South Viet forces rout Viet Cong battalion near DMZ
A South Vietnamese task force with air and artillery support crushed a Viet Cong 708th Mobile Battalion within five miles of Dong Ha, killing about 150. Meanwhile Marines near Con Thien and Camp Carrol pounded bunkered North Vietnamese positions on a nearby ridge as fighting continued below the demilitarized zone across five provinces.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Dong Ha
Quang Tri City
Con Thien
Camp Carrol
South
Oswego Board to Compare Elementary and Jr High Additions
Oswego Board of Education unanimously directed administration and the architect to prepare cost estimates for two expansion plans within a five million dollar bonding limit. The Leighton and Riley school additions would add seven and ten classrooms respectively, with costs around 300000 for Leighton and similar figures for Riley.
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Oswego Board of Education
Oswego High School
Eben J. Poland
Leighton
Riley
Albert Arnold
Beryl Lewis Hill
Jane Kidney
Ronald Carpenter
Arnold
Poland
Court of Appeals Upholds State Textbook-Loan Law
A two-part report covers a Pennsylvania bus crash near Morgantown injuring several sixth graders from Trenton ES Willey school and a separate Albany update where the Court of Appeals upholds public funding for parochial school textbooks under the Blaine Amendment, framing the program as aiding children rather than churches.
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Court of Appeals
Morgantown
Trenton
N.J
Hershey
Ephrata
ES. Willey
Albany
N.Y
State Capitol Hill
John F. Scileppi
Capitol
Moon Surveyor 3 Hopes Fade After Silent Return
In Pasadena California AP reports Surveyor 3, a 620 pound lunar probe, landed in a crater on April 19 but failed to answer Earth commands. With the onset of a two week lunar night temperatures plunge to 250 degrees below zero, scientists fear the craft was damaged during the first night after nine days of attempts. The current night likely ends any chance of reestablishing contact.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Moon
Earth
Powell Ordered to Appear in New York for Contempt Hearing
Albany N Y AP Congresssman Adam Clayton Powell must appear in New York City to answer contempt of court charges the state Court of Appeals ruled The decision followed other rulings including a life sentence for Winston Moseley in the Kitty Genovese killing and a reversed conviction for Brian Marsh on a gambling charge The Powell ruling upheld lower court contempt findings and ordered an examination of his fiscal affairs
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Albany, N.Y
Adam Clayton Powell
New York City
Court of Appeals
Powell
Winston Moseley
Katherine
Kitty) Genovese
Miss Genovese
Helr
Moseley
Brian Marsh
Marsh
Mayor Declares Health Crisis In Manhattan
Mayor John V. Lindsay declared a health emergency in Manhattan as garbage piled up under a warming sun. He ordered legal steps to enjoin landlords from conspiring to stop essential services and said sanitation crews could cross picket lines to clear refuse from 1,000 buildings. The move aims to curb waste buildup amid an eight day building service strike with estimated overtime costs of 135000 dollars.
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NEW York
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
J. Lee Rankin
State Supreme Court
Sanitation Department
Sanitation
Samuel Kearing
Four Stevedores Dead in Buffalo Freighter Blaze
A fire in a hold of the Norwegian freighter Thorstream in Buffalo harbor killed four Buffalo men Paul Cook 24 Paul Smith and Robert Conrad and Henry Janora from Elma. Six others escaped and five were hospitalized as chlorine gas from chemical containers fed the blaze. The ship 479 feet long built in 1960 registered Sandefjord Norway owned by A.S. Odd & AS.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Buffalo Harbor
Niagara Falls
Africa
Thorstream
Sandefjord
Norway
A.S. Odd & AS. Orwen
Paul Cook
Paul Smith
Robert Conrad
Henry Janora
Elma
Food Plan Near $543 Million Approved by House Panel
The House Appropriations Committee endorsed a $542.7 million 1968 food program bill funding free or reduced price milk and meals for needy families and schoolchildren. It also allocates $195 million for the food stamp program and $314 million for rural electrification loans, with 35 year terms at 2 percent interest. The bill reduces 1967 funding by about $251 million.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
of. Agriculture
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Two Israelis and a Syrian killed in border clash
An armed clash on Israel's border with Syria left two Israelis and a Syrian dead. The incident occurred near Kfar Hanassi as four Syrians were returning to Syria. The report notes heightened war jitters across the region and references Gen. Moshe Dayan's appointment as defense minister.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Syria
Middle East
U S and Britain Seek Support for Blockade Declaration
U S and Britain press for a three point declaration backing free passage through the Egyptian blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. The plan seeks to curb Israel Egypt tensions and avoid war, with diplomacy as the primary path and a contingency for force if needed. Talks with Harold Wilson as he meets President Johnson mark high level strategy on the Middle East crisis.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Gulf of Aqaba
Israel
Egypt
U.S
Middle East
Harold Wilson
Johnson
Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Senate
House
Gulf of
Death Club talk blends with Cornell fires facts
Ithaca police investigate three fires tied to an elite Cornell group amid campus rumors of a Death Club. A faculty adviser discounts the club, while Fire Chief Weaver says a crime may have occurred. Fires damaged a seven-member doctoral program dorm, a dormitory from the April 5 blaze killed nine, including four students.
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Ithaca
N.Y
Cornell University
Charles M. Weaver
Ezekiel
France Declares No Support for War Starters
Paris AP report says President Charles de Gaulle warned that any nation that opened fire in the Middle East crisis would have France not approve nor support. He urged US, USSR, Britain, and France to seek joint resolution and affirmed every state in the region has the right to live. De Gaulle warned the worst outcome would be the start of hostilities.
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de Gaulle
United States
Britain
France
Washington
London
Egypt
Israel
Ria
Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gulf of Aqua
United Nations, N. Y
APY
Security Council
Middle East
Council
U.S
U.N
U Thant
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Soviet Union
Miniskirts Ban Issued by Governor Maddox Office
Gov. Lester Maddox forbids miniskirts in his office and tells aides to keep skirts to the knees and hair to the ears. The memorandum warns male employees in the executive department against growing hair long.
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Atlanta, Ga
Lester Maddox
Executive Department
Maddox
Johnson Dances With Showgirl at Dinner for Holt
President Johnson, in a dancing mood, twirled showgirl Barbara Williams during a White House state dinner for Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. The event featured the Marine Corps Band and a roving performance of show tunes from the past century as Holt, from a theatrical family, watched with nostalgia amid 130 guests while Johnson urged McNamara to go home.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
Barbara Williams
Marine Corps
Middle East
Vietnam
Harold Holt
Holt
Vera Pearce
London
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
North Portico
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USS. Command
North Vietnam
North
Moshe Dayan
Dayan
Kfar Hanassi
Jordan
Gulf
Elath
Levi Eshkol
David Ben-Gurion
Daves
Eshkol
Abba Eban
Tel Aviv
U. S
U. N
S. Viet
Cornell
Showgirl
A.m
Miss Williams
Wisconsin
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