Senate Public Quiz on Viet Nam Policy Resumes Friday
Washington AP reports the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to reopen public hearings on U S Viet Nam policy at 8 30 a m EST Friday. Critics and supporters of renewed bombing in North Vietnam will be questioned with another session planned for 6 30 p m EST. Chairman Fulbright, Mansfield, Hartke and Aiken weigh U N debate, the bombings, and prospects for an honorable settlement as light is promised on international affairs. The panel seeks to advance debate amid Senate session rules and U N discussion.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Viet Nam
J. W. Fulbright
Fulbright
U.N
Senate
United States
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
Mike Mansfield
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Johnson
Council
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Three Children And Bus Driver Die In Brooksville Crash
A Brooksville Florida school bus carrying about 35 students collided with a loaded truck trailer. The bus driver Mrs Lillian Hicks about 45 died along with her son Basil 7 Randy Anderson about 10 and his sister Kim about 7. Ten children hospitalized and 21 treated for minor injuries. The crash happened at State 41 and US 98 about six miles east of Brooksville near Tampa.
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Brooksville
Fla
Lillian Hicks
Basil
Randy Anderson
Kim
Sim Loman
State 41
U.S. 98
Tampa
Florida
Operation Masher cripples North Vietnamese regiment
Allied spokesmen say the 10 day campaign in Bong Son coastal lowlands near Saigon dealt the heaviest blow to North Vietnamese units yet. They report 707 enemy killed, 514 by the 1st Cavalry division, 120 captured, and up to 75 percent of 506 detainees identified as Viet Cong. Weather hampered damage assessment from air strikes, with no Allied planes lost.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Bong Son
North Viet Nam
U.S. 1St Cavalry
U.S. Air Force and Navy
Two-Front Attack on Viet Policy Challenge to LBJ
A nationwide Senate debate on Vietnam policy shows hawks and doves sharing concern that the U.S. is drifting into a larger conflict. They press President Johnson for a clearer plan while fearing an open-ended, undeclared war with China or possible nuclear risks, amid constitutional questions about war authority.
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LBJ
Washington
Senate
Hawks
Doves
United States
Johnson
Dean Rusk
Viet Nam
Fulbright
Congress
United Nations
Korea
China
Soviet Union
Africans Seek U N Help in Settling Viet Nam War
Africans on the United Nations Security Council, Mali Nigeria and Uganda, weigh ways the council could aid in settling the Viet Nam war. They aim to build a general agreement before the council debates Viet Nam and may seek a Geneva conference solution with fewer conditions. The U S has a proposal for unconditional discussions to implement 1954 and 1962 Geneva accords, likely to face Soviet veto.
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U. N
United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Security Council
Viet Nam
Mali
Nigeria
Uganda
United States
Indochina
U.S
Luna 9 Set for Moon Touchdown at 4 16 P M EST
Moscow reports Luna 9, the unmanned Soviet moon spacecraft, will reach the moon shortly after midnight tonight at 4 16 P M EST. Officials have not released details since its launch was announced three days ago. Luna 9 aims for a soft landing to transmit lunar surface observations, signaling a US lead in the moon race.
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Moscow
United States
Pickets Back On Campuses Of St. John's
On the Queens and Brooklyn campuses of St. John's University picket lines resume as teachers strike nears five weeks. More than 100 strikers vow to stay out until impartial hearings for dismissed teachers. Union leaders say 31 professors were fired over an academic freedom dispute.
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New York
Queens
Brooklyn
St. John’s University
Israel Kugler
United Federation of College Teachers
Peter O’reilley
St. John's
Negro Handyman Dives Testimony In Mossler Trial
In Miami the Mossler murder trial turns to Roscoe Brown a Negro handyman and chauffeur as the state builds a circumstantial case against Candace Mossler and her nephew Melvin Lane Powers. Brown’s testimony aims to place Powers at the scene during the 1964 killing of Jacques Mossler with 39 wounds. The defense contests motives tied to the sprawling Mossler fortune and cash offers.
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Miami
Fla
Candace
Candace Mossler
Melvin Lane Powers
Roscoe Brown
Mossler
Richard Gerstein
Jacques
Brown
Powers
Florida
Jerry Evans
Mine Collision Kills Nine, Injures Twenty-One in England
In Rotherham at the Silver Wood coal mine two vehicles collided 2,500 feet underground. Nine men were killed and 21 injured while being carried to the coal face in a paddy mail, as a shift began to relieve another. The colliery employs about 2,000 workers, one of South Yorkshire’s largest.
