U S Bombers Push Closer To Haiphong Amid Raid
U S forces intensified air strikes within 12 miles of Haiphong and attacked the Long Bi power station. Navy planes hit a major highway bridge north of Haiphong while Mission reports note kite high explosive loads and several aircraft losses. Ground actions included a Viet Cong ambush and a failed Dutch hostage death, with rescue attempts ongoing.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Haiphong
Vong Bi
Hanoi
U.S
Tuy Hoa
D An
Kitty Hawk
Haiphong-Hanoi
Gulf of Tonkin
John S. Ruffo
Mount Morris
N.Y
China
Guam
1St Air Cavalry Division
Binh Dinh
Defense budget cuts threaten Nike X and carrier programs
Secretary McNamara signals a tighter defense budget by deferring $620 million in military construction and delaying high priority projects Nike X antimissile development and a nuclear powered carrier are among items eyed for postponement amid wartime pressure final allocations await formal announcement.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Pentagon
District of Columbia
Navy
Defense
Westcott Rule Co. Sold and to Close in Dec
Seneca Falls, N Y The Westcott Rule Co a 93 year manufacturer of rulers has been sold and will close December 31 The purchase was by Acme Seneca Inc a Seneca Falls subsidiary of Acme Shear Co of Bridgeport Conn The deal price was not disclosed Westcott employs 55 workers.
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Seneca Falls
N.Y
Westcott Rule Co
Finger Lakes
Philip R. Westcott Jr
Acme-Seneca Inc
Acme Shear Co
Bridgeport, Conn
Westcott
Leg Caught in Elevator Door Leaves Woman Carried Up 12 Floors
Ida Herman, 66, had her leg caught in an automatic elevator door as she entered at the Central Medical Building in Philadelphia. Firemen freed her after the door closed and she was carried up to the top floor. she was taken to Graduate Hospital in satisfactory condition and her husband Morris 72 followed.
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Philadelphia
Ida Herman
Graduate Hospital
Morris Herman
Central Medical Building
Albany Youth Drowns After Falling Through Thin Ice
An eight year old Albany boy, Richard Birch, drowned after falling through ice near a marked Thin Ice sign at a lake in Washington Park. He ran onto the ice from a slope by the lake, leaving behind Mr. and Mrs. Howard Birch.
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Albany
N.Y
R'chard Birch
Washington Park
Howard Birch
Titan 3 Launch Carries Four Satellites Toward Orbit
At Cape Kennedy the Titan 3 rocket sent four satellites toward a 21 000 mile high equatorial orbit on its third test flight. The craft features two solid motors and a liquid core, with a 500 foot flame tail. The mission includes experimental communications gear, solar radiation measurement, and amateur radio use, involving about 1530 events across the six hour flight.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
United States
Subzero Cold Grips Upper New York and New England
Subzero temperatures spread across Upper New York State and northern New England with readings dropping well below freezing. Wanakena New York recorded 25 below zero while many areas in the region saw near subzero and single digit readings as cold air settled over the Southeast and Midwest reported light snow with heavy accumulations in the Adirondack foothills and northern Michigan.
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Associated Press
New York State
New England
Boonville
N.Y
Florida
Appalachians
Rockies
Gulf States
Southwest
Desert
Great Basin
Wanakena
Adirondacks
Adirondack
Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart Hospitalized in London
The Foreign Office announced Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart has entered a London hospital at age 59 for a kidney ailment. He will undergo a procedure described as manipulation to remove a stone from his system.
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London
Foreign Office
Michael Stewart
Stewart
White House denies Humphrey Viet Nam mission
The White House rejected reports that President Johnson plans to send Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to Vietnam. Press secretary Bill Moyers said it hasn’t been discussed and Humphrey will not be sent.
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Viet Washington
White House
Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
Viet Nam
Bill D. Moyers
Yonkers Center Fire Kills 12, Including 9 Children
A blaze at a Yonkers Jewish community center on Chanukah night killed nine children aged 7 to 11 and three adults. Witnesses say a mother, Lucille Sacks, reentered to save others and died. fire investigators search for cause as rescuers battled smoke and freezing temperatures.
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Yonkers
N.Y
New York
Seven Arrested After Record 209-Pound Heroin Seizure
Federal agents called the operation the largest heroin seizure in U S history. Seven people were arrested on charges of conspiring to import the narcotic, including CWO Herman Condor 35 and nightclub operator Frankie Dio with five French and Brazilian nationals arrested in New York Manhattan. The stockpile valued at up to 100 million on the underworld market and about 18.5 million by officials, was linked to Condor’s household freezer and Condor faced possible $19 000 payoff for acting as courier.
