Soviet Czech talks reveal disagreements as leadership shifts
Soviet official Vasily Kusnetsov flew to Prague to meet President Ludvik Svoboda in what was described as frank and comradely, signaling possible new Moscow moves against Czechoslovak liberal leadership. Evzen Erban named new National Front president, while Kriegel and other liberal figures were sidelined amid disbandment orders for K231 and KAN.
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Prague
Vasily Kusnetsov
Ludvik Svoboda
Kusnetsov
National Front
Frantisek Kriegel
Interior Ministry
Evzen Erban
Alexander Dubcek
US Classrooms Empty as Teachers Strike Spur Nationwide Walkouts
Across Indiana Michigan and Tennessee and other states teachers walked out delaying classes in major districts including New York City's 1.1 million students amid a looming strike. The AFL CIO union warned opening day action in NYC while scattered boycotts affected Boston Paterson and Durham areas with school budgets and decentralization disputes fueling the protests.
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Indiana
Michigan
Tennessee
New York City
Brooklyn
Boston
Paterson
N.J
North Carolina
East Chi
Upper Peninsula
Adams Township
Clarksville-Montgomery County
Teachers’ Union
Afl-Cio United Federation of Teachers
Maoist Forces Claim Last Two Provinces Seized
Tokyo AP report says Peking Radio claims Mao loyalists seized Sinkiang Uighur and Tibet, ending foes in the two autonomous regions. Joint People's Daily and Liberation Army Daily editorial calls this an all round victory for the great proletarian cultural revolution and notes revolutionary committees now rule 23 provinces and four autonomous regions.
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Peking Radio
Mao
Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Autonomous
Sinkiang-Uighur
Tibet
People’s Daily
Liberation Army Daily
Red China
Communist Party
Red Guards
China
Khrushchev
Liu Shao-chi
Liu
Peking
Party
Romania Bows To Kremlin On Talks For 20 Year Pact
Bucharest reports indicate Nicolae Ceausescu's regime agreed to renewed negotiations with the Soviet Union on a friendship and assistance treaty. Talks next month will cover the German problem and mutual consultations on political and military decisions. Romania seeks independence from Moscow and previously rejected compulsory consultations.
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Bucharest
Romania
Kremlin
Communist Party
Nicolae Ceausescu
Soviet Union
Ceausescu
West Germany
One Draftee From County This Month
State Selective Service headquarters says Somerset County will report nine men in September nine for induction and eight for pre induction physicals. One county man is slated for draft induction this September, compared with five in August and 16 a year earlier. National totals show 844 Pennsylvanians called for a September quota of 654, with 5257 pre induction physicals scheduled for September.
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State Selective Service
Somerset County
Somerset
Pennsylvania
Beverages Truck Plunges From 60-Foot Embankment
A beverage truck owned by Taker Co Inc of Philadelphia ran off a mountain road about one mile west of Jennerstown after air brakes failed. The vehicle jackknifed and toppled a 60-foot embankment, damaging telephone lines and a service station. Driver was Larry Begonz, Alverton. State Police estimated $29,000 in damage.
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Taker Co, Inc
South 61St Street
Philadelphia
Jennerstown
Gore
Larry L. Begoniz
Box 34
Alverton
Diamond Closed Monday For Road Work In Somerset
Somerset officials announce the borough diamond will be closed all Monday morning for paving by Department of Highways workers. The central block will be shut for half a day due to light traffic, according to Borough Secretary A. D. Graham.
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Warren County
D.C
Carbon County
Utah
Somerset
Department of Highways
A. D. Graham
Graham
Turkeyfoot Valley To Get New Industry
The Yough Development Association and residents of Confluence Borough plan to attract the Michael Berkowitz Company Inc of New York City to establish a garment manufacturing operation in the old high school building. Initial jobs for 40 workers with aim of 100, location to be renovated with a $10,000 Somerset County Development Council campaign.
