Napalm fails to relight Torrey Canyon oil slick
RAF jets dropped napalm on the Torrey Canyon wreck but flames faded within minutes. Navy bombers scored hits yet the fire died as the tide rose. Roy Jenkins said 12 million gallons remained and the decision to blow up the ship was made as salvage proved impossible.
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England
Seven Stones Reef
Cornish
Scilly Isles
Ken
Home
Roy Jenkins
Torrey Canyon
Atlantic
Radio and TV Newsmen Strike Shuts Major Networks
AFTRA members walk out in a first national strike targeting 18 000 newsmen at networks in New York Chicago and Los Angeles. Supervisors seize control of news programs as networks keep most filmed and taped shows on air. The dispute seeks a 325 dollar base salary and half of all commercial fees on sponsored programs.
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New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Hugh Downs
NBC
West 49Th Street
RCA
General Hospital
Dean Martin
Danny Kaye
Red Skelton
Smothers Brothers
AFTRA
Walter Cronkite
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
Peter Jennings
Oil Disaster Hits Birds After Torrey Canyon Wreck
The torrey canyon spill off Land's End coats thousands of seabirds with oil. A spokesman for the RSPCA estimates over 15 000 birds died so far and as many as 30 000 more may perish trapped in the slick. The oil clogs feathers and prevents flight, leading to death by choking or starvation.
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London
Torrey Canyon
Seven Stones
Land’s End
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Civilians Challenge Military in South Vietnam Election
In Saigon Phan Khac Suu announces presidential bid with Phan Quang Dan as running mate to form a civilian ticket against the military junta led by Nguyen Cao Ky and Nguyen Van Thieu. Analysts note Suu’s past as chief of state and potential to steer a democratic path amidst factional tensions. Ky and Thieu both pursue the presidency with the military bloc backing one of its own.
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Armed Forces Council
Thieu
Suu
South Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Dan
Constituent Assembly
France
Bao Dai
Hoa Hao
Cao Dai
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mekong Delta
Vinh
North Vietnam
Central Vietnam
States Battle Washington Over Labor Standards Law
Twenty six states argued in court that a federal labor standards law could upend the federal state balance and pave the way for federal control of police powers, challenging a federal rule in Baltimore.
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Washington
Baltimore, Md
States told solve city problems or yield federal power
A presidential advisory panel told President Johnson that states must address metropolitan woes or cede more sovereignty to the federal government. The 26-member Advisory Commission warned that losing control of urban areas would strip states of major domestic governance in the United States.
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Washington
Advisory Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
Johnson
United States
Supreme Court
Weather outlook and temperatures for Middletown
Forecast calls for a fair and mild night with a low in the lower 40s. Thursday will be sunny and warmer with a high in the upper 60s. A warm trend continues into the long range with highs in the 70s through Monday. Showers are likely Friday Sunday and Monday. Yesterday’s high reached 64 and the overnight low was 39. Today at 11 am the temperature was 48. Middletown recorded .34 inch of rain after 8 am yesterday.
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Middletown
Florida Republicans win strong two party legislature
Florida voters backed a robust Republican presence in both legislative chambers as the GOP gains a significant minority share in the new one man one vote legislature. The arrival of the first Republican governor in 94 years gives the party veto influence and marks a historic shift in the South.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
GOP
Legislative Branch
Norton chosen president elect of ASPA for 1968
James A. Norton president elect for 1968 of the American Society for Public Administrators. He is president of the Greater Cleveland Association Foundation in Ohio.
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San Francisco
James A. Norton
Greater Cleveland
Pope endorses population education with moral guardrails
AP reports that Pope Paul VI’s encyclical warns against private property excess and capitalism while backing governmental birth control education to curb population growth. The document preserves the ban on chemical or mechanical contraception and frames social justice as a priority, drawing mixed reactions from officials, Planned Parenthood, Italian business groups, and economists.
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New York
Paul VI
Italy
Vatican
Labor Department Presses 200 Apprenticeship Programs
The Labor Department threatens a crackdown on about 200 union apprenticeship programs including the AFL-CIO Plumbers Union training program. Assistant Secretary Stanely H. Ruttenberg calls for possible decertification of apprentices on federal projects if no proof of non discrimination is filed. Plumbers Union President Peter T. Schoeman denounces the move as labor control.
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Washington
Labor Department
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
Hugh C. Murphy
Bureau of Apprenticeship Training
Ruttenberg
Plumbers Union
Peter T. Schumann
Schoemann
Plumbers
Take-home pay called old nine teenth century custom
The piece argues that take-home pay resembles a nine teenth century custom now obsolete due to tax law changes, noting its decline as a practice.
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Valley News
Womens News
Pope
Alan F. Guttmacher
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
James McHugh
Family Life Bureau
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Ecumenical Council
Guttmacher
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Milton Friedman
University of Chicago
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