Maoists Capture Port Tsingtao Amid Counterattack
Maoist forces claimed the seizure of Tsingtao in Shantung Province with army aid, facing a serious counteroffensive by Liu Shao-chi supporters. The Liberation Army Daily, linked to Lin Piao, said Tsingtao fell on Jan 2 and described actions against white terror as a bid to sustain the revolutionary committee against bourgeois rule.
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Mao Tsetung
Shantung Province
Tsingtao
Liu Shao-chi
U.S. Navy
China
Chinese Communist Party
Shanghai
Peking
Taiyuan
Shansi
Liberation Army
Mao
Lin Piao
Revolutionary
Air Force Cargo Plane Crashes Near San Antonio
A Saturn Airways DC6 service with three crewmen aboard crashed in fog two miles north of San Antonio International Airport around 3:30 am. The aircraft was inbound from Davis Monthan AFB Tucson to Kelly AFB. Names of the dead were not immediately available.
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San Antonio
Tex
Saturn Airways
International
Earl Cato
International Airport
Davis- Monthan Air Force Base
Tucson
Ariz
Kelly Air Force Base
Kelly
Cato
Koreans Kill 71 Reds on Viet Coast
South Korean infantrymen report killing 71 Viet Cong on the central coast of South Vietnam while U S Marines tally 35 more enemy dead on the northern coast. Air strikes slowed by fog and cloud over North Vietnam. The U S 7th Fleet destroyer Keppler shelled a convoy of 20 cargo barges off Dong Hoi, claiming five sunk and 10 damaged.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
North Vietnam
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Keppler
Dong Hoi
Five charged in Waynesville poker robbery case
NO WINNERS WAYNESVILLE N C AP Three men were charged with armed robbery in a hold up that netted more than $5 000 at a poker game recently The sheriff s department said Two other men were charged with conspiracy in the robbery The five poker players were charged with gambling.
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Waynesville
N. C
Sheriff's Department
Romney Due Tonight in Wisconsin Meeting With Knowles
Michigan Governor George Romney arrives in Madison for a private dinner with Governor Warren Knowles to discuss the Upper Great Lakes Economic Development Commission. Officials emphasize no public stance on 1968 presidential plans. observers doubt the visit will avoid politics.
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Madison
Michigan
George Romney
Warren P. Knowles
Romney
Knowles
Upper Great Lakes
Paul Hassett
Hassett
GOP
West Germans Establish Ties With Romanians
Bonn Germany West Germany and Romania established diplomatic relations and agreed to exchange ambassadors Romania first Communist nation after the Soviet Union to do so in Bonn meeting between Corneliu Manescu and Willy Brandt with Chancellor Kiesinger present the move faced strong opposition from East German authorities.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Romania
Soviet Union
Corneliu Manescu
Willy Brandi
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
St Louis dog pound refunds after tornado claim
Officials billed Robert Stelze $75 for letting the dog loose and $2 for sheltering it one day. County Supervisor Lawrence Roos ordered the money refunded after Stelze said his dog Winston was blown from his house by a tornado that destroyed 200 homes last week.
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ST. Louis
Robert Stelze
Laurence Roos
Stelze
Winston
U S Develops New Missiles With N Tips
Washington AP reports the Atomic Energy Commission says the United States has developed advanced nuclear tipped missiles with enhanced penetration of anti missile defenses. The move relates to decisions on an anti missile system versus offensive deterrence and includes production plans and upgrades to existing intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Washington
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
U.S
Robert 5. McNamara
Soviet Union
Moscow
Johnson
Congress
AEC
Nevada
Astronaut Rites Attend Fire in Space Cabin Simulator
A Brooks Air Force Base spokesman said a fire in a 100 percent oxygen altitude chamber at the School of Aerospace Medicine killed one airman and badly burned another during routine maintenance. The blaze, linked to Apollo 1 incidents, damaged the chamber and prompted evacuation as investigators review electrical and environmental causes.
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San Antonio
Brooke Army Medical Center
Air Force
Spain's Top School Closed After Battling
MADRID AP Educational authorities shut Madrid University after two days of student police clashes. The board ordered all university schools closed for three days and the political, economic, and commercial faculties closed indefinitely for subversive activity. Over 50 injured, 30 students arrested as protests escalated from demonstrations against rising living costs.
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Madrid
Spain
Madrid University
University Board of Governors
Snow and Sleet Sweep Wisconsin and Midwest States
A winter storm dumped snow and freezing rain across Wisconsin and the Midwest. Green Bay, Park Falls, Wausau, Superior and La Crosse recorded up to three inches. Chicago area faced major disruption with schools canceled and a peak of crowded jails after looting arrests. Taxi service and airports gradually recovered as weather eased.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Wausau
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Park Falls
Superior
Eau Claire
la Crosse
Madison
Lone Rock
Watertown
X.Y
Junction
Lex
Chicago
Midwest
Wis
Minneapolis
Minn
Iown
Weather Bureau
Cook County
of Illinois
Towa
Seven Escapees Captured After Nevada Prison Break
Gov. Paul Laxalt commanded 40 men to recapture seven state prison escapees in Carson City. Warden Jack Fogliani was discharged immediately. Death row bars were opened during the breakout, but none of the six awaiting gas chamber escaped. The group included a murderer, kidnapper, and rapist among the seven.
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Paul Laxalt
Nevada
Carson City
Nev
Jack Fogliani
Graveside Homage Paid Three Heroes
West Point remembers astronaut Edward H White with a chapel ceremony attended by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Six astronauts served as pallbearers at White’s Arlington burial, while Johnson and Humphrey joined the Grissom and Chaffee gravesides in Virginia.
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West Point
N.Y
Edward H. White
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
White
Cape Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Hudson River
Conrad Winborn Jr
Houston
Tex
Charles Conrad Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
John W. Young
Neil A. Armstrong
James A. Lovell Jr
Frank Borman
U.S. Military Academy
Auto Safety Standards Reportedly Toned Down
Washington AP reports that the Commerce Department published long awaited 1966 model car safety standards toned down from early proposals that drew industry complaints. The package aims to cut highway deaths, with 31 days for public comment and potential extensions on contested items such as energy absorbing steering columns and seat belt anchorages. Ford GM and AMC signaled immediate compliance on several points, while Chrysler and others push for more time and modifications to a subset of rules.
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Washington
Commerce Department
William Haddon Jr
National Highway Safety Administrator
Ford
General Motors
American Motors
Chrysler
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Ill
City House of Cororation
Jack Johnson
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