital
United Fireworks Manufacturing Co
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