New York Pharmacists Vote to Stop Medicaid Prescriptions
Hundreds of New York City pharmacists voted to stop filling Medicaid prescriptions in protest over payment delays. The action was organized by Emergency Committee for Pharmacy and Public Health, representing about 1,300 to 1,400 participating druggists. The city said prescriptions would be filled at 21 municipal hospitals and through several drug store chains. Other Medicaid items included a physician defending colleagues against abuse charges and a state senator warning Rockefeller cuts would impact Medicaid.
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New York
New York City
Emer
Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefellers
Marines Enter Hue Citadel as Assaults, Executions Reported
In Hue, 300 civilians were said to be executed south of the Citadel as Lt Col Phan Van Khoa reported mass graves. U.S. Marines entered the Citadel from the Perfume River and northern walls while airstrikes pounded Communist forces in Hue and ongoing fighting continued in Saigon and suburbs around the Tan Son Nhut area.
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Hue
Perfume River
U.S
George McArthur
Phan van Khoa
Sagon
Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Joe Holloway
199Th Brigade
South Korea Leader Considers Meeting LBJ After Vance Talks
Seoul reports President Park weighing a trip to Washington if Cyrus Vance fails to quell U.S. South Korea rift over security. Vance met Park, U.N. Korea command discussed North Korean infiltrations, Pueblo crew issues, and possible talks with Pyongyang.
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Seoul
Chung Hee Park
Johnson
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Park
United States
Pueblo
South
Washington
Vance Park
U.N
Korea
North Korea
Garbage Removal Continues as Lindsay and Rockefeller Clash
New York City sanitation crews resume work after Gov. Rockefeller places 10 000 workers under state control to end a nine day illegal strike. Mayor Lindsay denounces the move as a threat to home rule while awaiting a possible three day delay in legislation. Public sentiment appears split.
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Sanitationmen's Association
Lindsay
National Guard
Union
Two Navy Jets Crash Into San Francisco Bay Bridge
Two Navy jet trainer pilots perished in a crash into the San Francisco Bay Bridge during thick fog. Lt. Anthony P. Miller and Lt. Bruce C. Turnbull, both 30s, were from Reserve Attack Squadron 773 at Los Alamitos. A tanker truck driver witnessing the event described flames raining down as the crash ignited jet fuel.
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Alameda Naval Air Station
Coast Guard
Navy
Anthony P. Miller
Palm Desert
Calif
Bruce C. Turnbull
Los Angeles
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
California
Ronald Terry
Elebrante
AFL-CIO Supports Rockefeller Stand on City Strike
Raymond R. Corbett, head of New York AFL-CIO, telegraphed Gov. Rockefeller praising his rejection of bayonets to resolve the New York City garbage strike. He congratulated Rockefeller for equitably and swiftly solving the sanitation problem and condemned the handling of the strike as a menace to public health and welfare.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
New York City
Afl-Cio
Raymond R. Corbett
Gov. Rockefeller
The
Labor Organization
Corbett
Playwright Howard Lindsay Dead at 78 in New York
Howard Lindsay noted actor director and playwright died Sunday of leukemia at 78 in New York. Famous for Life With Father he co authored it with Russel Crouse and wrote major works including State of the Union Arsenic and Old Lace Anything Goes Call Me Madam and The Sound of Music earning a Pulitzer and a Tony in 1960. Lindsay was born in Waterford New York on March 29 1889 and studied at Boston Latin School Harvard and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Howard Lindsay
Lindsay
Russel Crouse
Dorothy Stickney
Lindsay-Crouse Association
Crouse
State of the Union
Irving Berlin
Ethel Merman
Mary Martin
Antoinette Perry
Waterford
N.Y
1889
Boston Latin School
Harvard University
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Strong earthquake record traced to distant China Sea
Fordham University seismograph in New York logged a very strong quake at 1:04 a.m. local time, likely in the China Sea, with an estimated 8,800 mile distance from New York, according to a university spokesman.
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University
the University
Harvard Radcliffe students begin four day Vietnam war protest fast
Four hundred thirty five Harvard and Radcliffe students start a four day fast in Cambridge to protest the Vietnam War. A spokesman says about 100 Boston University students join in sympathy with the Harvard protest.
