Americans Travel Abroad Pressure Squeezes Gold Stock
Washington AP report notes affluent U S travelers will push the travel deficit higher in 1966. Commerce Department eyes offset by boosting foreign tourism to counter gold drain from dollar conversion incentives. Foreign visitors to the United States rise in early 1966 while U S travelers head to Europe in record numbers.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Commerce Department
U.S. Travel Service
United States
Europe
Canada
Mexico
Marines Split Into Small Units To Hunt Viet Cong
Two Marine divisions from Da Nang and Chu Lai deployed in small units for a wide search across central coastal plains. They reported 581 operations yielding eight Viet Cong killed, two captured, and two weapons seized, along with eight sampans sunk. The 1st Cavalry Division also faced a fading North Vietnamese regiment with only a single platoon contact, nine Viet Cong killed, and a tunnel complex yielding 400 tons of rice as Marines reached campsites near Rung Sat.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
da Nang
Chu Lai
Leathernecks
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Chu Phong
Associated Press
Rick Merron
Air Cavalry
25Th Infantry Division
U.S
Cay
Rung Sat
Draft Dodger Gets 5 Year Prison Term
David H. Mitchell III a 23 year old critic of U S foreign policy in Viet Nam who failed to report for the draft drew a maximum five year sentence from U S District Court Judge T Emmett Clark. The judge urged a two year non parole period and requested confinement outside Connecticut or New York. Mitchells New York based attorney Mark Lane defended him as a patriot awaiting a future chance to say he went to jail for opposing an unjust war.
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Hartford, Conn
David H. Mitchell III
U.S
Viet Nam
U.S. District Court
T. Emmett Clark
Mitchell
Claik
Connecticut
New York
Mark Lane
New York City
Amsterdam Marine killed in Viet Nam
Marine Staff Sgt. John G. Bansavage of Amsterdam N Y died near Quang Ngai in action after being shot in the head last Monday. He had avoided a guerrilla booby trap six months earlier and is survived by his wife Barbara and two young children. His father Benjamin was notified by the Department of Defense.
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Amsterdam
N.Y
John G. Bansavage
Viet Nam
Department of Defense
Benjamin
Schenectady
Department S
Quang Ngai
Bansavage
Australian Bride Reunites With American Husband Through Rusk
An Australian bride Cheryl Payne 20 reunited with Ronald Payne 20 of Hannibal Missouri after Secretary of State Dean Rusk arranged for her to enter the United States. The couple met in 1963 in Missouri during Cheryl’s exchange student year and wed in Australia October 19. Cheryl’s return followed a waiver ordered by Rusk after Rep. Hungate intervened. The couple plans to attend the University of Missouri after Hannibal-LaGrange Junior College.
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ST. Louis
Cupid
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Cheryl Payne
Melbourne
Australia
Ronald Payne
Hannibal
Payne
Cheryl
Montgomery City
Ron
Harold Payne
New Florence
William Hungate
D-Mo
Hungate
Hannibal- LaGrange
University of Missouri
Columbia
America
British Leader May Make Shift In His Cabinet
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson may reshuffle his Cabinet but is unlikely to remove many Labour veterans. Analysts expect a Liberal, not doctrinaire Socialist, team to emerge as Parliament opens April 21 and the government prepares a legislative program focused on liberal, progressive economics.
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London
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
House of Lords
Ger
Wilson
Parole Granted to Gold and Scarbeck for Secrets Case
Biochemist Harry Gold and former Foreign Service officer Irvin C. Scarbeck were ordered freed on parole next month from Lewisburg Penitentiary after long security trials. Gold, 55, convicted for conspiring with Klaus Fuchs to pass U.S. defense secrets to the Soviet Union, will be under supervision until July 1980. Scarbeck, 45, is serving concurrent 10-year terms for supplying documents to the Polish security police while in Warsaw. Both have poor prison records but aided in programs and testified in related Rosenberg case.
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Washington
Harry Gold
Foreign Service
Irvin C. Scarbeck
U.S
Federal Board of Parole
Scarbeck
Gold
Federal
Lewisburg
Switzerland
Klaus Fuchs
Soviet Union
Brooklyn
N.Y
Warsaw
Parole Board
FBI
Fuchs
David Greenglass
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
Rosenbergs
Judge may hold union in contempt over $500000 a day fine
A federal judge ordered the striking Railroad Firemen's Union to show cause why it should not be held in contempt and fined for every day of the walkout on eight major railroads. The railroads seek penalties starting today until the strike ends, with separate contempt actions against union leaders.
