Attack could halt talks says U S warns
The United States warned North Vietnam that a Viet Cong attack on Saigon could derail peace talks. U S envoy Cyrus R. Vance and Hanoi delegate Ha Van Lau reported no progress after a secret session, the first since Friday, in stalled efforts to expand talks ending the war.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Saigon
U.S
America
Cyrus R. Vance
Hanoi
Ha van Lau
Saale
Johnson
Vance
South Vietnamese National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Lau
Vietnam
Long Panmunjom session on Pueblo release talks
U S and North Korean negotiators held their longest Panmunjom session in four months as efforts to speed the release of 82 Pueblo crewmen continued. Officials sought an agreed timetable while dodging false hopes amid stalled mediation and mutual demands.
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Washington
U.S
Panmunjom
Pueblo
State Department
New York Times
Mage
North Korea
U.S. Pueblo
United States
Represen
Norman Thomas dies at 84 in Huntington New York
Norman Thomas six time Socialist presidential candidate died today at age 84 in Huntington New York. The longtime conscience prodder was hospitalized after a stroke and had moved to Hilaire Farm Nursing Home from Huntington Hospital. He opposed war and poverty programs yet continued campaigning and voiced criticism of U S policy, urging dissenters to wash the flag. He ran against presidents from Hoover to Truman and remained a prominent public figure.
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Norman Thomas
Huntington
N.Y
Hilaire Farm
Margaret Gottsegen
Huntington Hospital
Thomas
Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Socialist Party
Thomas Himsel
Johnson
Vietnam
Picayune
United States
Shriver Likely Named U N Representative by Nixon
Sargent Shriver has accepted Nixon’s invitation to be chief U S representative at the United Nations. The President-elect is expected to announce the appointment within two days. Shriver, then ambassador to France, discussed acceptance with friends as Congress members and Kennedy family contacts learned of his plan.
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New York Times
Washington
Sargent Shriver
Richard M. Nixon
United States
United Nations
Friends of
Shriver
France
Congress
Humphrey
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
New York
Kennedy
Eunice Mary Kennedy
John, Robert
Edward Kennedy
Weekend Weather Outlook for Local Area
Forecast calls for fair but cool conditions with partial cloud cover tonight and Friday. Lows drop to the mid to upper 20s with highs in the 30s. Inside sections listed: Classified 19 20 Comics TV Bridge Crossword 2B Editorials 4 Family Living 6 7 Sports 13 14.
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Family Living
Nixon aides hold line on public comment by Cabinet nominees
President-elect Nixon and advisers say no new guidance to Cabinet nominees on speaking publicly. Press secretary Ziegler confirms there will be no policy pronouncements from designates or Nixon until after the January 20 inauguration, while Kissinger’s Foreign Affairs article is kept as background.
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New York
Nixon
David Kennedy
Treasury Department
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Foreign Affairs
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
Kissinger
Richard B. Ogilvie
State Budgetary Commission
SIU
STU
U S Steel to raise prices on key steel products in 1969
United States Steel Corp plans a 4 percent price rise on semifinished carbon steel and semifinished alloy products and a $7 a ton hike on steel pilings. The increases, affecting about 4 percent of industry shipments, go into effect January 2, 1969, aiming to lift revenues by less than one tenth of one percent.
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U.S. Steel
Man shot six children then killed himself in Napa fire
In Napa California Charles Bray 40 shot and killed six of his children then set their home ablaze and fatally shot himself. Police said his wife and an 18 year old son were absent and survived. Firefighters and police found Bray dying in the front yard with a .22 rifle nearby and an empty gasoline can at the scene.
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Napa
Calif
Charles Bray
Phone workers approve contract in Illinois vote
A majority of 2,300 General Telephone Co. employees in Illinois approved the company contract offer in a vote by Electrical Workers Local 51 in the north and Local 702 in the south. Union business agent John L. Boswell said the contract adds wage increases fringe benefits and hospitalization. Signing will be soon and retroactive to Nov 3.
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General Telephone Co
Illinois
Electrical Workers Local 51
John L. Boswell
Marion
SIU budget faces large cut and major new programs
A state higher education board proposes a 21 million dollar cut to Southern Illinois University's 1969 71 operating budget, a sum that would still leave SIU with about 188 million. The plan funds extensive new programs including medical and dental education and doctoral tracks at Carbondale Edwardsville campuses amid enrollment surges from 5500 in 1955 to nearly 32000 today.
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SIU
Ben Gelman
Ilinoisa
State Board of Higher Education
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
State Higher Board
Carbondale
Tal
Higher Board
New Carbondale
East St. Lou
Civil Service Merit Board
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