Escalation Fears Grow Over McNamara Vietnam Visit
Secretary McNamara’s Vietnam trip signals possible escalation with up to 100000 more American troops. Current U S forces in South Vietnam total 83000 plus 20000 with the Seventh Fleet and a South Vietnamese army of about 550000. Vietcong totals include main force around 43000 to 47000 with 80000 to 100000 irregulars. The U S and South Vietnamese seek a decisive victory, while Communist aid from China, the Soviet Union, and North Korea grows. The nation braces for heavier fighting and possible further drafts.
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Roberts
McNamara
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
China
Soviet Union
North Korea
Southeast Asia
Peking
Moscow
Pyongyang
United States
U.S
Seventh Fleet
Vietnam
North Vietnam Army
Wiretapping debate widens as Johnson restricts taps
Senate inquiry reveals IRS agents tapped telephones in organized crime cases. President Johnson bans all federal wiretaps except for national security with attorney general approval, highlighting the clash between public safety and privacy. Authorities acknowledge other justified uses exist, like tracking child kidnappers, but law remains ambiguous and unresolved.
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Senate
Internal Revenue Service
Johnson
Wheat sales to Reds signal steady trade with Red China
Canada and Australia push wheat production to meet communist orders as U S sales from surplus stocks total 273 million bushels. Red China remains the major buyer, taking over 635 million of 640 million bushels shipped to communist nations between 1957 and 1961. The two nations rely on this market and show confidence in continuing business with China and its satellites despite risks.
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Canada
Australia
Red China
North Viet Nam
North Korea
Albania
U.S. Agriculture Department
Agriculture Department
United States
U.S
Russia
Europe
China
Viet Nam Guerrilla Leader Uses Local Knowledge to Outsmart Enemies
A Ca Mau hamlet chief fields a vigilant civilian security network that detects Viet Cong movements by gossip and small tells. He explains Viet Cong haunt ambush traps, and the piece notes many former Ho Chi Minh era officers remain loyal Vietnamese but underutilized in the war. The writer cites Pentagon hopes to loosen rigid army structures to employ such veterans, though change will be slow.
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Viet Nam
Ca Mau
Reds
V.C
South
South Viet Nam
Pentagon
Memory as a currency in Hal Boyle’s nostalgic glance
Hal Boyle collects vignettes from memory and 1920s life, noting how memory grows valuable with age. He recalls Prohibition funding, Rockefeller generosity, and era details from calico to oil cloth, caviar, the first transcontinental phone call, and social quirks of small towns and labor history.
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New York
U.S. House of Representatives
John D. Rockefeller
America
Gene Stratton Porter
Zane Grey
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Ernest Hemingway
Fifty Years Ago News Summary July 27 1915
A 1000 pound fountain toppled by vandals near reservoirs prompts city officials to warn of systematic property destruction. A Blair Lee led political drive ends with a Frederick mass meeting at Court Square. The Leelanaw was torpedoed and sunk near Kirkwall Scotland. Louise Johnson reports Amy Jones plans to seek shell factory work in Birmingham England.
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Blair Lee
Frederick
Court Square
Louise Johnson
The
Frederick Girls’ Friendly Society
Amy Jones
Swindon
England
Birmingham
Military timetable for Japan defeat moved forward says Maj. Gen.
Maj. Gen. John M. Franklin told a Senate committee the military timetable for the defeat of Japan has been moved forward. An owl appeared in a park opposite Frederick City Hospital scaring starling roosts after noise makers failed to deter them. A bank barn on Carroll W. Brewer’s farm near Haugh’s Church was struck by lightning and burned during a thunderstorm. The Frederick Tailoring Co Inc installed a musical and public address system for transmitting electrical news and company announcements throughout its plant.
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John M. Franklin
Senate
Japan
Frederick City Hospital
Carroll W. Brewer
Haugh’s Church
Frederick
Frederick Tailoring Co. Inc
East Fourth Street
America
Washington Star
School For the
Cunningham Affair prompts reader praise for outdoor editor
Readers laud Lefty Kreh for exposing the Cunningham Affair and questioning dam plans on Hunting Creek. Letters praise civic awareness, cite potential silting and wildlife impact, and urge local officials to consider recreation water supply needs.
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William Houck
Earl Shelsby
Baltimore Sun
Spencer Ellis
Forests and Parks
Hunting Creek
Ellis
Thurmont
Houck
Midge Creek
Lefty
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