Saturn 1 launches Pegasus Satellite into orbit at Cape Kennedy
A Saturn 1 rocket lifted Pegasus into orbit to study meteoroids and space debris. The satellite will record impacts at 136000 mph with wing like panels extending 96 feet as NASA monitors debris dangers for future manned missions.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Antigua Island
Atlantic
Space Agency
Pegasus
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gape Kennedy
Flight Control Center
U N Assembly Hopes to Close Shop Till Sept
The United Nations General Assembly planned a recess through Sept 1 to allow a study committee led by Alex Quaison-Lackey to examine peacekeeping disputes and whether Article 19 can suspend voting rights for nonpaying nations. An interim budget must be approved before recess.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
U.N
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Alex Quaison-Lackey
Ghana
Soviet Union
France
United Nations
Justice Douglas Descends Sandia Peak in Nine Hour Trek
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas with four companions spent about nine hours descending the treacherous Sandia Mountain trail near Albuquerque. The group faced a snowfield of 500 feet and a long canyon drop, using ropes and winter gear to reach a campground as night fell.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Douglas
la Luz
Sandia Mountain
Forest Service
Washington
Fred H. Kennedy
U.S. Forest Service
Pat Murray
Cibola National Forest
John Blackwood
Robert Nordhaus
Yale University
Southwest
Los Angeles
U S Estimates Chinese Prepare for Second Nuclear Test
A State Department spokesman said the United States believes Communist China is preparing for a second nuclear test. He noted the second explosion would likely use information from the first test on October 16 and judged its military significance as similar to the initial blast.
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Washington
State Department
United States
China
Robert J. McCloskey
McCloskey
Surgeons Separate Siamese Twin Girls in Houston
Surgeons separated Webber Siamese twins at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Both infants, joined by a membrane around the heart, were reportedly doing well after the successful 11 30 a m operation. The twins were born December 8 to Mr and Mrs John Webber Jr of Bay City.
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Houston
Tex
John Webber Jr
Bay City
Texas Children’s Hospital
Cole
Santa Monica
Calif
Nat King Cole
Maria Cole
St. John’s Hospital
British Broadcasting Co
London
Los Angeles
Group Charges Mississippi Fails To Meet Obligations to Negroes
The Mississippi advisory committee to the U S Civil Rights Commission says police brutality economic pressure and night riders push Black residents to accept inferiority or fear. The 19 page report notes some progress such as voter registration desegregation and officials testimony while detailing intimidation and reprisals.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
A. B. Britton Jr
Greenville
Gulfport
McComb
Dems Push $1 Million Budget Cut Along with Salaries
In Albany the Democratic majority targets at least $100 million from Governor Rockefeller's $3.48 billion budget as part of a broader plan to trim legislative payrolls by $1 million. The move accompanies changes to assemble leadership and committee appointments amid a power struggle and tax-raising proposals.
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Robert T. Gray
Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
Virgin Islands
Travia
Paul A. Worlock
Rome
Assembly
Moses Weinstein
Worlock
Senate
Kosygin Demands Americans Leave South Viet Nam
Premier Alexei Kosygin called for a full American retreat from South Viet Nam in a public statement issued on Izvestia front page. The message, delivered after his 11 day Far East trip and meetings with Brezhnev, signaled no change in Soviet policy toward Vietnam.
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Alexei N .Kosygin
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Red China
Kosygin
Far East
Hanoi
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Izvestia
Cambodia
North Korea
Viet Nam
ACLU Opposes Klan Investigation Effort
The ACLU expresses opposition to a House Un American Activities Committee inquiry into the Ku Klux Klan and related groups. It argues the committee lacks authority to investigate political beliefs while condemning Klan violence. Rep Weltner supports probing the Klan as a political threat.
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New York
American Civil Liberties Union
Ku Klux Klan
Civil Liberties
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Willis
Washington
the Minutemen
American Nazi Party
ACLU
Charles L. Weltner
Dga
House
Rockefeller Seeks Strong Weapons To Fight Crime
Governor Rockefeller asks the Legislature for a broad anti crime package featuring an electronic state identification and intelligence system for police use, standardized police officer qualifications, and pistol licensing reforms. The bills aim to professionalize policing and curb gun access while expanding crime data access statewide.
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Albany
N.Y
Rockefeller
New York City
Nassau
Suffolk
Eew Police Training Coun
Four Plot To Blow Up Washington Monument
Federal agents arrested four conspirators in New York and Philadelphia as they uncovered a planned attack on the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty, and the Liberty Bell. The arrests followed a cache of dynamite found in the Bronx and involved a Canadian woman. The four defendants face possible penalties up to 10 years and $10,000 fines.
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Bronx
Riverdale
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United Nations
W. 239Th St
Blackstone Avenue
Beverly Hills
Canada
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
New York City
Robert S. Collier
Walter A. Bowe
Khaleel S. Sayyed
Michelle Duclos
Hoover
New York Harbor
Washington Monument
White House
Washington
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Collier
Boston
State Department
Cuba
Black Liberation Front
Manhattan
Lowell Institute School
Cambridge
Mass
New York Public Library
Air Force
London
Bowe
Henry Street Settlement House
Howard University
Fidel Castro
Fair Play For Cuba
Sayyed
Brooklyn
School of Engineering
Miss Duclos
Quebec
Rassemblement Pour L’independence Nationale
Montreal
E. 10Th St
W. List St
Saigon installs new government headed by Phan Van Quat
In Saigon a new regime led by former foreign minister Phan Van Quat and a 20 member legislative council were installed by Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh. The council combines military and civilian representatives and aims to precede an elected legislature though real power remains with the military. The U S embassy welcomed the shift as a step from an interim phase.
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Washington
US S
South Viet Nam
Mekong River
Saigon
McGeorge Bundy
U.S
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Phan Huy Quat
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Korea
Australia
Canada
France
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Greece
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Japan
Malaysia
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Thailand
Britain
Spain
Phan van Quat
Nguyen Khanh
Quat
Legislative Council
Khanh
Pham Xuan Chieu
Taipei
Navy
Chung Tan Cang
Bui Quang Trach
Doan Chi Khoan
Nguyen Phuc Que
Do Tan Cong
Cao Dai
Hoa Hao
Nguyen
Icy Cold Stings Midwest States
The Associated Press reports sub zero temperatures across seven Midwest states with Hibbing Minnesota at 27 below. Arctic air stretched from Minnesota to the Dakotas Nebraska Iowa Wisconsin and Upper Michigan with light national precipitation and brief storms in Kansas Oklahoma and the northern Texas Panhandle.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Central Plains
Minnesota
Mercury
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Texas
Weather Bureau
Pacific Northwest
U S Taxpayer Slows IRS Returns Over Withholding
Washington AP reports taxpayers are delaying income tax returns due to under withholding from the 1964 tax cut. In early 1965 the IRS filed 6 percent fewer returns than last year, with many owing $50 or more likely delaying refunds. Revenue officials caution it is early to gauge a mass response.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
the Revenue Service
Revenue Service
Capri Snow Dashes Romance as Island Sees First Snow in 15 Years
Capri in the Bay of Naples reports the first snowfall in 15 years turning the sunlit island into a winter scene. Locals and visitors captured rare white coating over streets and limestone slopes.
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Capri
Italy
Bay of
Naples
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