Nations Owing U.S. Money Drain Our Gold Supply
France leads a list of 25 nations that drained U.S. gold during fiscal 1966 while also owing money. The report notes four debtors added to U.S. gold, and three nondebtors sold gold to the Treasury. France alone drew and sold large sums, with ongoing monthly purchases halted in October amid decline.
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U.S
France
Washington
United States
Treasury
United Kingdom
Greece
Colombia
Morocco
Uncle Sam
Treasury Department
Canada
Switzerland
Vatican
North Viet Nam raids cost U S planes and pilots
U S headquarters says five planes shot down over North Viet Nam on Friday with six pilots missing and three American helicopters down near the Cambodian border. In Tay Ninh sector, Viet Cong mortars hit three American posts as U S forces report 14 Viet Cong killed and 14 found, part of Operation Attleboro bringing total Viet Cong deaths to 928.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U. S
North Viet Nam
Tass
Hanoi
196Th Light Infantry
Tay Ninh
1St Infantry Division
Dau Tieng
1St Division
U.S
Attleboro
Both Were West Pointers Mother of Two Tots Widowed For Second Time
Meadville Pennsylvania AP report details Mrs. Bernard Kistler a West Point graduate widow of two Army lieutenants killed in Viet Nam. She learned of her second husband s death just after giving birth to their son. The first husband Lt William Reach died on a Viet Nam battlefield 22 months earlier.
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Meadville, Pa
Viet Nam
Bernard Kistler
Methodists OK Merger Unites 11 Million Into Denomination
Delegates at general conferences of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church approved a merger that would create the United Methodist Church, the nation’s largest Protestant body. Methodist votes totaled 749 to 40 and EUB approval was 325 to 8, with ratification needed by regional conferences.
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Chicago
United States
United Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Southern Baptist Convention
EUB
Deadline Set For Georgia Governor Selection Plan
A three judge federal panel in Georgia ordered the state to devise a legal method to pick a governor without legislative choice. If no plan is presented by November 25 a remedy will be issued, possibly triggering a runoff under a 1964 state law within a month. Ellis Arnall led a strong write in but Maddox won the Democratic primary.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Howard H. Callaway
Lester G. Iaddox
Ellis G. Arnall
Arnall
Maddox
Coldest Weather Spreads Across North Central Region
The season's coldest air drives sub zero readings in Montana Minnesota and the Dakotas with freezing temperatures spreading south into the Texas Panhandle and upper Midwest. Snow falls in the Great Lakes area while heavy rain drenches the Deep South and Texas coast with flooding and travel disruptions reported.
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North Central
Montana
Minnesota
Dakotas
Texas Panhandle
Midwest
Upper Great Lakes
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Texas
Beaumont
Gulf Coast
Lamarque
Galveston
Lakeview
Port Arthur
Abbeville
Alabama
Fort Benning
Fordoche
Baton Rouge
Mercury
Wilmington
N.C
Boston
Providence
R. I
Bismarck
N. D
Pedestrian Clara Hall Dies After Being Struck Near Home
State Police report 78 year old Clara E. Hall of McClure was killed Friday when struck by a car as she stepped onto Route 17 near her home to retrieve a pet animal.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Clara E. Hall
McClure
Gemini 12 crew photograph solar eclipse from space
Cape Kennedy AP reports Gemini 12 astronauts Lovell and Aldrin photographed a solar eclipse from 11:15 am as Aldrin opened a hatch to shoot stars. The two hour spacewalk was planned after the eclipse, with brief air-out phenomena noted and stars visible around them during orbit at 17 500 mph.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Edwin EF
Buzz) Aldrin Jr
Aldrin
James A. Lovell Jr
Globe
Edwin E. Aldrin
Sirius
Atlantic
Lovell
Peru
Bolivia
Brazil
Argentina
Roger
Mission Control
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
Galapagos Islands
Earth
Bulletins of a deadly Mesa beauty school attack
A 16 year old, Robert E. Smith of Mesa, shot six people at a Mesa beauty school. Five women and a mother and daughter were killed. two other victims were seriously injured. Smith was arrested at the scene while reportedly laughing. Police described he forced victims to lie on the floor and fired from around a wheel-like ring.
