Senate passes cotton ban shifting Egypt quota to US growers
The Senate approved a bill banning Egyptian long staple cotton imports. The measure effectively transfers Egypt's cotton quota to American growers, mainly in New Mexico and Texas, sponsored by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson and Sen. Joseph M. Montoya.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Senate
Egypt
New Mexico
Texas
Sen
Clinton P. Anderson
Joseph M. Montoya
Workers Learn Sign Language at Army Corps Office
In Kansas City 17 engineers at an Army Corps of Engineers office switch to sign language to communicate with deaf colleague Johnny Miller. Miller, 25, a cartographic draftsman, teaches and inspires coworkers led by unit supervisor Derald Sarratt as they learn the alphabet and practice during coffee breaks.
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Don Reeder
Kansas City
Army Corps of Engineers
Johnny M. Miller
Miller
Derald Sarratt
Missouri School For the Deaf
Fulton
Linda Farr
Soviet Union agrees to talks with Czechoslovakia on new liberal course
Moscow backs down from top level talks on Soviet soil and will send its Communist party politburo to Czechoslovakia for a conference with the Czech and Slovak presidiums. About 18,500 troops have withdrawn through Presov as Moscow withdraws from the frontline after Warsaw Pact maneuvers raised fears of forceful reversal.
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Prague
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
West Germany
Kremlin
Communist Party
Czechoslovak
Presov
Soviet push near Poland and Czechoslovakia sparks tensions
Reliable Warsaw sources report Soviet combat equipment and thousands of troops near Poland's southern border with Czechoslovakia. Prague says Moscow demanded a solution and warned Czechoslovakia's western frontier. Western allies adjust September maneuvers while Pravda downplays shifts. Rusk asks for explanation over U S arms caches in Czechoslovakia.
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Moscow
Defense Ministry
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Warsaw
Poland
Prague
Germany
Minis
Ter
Willy Brandt
West Germany
United States
France
Pravda
Washington
Dean Rusk
Anatoly Dobrynin
Rusk
U.S
Year-Round Head Start Plan Okayed for In-Kind Support
Roswell Independent School District approves a one year in kind support for a cooperative nine month Head Start program involving 10 agencies. The plan aims to aid 300 children with in service teacher training at ENMU Roswell and a $356 205 budget funded mainly by federal sources.
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Roswell
Hijacked El Al jet lands in Algiers with 48 aboard
Palestinian linked commandos hijack an El Al Boeing 707 en route Rome to Tel Aviv and force it to land at Maison Blanche in Algiers. Ten crew members and 38 passengers including two Americans are held while Algerian authorities guard the plane. Israel seeks UN help for release.
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Algiers
Palestine
el al
Rome
Tel Aviv
Israel
Front For the Liberation of Palestine
U.N
U Thant
New York
Thant
Tewfik Bouattoura
Bouattoura
Mediterranean
Rena Tsuriel
Brooklyn
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Beirut
Commando
Official Unhurt by Gun Blast in Newark Home
Police Director Dominick A. Spina escaped injury when a shotgun blast shattered a living room window at about 2:30 a.m. He was watching TV with his wife, mother-in-law, and son. The attackers, described as two Negroes in a late-model car, fled after firing.
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Newark
N.J
Dominick A. Spina
Spina
Highland Ave
Fortas Nomination Sparks Debate Over Justice Dept Report
Opposition senator labeled a Justice Department memorandum on Abe Fortas propaganda and sought to question its drafters. The panel delayed action on Fortas and Homer Thornberry amid uncertainty about the timing and recess ahead of party conventions.
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John Chadwick
Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Abe Fortas
Fortas
Earl Warren
Homer Thornberry
Justice Fortas
Ervin
Department
Ramsey Clark
Warren Christopher
Eastland
Thornberry
Thurmond
Senate
Community Action Sets Hondo Center Meeting
The Community Action Program steering committee will meet at 7 30 p m today at Hondo Center to vote on a year round Head Start program. The plan awaits Roswell Board of Education backing and in kind support including a building. Also on the agenda are 1969 summer plans and budgets plus an assistant director job opening. Approximately 15 applications have been received, described as highly qualified by CAP director Bobby Ramirez.
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Morton Dann
David Lee
Enmur
Luis Juarez
Center For Community Action Services
Albuquerque
Roswell
Highland
Luginbill
Bobby Ramirez
Community Action Program
CAP
Hondo Center
Roswell Independent
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