Sierra Leone Premier says coup plans thwarted
Sierra Leone Prime Minister Albert Margai said a military plot to seize power was thwarted and under investigation. He alleged plotters planned to kill him and several ministers, naming four possible advisers including opposition leader Siaka Stevens. Guinea pledged potential help under a mutual accord.
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Sub Seadragon to Visit Sasebo for Recreation Port Call
The U S nuclear powered submarine Seadragon will arrive in Sasebo on Friday for a rest and recreation port call. Previous visits by the sub have sparked anti American demonstrations by Japanese leftists.
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Collapse of Civil Rights Efforts in Southern States
The civil rights movement faces a sharp decline in the South with dwindling donations and volunteers as groups shift focus to poverty programs, war protests, and regional voter drives. In Mississippi and Louisiana alone, CIR has 12 to 13 workers. SNCC reports a handful of organizers across Alabama Arkansas Mississippi and Georgia as efforts waned.
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Civil rights work in the South wanes as offices close and organizers retreat to larger cities. Dr. Lind Beaton, a noted psychiatrist and activist, dies of a heart attack. In Alaska, a Coast Guard plane crashes near St Paul Island with one fatality and seven injured. Mississippi's Freedom Party presses on amid locked offices and shifting momentum.
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Coast Guard Plane Crash Kills One, Seven Injured
The text notes a decline in civil rights protest momentum since the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march and peak in the South, with NAACP and Urban League largely avoiding direct action. It cites the 1966 Black Power shift as accelerating the downturn in movement activity.
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80 Is Worse Very Taxing Situation Forty W-2s
A New Bedford fisherman presented 40 W-2 forms at a tax office, listing wages from 40 jobs in 1966 aboard fishing boats. The firm’s manager labeled the stack a record but later learned of another man who brought 40 forms to its Boston office, also a fisherman.
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