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Rotherham
England
Silverwood
South Yorkshire
Fire guts Hirsch's Mens Shop in Norwich New York
Flames gutted Hirsch's Mens Shop in Norwich Chenango County early today causing extensive interior and store damage. Several firemen were injured as a false ceiling collapsed in the first floor of the three story frame building. Owner Harry Turkenish called the structure a total loss though no damage estimates were given.
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Norwich
N.Y
Hirsch’s Mens
Chenango County
Harry Turkenish
Blizzard Strands Syracuse as Snow Closes City Streets
In blizzard stricken New York, Syracuse and Oswego face heavy travel disruption with 160 miles of main streets opened by 50 pieces of equipment while 240 miles of secondary roads stay blocked. Hundreds of cars remain buried and buses jammed as Civil Defense and Red Cross deliver food and medicine.
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New York State
Weather Bureau
Lake Ontario
Oswego
Oswego County
Pennellville
Pompey
Paul Phillips
Albany-area
Red Cross
Canandaigua
Geneseo
Batavia
New York City
Warren
Saratoga
Albany
Schenectady
Montgomery
Rockefeller
State Highway Department
Ralph Shapiro
Syracuse Chamber of Commerce
Onondaga County
New Snow Falls Across Drifted Northeast
New snow from flurries to about two inches settled over the drift packed Northeast while snowbound residents continued digging out. Cold pushed into the South with freezes to northern Florida, and a West storm brought rain along the Pacific coast. Oswego New York faced a continuing drift emergency with 102 inches of snow and 20 to 30 foot drifts.
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Associated Press
Florida
Pacific
Half Moon Bay
California
Tatoosh Island
Wash
Upper Plains
Oswego
N. Y
Lake Ontario
Syracuse
Binghamton
Wilmington
Del
Blairsville
Salisbury
Onondaga County
New York
Redistricting and Taft-Hartley clash shift to cloture
In Washington, Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield weighs a cloture petition to end the union shop debate on Taft-Hartley 14B, signaling a possible Friday filing and a Monday vote if the session proceeds. In Albany, Democrats and Republicans push toward a grudging compromise on new Senate and Assembly districts before the February 15 court deadline, with leaders Travia and Brydges reporting progress.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
States
Albany
N.Y
Assembly
Anthony J. Travia
Earl W. Brydges
Travia
Brydges
Flame thrower used by workers causes blaze at yard
In Buffalo New York Central freight yard railroad workers using a flame thrower to clear snow sparked a fire on a work car. Firemen battled the blaze after Wednesday night report of an apparent careless release of flammable liquid.
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Buffalo
N.Y
New York Central
Federal agencies ready to aid blizzard damaged areas
Eight federal agencies were alerted to prepare for potential requests to help Upstate New York after a severe blizzard. Senators Javits and Kennedy asked agencies to stand by, with requests to originate through the state. Kennedy named the Emergency Planning Office and others. Javits contacted Defense, Agriculture, Public Roads, Army Corps, and Public Health Service.
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Washington
New York
Jacob K. Javits
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
D-N.y
Office of Emergency Planning
Interstate Commerce Commission
Agriculture Department
Javits
R-N. Y
Defense and Agriculture Departments
Bureau of Public Roads
Army Corps of Engineers
The
Public Health Service
Guaranteed Annual Income: Plan for All U. S. Families
A blue ribbon commission urged President Johnson and Congress to guarantee a minimum annual income for every American family. The cost ranges from 2 to 20 billion dollars, with about 35 million people possibly affected if set at 3000 dollars a year. The 210 page report by the National Commission on Technology Automation and Economic Progress urges further study of this and other ambitious recommendations.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
National Commission On Technology, Automation and Economic Progress
Thomas J. Watson Jr
IBM Corp
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Syracuse man dies shoveling snow amid blizzard
Ernest E. Lines of Syracuse died of an apparent heart attack while shoveling snow in front of his house. His death raises the statewide storm toll to 26 fatalities from the blizzard earlier in the week.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Ernest E. Lines
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