NLF balks at U S proposals on Paris talks format
Paris AP report says the National Liberation Front called U S proposals for a two sided Paris talks format unacceptable and tortuous while insisting the conference be four sided with the NLF equal to the three other delegations. Vance suggested round or other table shapes and a felt strip symbolizing two sides.
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Paris
National Liberation Front
Vietnam
NLF
Tran Hoai Nam
Front
U.S
Cyrus R. Vance
Ha van Lam
Vance
Lau
North Vietnam
Nam
United States
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Saigon
Good Year For Ducks Good Year For Ducks 1968
Weather summary for 1968 notes 115 partly cloudy days and 121 cloudy days. Total moisture 41.90 inches including 13.6 inches of snow, 4.02 inches above normal. Year cooler than average with an average temperature of 64.9 degrees, 1.13 degrees below normal.
Vaughan's Imports Wins City Police Car Bids
Vaughan's Imports on south US-59 bid 4,868 to supply two 1969 Ambassador police cars after four bids plus a late fifth. Other bids ranged to 5,456.63. Cars due in 30 days. City also passed parking restrictions and read an ordinance on city elections delaying annual to biennial.
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Vaughan
Us-59
American Motors
Chevrolet
Ottawa Farm Implement
Bob White Motor Company
Moore
Robertson’s Motor Company
Princeton
Main
Ottawa
Alaska freezes: record lows haunt Fairbanks as schools close
Central Alaska endures three days of extreme cold with temperatures plunging to minus 66 overnight and an all time low of minus 66 noted in 1834. Ice fog reduces visibility, flights disrupted, 42 inches of snow cover remains, yet downtown fairs stay open while warmer weather is forecast.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Lebanon fears all out war amid draft plans
Lebanese Defense Minister Hussein Ouweini announced that Lebanon intends to implement a military draft and urged international action to avert global conflict. He warned that if Beirut is attacked again Lebanon will resist with all means, while denying reports of a Soviet fleet visit and noting Israel’s recent raid on Beirut airport.
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Associated Press
Lebanon
Israel
Hussein Ouweini
Beirut
Ouweini
Nean
U.S
Soviet Union
Moscow
Mediterranean
al Nahar
al Jarida
Abdulla Yafi
U.S. Navy
Washington
Cairo
al Ahram
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Hussein
Nasser
Masks May Halt The Bug at Florida Campus
UF researchers test blue and white surgical masks to block airborne droplets from coughers during winter flu season. By mid January about 30 percent of 19,800 students may be infected, researchers say, and selected volunteers will wear masks in public for weeks.
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Gainesville
Fla
University of Florida
College of Medicine
Wilmer
South Africa’s Complicated Growth Unfolds In 1960s
A sprawling narrative notes sports stars breaking records while politics, apartheid, and pro tests shape daily life. It traces South Africa’s geography, colonial history, Boer and British clashes, language divides, and a fragile national mood marked by racial signs, rising living costs, and global scrutiny.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Heavy B62 air strikes hit Vietnam as rest of action light
U S Command reports the heaviest B62 bombing in three weeks with about 1000 tons dropped northwest of Saigon and nearly 500 tons in the U Minh Forest. Ground fighting stays light. Marines and South Vietnamese push Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces near Da Nang while new activity rises in the A Shaw Valley and the DMZ. Taylor Common cordon operation yields 934 enemy killed in the past month.
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Saigon
U.S. Command
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
da Nang
A Shaw Valley
Hue
Taylor Common
County Forecast Shows Cold, Clear to Partly Cloudy
Weather forecast reports clear to partly cloudy conditions with very cold tonight and mostly fair, less cold Saturday. Northerly winds diminish tonight with highs in the low to mid teens today and 20s Saturday. Record highs and lows noted for this date, plus 24 hour precipitation trace and barometer at 30.45.
Moving Out Sale at Critea Stereo Center
Moving out sale this week at Critea Stereo Center 427 South Main. Prices slashed on all stereos with open nights advertised.
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Critea Stereo Center
South Main
Real Houseful at Klosters Home with Gretchen the Saint Bernard
Veterinarian Bill Kloster keeps a bustling home at 409 W. 10th with two dogs and two cats. The large Saint Bernard Gretchen, 150 pounds, rules the floor while Rusty the seven year old dachshund negotiates space with a Siamese cat. Gretchen enjoys gentle temperament, loves people, and even keeps Rusty playful by a belly flop. Gretchen eats about two pounds of dried food daily now that she is grown. The household includes Betty, Steve, Kristine, two cats, a dachshund, and Gretchen, with noses marking the pets apart from the human family.
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Bill Kloster
Gretchen
Rusty
Kloster
W. 10Th
Saint Bernard
Swiss Alps
Betty
Steve
Kristine
Kennedy wins post as Senate Democratic leader
In the opening of the 91st Congress, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts wins the Senate Democratic caucus vote to become assistant Democratic leader. Republicans choose Hugh Scott as assistant minority leader, while Trussell Long loses in Louisiana. House picks Speaker McCormack. Ford unopposed as minority leader. Allott defeats Griffin for policy committee chair.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Senate
Kennedy
Trussell B. Long
Louisiana
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Roman L. Hruska
Nebraska
White House
Long
Senate Finance Committee
Scott
Congress
House
John W. McCormack
Morris ‘K. Udall
Arizona
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Ren. Gordon Allott
Colorado
Robert P. Griffin
Republican Policy Committee
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