Minor collision between U S destroyer and Soviet merchant ship
The Defense Department reported a minor collision in the Sea of Japan between the U S S Rowan and the Soviet merchant Vishobokov near Pohang on Jan 31. No personnel casualties. Rowan sustained a three foot hole and Vishobokov minor stern damage. The incident is under Navy investigation with no stated link to the Pueblo seizure.
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Washington
Defense Department
Sea of Japan
Department
Kapitan Vishobokov
U.S.S. Rowan
Pohang
South Korea
Rowan
Vishobokov
Loren I. Moore
Wheat Ridge
Colo
Cation
Pentagon
North Korea
U.S
Pueblo
State Department
Japan
Vladivostok
Enterprise
Moscow
Police Hunt 2 Suspects in Holdup and Kidnapping
Police seek Charles Edward Hardin 25 Earl Wayne Sanders 21 and Theo Ray Thames 20 for murder tied to a Fort Worth tavern slaying last December They fled a Denver supermarket robbery leading a 300 mile Rocky Mountain chase with hostages released and police pursuit across Colorado Witnesses described the gunmen as well dressed and Texas tainted in accent The incident began in Vail Colorado where a village chief was bound and a sergeant abducted before surrendering The pursuit expanded as officers tracked the trio through Denver and along the plains continuing to page two for details
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Denver
Colo
Texas
Rocky Mountains
Charles Edward Hardin
Earl Wayne Sanders
Fort Worth
Tex
Theo Ray Thames
Colorado
Hardin
Sanders
Vail
Rockies
Richard Jordan
Wedern Inn
John A. Sullivan
Gary Patterson
Workers Pay Takes Big Inflation Bite in 1967
Inflation shaved the gain in real income for Americans in 1967. After tax income rose by 151 dollars to 2735 dollars per person, but inflation reduced the real gain to 74 dollars. Using 1958 prices, per capita income would be 2391 dollars.
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Washington
Senate House Economic Committee
President's Council of Economic
Johnson says Viet Nam offensives fail but war not won
President Johnson announced that the military phases of Communist offensives in Viet Nam have failed though he did not state the war is won. He dismissed claims of a Vietnamese Reds psychological victory and noted talks at Panmunjom with North Korea over the Pueblo seizure yield no satisfactory results.
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Washington
Johnson
Vietnam
U.S
Pueblo
North Korea
Panmunjom
United States
Southeast Asia
Prisoner moved after threats claim unmarked graves at Cummins Farm
Reuben Johnson 59, who led authorities to unmarked graves at Cummins Prison Farm, was transferred to Tucker Prison Farm 30 miles southeast of Little Rock amid reports of threats on his life. Johnson says 10 to 12 inmates were buried there. officials discuss possible paupers graveyard records and real motive behind the threats. Governor Rockefeller questioned paupers graves claims and noted lack of records.
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Little Rock
Ark
Cummins
Thomas O. Morton
Reuben Johnson
Johnson
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Murton
Morton
Tucker
Viet Cong assault drives heavy losses across South Vietnam
U S and South Vietnamese forces say they are crushing the largest Communist offensive of the war with rising enemy casualties. In Hue Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units control much of the city while Saigon endures bombings and street fighting as refugees flood in.
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Saigon
U.S
Red
Hue
Associated Press
John Lengel
Demilitarized Zone
Lengel
Nguyen van Thieu
USS
Ellsworth Bunker
An Quang Pagoda
Thieu
Dmz
Saison
Cho Ray
Seven Nabbed In Clarkson College Narcotics Raid
Seven Clarkson College students were charged with felony possession of narcotics after a Wednesday night raid on an off campus apartment. Police seized marijuana packages pipes and items sent to a lab for analysis. Bail set at 1500 each for five male students held at the county jail.
