Travel Hazards and Taxes on Viet Nam Roads
Viet Namese civilians risk attack and extortion at Viet Cong checkpoints. Drivers pay taxes to the Viet Cong to pass. failures incur tank truck confiscation or mine danger. Esso asserts it pays contractor fees and condemns illicit taxes. French travelers and non-Vietnamese also face kidnapping and Government road tolls.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Ca Mau
Mekong Delta
da Nang
Hue
No-Man’s Land
Dalat
Esso
Associated Press
U.S. 173Rd Airborne Brigade
Baria
Sunday School Lesson No Place Like Home
Clarence W Cranford discusses the value of the family as the central social unit, urging dedication, understanding, and balanced discipline. He contrasts centripetal family bonds with centrifugal external attractions and stresses parental example, shared worship, and joint activities to raise well adjusted children.
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Clarence W. Cranford
Carlyle Maroney
Jesus
Open Housing Bill Saved in House Vote
Washington AP reports a House test for a civil rights housing provision failed to remove it from the 1966 bill by 198 to 179. The measure would bar racial discrimination by commercial housing interests and could extend to large apartments and new homes, with sales and rentals of individual owned homes and small owner occupied buildings exempted.
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Washington (Ap
Lennon interview sparks U S ban on Beatles
London AP Maureen Cleave, whose Lennon interview touched off U S bans, says Lennon deplores that people know the Beatles better than Christ. He was not comparing but noting Christianity’s weakness as the Beatles become more known. Cleave defends context and misinterpretation.
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London
Maureen Cleave
John Lennon
United States
Lennon
Christ
Miss Cleave
Beatles in Uproar Over Lennon Jesus Remark
Walter Shenson said the U S radio ban on Beatle records will not stop plans for a third Beatles film in London in January. Lennon’s Jesus remark sparked widespread bans as dozens of stations pulled Beatle records and even burned them, while some kept playing the music. The Beatles open a U S tour in Chicago August 12. Maureen Cleave’s London Evening Standard piece first published Lennon’s comment March 4.
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U.S
Bible Belt
Miss Cleave
Lennon
London Evening Standard
Jesus
London
Mophead
Walter Shenson
John Lenson
Shenson
San Francisco
Chicago
Maureen Cleave
United States
Beat Tles
Mark
Birmingham
Ala
Heart of the South
Woman Promoted to Sergeant in Police Department
New York AP reports Mrs Alfred Peterson has been promoted to sergeant while her husband remains a patrolman. Despite three stripes on her shoulder and one on his, she says nothing will change at home.
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New York
Alfred Peterson
Peterson
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Ottawa Herald
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