Barricades Fall as Santo Domingo Reunites
The Inter-American Peace Force plans to stay in the Dominican Republic at least seven more months as barricades and checkpoints are removed. Reintegration follows the evacuation of about 1,200 armed rebels to a camp east of the capital, with 9,000 U.S. and 1,000 Latin American troops being redeployed. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker calls the move constructive toward normalization.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
National Police
Bels
U.S
Peace Force
U. S
Ellsworth
Education Accord Sets Broad Higher Education Plan
A congressional committee crafted a broad higher education package creating a national teacher corps and aid for low and middle income students. The compromise costs 841 million annually, far above President Johnson’s 250 million request, and faces House Republican opposition to the teacher corps on the floor. Johnson reportedly urged inclusion while hospital bound.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Bethesda Naval Hospital
National Teacher Corps
Viet Cong Death Toll Reported In Two Viet Nam Battles
South Vietnamese army says 218 Viet Cong guerrillas were killed in two battles over two days, with 168 in a major Mekong Delta fight near Can Tho. U.S. spokesmen did not confirm. The report notes prisoner releases and other clashes with varying casualties.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Mekong Delta
Can Tho
Binh Duong
Negroes Plan Next Move In Civil Rights Struggle
In Crawfordville Georgia Negro leaders and state officials map further civil rights actions. MLK Jr. was to meet today but was reported in New York. A Klans rally is planned for the Taliferro County courthouse while federal judges halt school segregation and place the county in receivership with transfer arrangements due by October 25 for 87 pupils.
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Crawfordville
East Georgia
Martin Luther King Jr
New York
Taliaferro County
King
Ku Klux Klan
Taliferro County
Bolden
Augusta
Claude ‘Purcell
Cuba
Filorentino Rodriguez
United States
Castro
U.S
Havana
Dante B. Fascell
D-Fla
Flood Devastates Pompano Beach As Rain Totals Break Records
Pompano Beach in distress after more than 20 inches of rain in 13 hours. Streets flooded, seawalls washed away, and cars stalled in three feet of water. A state of emergency was declared as residents sought help and authorities warned against flood water contact.
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Pompano Beach
Fla
Maxine Degraw
Fort Lauderdale
Wahoo Canal
Weather Bureau
Refugees From Cuba Keep Coming by Small Boats
Surging seas and heavy rain did not stop Cuban refugees from reaching Florida. At least three boats carried 71 people to Key West where a Coast Guard cutter rescued men from a leaking vessel. Reporters noted Ca mariosca as a festive exit port and described plans for a larger exodus now under U S government negotiation.
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Key West
Fla
Cuba
Gulfstream
Florida
Coast Guard
Camarioca
Florida Straits
Fidel Castro
U.S
Cincinnati Man Dies After Pedestrian Crash
George Lechel aged 75 from Cincinnati died from injuries after being struck by a car while crossing an intersection on Thursday night.
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Cincinnati
George Lechel
Giant cargo plane crash lands on I 75 near Piqua Ohio
A large four engine AW650 Argosy cargo plane owned by Zantop Air Transport made a forced landing on Interstate 75 south of Piqua. Pilot Robert Cupal and two crewmen survived with minor injuries as debris and fire swept the highway. The aircraft carried hydrazine rocket fuel chemical not explosive in this form. Wright Patterson Air Force Base crews worked through the night to dismantle and clear wreckage.
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Piqua, Ohio
Robert Cupal
Dayton
Here
Cupal
Peter Onien
Robert Butler
Saline, Mich
Zantop Air Transport Co
Inkster, Mich
Air Force
Peace Marchers Plan Ignore Jail Threats
Berkeley officials warned of mass arrests as the Vietnam Day Committee pressed ahead with a 74 mile march from Sproul Hall to the Oakland Army Terminal in a world-wide protest over U S involvement in Vietnam. Police and National Guard were mobilized to manage demonstrations while parade permits were denied for health and safety reasons. A 400 member Berkeley faculty group criticized the city actions, saying they sullied the protest.
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Berkeley
Calif
Berkeleys
University of California
Oakland Army Terminal
Oakland
U.S
Sproul Hall
University
National Guard
Murphy
George Murphy
R-Calif
Martin Malia
Driving Behind a Woman Who Does Everything Right
A humorous reflection on social norms and driving etiquette, noting how a man may feel baffled when following a woman who adheres to every rule and drives perfectly. The piece uses light irony to challenge stereotypes about gender and driving behavior.
Man deposits infant at Cleveland bank in dispute over wife’s balance
Police seek a man who brought a 14 month old boy into Central National Bank in Cleveland. After arguing with assistant manager Mario Contini about the wife’s balance, the man placed the child on a chair and told staff to take the money, then fled the scene.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Central National Bank
Cleveland
Mario Contini
Weather Forecast and Local Rain Totals
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts partly cloudy mild conditions tonight with lows in the low 50s and highs tomorrow in the high 70s. Last night’s low was 58 at 8 am and Middletown reports .11 inch of rain by 8 this morning.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Middletown
House withholds rent subsidy funds in broad appropriation bill
The House voted 185 to 162 to strike 180000 for a low income rent subsidy from a 4.2 billion catch-all appropriation bill while 170000 for program administration remained. Administration sources expect Senate restoration and House approval of initial funding later.
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Washington
House
James Harvey
R-Mich
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
George H. Mahon
Dtex
Frank T. Bow
Ohio
Nobel Prize Won By Top Communist
Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov won the 1965 Nobel Prize for literature in Stockholm. The Swedish Academy praised his epic Don works as a historic Russian record, noting his Communist faith yet apolitical handling of ideology in Quiet Flows the Don.
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Mikhail Sholokhov
Sholokhov
Supreme Soviet of Parliament
Swedish Academy
Academy
Nobel Committee
Anders Osterling
Fin
Tolstoy
Veshenskaya-on-the-Don
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