White Paper Defends Expanded War in Vietnam
The document argues North Vietnam aggression requires broader action as Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces infiltrate the South. It frames air strikes on the North as necessary to slow infiltration, buy time to mobilize South Vietnamese defenses, and pressure a future agreement that North Vietnam would honor.
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Aleksei N. Kosygin
United States
Soviet Union
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Congress
Labor costs rise as AFL-CIO pushes wage and hour reforms
The AFL-CIO seeks a $2 minimum wage and broader overtime and work-hour rules, arguing for expansion of the Fair Labor Standards Act to cover 10 million workers and a 35 hour week. If enacted, payrolls would swell and inflation fears grow, though the President has opposed the 35 hour week for now.
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Congress
Organized Labor
Medicare in Congress: aged health care bills debated
Congress weighs aging care amid proposals from King Anderson critics and AMA on Eldercare voluntary premiums. Mathias and Byrnes seek Kerr Mills reforms to extend hospital, nursing home, and medical services with means tests and state administration shifts.
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American Medical Association
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Charles McC. Mathias Jr
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Wisconsin
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Department of Health
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Michigan
Master Sgt Kidd’s murder story recalls village aid work in Viet Nam
In a sequel to the Kidd case, Dennis C Kidd a North Carolina sergeant and Special Forces veteran aided three hamlets near Soc Ba Tu South Viet Nam. Viet Cong ambushed him one day, and villagers later hosted the five assassins, who died after a drunken nursing of rice wine. The hamlets then ceased to be a Viet Cong way station and residents continued the sergeant’s aid program.
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South
Viet Nam
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Ebanos
Allies Land First Troops In Attack On Constantinople
In 1915 news notes the Allies have landed their initial troops in the land assault on Constantinople. A surprise party marked C E Burger’s 54th birthday with games and refreshments. Dr R W Smith, inspector, said no new hoof and mouth cases near Frederick. A fine heifer owned by Daniel Kepler near Bolivar went mad and was killed, amid fears of a mad dog bite near the Harlan Schildtknecht farm.
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C. E. Burger
R. W. Smith
Frederick
Daniel Kepler
Bolsivar
Harlan Schildtknecht
Sally Landauer ER to visit relatives in Glen Rock
Miss Sally Kate Landauer daughter of Mrs Irving M Landauer of Rosemont Avenue left Friday for Glen Rock Pennsylvania to spend the weekend with her aunt and uncle Dr and Mrs Stuart Seltz. Charley Keller the King Kong of major league baseball returned to Baltimore Friday morning thinner and bronze hued. Germans blew two bridges crossing the Rhine to Duisburg near Homberg as the 84th Division pressed to seize them.
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Sally Kate Landauer
Irving M. Landauer
Rosemont Avenue
Glen Rock, Pa
Stuart Seltz
Charley Keller
Baltimore
Rhine
Duisburg
Homberg
Germany
Opinion on Presidents traveling abroad remains controversial
Washington- In a letter from readers the writer argues against a U S president traveling abroad citing risk, uncertain gains, and delayed actions. It notes Wilson and Johnson as examples, highlights improved diplomacy via travel not yielding tangible results, and warns of disrupted governance when a president is away.
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