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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1967
Page
2
U S officials acknowledge wide margins in estimating enemy strength in Vietnam. Estimates range from about 115 000 regulars to 400 000 plus including Viet Cong cadres and noncombat support, with self defense units counted differently across figures and methods.
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson said in Ottawa that US actions should be dramatic to test the North Vietnamese and push toward a negotiated settlement. The remark, made in an informal TV interview, was called offhand and not government policy. A Telegram report carried the account, with further remarks in Ottawa.
Senator McCarthy says Johnson misreads Vietnam War issues and calls the TV interview move by Johnson confusing. He denies power-hungry motives and challenges Kennedy politics, while polling shows Democratic delegates split on war and Johnson favored for re election.
A switchman from Greenville Mississippi was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor after he dragged a woman from beneath a moving Illinois Central train. Lee Davis, a railroad employee, rescued the woman who stepped onto the track at Greenville on November 27 1964.
Washington AP John Steinbeck IV son of the author was found innocent by a General Sessions Court jury on a charge of maintaining a nuisance tied to marijuana found in his apartment. The 21-year-old former soldier testified the marijuana did not belong to him.
A damaged OCR fragment shows scattered names and places including San Antonio and stray terms about venues and entities. The text is incomplete and lacks a coherent event or outcome to report.
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