Mihajlov Supporters Push Ahead With Magazine Plan
In Belgrade supporters of jailed writer Mihajlo Mihajlov defied police warnings to elect officers for a meeting to found an opposition magazine at Zadar. Mihajlov, jailed for an article critical of the Soviet Union, released a speech condemning Tito’s government and urging a multiparty system.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Mihajlo Mihajlov
Mihajlovv
Mihajlov
Soviet Union
Zadar
Adriatic
Marijan Batinic
Daniel Ivin
Ivin
Mihailov
Tito
Johnson says no worse in Vietnam despite losses
President Johnson told reporters there is no change for the worse in U S military position in Vietnam despite recent aircraft and helicopter losses. He denied such Defense Department reports and said McNamara found no basis for them. He offered to sit down anywhere to seek a settlement and noted ongoing price wage guidelines. He hinted at a hemispheric summit and possible travel to Australia and New Zealand.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
Defense Department
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Vet Nam
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Mexican Woman Progressing With Artificial Heart
A 37 year old Mexican woman named Esperanzoa del Ville Vasquez progressed satisfactorily after a four hour operation for an artificial heart device by Dr. Michael DeBakey. She is the third patient to receive the device, which allows the heart to rest while a left ventricular bypass pumps blood. The hospital kept details limited, and officials cited a single cardiovascular team.
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Houston
API
Michael DeBakey
Esperanzoa del Ville Vasquez
DeBakey
Mexico
Ted Bowen
Marcel E. de Rudder
Westville
Ill
Bowen
del Ville Vasquez
Patterson Sr. Leader in Methodist Lay Work Dies
John R. Patterson Sr. 78 a Monroe born leader in Methodist church activity died in New Orleans at the Patterson Hotel he founded after moving from Monroe in 1929. He started the Patterson Hotel and previously owned a Monroe grocery. Survivors include three daughters and one son.
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New Orleans
John R. Patterson Sr
Patterson Hotel
Louisiana
Monroe
Arkansas Voters In Light Turnout In Governor Runoff
Arkansas chose a Democratic nominee for governor with moderate turnout as Jim Johnson and Frank Holt competed in a runoff. Johnson touted state rights and civil rights resistance while Holt warned of jeopardizing federal aid programs.
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Arkansas
Little Rock, Ark
AM Nlintanim
Lie Clvice
Jim Jhonson
Frank Holt
Washington
Johnson
Holt
Jim Johnson
Orval Faubus
Faubus
Ouachita Desegregation Plan Sent By Judge Dawkins
Ouachita Parish and Monroe City schools receive a court approved desegregation plan from Judge Dawkins and Judge Ben C Niaearline Lary Mira detailing grade by grade integration starting August 29 with eight grades in the first phase and remaining grades to join in fall 1967. Parents have a short window to request school changes with August 20 as the final date for applications and August 26 for system action notifications. The plan mirrors the City of Monroe system and will be presented to the Ouachita School Board next Tuesday with letters to 10 000 families already in preparation.
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Ouachita Parish
Ben C. Niaearline
Lary Mira
City of
Monroe
Dawkins
Ouachita School Board
Milton C. Hall
Hall
Dist
Atty
Albin P. Lassiter
China Provides Two Sanctuaries
The Central News Agency reported from Hong Kong that Chinese Communists offer two airfields in southwest China as sanctuaries for North Vietnamese warplanes. The airfields are said to be at Nanning and Lunching near the Vietnamese border.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Central
Hong Kong
Nanning
Lunching
Nine-year-old boy survives then dies after fall and rescue
John Gustow, nine, climbed a tree to rescue his cat when he fell fourteen feet. Firemen and paramedics revived him briefly with artificial respiration and oxygen before his heart stopped again and he died seven hours later from multiple injuries.
