Viet War Escalation Shocks Hanoi Radio Station Bombing
Reports from Saigon detail an intensified U S war effort including a strike on Radio Hanoi, ground battles near Hue, and heavy enemy movements in Quang Tri Thua Thien provinces. U S casualties rose to a record weekly high while Communist forces pressed the lunar new year offensives.
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Hue
Quang Tri
Thua Thien
North
Cuba Releases Stolen U S Plane After Miami Hijack
A gunman in white hat hijacked Delta Flight 843 from Tampa to Miami, detouring to Cuba with 109 aboard. The jet landed in Havana after five hours, then returned to Miami with the hijacker seeking asylum as Cuban jets escorted the aircraft. Passengers included golfer Barbara Romack. the man’s identity remained unclear.
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Delta Air Line Flight 843
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Havana
S. Wilson
Tampa
Lake Okeechobee
United States
Barbara Romack
Sacramento
Calif
U.S. Air Force
Homestead Air Force Base
Two Lockport Firemen Hurt In Big Blaze
In downtown Lockport two firemen were injured and hospitalized after a large fire destroyed three businesses and damaged a fourth. The blaze began at the rear of a dry cleaning store and also damaged a paint store. Damages were estimated at 75 000 to 100 000.
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Lockport
N.Y
Johnson Urges 26 Million Homes in Cities Plan
President Johnson asks Congress to set a 10 year goal to build 26 million new homes and apartments under The Crisis of the Cities. The plan calls for 2.34 billion in contracting authority in five years to create or rehab about 2.5 million housing units and expands FHA and VA loan support while insuring high risk urban areas.
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Florida’s public schools 1/3 closed as teachers rally
A survey shows 503 of Florida’s 1,549 schools closed with 24,731 teachers absent and 33,514 going to work. Gov. Claude Kirk urges return to classrooms while a contempt hearing looms over FEA officials for alleged injunction violations.
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Claude Kirk
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Kirk
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Snags Delay Development Of New Plane
Technical problems push the proposed supersonic transport program back by about a year delaying a 1000 mile per hour SST. Boeing of Seattle developing with federal subsidies would not comment. White House directed questions to the FAA.
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Boeing Co
Seattle
Wash
White House
Federal Aviation Administration
40 000 Reds Tighten Ring on Marines at Khe Sanh
AP reports 40 000 North Vietnamese surround Khe Sanh and close in within 300 yards of Marine positions amid fog. Tanks have been sighted near the airstrip as U S Marines defend a two mile square base. reinforcements are sought as battle lines are readied.
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South Korean Leader Rejects Appeasement Policy
Seoul reports President Park denounces negotiations with North Korea and urges military readiness. Separately in Alabama Gov. Lurleen Wallace, 41, hospitalized after medical treatment for possible cancer recurrence. aides expect an update after examination.
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Chung Hee Park
Montgomery
Ala
Lurleen Wallace
Two Boys Die in Fire In Mohegan Lake Home
A Mohegan Lake fire killed Darrell DiGirolamo ten and Dean DiGirolamo six on Wednesday night. Their parents and five other children escaped. two other children were hospitalized. The DiGirolamo family lived at the single dwelling where the blaze occurred.
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Dean Di-Girolamo
Vito DiGirolamo
South Vietnamese crackdown arrests rise to at least twelve
Saigon based sources report nine more arrests in the government crackdown, raising to at least twelve the number seized since Tuesday. The orders originated from top government levels, likely from President Nguyen Van Thieu or Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Wife shoots husband then dies in Holland tragedy
In Holland New York a 50 year old housewife Layton Charles 50 was found dead with his wife Eve Mae after she shot him and killed herself with a shotgun, according to the medical examiner. The couple were discovered in their home about 25 miles southeast of Buffalo on Wednesday.
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Holland, N.Y
Layton Charles
Eve Mae
Buffalo
GM Plant Hit by 650-Worker Strike in Massena
About 650 hourly workers from UAW Local 465 walked out after a 38 hour bargaining session failed to yield a contract. Wages seniority and local issues cited as sticking points amid the General Motors plant dispute in Massena New York.
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N.Y
General Motors
New York
United
Auto Workers Local 465
Dynamite theft tied to Soviet Embassy blast under review
Police and FBI investigate a link between the West Springfield Va dynamite theft and the Soviet Embassy explosion in Washington. Eighteen sticks of dynamite and 50 blasting caps were reported stolen before the blast shook the embassy near the White House. No injuries.
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Johnson
FBI
Virginia
West Springfield
White House
Former Senator Scott W. Lucas Dies at 74 in North Carolina
Former Democratic Senate majority leader Scott W. Lucas, 74, died in Rocky Mount Park View Hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was rushed from a Florida bound train and admitted at 10:40 p.m. Wednesday. death followed at 5:50 a.m. Thursday. Lucas, from Illinois, had practiced law in Washington and lived in Havana, Illinois, after his Senate career ended in 1950 when he was defeated by Everett Dirksen.
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N. C
Scott W. Lucas
Illinois
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Florida
Rufus Ratchford
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Washington
Havana
Ill
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Mother and five children die in Ohio house fire
Seven people perished in a small wooden home near Powhatan Point Ohio early today including 26 year old Mrs Cleve Stonebreaker and her five children Florence 12 Beiva 6 Carie Mae 5 Paul 2 and Cleve Jr 1 along with cousin Becky Wolfe 59. Father Cleve 32 and son Steve 10 survived badly burned after escaping through a window.
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Ohio
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Becky Wolfe
Cleve
Steve
Jackie Kennedy Denies Canada Marriage Rumors During Ski Trip
Mrs. John F. Kennedy took her children to Ste Agathe Quebec for a skiing holiday amid rumors she would marry Lord Harlech. Local hosts and a Timmins family spokesman denied any engagement plans and said they were simply there to ski.
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John F. Kennedy
Canada
Lord Harlech
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