Powell Refuses to Answer Questions at House Probe
A. C. Powell, a Harlem Democrat, refused to answer questions before a House committee probing his qualifications for seating in Congress. Chairman Emanuel Celler recessed the hearing after Powell invoked counsel and declined to be sworn, limiting responses to age citizenship and residency. The panel will advise on seating or barring him, with a February deadline. Powell has faced misconduct charges and contempt findings, and his attorneys argue a duly elected member must be seated if constitutionally qualified. Powell returned to Washington after months in the Bahamas.
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Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
New York
House
Congress
Emanuel Celler
Dn.y
Powell
Harlem
New York State
Celler
Education and Labor Committee
Bahamas
5S Group to Urge Lottery Draft of Younger Men First
Washington AP The National Commission on Selective Service will recommend to President Johnson next week a lottery draft and the induction of younger men first. The panel plans to keep student deferments while placing 18 and 19 year olds in 1A for a lottery, with exposure to the draft after graduation to remove uncertainty. Defense Department statistics show the average drafted age last year was 20.3 years.
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Washington
National Commission On Selective Service
Johnson
Commis
Sion
Defense Department
Department
Pontiff urges peace talks as lunar truce opens
Vatican City AP Pope Paul VI called on the United States and both Vietnams to turn the lunar new year truce into peace negotiations as Lent begins. He thanked President Johnson for the favorable U.S. response to prior papal peace appeals and voiced encouragement from Ho Chi Minh toward visiting churchmen in Hanoi.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
United States
North
South Vietnam
Johnson
U.S
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
Johnson Outlines Program to Aid Youths and Children
President Johnson proposed a broad plan to assist youths and children, expanding Head Start and boosting Social Security payments for kids. The program targets poverty with a longer, earlier preschool push and a follow through in early grades, stressing education and health as essential to development.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
U S and Soviet begin anti missile talks
Catholic priests at The Old Cathedral in Buffalo guided ash application on Ash Wednesday while carefully managing young women’s hairstyles.
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U. S
Soviet
Buffalo
N.Y
Old Cathedral
Democratic Regent Nomination Triggers GOP Clash in Albany
In Albany Republicans move to block Democrat Stephen K. Bailey from the State Board of Regents claiming he is ineligible as a university officer. Democrats defend Bailey as qualified, with approval 78 to 0 as Republicans abstain. Controversy stems from Onondaga County party split over preferred candidate.
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Albany
N.Y
Syracuse University
Stephen K. Bailey
State Board of Regents
GOP
Assembly
Anthony Travia
Bailey
Maxwell School of Citizenship
Travin
Board of Regents
Onondaga County
George Savage
Syracuse
James Barry
North
Syra
Kosygin offers Soviet help if bombing ends in Vietnam
Premier Kosygin told a banquet that the Soviet Union is ready to assist in seeking peace in Vietnam after the United States ceases bombing North Vietnam. He urged U S withdrawal to let the Vietnamese decide their own affairs and warned against rising extremism in West Germany.
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London
Alexei N. Kosygin
Soviet Union
Vietnam
United States
North Vietnam
West Germany
Kosygin
Below Zero Temperatures Grip New York State
Albany AP reports New Yorkers faced below zero weather statewide with readings as low as minus 39 at Wanakena and 39 below in seasonal cold. Only Central Park LaGuardia and Westhampton Beach stayed above zero overnight. Skies were mostly sunny with a forecast of scattered snow flurries Thursday as temperatures rise.
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N.Y
The
Weather Bureau
New York City
Central Park
LaGuardia Airport
Westhampton Beach
Wanakena
Adirondacks
Barneveld
Stillwater Reservoir
Johnstown
Glens Falls
Raybrook
Watertown
Poughkeepsie
Plattsburgh
Newburgh
Massena
Rome
Utica
Oneonta
Elmira
Syracuse
Buffalo
Binghamton
Rochester
Revelers Recall Cold But Festive Mardi Gras of ’67
In New Orleans the Mardi Gras turned unusually cold with a freezing high of 43 and many revelers in long underwear. Zulu showcased its grand float parade amid fewer spectators, while Rex and Comus parades drew large crowds. Police logged about 200 arrests as vendors faced slow sales due to the chill.