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Harvard
Radcliffe
Vietnam
Boston University
Israeli Jordanian clash near Gesher raises tensions
Israeli army says an hour long machine gun battle occurred across the Jordan River near Gesher in the Beisan Valley with a heavy tank and artillery clash the previous day. A spokesman said Jordanian forces started the fire and there were no casualties.
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Jordan River
Gesher
Beisan
Flat tires delay bus fleet at Fairport schools
Forty two of forty eight buses in Fairport Central School District were deflated overnight, delaying about 4,500 students by a full hour. Officials blamed vandals who released air from the right front tires while the buses were parked outside the school building. six remaining buses were in a garage.
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Rochester
N.Y
Fairport Central School
Death of Jan Sangh chief triggers alert across cities
Police in New Delhi and other cities go on high alert after the death of D. D. Upadhyaya president of the Jan Sangh a right wing party founded in 1952. His body was found Sunday on a railway platform at Moghal Sarai in Uttar Pradesh about 20 miles southeast of New Delhi.
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D. D. Upadhyaya
Jan Sangh Party
Moghulsarai
Utter Pradesh
Fire tears through business block destroying shops and apartments
A fire swept a business block early today destroying two stores a dental office and three apartments. Six other businesses and seven more apartments were damaged. About 50 firemen with 20 apparatus battled near zero temperature for three hours before the flames were controlled.
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Rochester, N.Y
Negro boycott of white firms in Orangeburg demands civil rights gains
In Orangeburg South Carolina Negroes launched a boycott of white businesses to press for civil rights gains and the immediate removal of National Guard troops. They also demanded the immediate suspension of law enforcement officers responsible for police brutality.
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Orangeburg
S.C
National Guard
U Thant Seeks Vietnam Peace Gains With Soviet Leaders
U Thant met with Premier Kosygin and Communist leader Brezhnev in Moscow for a second day of talks on Vietnam peace. Pravda affirmed support for Hanoi's terms while Thant planned to brief Harold Wilson in London. Wilson backs Johnson's San Antonio formula for negotiations.
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Thant
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Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Kosygin
London
Harold Wilson
Johnson
San Antonio
Ments
Indochina
Soviet Union
India
New Delhi
George Brown
Wilson
New York
Lan
Tex
North Vietnam
Demo Joins GOP Senators In Lincoln Birthday Tribute
In Washington a Southern Democrat joins Republicans in Lincoln Day observances. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. of Virginia praises Lincoln as a great president and reflects on his legacy and the Civil War era. Byrd notes Lincoln's call for charity, and keeps Lincoln imagery in his office and desk.
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Washington
Senate
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Harry F. Byrd Jr
D-Va
Byrd
Hope Opens Madison Square Garden With Benefit Show
The new Madison Square Garden debuted in New York with Bob Hope headlining a USO benefit. Rocky Marciano and Hope staged a playful fight that became a waltz as audience members cut in. Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney appeared among the cheering crowd.
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Madison Square Garden
New York
Bob Hope
USO
New Garden
Astrodome
Rocky Marciano
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Fire Kills 24 in Two Families Across Countries
Fires in Franklin Pennsylvania and Howick Quebec killed 24 people including 18 children from two families. An Acapulco hotel blaze left four dead and over 20 injured, with a US citizen among the victims. Hong Kong tenement fire killed 18 Chinese.
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Howich
Que
Montreal
Acapulco
Mexico
Howick
Hong Kong
Pennsylvania
Red Cross
Robert Mayo Davis
Raleigh
N.C
Majestic
Rockefeller seeks approval for plan to take over NYC sanitation
Gov Rockefeller asks Legislature to approve his temporary takeover of the City Sanitation Department to end the NYC sanitation workers strike. Democrats show support while Republicans stay silent, with Assembly Speaker Travia signaling possible early consideration and Senate Leader Brydges expressing doubt. Lindsay accuses Rockefeller of capitulating to blackmail.
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Gov. Rockefeller
New York City
Senate
Earl W. Brydges
Rockefeller
Brydges
Brydges Long
Lindsay
Sanitation Workers’ Union
Assembly
Travia
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