Ho Chi Minh Reiterates Vietnam Peace Terms to Pope
Ho Chi Minh told Pope Paul VI that real peace in Vietnam requires U S withdrawal and recognition of the Viet Cong, with Vietnam's independence and sovereignty to be respected. He urged the Pope to press the United States to honor national rights under the 1954 Geneva accords.
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Tokyo
Ho Chi Minh
North Vietnam
Paul VI
Vietnam
Vietnam News Agency
VNA
Hanoi
U.S
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnam
South Vietnam National Front For Liberation
Viet Cong
Valentine Favors Sent by Students
The Grundy County youth department of the American Red Cross sent 150 favors and 200 nutcups with nuts and candy to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Danville. Students from Goodfarm Verona Nettle Creek Kinsman and Gardner Elementary Schools made the gifts and will add more for Easter. 127 Friendship Boxes packed by Mi nooka Coal City Verona Kinsman Goodfarm schools accompany educational and health articles games and toys for children in need abroad.
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Grundy County
The
American Red Cross
Veteran’s Administration Hospital
Danville
Goodfarm
Verona
Nettle Creek
Kinsman
Gardner
Martha Slyter
Mary Jane van Dell
ARC Hospital
ABC
Minooka Community Consolidated School
Coal City Community Unit
Verona Consolidated
Kinsman Consolidated
Goodfarm Consolidated
Red Cross
Illinois license plate deadline set for Wednesday midnight
Springfield AP The 1967 Illinois motor vehicle license plates must be displayed by midnight Wednesday with no extension. Secretary of State Paul Powell said enforcement will begin at 12:01 a.m. Thursday and police have been notified.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Paul Powell
Powell
Weather warms up with sunny skies and rising highs
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts a warming trend with highs in the low and mid 30s today. Fair and warmer tonight with a high near 40s Tuesday, while Collins Station notes subzero to near 40 readings over the weekend and .03 inches of precipitation on Sunday. Temperature reached 14 at 9 am and 31 in downtown Morris at 11:15 am.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Supreme Court orders set aside murder conviction of Lloyd Miller Jr
The Supreme Court unanimously vacated the 10 year sentence of Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr the former taxi driver awaiting execution for the murder and alleged sexual assault of 8 year old Janice May in Canton Illinois The court ruled prosecutors used false evidence noting a pair of stained underwear as crucial and improper and highlighting the delayed scientific review of the garments.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Illinois
Potter Stewart
Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr
Miller
Janice May
Canton
Stewart
Eighth Victim Dies From Joliet Hotel Fire
Eight people died when flames ripped through the Grand Hotel in Joliet leaving a 75 year old brick building a shell. Lawrence Wagner 28 died Sunday in Silver Cross Hospital from burns. Gerald Frank 25 remained in critical condition. a teenage girl improved to serious. Betty Thomas Kelly was the sole woman among the dead. Officials had not yet determined the fire's cause.
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Lee Harris
Lawrence Wagner
Silver Cross
Betty Thomas Kelly
Resume of U S Air Strikes Against North Vietnam
Pentagon announced the resumption of bombing against military targets in North Vietnam after a lunar new year pause. The two sentence notice gave no details on locations or targets and followed efforts tied to Kosygin and Wilson diplomacy. U Thant suggested peace talks could follow if the pause continued. Ho Chi Minh pressed for full terms before peace.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
North Vietnam
Alexei N
Kosygin
London
George Christian
U.N
U Thant
United States
Trucker Tragedy in Dense Fog on I-80 Near Grundy
A 2:45 am chain reaction crash on Interstate 80 three miles east of Marseilles left two truck drivers dead and at least five injured. The pileup involved ten tractor trailers and a car driven by a Chicago group, with dense fog and a warm front cited as the cause.
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Grundy County
Melvin Slabach
Orville
Ohio
Page Newton
Tiskilwa
Putman County
Morris Hospital
Burdette Royalty
S. Tenth St
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Dallas Dunbar
Kiota
Forrest Sterling
11Th St
Adel
Donald Morris
Ryburn Memorial Hospital
Ottawa
Delbert Moore
Perry
Interstate 80
Marseilles
LaSalle County
Sargent
LaSalle-Peru State Police
Emmett Ellis
Chicago
Rock Island
U”’ Hall
Newton
Slabach
Page
James Thompson
Sears Campbell
Grundy
Morris
Moore
Halma Wrecker Service
Peru
Murphy's Wrecking Service
LaSalle
Interstate &0
Walker's Corner
Richard Pierce
Consolidated Freightways
Orrville
Ade
Kosygin Wilson Fail In Viet Talks In London
Kosygin and Wilson failed to agree on a joint peacemaking plan for Vietnam. They reaffirmed adherence to the Geneva accords and promised continued study and contact to end the war. Western pressure for a cease fire and cuts to North Vietnamese support were cited as factors in the deadlock. Wilson bid Kosygin farewell as he returned to Moscow, noting the Soviet leader had become part of British life.
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London
Alexei N. Kosygin
Harold Wilson
Vietnam
Kosygin
Britain
Indochina
Wilson
Johnson
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Moscow
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