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Clarkson College
Potsdam
N.Y
Peta
Technological 1
St. Lawrence County
Richard M. Dow
Radnor
David Zabriskie
Ogdensburg
David Parker
Frederick Damberg
Schenectady
Robert L. Dolan
Rochester
Ellen Wagner
Clifton
N.J
Beverly Selkirk
Chateaugay
State University College
New York
Viet Cong Officer Executed in Saigon
Photo by Eddie Adams shows South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong officer with a single head shot. The guerrilla, captured near An Quang Pagoda, is carried to the police chief in civilian clothes.
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Nguyen Ngoc Loan
Associated Press
Eddie Adams
Saigon
Rilla
An Quang
Joint Sea Action Talks Aboard Enterprise
Vice Adm. Kim Yong-kwan reported a discussion with a senior U.S. admiral aboard the carrier Enterprise about coordinated sea action amid the crisis from North Korea's seizure of the USS Pueblo on January 23.
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Seoul
Kim Yong-kwan
U.S
Enterprise
North Korea
Vatican denies Pope Paul VI Moscow trip rumors
Vatican officials rejected speculation that Pope Paul VI plans a visit to Moscow after his January 30, 1967 audience with Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny. The denial follows ongoing rumors linked to the Kremlin meeting.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Paul VI
Moscow
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Egypt halts Suez ship rescue amid Middle East crisis
Cairo reports Egypt will not try to free foreign vessels in the Suez Canal until the regional crisis is resolved and the canal reopens to international navigation. Fifteen ships remain marooned after Israel attacked Egyptian survey boats in the canal’s northern sector, with Israel limiting operations to the southern section.
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Cairo
Egypt
Suez Canal
Middle East
al Ahram
Israel
Governor Rockefeller and wife fly to Virgin Islands
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and his wife flew to the Virgin Islands in the family plane for the weekend. He will stay at Cancel Bay until Monday morning then fly to Albany to greet Michigan Gov. George Romney and address the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors from the same platform.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
Virgin Islands
Cancel Bay
Michigan
George Romney
New York State Society of Newspaper Editors
Cambodian Prince Decries Communist Activity in Highlands
Prince Norodom Sihanouk toured Rattanakiri Province near the Laos and South Vietnam border and accused Vietnamese Communists of arming Montagnard tribes. He declared the region Cambodian and warned that traitors will be executed without pity.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Laos
South Vietnam
Rattanakiri Province
Vietnam
Sanitation Strike Rally Attacks Union Leader at City Hall
An angry 7000 strong sanitation workers rally demanded a strike and assaulted John J. DeLury, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, after he announced a mail vote. Police contained the crowd after barricades were toppled and blows were exchanged.
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New York
John J. DeLury
Uniformed Sanitationmen’s
Coffin shops in Saigon brace for war casualties
In Saigon the only open shops were coffin makers as a 24 hour curfew and mass closures lock down the city. Soldiers kept watch while families loaded boxes at coffin shops amid extensive casualties and collapsed neighborhoods. Hospitals report over 100 dead in morgues and many more wounded as aid reaches Cho Ray and surrounding areas.
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Seventh Day Adventist Hospital
Saigon
Jess C. Holm
Cho Ray
Cholon
Groundhog Fails to See Shadow Signals Early Spring
In Lancaster Pennsylvania the Octorara Creek groundhog did not see his shadow at dawn signaling an early spring. The Slumbering Groundhog Lodge members in Quarryville observed in top hats as lodge minister Ray Dunlap relayed the unusual behavior.
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Lancaster
Ray Dunlap
Lodge
U S Girds for Pueblo Talks and Vietnam Actions
Washington reports no immediate call-up of ground force reservists as the United States pursues Pueblo release through talks with North Korea. The State Department agrees to face-to-face discussions at Panmunjom while President Johnson orders continued bombing in Vietnam amid major communist assaults on South Vietnamese cities. Military sources note no current Reserve or National Guard call-up.
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Washington
United States
Asia
State Department
U.S
North Korea
Pueblo
Panmun
Johnson
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Pentagon
Army Reserve
National Guard
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