Draft boost will free reservists and expand calls
The Pentagon plans to release about 20 000 Army National Guardsmen and reservists on active duty by end of 1969 and raise monthly draft calls by as much as 3 000 men. Training capacity will be increased to handle the load as 30 basic and 18 advanced training companies were slated for elimination but then kept to accommodate the move. The January draft quota is set at 26 800, with changes possible in coming months.
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Washington
Pentagon
Army
Non Sommer
Armyis
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Ft. Dix
Vietnam
United States
U S Troops to Return to West Germany for NATO Exercises
About 15 500 U S troops and four F 4 Phantom squadrons will be sent to West Germany for winter maneuvers near the Czechoslovak border. The units are returning from the United States for this exercise as part of NATO readiness efforts amid Cold War tensions. The effort includes 12 000 Army and 3 500 Air Force personnel, with plans for continuing annual exercises.
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Washington
U. S
West Germany
Czechoslovakia
Pentagon
Army
Air Force
Germany
United States
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
24Th Infantry Division
NATO
Clark M. Clifford
Brussels
Table Shape Fracas Clouds Vietnam Peace Talks
U S and North Vietnam reached agreement on several procedural points while a debate over table shape stalls expanded negotiations. South Vietnam and Viet Cong demand a rectangular setup. North Vietnam insists on a square table signaling Viet Cong independence. Four speakers planned for opening session.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
North
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S
Weather Outlook Notes Cold Night and Sunny Saturday
Considerable cloudiness and cold tonight with a low in the low 20s. Clearing and cooler Saturday with a high near 40.
Chicago Riots At Democratic Convention Target Communists
HUAC chairman Rep. Richard Schord said demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention involved Reds and revolutionaries and that many hostile witnesses would be treasonous if Congress had declared war. He cited a 30 minute closed session with Jerry Rubin and noted Rubin faces Illinois charges for soliciting mob action. Rubin criticized the inquiry as biased and demanded open doors for testimony.
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Washington
House
Richard Schord
D-Mo
Congress
House Committee On UN - American Activities
Jerry Rubin
House Committee On UN American Activities
Rubin
Illinois
County vote plans offered by Illinois supervisors group
The Illinois Association of Supervisors and County Commissioners backed two plans to apply one man one vote at the county level. Plan No 1 would weight board votes by population served, plan No 2 would redraw district boundaries so each board member represents about the same number of people.
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Chicago
Illinois Association of Supervisors and County Commissioners
County Problems Commission
Strike Ends as Rome Returns to Work
Rome workers ended a 24 hour strike and returned to their jobs amid calm. Students remained in the streets pressing for school reforms as Premier-designate Mariano Rumor continued talks to form a new center-left government, with a decision expected by Saturday.
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Rome
Italy
Mariano Rumor
Agnew Predicts Renaissance for State Governments
Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew said he would be no less controversial as vice president and urged flexible federal grant spending to empower state governments. He spoke as President-elect Nixon prepared to arrive for the Republican governors conference in Palm Springs California.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
Richard M. Nixon
Agnew
Illinois junior colleges oppose equalization aid plan
Public junior college presidents from 19 Illinois schools object to a proposed equalization aid formula. They favor further study, arguing flat grants have fueled rapid growth and that the new plan risks higher costs, tax burdens, and unequal revenue distribution across districts.
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Springfield
Illinois
Gerald Smith
Junior College Board
Lyman Glenny
Nixon will not send observer to Paris peace talks
President elect Nixon reaffirms no observer to Vietnam talks before Jan 20. Harriman had suggested a representative might be sent before year end, but Ziegler clarified that no envoy will go to Paris until Nixon is president.
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Los Angeles
Richard M. Nixon
Paris
Vietnam
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Harriman
Ronald L. Ziegler
Nixon
Ziegler
Johnson
Air Force
Heaviest Viet Cong shelling hits 37 bases and towns
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese gunners shelled 37 allied bases and South Vietnamese towns in the heaviest attack since November 1. About 300 to 400 rocket and mortar rounds were fired, killing 27 South Vietnamese and wounding 104. Attacks ranged northwest of Saigon, with a hamlet near An Loc hit and eight U.S. crewmen killed in two helicopter shoot downs. Marine forces later overran bunkers near Da Nang, finding 58 enemy bodies with no Marines killed.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
An Loc
U.S
South Vietnam
New Jersey
Demilitarized Zone
da Nang
County superintendents back consolidation plan for regional offices
Illinois county superintendents approve an image committee report to consolidate 102 counties into regional offices of education. Ballots will be sent to all superintendents, with a Dec 13 return date, to gauge support for an August 1981 consolidation timeline and a 16 000 to 33 000 population scale.
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Tom McNamara
Lindsay - Schaub
Illinois Association of County
Dale Moore
Woodford County
Norbert J. Moorleghen
Clinton County
Moore
Illinois
Niantic
County Superintendents Association
Illinois School Problems Commission
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Citizens Committee
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