Bloody Mekong Delta Battle Claims Heavy Casualties
In the Ca Mau region the battle left 120 plus Viet Cong dead and six Americans missing or dead including an Army officer and a Navy officer. Four helicopter crewmen were missing after their craft was shot down. Air strikes and ground fighting continued as Viet Cong forces reportedly withdrew under pressure.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Mekong Delta
U.S
Ca Mau
U.S. Army
Vietnamese Defense Ministry
Binh Dinh
da Nang
le Dau
Grand Hotel
Andrews Harrison Win Oscars My Fair Lady Dominates
Santa Monica California AP reports My Fair Lady won eight Oscars including best picture at the 37th Academy Awards. Europeans claimed four acting top honors with Rex Harrison and Lila Kedrova among winners. Julie Andrews won best actress for Mary Poppins.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Hollywood
Academy
Rex Harrison
Jry Higgins
Eliza Doolittle
Julie Andrews
Britain
Peter Ustinov
France
Lila Kedrova
Scaws
Harrison
Miss Ravens
Harri
Grand Jury Indicts Two Ex-Army Men in Spy Conspiracy
A Federal Grand Jury in Richmond Virginia indicted Army Sgt Robert Lee Johnson and James Allen Mintkenbaugh on three counts for conspiring to sell U S defense secrets to the Soviet Union. They allegedly began the scheme in February 1953 and continued through December 1964 with 23 overt acts cited.
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Richmond, Va
United States
Soviet Union
Army
Robert Lee Johnson
James Allen Mintkenbaugh
Alexandria
Johnson
Mintkenbaugh
New York Central to End Passenger Service Albany Lake Placid
The Public Service Commission authorized the New York Central Railroad to discontinue passenger service between Utica and Lake Placid.
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Albany, N.Y
Public Service Commission
New York Central Railroad
Utica
Lake Placid
Minnesota teacher vents on Wayzata students in full page ad
Douglas Sarff, a 10 year Wayzata Senior High English teacher, paid for a full page ad to air his grievances about local seniors. He warned he would not seek renewal and plans a post term trip to the Southwest to write a novel.
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Wayzata
Donald Freeburg
Iso O
Th High School
Sarff
Wayzata High School
Minnetonka
Schirra Stafford Named Primary Crew For Gemini Linkup
Houston AP Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Air Force Maj. Thomas P. Stafford were named Monday as the primary crew for the first Gemini two-vehicle connect mission. Backup crew Grissom and Young were chosen. mission targets include a lunar landing and return from space before Christmas.
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Houston
Tex
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Schirra
Navy
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
Grissom
Young
Stafford
Gemini
Moon
Earth
Printer Unions Threaten Strikes Delay New York Daily News
Printer union meetings during work hours delayed the first press run of today’s New York Daily News by about 24 hours. Dissension grew among seven major newspapers while unions argued over contract terms and pay, with resignations from key unions shrinking the Newspaper Trades Council.
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NEW York
New York Daily News
F. M. Flynn
The
News
Bertram A. Powers
Afl-Cio International Typographical Union
Newspaper Publishers Association of New York City
Times, Herald Tribune
Journal-American
World-Telegram & Sun
Long Island Daily Press
Long Island Star-Journal
Post
Publishers Association
Newspaper Trades Council
Council
Cortland students protest university budget cuts
About 2 000 Cortland State University students marched from campus to the county courthouse Monday night to oppose a proposed 7 million dollar cut in the 42 million dollars in new funds requested by Gov Rockefeller. Earlier Monday 900 Albany State students staged a protest at the State Capitol.
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Cortland
N.Y
State University
County Court House
Gov. Rockefeller
Farlier Mondas
Albany State
State Capitol
Albany
Rockefeller
Senate
Zaretzki
Assembly
Anthony J . Travia
Red Jet Buzzes Berlin Airport and Autobahn Blockade
East German Communists closed the Berlin autobahn for 34 hours while a Soviet jet buzzed Tempelhof Airport near West Berlin. The United States Britain and France protested the shutdown as Allied vehicles faced delays and checkpoints. Dispatch notes 500 feet jet pass and barricades at Babelsberg Helmstedt with long delays for civilians and military alike.
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Berlin
U.S
Babelsberg
West Berlin
Helmstedt
West Germany
Bonn
Ludwig Erhard
Noce
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Dr King predicts boycott will spur action in Alabama
Dr Martin Luther King Jr predicts a planned three stage economic withdrawal in Alabama will bring hostility and discrimination into the open and push white citizens to address racial inequality. He says the move will not harm the civil rights cause and will continue demonstrations until voting rights are secured.
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Atlanta, Ga
Martin Luther King Jr
Alabama
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George C. Wallace
Congress
Skin Divers Save 4 Spelunkers in Cave Rescue
A Navy diver rescued four spelunkers from Rowland Cave after hours underwater ordeal. One rescuer, Lyle E. Thomas, 39, died of a heart attack at the cave mouth. Survivors include Hugh Shell 40 Batesville Ark and students from Arkansas Tech and Arkansas College.
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Mountain View, Ark
Rowland Cave
Hugh Shell
Shell
Batesville
Ark
Hogan Bledsoe
Lake Village
Steve Wilson
Arkansas Tech
Mike Hill
Arkansas College
Lyle E. Thomas
Navy
Washington
T. J. Burton
Stone County Corp
Senate rejects tax payment extension plan
The Senate vote 37 to 29 blocks a proposal to grant 3 to 12 months for paying the under withheld tax portion without penalties. The move closes the door on any early congressional relief before the April 15 deadline amid the Johnson tax cut reduction.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Senate
Congress
Johnson
Britain Tightens Taxes to Stop Capital Flight
London AP The Labour government unveils a 1965 66 budget raising basic income tax from 38.75 to 42.25 percent and taxes capital gains and corporate profits. Gains within 12 months taxed as income. gains over a year at 30 percent. Aims to raise about 700 million dollars yearly and curb 280 million in annual capital outflow amid a 1964 payments deficit of 2.086 billion dollars.
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London
James Callaghan
House of Commons
Callaghan
Britain
All Night Teach-In at Buffalo U Sparks Debate
More than 1 200 students and faculty held an all night teach in at the University at Buffalo debating whether the United States should stay in South Vietnam. About 50 students picketed the student union angrily. No disturbances were reported.
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Buffalo
N.Y
State University At
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