Top Secret Hearing Reveals Thailand Contingency Plan
A censored Senate Foreign Relations transcript discloses a 1965 Thai US contingency to defend Thailand with American ground forces if needed. Officials clash on whether it created a formal commitment while White House bans later troop use. Symington notes substantial US support and over $200 million spent on Thai forces.
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UPD
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Congress
U.S
Thailand
Leonard Unger
United States
J. William Fulbright
Dark
Stuart Symington
Dmo
Richard Stillwell
Subcommittee
White House
Laos
Cambodia
Symington
Vietnam
Pilot Killed In Rose Festival Marine Day Race
Charles Skaggs aged 39 from Renton Washington died after his high powered Manta Bay race boat disintegrated during the Rose Festival Marine Day Races in Portland Oreg Two surgeons treated him for 45 minutes before he died of massive internal injuries Thousands watched from the Willamette River banks as wind made the water choppy and the Rose Cup races were cancelled Earlier Don Due of Seattle flipped his boat while leading a heat of the superstock class with the left side and transom disintegrating on the circle course.
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Ore
UPI
Charles Skaggs
Renton
Wash
Skaggs
City of Roses Hospital
Willamette River
Manta Bay
Marine Day
Don Due
Seattle
Senator Church Warns on Population and Environment
Senator Frank Church warned that voluntary population control may work but failure could bring compulsory birth control. Speaking at St. Michael's Cathedral Boise he cited a population explosion and urged curbing growth to protect the environment. He projected 35 billion people in a century and urged reversing rural to urban migration for survival.
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UPD
Frank Church
St. Michael’s Cathedral
Idaho
Church
Atlantic
Pacific
Florida
Czech Group Forces Hijack Caused Domestic Flight Diversion
Eight hijackers including two married couples forced the CSA Ilyushin 14 to divert from Karlovy Vary to Nuernberg. They carried five pistols a knife and brass knuckles and a two year old child traveled with them. Police surrounded the parked aircraft and the hijackers surrendered without incident.
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Germany
UPD
Czechoslovakia
CSA
Karlovy Vary
Karlsbad
Prague
Yeti Sighted During Annapurna Expedition Report
Don Whillans of the British Annapurna ascent team says he sighted a tall Yeti at Machhapuchhre base camp during a March 25 moonlit night. He observed a large, gorilla-like figure for about 30 minutes at 500 yards and found footprints the next morning despite failure to photograph it.
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Nepal
Upid
Himalayas
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Whillans
Annapurna
Machhapurchre
Hart urges probe of air travel insurance monopoly
Senator Philip Hart urged federal action to investigate air travel insurance firms for possible antitrust violations. He noted that insurers payout only 26 cents per dollar collected versus 45 cents for auto insurance and warned most consumer dollars fund terminals and insurer profits. Hart leads the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee and cites McCarran Act immunity with state regulation.
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UPI
Senate
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
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