Viet Cong Attacks Central Viet Nam Posts
Viet Cong struck three government outposts in the central highlands near Da Nang. A grenade hit a US vehicle. six Vietnamese bystanders were wounded. Communists resumed guerrilla warfare with night assaults 50 miles south of Da Nang and at a district fortification, while mortars fired east of the area. No Americans were reported injured in the highland actions. details on some units remained uncertain.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
Viet Nam
Jas Vance
da Ni Om
Tam Ky
Quang Tin
Quang Nea
Aeeermaan
U.S. Tightens Surplus Food Sales Policy
Washington reports a tougher surplus food disposal rule driven by wheat stock dwindling and foreign currency holdings. The policy targets India, Pakistan, United Arab Republic and about seven other currency-excess countries. A $35 million food sale to the United Arab Republic was approved by President Johnson with talks to start in Cairo within two weeks, ending earlier U.S.-Egypt tensions sparked by the 1964 library fire.
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Washington
United States
India
Pakistan
United Arab Republic
Treasury
Suines
State Department
Johnson
Cairo
U.S. Information Agency
Viet Nam Toll Rises For Week In War Reporting
The weekly Vietnam toll shows the second highest total of the war, with 459 listed as killed or missing and wounded in action. The report notes 40 American deaths last week, the largest weekly loss since early in the conflict, amid ongoing Viet Cong attacks and Viet Nam forces sustaining heavy casualties.
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South Viet Nam
Et Nam
Dted
United Egan
Bank Robbery Report by Bandits Underway at Texas Town
Bandits robbed a bank, entered the building, and demanded money. They fled in a brown 1959 vehicle with a Texas license plate. Police set up roadblocks as the investigation continues.
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Texas
The
Bandits
Monroe garden club plants 178 foot bed at school office
Twin Cities CHIT CHAT reports 60 cold hands and 30 worn hearts as the Monroe Junior Garden Club, led by chairman Sally Martin, plants the full 178 foot bed along the Ouachita Parish School Board office west side. Each of 30 members brings 18 plants. Mrs George Snellings Jr. coordinates with Ward 1 member of the parish school board.
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Ouachita Parish
Monroe Junior Garden Club
Sally Martin
Garden
Martin
George M. Snellings Jr
Parish
Astronauts Seek Medical Go Ahead Before Twin Space Shot
Cape Kennedy Florida AP astronauts from Gemini 7 and 6 passed five hours of medical exams to confirm fitness for the Titan 2 launches. Lead crew Lovell and Borman await a 14 day mission. Schirra Stafford prepare for a two day flight. The tests address bone calcium loss weightlessness and cardiovascular adaptation ahead of the historic rendezvous and lunar ambitions.
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Gemini
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Air Force
Frank Rarmsan
Nave
James A. Lovell Jr
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Borman Lovell
Borman
Lovell
Earth
de Bones Gris
Shoplifting Rises Sharply Across Nation
FBI figures show shoplifting leaps 93 percent in five years with last year tallying 184473 cases and goods worth about 85 million. Women are most involved and thieves exploit crowded urban stores and late hours to conceal items on their person.
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Washington
FBI
Eee
Soviet Peace View Emerges Amid Viet Nam Talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said halting US bombing of North Vietnam is the first step toward a Viet Nam settlement. He met British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart in Moscow for about 35 minutes in a 2 hour 45 minute session, with no details on post halt steps.
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Moscow
Andrei A. Gromyko
Viet Nam
Gromyko
Michael Stewart
Komsko
Soviet Union
Hearing Set In Federal Voter Suit
A federal court hearing is scheduled for December 21 in the Baton Rouge. The U S Department of Justice civil rights division seeks to end injunctions barring federally approved individuals from being added to voting rolls in Ouachita East Carroll and Plaquemines parishes. Defendants include state and parish election officials.
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Baton Pouge
U.S
Louisiana
Albin P. Lassiter
Ouachita Parish
East Carroll
Plaquemine Parishes
Civil Rights Division
Department of Justice
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Jack P. F. Gremillion
Lassiter
Mae Lucky
L. H. Perez Jr
21St Judicial District
Rey Lyons
Plaquemines Parish
Cecil Manning
East Carroll Parish
Montreal Police Arrest Tank Gun Burglary Suspect
FBI reports arrest by Montreal police of a man charged in the Brinks Syracuse vault heist. Singer, 22, listed on the FBI’s top fugitives list since Nov. 19, allegedly used a 20 mm cannon with his uncle Jack Frank to blast open the vault over Oct 25 24 weekend. Frank arrested Nov 1. Cannon recovered off Jones Beach. Singer to be arraigned. extradition sought. Bellwether case involves Federal Firearms Act and conspiracy to move stolen property. Suspect a Montreal native. Burglars pumped about two dozen vault blasts. vault held about 181000 in coins, currency, rest in checks.
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Washington
FBI
Montreal
Syracuse
Brink’ . Ie
el Singer
Singer
Jack Frank
Brinks
Frank
Jones Beach
Long Island
United States
Crand
Sinver
Goodfellows Aid Requests Continue in Twin Cities
Christmas drive kicks off with parents and children seeking aid in Monroe area. Jack Hesketh leads volunteers from Monroe Recreation Department to survey needs before delivery of food clothing and toys. Donations and donor names printed in News Star and Morning World.
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Goodfellows
Twin Cities
Yuletide
Don Con
News Star
Morning World
Jack Hesketh
Monroe Recreation Department
Goodfellows Drive
West Monroe
South
News Star World Publishing Co
N. 4Th St
Monroe
Friends Of Goodfellows Memorials Noted In Obituary Listings
In memory donations and tributes appear for Wilson Fuing by Mrs Wilson Kewing STO Ewing and George Lotion by BB Martin totaling $90 in memory of Herman Masur Fotal to date.
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Wilson Fuing
Wilson Kewing
Wilson Ewing
George
BB. Martin
Herman Masur
Fotal
Plans Sent To Rhodesia Border Area
London reports Britain will defend power flow from the Kariba plant on the Zambian Rhodesian border. Prime Minister Harold Wilson said Britain will take action to protect electricity and deny rebels disruption. A battalion of British ground troops was requested by the Zambian government and would be based in Ndola and Lusaka.
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London
Britain
Kariba
Rhodesia
Zambia
Harold Wilson
Todas White
Wilson
House of Commons
Kenneth Katinda
Arthur Bottomley
Zabia
Lusaka
Kound
Ndola
Zamb
Central Africa
Pla
Kia
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Eppect
el Piaha
Santa Claus
James Graham
Santa
Pitts! Ming Department Store
Alabama
Friends of Goodfellows
NLSC
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