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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1968
Page
2
In a New Year address Chiang Kai-shek denounces Mao Tse-tung as a villain and traitor. He calls Mao a devil tyrant and self centered bandit chief and urges mass action to suppress Mao and liberate 700 million compatriots from Communist hell.
Eight cars piled up in a chain reaction at an icy intersection in Jackson Missouri. Everyone escaped serious injury and in the aftermath drivers fell on slick ice and sustained minor injuries.
The Defense Department cites physical disability as the reason for James C. Garrison’s 1951 Army discharge. Pentagon probes whether confidential service records were released without authorization amid Garrison’s ongoing claims that Kennedy’s assassination involved a conspiracy, not a lone act. Ward, his assistant, says Garrison remains a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy arrives in Saigon for a 12 day tour to study civilian war casualties refugee programs and pacification efforts. He leads a Senate subcommittee that has criticized aid progress and will focus on refugees while noting cooperation from Ambassador Bunker and Vietnamese officials.
A 6 foot 10 figure in diapers rode a white horse to ring in 1968 at Winterland. Jefferson Airplane performance halted at midnight as several thousand balloons rose and doves lifted from the dance floor amid cheers.
The text notes Kennedy’s second trip to South Vietnam, with a prior shorter visit in 1965, and outlines plans for departure on January 12. Subcommittee consultants, including Thompson Powers, John Sommer, John Nolen, and Everett Prettyman, are named as Washington lawyers and officials assisting.
The 155-foot experimental trawler Delaware II was launched at Maine Shipyards in South Portland, the first vessel built there since World War II. Built for the U S Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, it will be commissioned next year and based in Gloucester, Massachusetts for exploratory fishing and gear research. The launch included a champagne ceremony by Mrs Bernal B Allen, wife of the city manager.
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