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Chicago
UPI
John Gustov
John
Rocco Dicrescenzo
Charles Hayes
von Solbrig Hospital
John Gustow
John Gustaw
Three Viet Cong fends down three aircraft in air war
North Viet Nam antiaircraft fire downed three US Air Force Thunderchief fighters as US jets mounted a record 139 combat missions. One pilot was rescued and two remain missing amid ongoing battles near the DMZ and in central highlands, with nine helicopters lost or damaged.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Air Force Thunderchief
Hanoi
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Central Highlands
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Pleiku
Monroe Civic Center director begins northeast equipment tour
William B. Lillyman, director of Monroe Civic Center, leaves Wednesday for a three week swing through New York City Boston and Portland Maine to study equipment makers and promoters for the center. He plans to meet with attractions and discuss the basketball floor and telescopic risers to be installed and estimates 90 percent of his time on research and recommendations to the Monroe Council on major expenses.
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Monroe Civic Center
William B. Lillyman
Northeast
Lillyman
New York City
Civic Center
Boston
Portland
Monroe Council
Weather to stay hot with isolated thunderstorms
The Twin Cities can expect continuing hot weather through Wednesday with a chance of scattered mainly afternoon and early evening thunderstorms. Daytime highs and Wednesday highs should reach the low 90s, with overnight lows around 68.
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Twin Cities
The
Weather Bureau
Open Housing Battle Looms In Rights Bill
Washington AP reports the House is expected to pass a broad civil rights bill today after section by section review. A key open housing provision faces a potential roll call vote on an amendment shielding individual homeowners from the ban on racial discrimination.
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Washington
House
William C. Cramer
Rfla
Cramer
James C. Corman
Dcalif
Negotiators Set Air Meet Today
Washington AP negotiators for striking aircraft mechanics and five trunk airlines agreed to try again to solve a month old walkout that has grounded about 60 percent of U S airline capacity. The House Commerce Committee pressed for a back to work bill as senators weigh. Substantive progress was not expected, with both sides offering starkly different views on congressional action.
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Washington
Persyy
House Commerce Committee
Senate
Rep
Samuel N. Friedel
Dmd
International Association of Machanists
P. Siemiller
William J. Curtin
Friedel
Labor Department
Siemiller
Curtin
Congress
Consid
Braves fire Bragan name Hitchcock new manager
Bobby Bragan was fired today as manager of the Atlanta Braves and replaced by coach Billy Hitchcock. Hitchcock previously managed the Baltimore Orioles in 1962 and 1963 and served as a Braves scout in 1965 before being hired as a coach last winter. Bragan had faced speculation after the Braves slipped to the second division of the National League.
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Atlanta, Ga
Bobby Bragan
Atlanta Braves
Billy Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Balltimore Orioles
Braves
Bragan
Chuckle from a Witty Verse on Rag and Brag Roles
A humorous verse contrasts a woman with a rag bone and hair to a man described as brag groan and air. The quip plays on gender stereotypes with brisk rhymes and social quick wit.
Bears Return From Mississippi Visit To Wildlife Refuge
A mother bear and her three cubs swam the Mississippi and visited Vicksburg before being corralled by police. Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries workers later hauled the cubs in a car trunk and released them with their mother near the Tensas Madison Parish Wildlife Refuge.
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Vicksburg, Miss
Tensas - Madison Parish Wildlife
Mississippi
Vicksburg
National Park
Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries
Tallulah
Students Receive Special Training
Twenty blind high school graduates from New York and nearby areas begin a six week on campus preview at Syracuse University to ease the transition to college life. They live in dorms with sighted roommates and take credit courses using braille, tape recorders and talking books. Veronica Gilligan oversees the program, which aims to prepare students for college and future careers.
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Veronica Gilligan
State University Hospital
Phi
Syracuse University
Bull Run Casualties Reported From Civil War Battles
Britannica records about 23 378 Union and Confederate soldiers killed among 161 500 engaged in the first and second Bull Run battles in Virginia during the Civil War.
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Bull Run
Virginia
Encyclopedia Britannica
Window Fan Sold Through Want Ad
A large window fan was sold via a want ad. Contact number 323-0498 for details or future listings.
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J. William Fulbright
Winthrop Rockefeller
Oren Harris
David Pryor
Camden
Richard Arnold
Texarkana
Ouachita
Thunderchiefs
North
South
Bau Long
Voy
Quang Loi
Tensas’ Bears
Syracuse
N.Y
Linda Lassoff
Buffalo
Linda
James Kirst
Eden
Peter Devasto
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