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Columbus, Ga
United States
CWO
Herman Condor
Ft. Benning
Orleans
France
Frankie Dio
Miami
Fla
Henry L. Gordana
U.S. Narcotics Bureau
Washington
Dio
New York
Johnny Dio
U.S
Edward Swann
Rob‘ert
M. Morgenthau
Giordano
Morgenthau
Conder
Conders
Manhattan
Jean le France
Jean Nebbia
Corsica
Lucien Cuvillier
Suzanne Josette Couergou
Francisco de Almeida
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Train collision in Lisbon leaves 23 dead and 70 injured
Investigators tally 23 killed and about 70 injured as a six car Lisbon suburban train collides with a freight train on the same track. Railway officials say all victims are believed Portuguese in the third major Iberian rail crash in as many days.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Iberian Peninsula
Peace Feelers May Be an Erode Support of U S Policy
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan argues that Vietnamese Communist propaganda may use peace feelers as a psychological campaign to erode U S public support for policy. The analysis links Liberation Radio claims of global protests to pressuring the Johnson administration and questions real negotiations.
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U. S
William L. Ryan
U.S
South Viet Nam
Viet Cong
Liberation Radio
United States
America
West Germany seeks bigger say in nuclear defense
The prompt closure of a Dominican general strike fades as labor leaders back President Garcia Godoy but warn spread remains possible amid ongoing Santiago violence. U S and Brazilian troops reinforce and withdraw from downtown Santiago as an Inter-American Peace Force maintains order. In Washington, Johnson and Erhard discuss nuclear policy and closer co determination with talk of a possible Atlantic force under NATO.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republi
Hector Garcia-Godoy
Santiago
Garcia-Godoy
U.S
Washington
West Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Johnson
Karl- Guenther von Hase
Germany
Erhard
White House
Bill D. Moyers
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
ANF
Britain
U. S
MLF
NATO
Harold Wilson
Jupiter
Interior
First Voter Intimidation Suit Under 1965 Act Filed
In Baton Rouge Louisiana registrar Fletcher Harvey seven landowners and farming firm Daniel Truitt Inc face a federal lawsuit alleging they forced Negro sharecroppers from their homes to suppress voting. U S District Judge E Gordon West will hear the case in Baton Rouge, while Attorney General Katzenbach notes it as the act’s first such suit.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Jack P. F. Gremillion
Fletcher Harvey
Gremillion
Harvey
U.S. Dist
E. Gordon West
Washington
Nicholas Katzenbach
Edward I. Daniel
Jordon Truitt
John Spillman
R. Harry Daniel Sr
R. Harry Daniel Jr
B. Harrison Barrow
Daniel & Truitt, Inc
Yonkers Fire Yields List of 12 Dead at Center
Police identify twelve victims in Yonkers Jewish Community Center blaze. Names include Iris Werthamer nine and Ronald Greenberg ten, both Yonkers or Bronx addresses, with multiple children and relatives among the dead. Confirmation pending.
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Yonkers
N.Y
Iris Werthamer
Madaline Parkway
Ronald Greenberg
Netherlands Ave
the Bronx
Cynthia Henley
David Henley
Cynthia
Leslie Green
Linn Ave
Eliza Ann Green
Leslie
Richard Konoshima
Hawthorne Ave
Kimiko Konoshima
Richard
Alan Freilich
Courter Ave
Mrs
Philip Sacks
Elizabeth LeFerbre
W. 95Th St
New
Fire destroys Glenbrook Hotel in Roosevelt Catskills
Fire raged for five hours destroying the four story Glenbrook hotel in Bushnellsville near Phoenicia New York. The Catskills resort had not yet opened for winter and no one was inside. There was no damage estimate available.
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Phoenicia
N.Y
Glenbrook
Catskills
Bushnellsville
Senator Aiken urges pursuing any Viet peace feelers
Senator George D. Aiken Republican of Vermont argued the United States must diligently pursue any Viet Nam peace feelers no matter how tenuous they appear. He warned the alternative could be a long costly war.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
United States
Aiken
Senate
Foreign
Vermont
House
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
Johnson
Viet Nam
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Amintore Fanfani
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Josef Klaus
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Rhodesia
Red China
Peking
U.S. Objec
Titan
Upper
N. Y
Yonkers Center
Lucille Sacks
Sandra
Andrew Gerlach
St. Joseph's Hospital
Sinott
Ray Cohen
William F. Polson
Community Center
Yonkers Business Center
Dent Johnson
Catskill
John F. Kennedy
Cuba
Laird
Oswego
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