Saigon district students govern war’s other front
In July 1965 Vietnamese students and youth leaders asked Prime Minister Ky to govern Saigon's Eighth District. By spring, 40,000 man-days of work had transformed sanitation, housing, education, and health. Local people now run projects, elect replacements, and align with the government, showing growing community security and democracy by participation.
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Washington
Nea
Nguyen Cao Ky
Saigon
Viet Nam
University of Saigon
Saigon University
Nguyen Hy van
Tran Ngoc Bau
National Voluntary Service
Don Lue
International Voluntary Service
Charles F. Sweet
Cornell
IVS
Eighth District
ABC-TV Eyes Early Premieres To Gain Ratings
Hollywood report outlines ABC-TV’s push to move premieres a week earlier than planned to snag ratings during the critical kickoff period. It notes potential sponsor, production, and promo hurdles and compares with CBS-TV and NBC-TV strategies, warning of a possible backfire if other nets follow.
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Rick DU Brow
Hollywood
UPI
Abc-Tv
Cbs-Tv
NBCTV
Nbc-Tv
Broadway
Centennial Dollars To Be Destroyed In Charleston
The Board of Public Works will destroy all but 100 of 118038 Centennial Trade Dollars from the 1963 celebration. The 100 survivors go to the Department of Archives and History. An earlier request to sell the surplus at one dollar each was declined to avoid upsetting 1963 buyers and because literature suggested no sales after November 1963.
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Charleston
UPI
Board of Public Works
Department of Archives and History
BPW
FBI Agent Readies for MulLenaX Murder Trial Testimony
In Preston County, FBI agent Cornelius McWright prepared to resume testimony in the murder trial of Vonda Jean Mullenax. He described discovering skeletal material in dirt from a pit at the Mullenax farm near Terra Alta, with bones appearing charred and uncertain origin. The material was reviewed by Dr. J Lawrence Angel of the Smithsonian.
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Kingwood
UPS
FBI
Ray Mullenax
Vonda Jean Mullenax
Cornelius Mc Wright
Preston County
McWright
Mullenax
Double Agent Foils Czech Bug Plot At State Dept
Frank Mikva, a U.S. passport official, acted as a double agent and helped foiled a Communist attempt to bug the State Department. He and Czech diplomats met from 1961 to 1966, with a listening device provided in 1966 that was planted in a State Department bookcase but captured by the FBI after brief use. The Czech operatives faced expulsion and reassignment as the case unfolded.
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State Department
U.S
UPI
Donald H. May
Donald H. May Washington
Frank John Mikva
Mrkva
Robert Lisle
FBI
George W. Ball
Washington
United Nations
Mrkva 38
Department
Zdenek Pisk
iMrkva
George
Mikva
Visa ‘Courrier
Passport Office
Woman Sentenced for Shooting at Son to Block Teen Gang
Eloise Howard received 30 days in jail after admitting to firing a shot toward her 13 year old son Henry to deter him from joining a local teenage gang. The boy testified that she shot at him, while she claimed she only directed a shot in his direction.
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Miami
UPI
Eloise Howard
Henry
Meyer M. Brilliant
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Illinois
Maxwell
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