U S Warships Bombard DMZ Enemies Inside Buffer Zone
U S cruiser Boston and B 52 bombers pounded North Vietnamese gun positions and base camps inside and near the DMZ. Command reports 8 437 enemy indications since bombing halt, with 4 325 attacks inside the zone since November 1.
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Saigon
U.S
Boston
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Command
North Vietnam
Dmz
Rockpile
3Rd Marine Division
1St Infantry Division
3Rd Division
Okinawa
United States
Nixon
Hanoi
7Th Fleet
Four Women Slain in Ciney Savings Bank Holdup
Cincinnati AP report says four women were shot dead during a holdup at the Supreme Savings and Loan office in Delhi area. Three men in their early 20s fled in a green 1954 Chevrolet. one victim identified is Mrs Walter DeWald, wife of a local policeman. Police described the suspects and noted no money recovered at press time.
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Supreme Savings & Loan Co
Delhi
Walter DeWald
Cincinnati
the Savings and Loan Office
DeWald
Scott Elected Senate Republican Leader in Closed Vote
Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania defeated Sen. Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee 24 to 19 in a closed door conference to become Senate Republican leader. The 68 year old former whip succeeds the late Everett Dirksen, triggering a race for the whip and possible assistant leader posts.
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Washington
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Senate
Scott
Howard H. Baker Jr
Tennessee
Everett M. Dirksen
GOP
Senate Republicans
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
Dirksen
Baker
House Group Votes To Double Spending For Birth Control
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to double U S expenditures for birth control to 100 million dollars for the current fiscal year, to support family planning in developing nations. The panel previously authorized 35 million in 1968 and set the framework for expanding aid.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S
Taft proposes population aid amendment for foreign bill
Rep. Robert Taft Jr. offered an amendment to earmark 100 million of the 2.6 billion foreign aid authorization. The measure, approved 17 to 5, does not add funds. Witness William H. Draper Jr. urged specific funding amid ongoing battles over cuts to the presidency request and final 1.75 billion appropriation.
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Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Nixon
Congress
William H. Draper Jr
Draper
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cadet Recovers From Javelin Wound At Air Force Academy
William J. Emmer, 19, of Newark California, cadenet at the Air Force Academy, is back in class two weeks after a javelin pierced his heart on an intramural field. Surgeons credit quick action with saving his life as he prepares to return to soccer once his broken breastbone heals in about a month.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
U.S. Air Force Academy
William J. Emmer
Newark
Calif
Emmer
Richard G. Thompson
Colorado
Joe Potter
Academy
Thompson
Strolling Nudes Protest Ruins Sunday Dinners in Florida
In Dade City Florida Charles and Virgie Fox complain strolling nudists at Kenneth Ellis Garden of Eden camp ruin their Sunday dinners. County attorney says commission cannot act. Ellis hosts a 10-foot camp with his family and a church group, insisting nudity is not required and emphasizing morals and church services.
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Dade City
Fla
Charles
Virgie Mae Fox
Garden of Eden
Virgie
Pasco County
Tusday
Robert Sumner
Kenneth Ellis
Foxes
Hudson
Florida Gulf Coast County
Ellis
Fox
Florida
Richmond
Jay
Ernest Knowlton
Knowlton
Christian Naturalist Society
The
Universal Christian Church
Hanoi Names Thang as North Vietnamese President
Tan Due Thang, 81, was named president of North Vietnam succeeding Ho Chi Minh, per Tass. The vice president is designated as successor in the state’s constitution, while there was no announced successor to Ho Chi Minh as chairman of the Lao Dong Workers' party, the real power in North Vietnam.
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Moscow
Tan Due Thang
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Tass
Hanoi
Thang
Lao Dong ‘Workers’ Party
Union leaders vow boycott over racial hiring quotas plan
AFL-CIO building trades leaders threaten a boycott of federal construction projects to oppose a Labor Department plan aimed at enforcing racial hiring quotas in Philadelphia and nationwide. They call the plan illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and accuse it of union busting.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Afl-Cio
Labor Department
Philadelphia
George P. Shultz
Washington
Shultz
Afl-Cio Construction and Building Trades Department
Journeymen
George Meany
Building and Construction Trades Department
Middletown Area Weather Forecast and Rain Totals
The Middletown area sees partly cloudy and cool conditions tonight with lows in the 40s. Thursday highs are expected in the upper 60s to lower 70s. A total of 0.76 inch of rain fell this morning after around 2 am. Yesterday’s high reached 78 and this morning’s low was 55.
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Middletown
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James B. Pearson
Kansas
Jack Miller
Iowa
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Roman L. Hruska
Nebraska
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Oral Roberts
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Heloise
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