Johnson pledges high level summit for Latin America
President Johnson, in Mexico City, invites a hemispheric summit at the very highest level to address shared problems and boost momentum for the Alliance for Progress. He vows to work with other leaders in the coming months to organize the conference.
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Mexico City
UPI
Johnson
Latin America
Alliance For Progress
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Mexico
Darien Gap
Combat Death Rate Tops 100 Weekly In Vietnam
British American report shows in first three and a half months of 1966 combat deaths averaged about 100 per week. Last week marked the first time since the war began that more U S GIs died in combat than South Vietnamese. U S aircraft downed 205 in the north and 101 in the south this year, with 14 planes lost to SAM missiles. Marines stormed Cape Batanga peninsula fortifications and claimed 242 Viet Cong killed in three operations.
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Bryce Miller
Saigon
UPI
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Cape Death
Cape Batanga
Air Force
Navy
Marine
Viet Nam
Quant Ngai
Mata Hari
Seeeperst
Buddhist Church Endorses Ky Caretaker Regime in Vietnam Crisis
The Unified Buddhist Church accepts the military junta’s pledge of a civilian government within three to five months and endorses Nguyen Cao Ky as interim leader. The group plans to send a delegation to rebel northern provinces to curb extremist Buddhist resistance, amid calls for rapid political change and warnings of action if civilian rule is not established by July.
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Ray F. Herndon
Saigon
UPI
Unified
Buddhist Church
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen Chanh Thi
da Nang
Harr
U.S
Ellwood City area boards and colleges in local highlights
Ellwood City Area School Board studies personnel and material matters. Geneva College to present honorary doctorates at convocation. Summer tuition rates set for Ellwood City. New Castle High coach Connie Palumbo honored with a new car. Dodgers face a weakened Houston Astros in a developing matchup.
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Ellwood City Area School
Geneva College
Ellwood City
NEW Castle High
Connie Palumbo
Cigarette Bootlegging Racketeers Draw States Meeting
A conference of tobacco tax officials from 13 states reported that cigarette bootlegging has become a major organized racket. Illicit traffic, mainly from North Carolina to New York City, cost New York $40 million in tax revenue last year. Mafia involvement was cited by officials, with sales tied to narcotics criminals who switch to cigarettes.
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Aristedes Maravel
Baltimore
UPI
North Carolina
New York City
New York
Thomas Russell
Connecticut
York City
John Purcell
New York State Miscellaneous Tax Bureau
Purcell
Maryland
Louis
Rural sewer plan eyed for Lawrence County
The Lawrence County Regional Planning Commission seeks 27800 federal aid from the Farmers Home Administration to prepare a county wide sewer and water plan. The two year study covers towns with population 5500 or less and rural townships, noting possible use of individual treatment centers where central lines are impractical.
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Lawrence County
Ellwood City
Neshannock
Union
Shenango
Blackson
LORPC
Brain watchers pause as mind access powers spark concern
In San Francisco researchers from the American Orthophysiatric Association unveil powerful new methods to read the mind, drawing public outcry. The meeting sparks debate on privacy and ethics as experts weigh the potential and dangers of brain surveillance.
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San Francisco
UPI
America
The
American Orthophychiatric Association
Weather and privacy debate mix marks day in Western Pennsylvan ia
Partly cloudy with little temperature change through Saturday. Highs in the 50s and lows 30s to 38. 24 hour stats show max 55 and min 27 with no precipitation. Shenango River at 5.7 feet. A feature notes top psychologists discussing privacy in tests and the use of intimate questions.
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Pennsylvania
Shenango River
De Gaulle Rejects US Troop Removal Demands
Paris sources report President de Gaulle will not concede to a two year delay for abandoning France by removing 26 000 U S troops and bases by an April 1 1967 deadline. The Pentagon warned of NATO risks and cost liability. Debates erupted in the French assembly as critics accused policy of isolation while supporters defend sovereignty.
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UPI
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America
France
de Gaulle
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Jpins
National Assembly
Francois Mitterand
Georges Pompidou
Maurice Couve Murvilie
Ameri
Iraq curfew eased after Aref death in helicopter crash
Iraqs interim rulers relaxed the 21 hour curfew by six hours allowing exit from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Baghdad prepared for a state funeral for Abdel Salam Aref who, with 10 aides, died in a helicopter crash amid conflicting reports of assassination. Military alert and guard duties were reported in Baghdad.
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UPI
Iraq
Abdel Salam Aref
Radio
Abdel Rahman Bazzaz
Aref
Basra
Mideast
Middle East
Kuwait
Iran
Cairo
Abdel Rahman Aref
Moscow
Beaver Falls man found dead in Midland jail cell
Beaver Falls resident Rake S. Scott, 45, was found slumped in a Midland jail cell about two hours after his arrest for drunken driving. An autopsy was ordered as police noted he appeared visibly intoxicated after being stopped for driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
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Beaver Falls
Midland
UPI
Rake S. Scott
Scott
Indonesian Students Storm Chinese Embassy in Jakarta
Thousands of Indonesian students of Chinese descent stormed the Chinese Communist Embassy in Jakarta. They battered doors with a truck and shot an embassy employee in a wild demonstration against the Peking regime. Indonesian troops guarded the scene with armored cars.
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Jakarta
UPI
Peking
Suharto
Banteng
Buffalo) Square
Indonesia
Red China
Scranton to Call Special Session on Crime and Schools
Governor William Scranton announces a special session opening April 18 to consider harsher rape penalties and other items including highway beautification school subsidies and a state related university status. The session may run with the regular fiscal session and address milk regulation and mental health.
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Harrisburg
UPI
William W. Scranton
University of Pittsburgh
Deaths of Mrs Wardman and Samuel Venetto
Death notices list Mrs. Joseph C. Wardman aged 73 of 840 Lathrop Street and Samuel Venetto aged 72 of 812 Miller Road in the Friday April 15 1966 death records.
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Joseph C. Wardman
Lathrop St. Samuel Venetto
Miller Rd
Shenango Township Faces Borough Move Aide From State Supervisors
A state association offers support in the fight over Shenango Township likely to seek borough status. Secretary emeritus H A Thomson says boroughs are not as advantageous as claimed while township leaders push back and plan to circulate a petition this summer.
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Shenango Township
H. A
Cappy) Thomson
State Association of Township Supervisors
Progressive Council
Paul R. Cunningham
Walter L. Kendall
Flexible U S policy toward Red China gains new emphasis
U S officials push a flexible approach toward China that keeps future relations open to Beijing. They resist aggressive actions in Asia while honoring commitments to Nationalist China and seeking to block Pyongyang from UN admission until Beijing moderates.
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Red China
Washington
UPI
U.S
China
Peking
United Nations
U.N
United States
Asia
Formosa
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