Prague student protest and Palach incident amid reform push
The article reports on Prague students pledging to take action linked to a deeper depression wave and calls for life orientation help. Witnesses describe Palach’s note and a burning incident with a fountain railing while the Communist Party central committee debates leadership changes and reformist pressures.
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Prague
Joe
Prace
Palach
Party
Central Committee
Josef Smrkovsky
Gustav Husak
Slovak Communist Party
Smrkovsky
Buffer Zone Hit by Yank Artillery
U S artillery pounded the buffer zone between North and South Vietnam for the first time in two weeks. Mines in the Cua Viel area killed six Americans, and other mine explosions wounded 14. A Navy boat was sunk with five sailors dead and four wounded. A US reconnaissance plane was unscathed.
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Saigon
Upz
U.S
North
South Vietnam
Gio Link
United States
North Vietnam
Cua Viel River
Dmz
U S Leaders Discuss Troop Withdrawals From Vietnam
In Saigon Ambassador Bunker and General Abrams met President Thieu to discuss U S troop withdrawals and a potential cease fire amid new four way talks. The talks followed Paris news on resumed negotiations with North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
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Nguyen Can Ky
Tran Chanh Thanh
Saigon
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Paris
Europe
U. Alexis Johnson
Nixon
Thieu
U.S
Navy Expansion Hearings Slated
Washington Subcommittee to begin hearings on expanded Navy. Adm Thomas Moen chief of naval operations to testify January 21 in public session and January 23 in closed session. Reports discuss possible cease-fire options and responses to actions in Vietnam. News on talks with Thieu and Nixon transition officials notes potential troop withdrawals of 20,000 to 50,000 without timetable.
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Washington
Hise
Tohinson
Nixon
Abrams
Vietnam
T O Thien
School Bus Slams Crane in Fog Near Porterville
A school bus with 30 passengers hit a stationary crane boom in thick fog west of Porterville, overturned into an open sewer ditch. One person injured, fifteen hospitalized with minor injuries, others treated and released. Driver SlayLan Tamara, 18, suffered minor head cuts. crane operator Roy Maben unhurt. The 72 passenger bus swerved off the road near the high school and 12 students were rushed to Sierra View District Hospital.
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Porterville
UPI
Here
SlayLan Tamara
Newcomb Road
Roy Maben
Farmersville
Sierra View
Todd Shipyards Workers Strike in Houston
About 800 production and maintenance workers at the Todd Shipyards Corp plant in Houston walked out after rejecting a new contract. A spokesman said Galveston yard employees voted Wednesday to accept the same offer.
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Houston
Todd Shipyards Corp
Galveston
Cranston Criticizes Nixon Arms Race Provocation
Senator Cranston after a White House meeting with President Johnson warns that Nixon and Melvin Laird threaten a intensified U S Soviet arms race. He urges support for the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and arms control while seeking Bolsa Island desalting project revival with California leaders.
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Baxter Omohundro
Washington
Johnson
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Nixon
Russia
Cranston
Richard Nixon
Defense
Melvin Laird
U. S
United States
Soviet Union
White House
Senate
Nixon names Agnew chief liaison with state and local governments
President-elect Nixon designated Vice President-elect Spiro T. Agnew as his top liaison to state and local governments. Agnew will foster cooperation among federal agencies and local entities and help make federal machinery receptive to their views. He will work with the intergovernmental relations advisory commission. The same day Nixon named Brig. Gen. George A. Lincoln to head the Office of Emergency Preparedness.
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KAY Biscayne
Fla
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Spire T. Agnew
Nixon
Agnew
Advisory Commission On
George A. Lincoln
U.S
Panel Reveals Autopsy Supports Two Shots From Behind
A secret 1960s panel concluded President Kennedy was hit twice from behind, with photographs and X rays aligning with the Warren Commission findings. The material was later made public by the National Archives after donor restrictions were eased.
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Earl Warren
Garrison
Kennedy
Warren Commission
Warren
Justice Department
National Archives
Aristotle Onassis
Ihe Tate
Robert F. Kennedy
District of Columbia General Sessions Court
National Archivist
James B. Rhoads
Shaw
Rhoads
Ramsey Clark
Onassis
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Burke Marshall
Kennedys
Sen. Kennedy
Space Race Turns In U.S. Lead But Soviet Revival Seen
A NASC report shows the United States launched 606 spacecraft versus 358 by Russia since spaceflight began, with U.S. space work hours totaling 3,214 and Soviet craft output rising to 81 last year. The study, prepared before Soyuz docking, notes the USSR could pass the United States in the race as NASA plans Apollo moon landings and soil sample return missions.
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United States
Russia
National Aeronautics and Space Council
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Defense Department
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