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Mesa, Ariz
E. L. Cockrell
Robert E. Smith
Mesa
Joyce Sellers
Debra
Mary Margaret Olsen
Glenda Carter
Carol Farmer
Williams Air Force Base
Mesa Southside District
Tom Freestone
Fathers of 40 Children On Missing Plane
At Otis Air Force Base investigators probe the second Atlantic radar plane crash in 16 months. The Constellation went down 125 miles southeast of Nantucket Island killing 19 crew members, most of whom were married with 40 children. A fishing boat reported the wreck after seeing the aircraft plunge into the sea in fog and rain at 1:30 a.m.
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Otis Air Force Base
Mass
Air Force
Atlantic
Constellation
Nantucket Island
James Lyle
551St Early Warning and Control
New Bedford
Stephen R
Two Hunters Rescued After Night in Cold Woods
Gates Beck, 70, of Stamford Connecticut, and James Hunter, 58, of Water town New York, were lost near Long Pond northeast of Lowville and walked to safety after a night in rain and 30 degree temps. They returned to their camp around 9 a.m. in good condition.
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Lowville
N.Y
Adirondack Forest
Gates Beckwith
Stamford
Florence flood victims face long wait for aid and cold
In Florence, Italy, residents line up for emergency food as rescue efforts lag eight days after floods and landslides. Giulio Ceva Grimaldi, 40, and his wife, both ruined, share rations while forecasts warn of harsher winter ahead. He notes many will feel hunger when paychecks stop and the cold sets in.
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Florence
Florentine
Giulio Ceva-Grimaldi
Piazza Vecchio
Italy
Ceva Grimaldi
Giuliana
Two Jersey Men Hurt In Plane Crash
Two New Jersey men bound for Adirondacks hunting were injured when their single engine plane crash landed at Adirondack Airport. Pilot Louis S. Sanders, passenger Robert Mogni, 55, both Union City residents, were hospitalized. Sanders sustained a broken right leg, Mogni a broken right shoulder and possible concussion. The four seat Beechcraft cartwheeled at strip end after engine failure. Mogni walked free but Sanders was pinned inside.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
New Jersey
Adirondacks
Adirondack
Here
Louis S. Sanders
Robert Mogni
Union City
Saranac Lake General Hospital
Sanders
Mogni
New Congress Faces Diverse Freshmen Faces
The incoming House members include 59 Republicans and 4 Democrats starting in January. Most are middle aged lawyers, married, and joiners of groups, with an average age near 44. Notable newcomers include Alaska's Howard Pollock, ex Olympian Robert Mathias, Arkansas’ David Pryor, and Maine’s Peter Kyros.
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Washington
House
Alaska
Howard W. Pollock
GOP
Robert Bruce Mathias
California
David Pryor
Arkansas
Pryor
Congress
Peter Kyros
Maine
Annapolis
Young Mother Receives City Help After Mother Leaves
Nine year old Bubbles Smollen has cared for her father and five siblings since her mother Teresa vanished Oct 4. Welfare officials placed 20 year old Cynthia Jones in the household to stay during the investigation as neighbors and strangers rallied to assist the family in New York City.
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NEW York
Bubbles Smollen
Cynthia Jones
Smollen
Cynthia
Smollens
Mitchell I. Ginsberg
Miss Jones
William Smollen
Theresa
Bubbles
Johnson to Spend Quiet Weekend at Texas Ranch
President Johnson promised a quiet weekend at his Texas ranch after meetings with top advisers on the budget and State of the Union. The latest visitor was Ambassador Averell Harriman, returning from an 11 nation tour with hopes for progress in British Soviet talks on Vietnam and a scheduled November 21-23 meeting.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Texas
W .Averell Harriman
Viet Nam
Harriman
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