Central Viet Nam battle erupts in coastal plain melee
A search and destroy mission in central Viet Nam near Tam Ky escalated into a major battle as US jets and artillery pounded Viet Cong positions. Reports say two US advisers were killed and four missing while government forces pressed the fight 15 miles north of Tam Ky between Chu Lai and Da Nang. The Viet Cong offered a 12 hour Christmas truce but talks were not confirmed. In Thailand two US Air Force planes crashed with one pilot killed and another ejecting. both incidents under investigation.
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Simes
Viet Nam
U.S. Army
Tam' Ky
U.S
Chu Lai
Saigon
da Nang
Tass
Peking
New China News Agency
Washington
State Department
Thailand
Bangkok
I U.S
Toray
Nakhon Phanom
Khreat
Nixon criticizes bomber cuts amid Vietnam policy debate
President Richard Nixon denounces McNamara's bomber force reductions at a Belleville fund raiser and presses for stronger air and sea actions against North Vietnam. He warns against missile slowdowns and urges Congress to scrutinize latest defense cutbacks. Former Senator Barry Goldwater attacks McNamara over disarmament zeal and calls for his resignation.
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St. Clair
Viet Nam
Washington
Barry Goldwater
Robert 5. McNamara
Pentagon
Goldwater
McNamara
U.S
Defense Secretary
Britain urges peace appeal to North Vietnam
Britain proposed a 12 nation peace appeal to North Viet Nam to quit fighting and negotiate. The draft message to the Soviet government urged Russia to circulate the appeal among the nine Viet Nam peace participants and other governments. Britain accused North Viet Nam of expanding intervention in South Viet Nam and aiding Viet Cong with troops and equipment while violating Laos neutrality.
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London
Britain
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Laos
Soviet Union
Geneva
Moscow
United States
Andrei A. Gromyko
United Nations Assembly
Gromyko
Supreme Soviet
Russia
U.S
Dean Rusk
New York
Hanoi
U.N
Europe
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Rock Island wreck ties up main line. no injuries
A Rock Island Railroad freight derailment halted traffic on the main line for several hours early today. Several cars were derailed but no injuries were reported.
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Rock Island Wreck Morris
Rock Island Railroad
US Speeds Food Relief To India
President Johnson ordered a rapid shipment of 1.5 million tons of wheat to India to ease the immediate food crisis and authorized a 50 million loan for fertilizer purchases. The action follows talks with Secretary Freeman at the LEI Ranch near Johnston City Texas and was announced from Austin.
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Johnston City
Tex
Johnson
India
Orville L. Freeman
Lei Ranch
Here
White House
Austin
Bill D Moyers
Moyers
Chidambaram Subramaniam
United States
Washington
Harold Wilson
Ludwig Erhard
Afl-Cio
San Francisco
Business Council
Students sue U S agents in luncheon clash at Humphrey visit
Two San Jose State College students Phil Whitten and Dave Hanna sue five Secret Service agents for over a million dollars alleging they were roughed up at a luncheon for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. The students edit an off campus paper opposing U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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San Jose
Calif
San Jose State College
Hubert 4. Humphrey
Phil Whitten
Dave Hanna
U.S
Viet Nam
Earthquake rattles central Mexico near Mexico City
An AP report says a sharp earthquake struck Mexico City and hundreds of square miles of central Mexico at 12 08 28 a m causing no major damage but alarming millions of residents.
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Central
Mexico
Mexico City
Gemini 6 Readied for Sunday Launch Ahead of Schedule
Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 crews advance plans for an orbital rendezvous and six hour formation flight. Borman Lovell prep for a 9 am Sunday launch at Cape Kennedy while Schirra and Stafford undergo medical checks. Formation at 17 500 mph over about six hours aims to set a first in space rendezvous.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Space Agency
Borman
Lovell
U.S. Space Adventures
Iso
Navy
Schirra
Air Force
Stafford
Cape
Eugene Kranz
Christopher ©. Kraft Jr
Teens Licenses Dad To Take Driver's Seat
The Illinois law set to take effect requires applicant under 21 to have parental consent. Beginning next year minors must obtain written consent from a parent or guardian and consent may be canceled by the Secretary of State, with a six month waiting period before a new license can be issued.
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Springfield
Secretary of State
State Rests Selma Case in Clergyman Slaying Trial
Selma Alabama AP reports the state rested after witnesses invoked the Fifth Amendment and a Mississippi witness declined to testify. Prosecutors said all available witnesses had been presented in the clubbing death of Rev. Joseph J. Reed of Boston on March 9. Defendants are Elmer L. Cook, 42, William Stanley Hoggie, 37, and Namox O’Neal-Hoggie, 31.
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Selma
Ala
Virgil M. Ashworth
Mississippi
Ashworth
Billy Dowd Edwards
Greenville
Miss
Edwards
Joseph J. Reed
Boston
Elmer L. Cook
William Stanley Hoggie
Namox O'Neal-Hoggie
Soviet leadership shuffle elevates Podgorny to presidency
In a major Soviet high command shakeup Nikolai Podgorny becomes president replacing Anastas Mikoyan who cites age and health. Alexander Shelepin takes a top party role as Podgorny shifts from presidium to helm, while Brezhnev remains party secretary and Kosygin premier. Gromyko defends Soviet Vietnam stance in Supreme Soviet amid UN discussions on nuclear restraint.
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Moscow
Alexander N. Shelepin
Communist Party
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Podgorny
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Shelepin
Committee For
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Kosygin
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Supreme Soviet
Caucasus
Nikita’s. Khrushchev
Ukraine
Ander Khrushchev
Committee of People’s Control
Weather outlook drifts into Friday with drizzle possible
A weather note says mostly cloudy skies will bring a period of light rain or drizzle late tonight or early Friday afternoon. Mild temperatures persist with a low near 140 and a Friday high in the 60s.
Regional planning group eyed for four state confluence area
Gary Lacey reports on a Carbondale conference where Missouri Illinois Indiana and Kentucky officials discussed a possible federally aided multistate planning agency to revive lagging economies around the Ohio Mississippi confluence. The idea, tied to a January proposal by Kentucky Governor Breathitt, would study the region and push employment through private investment and federal redevelopment funds.
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Gary Lacey
Southern Illinoisan
Ohio
Mississippi
Carbondale
Ilinois
Missouri Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Southern Illinois University
Kentucky Gay
Edward Breathitt
Breathitt
Tennessee
Arkansas
Ilinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development
Ap Lachian
Dept. of Commerce
Office of Regional Economic Development
Confluence
Benjamin Schinitz
Department
Missouri
Oklahoma
Ozark
Chinitz
Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development
Jackson
Williamson
Perry
Franklin
Jefferson County
Herrin
West Frankfort
Southern Wliners' University
The
Rusk Refutes Soviet Claim on Vietnam Conflict
Secretary of State Rusk rebutted Kosygin in a news conference accusing the Soviet leader of distortion over U S policy in Vietnam. He defended U S bombing in North Vietnam as yielding results and urged prompt steps to separate North and South Vietnam while denying looming U S Red Chinese confrontation.
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Dean Rusk
United States
Rusk
Vietnm
Alexei N. Kosygin
Viet Nam
Kosygin
New York Times
U.S
Ae Viet Nam
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