Cold Wave Hits Nine States As Killer Storm Moves East
A deadly late winter storm sweeps into nine states from Wisconsin to Texas, delaying transportation and closing schools. Chicago records 36.5 inches after three storms, with up to 11 more in suburbia. many deaths linked to heart attacks and snow removal. Tornado warnings issued along Texas and Louisiana coasts as storms threaten the East with heavy snow and wind.
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Kosygin arrives for talks amid UK security and protests
London dispatch reports Soviet Premier Kosygin arriving for a week of talks with Harold Wilson on Vietnam and trade. Demonstrators at Gatwick frustrated by flight diversion. Kosygin to visit London electronic firms, a Scottish nuclear plant, a Marx tomb pilgrimage, and dine with Queen Elizabeth II. In Washington, President Johnson urges Congress to fund a $50 million anti crime program with federal cost sharing and expanded wiretap limits.
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Buckingham Palace
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Highgate Cemetery
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Congress
Capitol Hill
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Formr
Senate
John F. Kennedy
Congress Plans Short Recess With Debt Fight Looming
Washington AP reports Congress plans a Lincoln Birthday recess after tense debate over the national debt. The House will vote on raising the debt limit to 336 billion, after a 7 billion request was trimmed by the Ways and Means Committee. Powell case advised ongoing Senate debate on reorganization.
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Adam Clayton Powell
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Senate
Legislature Set to Curb Lobbyists at Convention
ALBANY New York AP The Legislature moves to tighten lobbyist rules for the upcoming State Constitutional Convention with a bill from Assembly Speaker Anthony J Travia. The measure would require all paid lobbyists to register with the Department of State and disclose financial transactions. The Senate leadership backs changes and the Assembly plans swift action once passed.
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Slayings in Saginaw May Be Linked in Two Couples
Police probe possible link between the killings of Karl Middeldorf, 63, and his wife Gertrude, 62, found bound and suffocated in their Saginaw home, and the deaths of prominent physician Dr Archer Claytor, 73, and his wife Marie, with both shots to the back of the head in a nearby ranch house.
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Arnold Middeldorf
Middeldorf
William Shea
Claytors
Robert Currie
Saginaw County
Currie
Michigan
Missing Swinburne Manuscript Pages Found in NY Bookshop
Syracuse University curator reports discovery of two missing pages from Algernon Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon, found by John S. Mayfield in a Manhattan store. Pages match the published manuscript. Mayfield bought them for under $100 and plans to donate to the university collection.
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N. Y
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John S. Mayfield
Swinburne
Lesbia Brandon
Manhattan
British Museum
Mayfield
Earl B. Mayfield
Texas
Herbert
University
Light Snow and Bitter Cold Hit New York State
Light snow coated much of New York as arctic air pushed temperatures below zero across the state. Frigid conditions linger through Tuesday with readings forecast to dip to 15 below in parts and 20 or more below in the Adirondacks. Travel slowed on snowy highways, traffic jams reported near Buffalo and along Route 240.
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Two Top Mao Foes Ousted in China Reports
In Tokyo a report cites ousting of Liu Shao chi and Teng Hsiao ping from top posts, with resistance to Mao’s purge continuing. Chinese and Japanese sources note ongoing power struggles across the party and government, including southwest China clashes and renewed protests.
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U S Troops Open New Drive Against Cong Jungle Bastion
U S troops push a major new ground operation in War Zone C named Operation Gadsden as air power and defoliation missions target Viet Cong routes. In South Vietnam, B52 raids and fighter sorties press attacks near Hanoi while ground forces report over 100 enemy killed in separate engagements.
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Xuan Mai
Gadsden
Newswoman Michele Ray freed after 21 days in Viet Cong captivity
Michele Ray a 28 year old French journalist and former Paris model was released after 21 days in Viet Cong captivity. She arrived at Hammond Air Strip near Phu Cat aboard a U S helicopter and appeared in good health. Ray had vanished January 17 while traveling with two Vietnamese students and was said to have planned the disappearance to shoot a war documentary.
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South Vietnam
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Paris
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Phu Cat
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Jean Ray
Nice
France
Quang Ngai
U.S
Somoza expected to win Nicaragua presidency
In Managua AP reports early returns from 101 of 2065 precincts show Gen Anastasio Somoza Jr leading the Nationalist Liberal party with 20,729 votes against Fernando Aguero’s Conservatives at 10,483 and Alejando Abaunza Marenco’s splinter faction at 454. About half a million votes cast with Somoza likely to exceed 60 percent. No violence but many opposition fraud complaints.
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Nicaragua
Somoza
Anastasio Somoza Jr
Liberal Party
Fernando Aguero
Alejandro Abaunza Marenco
Mobs Terrorize Soviet Families Quitting Peking
Wives and children from the Soviet embassy in Peking reported terror by Red Guards as hundreds of Russians marched on the Chinese embassy. A group of 97 dependents was held up at the airport for six hours amid a menacing crowd, with 60 children on the plane to Moscow. A second group of about 50 women and children also left Peking as foreign diplomats formed a protective corridor.
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Tass
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American art student held in East Berlin for months
Peter Feinauer, 27, from Providence Rhode Island, has been held by East German authorities in East Berlin for four months. Juergen Stange, his West Berlin lawyer, says no charges have been filed and Feinauer is not accused of helping escapes to the West. Four other Americans were released from East German prisons three days ago.
Paris denial blocks Vietnam peace signal to RFK visit
Newsweek reported Hanoi sent a three stage peace overture to Sen Robert Kennedy via the French foreign ministry during his Paris visit. Paris officials and the U S embassy denied any transmission. The Vietnamese mission formally denied the report and Kennedy declined to comment pending White House guidance.
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