Dirksen backs Johnson on Viet Nam bombing stance
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen rejected Sen. Fulbright's call for a temporary halt to U S bombings of North Vietnam. Dirksen argued the Communists have shown no willingness to negotiate and warned a pause would damage U S prestige. White House press secretary said Johnson had no recent comment on Fulbright.
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Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
J. W. Fulbright
U. S
North Viet Nam
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Associated Press
Sion
Arkansas Democrat
Johnson
Viet Nam
Dirksen
Illinois Republican
Texas
White House
George E. Reedy
Reedy
Hanoi rejects nonaligned appeal for talks on Vietnam
North Viet Nam refuses preconditionless talks and UN mediation in Viet Nam. Hanoi reiterates demands including US forces withdrawal from South Viet Nam. Moscow says it will send volunteers if US action increases. U.S. officials note Hanoi has not rejected President Johnson’s unconditional offer.
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Tokyo
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Moscow
Soviet Union
North Viet Nam
United States
le Duan
U.S
Hanoi
Johnson
Kosygin Warns U S Over Vietnam War Tactics
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin attacked American policy in South Vietnam during a Moscow rally. He warned that use of napalm, phosphorous bombs, and poison gases by anti Communist forces could invite retaliation in kind.
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Moscow
Alexei N. Kosygin
United States
Viet Nam
Kosygin
South Viet Nam
Underwater Easter Egg Hunt Solves Edmonds Mystery
Edmonds police were flooded with calls about strange underwater lights near a ferry dock. Patrolman Norm Sedtor identified the lights as the Marker Buoys Diving Club from Seattle conducting an underwater Easter egg hunt.
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Edmonds
Wash
Norm Sedtor
Marker Buoys Diving Club
Seattle
Filipino man nails self to cross for fourth time in Pampanga
A Filipino man in his early thirties was nailed to a wooden cross in Pampanga Province near Manila last Thursday. He hung about half an hour before companions removed him as a crowd watched. The man, not identified, said the act was his fourth in as many years, driven by his belief that his recovery from an incurable disease justified the rite.
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Manila
Pampanga
Manila Times
Closed Viet Nam Parley Opens in Honolulu
A closed door conference at Pacific Command HQ in Honolulu brings together Secretary of Defense McNamara U S Ambassador Taylor and General Wheeler to review U S policy in Southeast Asia with focus on Viet Nam and plans to support South Vietnamese forces. Westmoreland also arrives ahead of the two day talks.
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Honolulu
Pacific Military Command
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Wheeler
William C. Westmoreland
South Viet Nam
Taylor
Saigon
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
Washington
Defense Department
McNamara
Flood Battle Continues Across Midwest As Rivers Crest
The relentless fight against spring floods spread across the Midwest with the Mississippi and its tributaries swelling. Twelve people are dead and thousands homeless as volunteers and National Guardsmen rush to reinforce dikes after a crest near Minneapolis and St Paul on Friday night.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Mississippi
Ohio River
National
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minn
New Look Courtroom Rules Aim to Curb Pretrial Publicity
In Roswell Fifth District Court Judge Caswell Neal instructed jurors to ignore radio and TV news and newspaper reports about the Shamas Grocery robbery case. Defense attorney Paul Sneed questioned jurors about prior coverage as Harry Robbins faces armed robbery charges. Jury bias concerns led to additional admonitions and the dismissal of many jurors after a conference with counsel.
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Fifth District Court
Roswell
Caswell Neal
Paul Sneed
Daily Record
Harry Robins
Robbins
Shamas
N. Main
Neal
Sneed
Joe Walton
Johnson to attend memorial service for Senator Johnston
President Johnson left Bergstrom Air Force Base at 2 05 p m CST to fly to Columbia South Carolina for a memorial service for late Senator Olin D Johnston The Atomic Energy Commission announced plans for a fast critical assembly reactor near San Diego California South Korea will use the army to quell student demonstrations if police fail to control them Mariner 4 reports major Mars expedition findings including new measurements of the Van Allen radiation belts
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Johnson City, Tex
Johnson
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Columbia
S. C
Olin D. Johnston
DS. C
Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
San Diego
Calif
Seoul
South Korea
Japan
High Defense Ministry
Mariner 4
Mars
Earth
Court Orders King to Stop Demonstrating
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr arrives in Camden as a state injunction restrains further racial demonstrations. Sheriff Jenkins says copies were handed minutes before his arrival. Negroes had tried to march to the courthouse to seek voter registration. police halted the march. King then went to a Negro church as registrars meet statewide for voting rights talks and a Selma rally.
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Camden
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
P.C. Jenkins
James A. Hare
King
Wilcox County
Jenkins
Selma
Boards of Registrars
Roswell Trades Old Trucks for New Fleet
Fifteen of Roswell’s old city garbage trucks sit in a junk yard awaiting dismantling after a trade with Border Machinery of Albuquerque for seventeen new trucks. Two trucks were driven to Albuquerque, the rest resold to Roswell Wrecking Yard for an undisclosed price, netting about 1314 dollars per truck. The city kept two best units for small trash pickups and alley work.
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Old City
Roswell
Border Machinery Company of
Albuquerque
Lusk Hall Dedication Honors Col Ewing L Lusk at NMMI
Clarence Hinkle praised Col Lusk during Easter morning services for dedicating the NMMI Headquarters building to Lusk. The ceremony drew hundreds plus 880 cadet corps members as Lusk’s family and NM MI leaders watched the curtain rise on the new Lusk Hall.
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Ewing L. Lusk
Lusk
New Mexico Military Institute
Clarence Hinkle
Col. Lusk
NMMI
Harold B. Palmer II
Albuquerque
Sam Agee
Wyatt
Col
Hinkle
Nmmi Cadet Corps
Charles
Palo Alto
California
Roswell
New Mexico
Record Will Feature Top Capital Columnist
The Record announces William S. White a Pulitzer Prize winning political correspondent becomes a Washington columnist three times weekly on the Editorial Page. White a veteran of the Washington press corps and author of major works joins from United Features and the New York Times with decades of national and international reporting.
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William S. White
Washington
The
Record
Washington Press Corps
Bill White
Asutin (Texas) Statesman
University of Texas
Associated Press
New York
New York Times
White
United Features
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Citadel
U.S. Senate
F.D.R
Lyndon B. Johnson
Regents
University of California
Berkeley
Air War College
Mount Holyoke College
Princeton University
Straw Hat Week Proclaimed in Roswell
Mayor Gail Harris proclaims Straw Hat Week in Roswell signaling seasonal shift as warmer days approach and implying straw hat season ahead. Community notices highlight the festive period and summer preview.
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Gail Harris
Ros
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