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New Orleans
Rex
Lynda Johnson Plans Royal Themed White House Dinner
Lynda Johnson will host a dinner dance for 50 guests on February 17 in honor of Princess Irene of Greece. Princess Irene, 24, has been visiting the United States for several weeks, and Lynda has met her several times. Luci Johnson Nugent and her husband Patrick Nugent have returned to Austin after visiting his parents in Illinois. Nugent is enrolled in two UT courses toward an MBA, while Luci may take a typing class in the spring.
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Washington
Lynda Johnson
White House
Luci
Austin
Tex
Patrick J. Nugent
Waukegan
Ill
Nugent
University of Texas
Lynda
Irene
Greece
United States
Priests Giving Ashes Careful of Girls Bangs
United States and the Soviet Union have begun talks to curb an antimissile defense arms race. Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance said discussions with the Soviets on avoiding billions in ballistic missile defense expenditures are underway. He spoke after a closed Senate Foreign Relations disarmament subcommittee session where the chairman backed the negotiations.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Cyrus R. Vance
Vance
Senate Foreign Relations Disarmament Subcommittee
26 Die in Montgomery Restaurant Fire
A fire started in a cloakroom and swept the rooftop dining room of Dale's Penthouse in downtown Montgomery, killing at least 26 people including a former state official indicted that day. Bodies were sent to four funeral homes for identification aided by FBI teams. cause remained undetermined. Ice froze on streets as responders battled the blaze late Tuesday night.
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Ala
FBI
W. T. Mallory
Dale's
Walter Bragg Smith
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
New Jersey
Richard
Public Service
Ed Pepper
Ann
Peppers
Pepper
Birmingham
PSC
Jack Doane
Montgomery Advertiser
Doane
Sidney Zagri
Teamsters Union
Washington, D.C
Lurleen Wallace
George C. Wallace
Executive Mansion
John English
Bill White
Dothan
Trucks Line
White
Jesse Williams
Blizzard Hits East Slows Snow Cleanup Across Region
Bitter cold slows efforts after a crippling blizzard as the East faces record snowfall and at least 39 deaths. New York City logs heavy snows while urban centers brace for business losses and airport disruptions.
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Philadelphia
New York City
Washington, D.C
Boston
New York
John Blum
R. H. Macy's
New York Area
Tasmania Fires Kill Dozens and Wipe Out Towns
Forty people are known dead and ten missing as bush fires driven by 70 mile per hour winds devastate southern Tasmania. About 612 homes and 50 other buildings burn, with Hobart and 12 towns ruined. The disaster forces emergency measures, evacuations, and long term relief plans as schools become makeshift hospitals and relief centers.
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Tasmania
Mabel Miller
Brighton
West
Margate
Harold Holt
New Zealand
Tasmanian
Eric Reece
Charles Gairdner
Mt. Wellington
West Virginia
Australia
U S Mind Open on Viet Trace Extension
The United States keeps an open mind about extending the four day lunar New Year cease fire in Vietnam. State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey declined to speculate on an extension, saying we will see what happens if Communist guns stay silent. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese want a seven day pause. U S and South Vietnam support only the shorter period. U N Ambassador Arthur Goldberg will undertake a globe spanning fact finding mission for President Johnson, visiting South Vietnam, not as a peace emissary.
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Washington
United States
Vietnam
Robert J. McCloskey
State Department
South Vietnam
U. S
Associated Press
Wilfred Burchett
North Vietnam
North
Burchett
East Berlin
Korea
Cambodia
Hanoi
U.N
Arthur J. Goldberg
Johnson
Goldberg
U.S
South Vietnamese
Thousands Begin 3 Day Fast for Viet Peace
Thousands of church members across more than 100 cities start a three day fast for peace in Vietnam beginning Ash Wednesday. Observers will endure only tea rice fruit juice and water with many groups planning worship at churches and synagogues while others continue daily work.
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New York
Vietnam
Washington
Lawmakers urge limit on Medicaid law in Albany
Senate and Assembly committees heard resolutions asking Congress to cap Medicaid. Sen. William T. Smith and Assemblyman Charles D. Henderson introduced the measures contending the law could bankrupt New York and urging Congress to allow lower income-eligibility levels.
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Albany
N.Y
Senate
Assembly
Congress
William T. Smith
Big Flats
U S Plane Downed as Lunar New Year Truce Begins
AP report from Saigon notes a US photo recon plane shot down in North Vietnam shortly after the truce began and about 22 clashes reported in South Vietnam during the first 10 hours. The RF101 jet was unarmed and the pilot rescued, marking the 472nd US plane lost over the north.
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South Vietnam
North Vietnam
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Dong Hoi
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