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Confluence
Yough Development Association
Michael Berkowitz Company, Inc
New York City
Confluence Borough
Berkowitz
Somerset County Development Council
Turkeytoot
Meyersdale Office To Reopen For Unemployment Claims
State Representative Ken Halverson announced the Meyersdale unemployment claim service will reopen on Monday September 9 for eligible partial benefit recipients. A meeting with local business leaders and officials led to the decision to restore in area service though total unemployment claims will still be processed in the Somerset office.
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Ken Halverson
Meyersdale
Rep. Halverson
Somerset
Halverson
Joe Fox
Meyersdale Mfg. Co
Vivian Bittner
Michael Conn
Madeline May Co
Dorothy Dively
Glenda Shulz
Reed Lichty
Cock and
Leniz
Albert Hay
Harold Nicholson
Bill Gnngey
Bureau of Employment Security
Viet Cong Use Human Shields To Break US Paratroopers
Viet Cong troops using women and children as shields stormed a U S Army company near Ap Trang Dau, 26 miles northwest of Saigon, killing 33 Americans and wounding 41 in a 15 minute assault. Six Viet Cong were captured and 118 civilians detained for questioning after the fight.
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Saigon
U.S
101St Airborne Division
Ap Trang Dau
Pa. Soldier Chosen Hero During Rescue Operations
Philadelphia native PFC Charles Boyer, 25, an Army truck driver, was hailed as a hero in Saigon after he pulled survivors from rubble and returned to search for more bodies following a terrorist blast at a government information office in Cholon. The incident left eight dead and 10 to 15 wounded, mostly Vietnamese. no Americans were reported killed.
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Saigon
Cholon
George Esper
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Charles Boyer
Boyer
Old Opera House Memories Featured on Page 3
A nostalgic feature recounts memories of the Old Opera House in Somerset. Dorothy Kantner writes the tribute appearing on page 3 of today’s American.
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Opera House
Somerset
Dorothy Kantner
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania This Weekend
Saturday mostly sunny with little temperature change as highs reach 70s to 76. West wind around 10 mph. Sunday remains sunny and warmer across the region.
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Pennsylvania
CAP Exercise Set By Area CAP In Somerset
The Somerset Civil Air Patrol squadron holds a one day practice exercise at Somerset County Airport from 8 a.m. to late afternoon led by Lt. Leonard Stahl. It prepares for Operation Recovery 1968 planned for Oct 11-13 with Allegheny County Airport as base.
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Somerset Civil Air Patrol
Laurel Mountain Composite Squadron 1403
Somerset County
Leonard Stahl
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania
CAP
Stahl
Duane Bittner
Richard Wiltrout
Dorothy Wiltrout
Ronald Shaukis
Dave Berkebile
Americans Convicted in German Park Slaying
A Frankfurt criminal court convicted three Americans for fatally beating and robbing Harald Prinzenberg in a park last July. Kenneth McNeil, 23, and Robert Richards, 19, received five year terms. Charles Gladwell, 18, a military dependent, was sent to a house of correction as a youthful offender.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Kenneth Lester McNeil
Plattsburgh
N.Y
Robert Lee Richards
Parkerburg
W.va
Charles Gladwell
Youngstown
Ohio
Houses of Correction
McNeil
Richards
Gladwell
Herbert Schmidt
Harald Prinzenberg
Hoechst
Prinzenberg
John W. Cameron
New Castle
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Kriegel
Czechoslovakia
Cestnir Cisar
Ota Sik
Kan
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Cago
Ind
Christopher Gibson
Thomas Eisenstadt
Hyde County
Pitt County
Denmark
Lillington
East Haven Education Association
Connecticut
Chicago Heights
By Mark Kuramitsu
People’s Congress
Congress
By Hans Benedict
Somerset American Harrisburg
William C. Carroll
Houston, Tex
Turkeyfoot Valley
Nixon
Israel
By Belman Morin
Houston
Tex
Richard M. Nixon
Texas
California
William W. Scranton
Europe
Dean Rusk
GOP
Johnson
B’nai B'rith
Washington
United States
Oklahoma
Middle East
Humphrey
Jim Collins
Dallas
Edwin Q. White
Cholon Blast
Waverly
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