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Washington
U. S
Alexander Holtzoff
Holtzoff
H. E. Gilbert
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of Locomotive
Gilbert
Birmingham
Ala
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co
H.H. Grooms
U.S
Grooms
M.L. Williams
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
C.L. Caldwell
Union National
Roanoke
W.M. Vandergrif
J. E. Wolfe
Wolfe
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Illinois Central
Seaboard Air Line
Central of Georgia
Grand Trunk Western
Boston
Maine
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Transport Workers Union
Pennsylvania Railroad
Federal Arbitration Board
Seven Protestant Churches Plan Long Term Union
Leaders of seven Protestant denominations with 25 million members outline plans to merge. A bishop says complete unification may take at least 50 years. The group has worked on the plan for four years and will reconvene in Dallas on May 25. The churches include the Protestant Episcopal, United Presbyterian, Methodist, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren, United Church of Christ, and African Methodist Episcopal.
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Washington
Dallas
Tex
Protestant Episcopal Church
United Presbyterian Church
The
Methodist Church
International Convention of Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ
Evangelical United Brethren Church
United
Raw Weather Report Shows Dry Across Most Regions
A weather picture shows the Midwest damp while much of the nation remains clear and dry. The Southwest records high temperatures with several locations hitting or surpassing 100 degrees for three straight days, while inland regions from the Great Lakes to New England report snow flurries and light showers. Rain totals are generally under one-tenth inch, with March marks among driest in 54 years in Roanoke and widespread below normal precipitation across several southern states.
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Chicago
Burns
Ore
Arizona
Phoenix
Winslow
Fresno
Calif
Idaho
Boise
Winnemucca
Ely
Reno
Helena
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
West
Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
Cancer experiment patient Griffith plans hospital discharge
Harry T. Griffith of Flourtown Pennsylvania has finished his portion of an experimental cancer transplant at Roswell Park and plans to leave next week. Partner Robert F. Allen will continue cell exchanges with a third patient, Larry Rink, while Griffith recovers near home awaiting further results in coming weeks.
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Buffalo, N.Y
Harry T. Griffith
Flourtown
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Robert F. Allen
Tucson
Ariz
Griffith
Larry Rink
Centerville
Mich
Allen
Rink
Thomas E. Welker
Conrad
Mont
Father of Two Accused in String of Rapes in New York
Police identified 23 year old Charles Williams as the suspect in a series of alleged rapes targeting at least seven women. He is described as a father of two and faces multiple charges.
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New York
Charles Williams
Father of 10 Drowns While Trout Fishing
Two men drown when their boat overturns in Seneca Lake on opening trout day in New York. Richard Izard, 47, and James Hansen, 31, both of New Berlin, died in about 30 feet of water off Lodi Point after attempting to restart a motor. Izard was the father of ten children. Hansen worked at General Laboratory Associates in Norwich.
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Geneva
N.Y
Seneca Lake
New York State
Richard Izard
James R. Hansen
New Berlin
Lodi Point
Izard
Hansen
General Laboratory Associates
Norwich
Rockefeller and Levitt dispute NY fiscal 1965 66 outcome
Gov Rockefeller says a four million dollar surplus exists for the 1965 66 year while State Comptroller Arthur Levitt argues a deficit of over 17 million. Levitt accuses the governor of counting bond sale revenue as regular income. Both cite the same source for their conclusions.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
New York State
Arthur Levitt
Levitt
Marines Seek Retired Personnel to Rejoin Service
The Marine Corps began a program in late February to recall retirees with specific skills for key posts as part of boosting strength toward 278000 in 1967. A Defense Department spokesman said 71 complete applications have been received so far.
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Washington
Army
Marine Corps
Defense Department
Rail strike cripples eight railroads slashing shipments
The three day strike by railroad firemen halted 200,000 workers, costing up to $3.5 million daily in revenue. Union Pacific moved to supervisory crews, tied up 1,100 perishables cars, and planned to combine trains amid widespread delays from Boston to Portland.
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Associated Press
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
Omaha
Portland
North Platte
Brotherhood of Railroad
J.E. Wolfe
Ford
Twinsburg
Ohio
Chrysler
American Motors
Kelvinator
Grand Rapids
Mich
Oregon
Washington
Union Pacific Railroad
Pacific Northwest
Viet
Firemen Abandon Rescue on Blazing Tanker Trapping Eight
Marseille France AP says authorities and firemen gave up efforts to save eight men trapped below decks of the Olympic Honour as explosions and flames ripped a Liberian tanker. Two fireboats remained to fight the blaze with chemical foam and water. Twenty five Greek crew and French workers were burned. The trapped men were heard pounding on the hull before vanish.
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Marseille
France
Maritime Fire Brigade
Author dies in Fullerton at age sixty six
Forester, author of the Captain Horatio Hornblower sea stories, died today in Fullerton California. He was 66 years old.
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Fullerton
Calif
Forester
Horatio Hornblower
Saigon Demonstration Leads to Anti American Riots
Thousands of protesters in Saigon shout Americans go home and clash with photographers as riot police move in. The day features Da Nang and Hue marches, with soldiers and monks joining anti Ky demonstrations and calls for civilian government.
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Saigon
Buddhist Institute
da Nang
Nguyen Cao Ky
United States
Hue
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