Planes Crash Kill Five in Leisure World Fire
In a rainstorm two Skyhawk jets from Marine Attack Squadron 132 collided near Santa Ana California. Five people died including Capt James Powell and four Leisure World residents. Four others injured. Investigators consider dead radio as a possible factor.
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Santa Ana
Calif
James Powell
Skyhawk
California
Powell
Leisure World
el Toro Marine Air Station
Marine Attack Squadron 132
Naval Air Station
Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
N.Y
el Toro
Department of Defense
Ross Cortees Development Co
Leon Lauderbach
Harold Berman
Margaret
H.H. Kenyon
New Milford
N.J
Frank Gambelli
Livingston
Iron Triangle Push Enters Its Third Week
SAIGON AP reports Operation Cedar Falls through the Iron Triangle deepening into week three. American forces report 1,219 enemy killed captured or surrendered while a record 3,360 tons of Viet Cong rice have been seized. U S jet bombers pound the Red River Delta, MIG encounters occur northwest of Hanoi with four F105s clashing but no losses. Four American planes shot down over the weekend with seven airmen unaccounted in North and South Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cedar Falls
Iron Triangle
U. S
North Vietnam
Red River
Hanoi
Supreme Court Overturns NY Teachers Dismissal Rule
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that New York policy dismissing state university and college teachers for Communist party membership is unconstitutional. It also struck down a 1917 NY law barring public school staff for uttering sedition or treasonous acts, citing free speech protections.
CSU seeks return of three hot ducks after radiation study
Colorado State University reports three mallards fed radioactive material as part of a radiation biology study. Dr. Ward Whicker says the birds were not dangerous but the university asks anyone who found or ate them to come forward.
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Fort Collins
Colo.upi
Colorado State University
Ward Whicker
Newswoman Held Captive By Viet Cong
Michele Ray a 23 year old French free lance photographer was captured by Viet Cong guerrillas six days ago and intelligence reports place her in a mountainous area north of Bac Tien South Vietnam villagers and U S units say she is a prisoner known to her captors who are unlikely to harm her Ray began a 680 mile journey December 8 along Route 1 and left an advance base near Bac Tien January 17 to film U S troops in action.
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Bactien
South Vietnam
Michele Ray
Guerrilas
Here
U.S
Miss Ray
Michele
Bac Tien
Rusk says consulates pose little espionage risk
Secretary of State Dean Rusk testified that allowing a Soviet consulate in the United States would involve little danger of increased Communist spying. He argued the risks of espionage and criminal immunity are small and controllable, as Congress weighs ratifying the Soviet consular convention.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
United States
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Rusk
Russia
Leningrad
U.serty
Chicago
San Francisco
Robert S. McNamara
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
McNamara
Wheeler
Defense Department
Nicaragua in turmoil as rebels seize Grand Hotel hostages
In Managua a rebel holdout in the Grand Hotel kept about 20 Americans as hostages as National Guard troops besieged the building amid post riot tensions. Twelve killed, over 30 wounded in clashes between tank units and demonstrators. US Embassy said Americans were tourists and businessmen and safe. Emergency blood drives called as fires burned.
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Nicaragua
Grand Hotel
National Guard
Fernando Aguero
Conservative Party
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
Aguero
Lorenzo Guerrero
Leona City
Anastasio
Tachito) Somoza
Liberal Party
Latin America
Tachito
Luis
Five Is State Weekened Accident Toll
The weekend deaths raise Wisconsin 1967 traffic fatalities to 46. Victims include Benedict Bruns 35 Chicago and Elfreda Bruns in a two car crash near Twin Lakes, Andrew Wysocki 41 Wabeno, Pearl Skusevich 43 Powers Lake, and Ing Taylor 16 Jefferson in separate incidents. Oscar Bolstad Jr. 20 rural Viroqua dies in fog related crash on highway M south of Viroqua.
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Associated Press
Benedict J. Bruns
Chicago
Elfreda
Twin Lakes
Kenosha County
Bruns
Viroqua
Oscar Bolstad Jr
Troops to Crush Mao Opponents Reported in China
Tokyo reports quote wall posters from Peking claiming Premier Chou En-lai vowed to use the People’s Liberation Army to crush counter revolutionary elements as Mao era unrest spreads from Manchuria to Kwangtung. Reports describe clashes in Chang Chun and anti-Mao activity across Kiangsi and Hong Kong.
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Tokyo
Chou En-lai
China
Mao Tse-tung
Manchuria
Kwangtung
Peking Wall
Chow
Peking
Mao
People’s Liberation Army
Chen Po-ta
Chiang Ching
Liu Shaochi
Chang Chun
Kirin
Liaoning
Heilunkiang
Hong Kong
Kiangsi
Canton
Nanchang
France to Launch Fourth Satellite From Sahara Tests
Paris reports the government will launch France’s fourth satellite from Hammaguir test grounds in the Sahara on February 3. The mission aims to test in space a French developed tracking device using laser beams.
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France
Paris
UPS
Hammaguii
Sahara Desert
OOS
THEE
Soupy Sunday Brought Dense Fog Across Wisconsin
Dense fog cleared by daybreak after lingering overnight, disrupting air and road travel across Wisconsin. Extra buses ferried travelers from Milwaukee to Chicago while Waukesha County reported about twenty motorists left in ditches. Temperatures rose into the 50s in the south with statewide readings mostly above normal. Local highs reached 48 in Beloit Rockford area and frigid lows appeared in Lone Rock Eau Claire Superior before sunrise.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
Gen. Mitchell Field
Chicago
O'Hare Field
Waukesha
Glasgow
Mont
Johnson seeks 15 to 59 percent Social Security boost
President Johnson urged Congress to raise Social Security benefits by 15 percent for most and 59 percent in the lowest bracket, guaranteeing minimums of 70 dollars a month for individuals and 105 for married couples. He also proposed higher taxable earnings bases and tax rates, with yearly income thresholds rising to 7,800 in 1969, 9,000 in 1971, and 10,800 in 1974.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
North Viet Nam claims 35 civilians killed in raids
Tokyo based dispatch reports Radio Hanoi stating 35 civilians were killed in U S air raids on Viet Pa and Trai Nguyen during January 15 to 18. The broadcast said homes churches schools and hospitals were bombed and destroyed amid over 1 000 bombs dropped in a three day period.
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Tokyo
UPI
North Vietnam
Viet Pa
Trai Nguyen
Hanoi
U.S
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J. Edgar Hoover
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