McCarthy Targets Georgia Delegation at Democratic Convention
McCarthy shifts focus to the Deep South aiming to challenge Georgia Governor Lester Maddox’s 107 member delegation while seeking more delegates in Texas and other southern states. Joseph Rauh Jr. says northern states’ party groups shortchanged McCarthy backers, boosting efforts to improve civil rights perception and expand southern gains. Georgia’s delegation remains the No 1 priority as a pro McCarthy Georgia Democratic Forum prepares to sit in if Maddox’s slate is ousted.
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Army Eyes Shutting antibomber Missile Batteries Amid Cuts
Pentagon sources say the Army considers closing several antibomber missile sites as part of budget cuts tied to Congress tax measures. Navy cuts include 50 ships and eight air squadrons, aiming to save about 118 million dollars, while the Ft Campbell plan saves 125 million by not activating the 6th Infantry Division.
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Weather outlook with showers possible through Thursday
Cloudy unsettled conditions persist with only small temperature shifts through Thursday. Expect a chance of showers or thunderstorms with a high around 38 to 87 and a low near 70 to 75 tonight. weather details appear on page 30 with a map.
Allies uncover vast Viet Cong arms caches near Saigon
Allied forces probing infiltration corridors north of Saigon and near the Cambodian and Laotian borders report finding large stocks of rockets and ammunition plus documents. In a major raid 25,000 Viet Cong sympathizers were linked to the village group, with 72,000 rounds for automatic weapons and five pounds of papers seized. Ten detainees died in a 15 minute clash. 17 were captured. No allied casualties. A Shau Valley and Cau Dat area raids yielded more caches and casualties as South Vietnamese rangers patrol the Mekong Delta route.
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Johnson faces possible additional federal spending cuts
President Johnson, at his Hill Country ranch, faces the chance of another 1 billion in cuts after a 6 billion reduction, with Congress likely dictating 3 billion and administration targeting 4 billion more. Budget concerns follow higher farm price supports and Medicaid costs, while overseas payroll cuts and a medical bowel condition are noted.
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Pope warns on space tech misuse at UN conference
Pope Paul VI cautioned against using space technology to spread subversive propaganda and racial hate during a message read at the opening of the United Nations conference on exploration and peaceful space uses. Franz Cardinal Koenig read the papal message in Vienna as 74 nations attend the two week event.
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Clark banners old fashioned thinking on Dirksen during Carbondale stop
Democratic Senate candidate William C. Clark greets about 100 at Carbondale station aboard the Clark Cannonball. He attacks incumbent Everett Dirksen as old fashioned and urges Southern Illinois support, with remarks by Rep. Kenneth Gray and local officials.
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Grandmother weighs boy’s custody choice in California
Ames Iowa AP The boy Mark Painter 10 may stay with his California father if that is his wish Grandmother Mrs Dwight Bannister will have Rev Clay Lumpkins visit California to learn Mark’s true feelings Judge Gilbert B Perry in Santa Cruz has granted temporary custody to the father pending August 28 hearing Mark’s custody was awarded to his grandparents in 1966 by the Iowa Supreme Court amid a high profile dispute involving the boy’s writer photographer father and a 1962 mother’s death in a traffic accident.
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Nigerians Press North Toward Biafran Stronghold Aba
Nigerian commandos move two brigades from Port Harcourt toward Aba as fighting intensifies around Ikot Ekpene and Umu Abayi. Peace talks in Addis Ababa accompany reports of civilian evacuations and a proposed relief corridor to Biafra.
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Agnew faces vacancy suit in Maryland court
Maryland Gov Spiro T Agnew was given 30 days to show cause why his extensive out-of-state campaigning for the vice presidency does not create a vacancy in the governorship The suit by Tax Rebellion Inc and its president Robert J Edwards seeks to suspend his $25000 salary during the campaign and names Chief Judge Matthew S Evans of the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. Secretary of State C Stanley Blair says the new role does not create a vacancy and Democrats have urged Agnew to resign while he resists those calls
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