Pueblo signatures push to urge ship release
Mrs. Lloyd Bucher wife of the USS Pueblo skipper says about 500000 signatures supporting action to release the captured ship will be delivered to Washington on Saturday for the White House and President-elect Nixon. She received petitions with 8500 signatures in San Diego and hopes the Johnson administration or Nixon will secure the Pueblo crew's return. North Korea seized the Pueblo 22 days ago. The signatures are to be sent by the National Some: for Responsible Patriotism in New York.
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Thomas Merton dies in Bangkok by electric shock
Thomas Merton the 33 year old Catholic monk and author died in Bangkok after touching a short in a fan causing electrocution. He was in Bangkok for a meeting with the Dalai Lama and had withdrawn from isolation two years earlier to study and pray. The report notes his literary fame from The Seven Storey Mountain and mentions contemporaries including Karl Barth and Robert Kennedy.
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Bangkok
Karl Barth
Merton
Church of St. Louis
Dalai Lama
Meton
Gethsemani
Bardstown
Senators dispute Johnson plan to nominate Goldberg chief justice
Sen Edmunds and Sen Muskie rejected claims that President Johnson conducted a secret poll showing Senate opposition to nominating Arthur Goldberg as chief justice. Thurmond said a Johnson official found negative sentiment for a special session to confirm Goldberg as Warren’s successor.
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Maine
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Arthur Goldberg
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U S says 73 percent in secure South Vietnam areas
The U S Mission said 73.3 percent of South Vietnam's population lives in relatively secure areas under Saigon control, the most optimistic pacification report yet. Front-line reports noted renewed artillery fire on the DMZ, with clashes across the country resulting in dozens of enemy deaths and several government base attacks.
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Knife Examined in Slaying of USC Freshman in Los Angeles
Police examined a fixed blade knife and the statements of an elderly couple after the fatal stabbing of USC freshman Bryan Clay 18 in Los Angeles. Clay was retrieving a jacket from a car near the fraternity house when three youths reportedly surrounded him and one attacker struck. Clay died within an hour. Detective Lt. Job Gist said motive is not established. Clay’s parents, Edward and his wife, prepared for his funeral. The youth was a former Barrington High School athlete who had recently been transferred from Hawaii by his airline executive father.
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University of Southern California
Bryan Clay
Honolulu
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Job Gist
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Los Angeles
Barringto High School
Chicago
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County Fires Head of Panel on Obscenity
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors fired Raymond P. Gaver, chairman of the county obscenity and pornography commission, after his public charges that smut laws were not enforced. Lester E. Benson was named to succeed him. Younger urged abolition earlier, citing improper attacks.
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Evelle J. Younger
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Sire
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Gauerhen
Younger
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Nixon names Moynihan to head Urban Affairs Council
President elect Richard Nixon announced the creation of a high level Council for Urban Affairs led by Daniel Patrick Moynihan as assistant for urban affairs. The group aims to unify federal urban policy and coordinate cabinet involvement to address city problems. Moynihan emphasized independent judgment and the need for effective solutions.
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