Johnson reshuffles State Department posts
President Johnson announced a high level shakeup at the State Department appointing Thomas Mann as undersecretary for economic affairs replacing Averell Harriman who will become ambassador at large. Jack Hood Vaughn will take Manns post as coordinator for the Alliance for Progress and Harriman will handle high level duties abroad.
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Johnson
State Department
Averell Harriman
Thomas €. Mann
Mann
Harriman
Dean Rusk
Cocoa Beach
Fla
Reedy
Rusk
Viet Nam
George W. Ball
Eisenhower
Vaughn
Ship Margit Burns Aboard Rescue Efforts Continue
Twenty four persons including one woman were rescued after the Danish freighter Margit burned from an engine explosion. The Green ville Victory reported picking up 23 men and one woman 400 miles west of Johnston Island while search efforts continued for others. The 4,967 ton Margit carried flour asbestos and cast iron from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Calcutta, India, and sailed February 1 from San Francisco via Portland.
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Greenville Victory
Johnston Island
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Calcutta
India
Honolulu
Les
Pacific
White House says Johnson Wilson discussed Vietnam crisis
The White House announced a direct communication occurred Thursday between President Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson on the Vietnam crisis. Press Secretary George E. Reedy noted multiple direct contacts with world capitals in recent days and hinted at a leak from London. London reports claim Wilson stayed in close personal contact with Johnson via a direct telephone line.
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Washington
White House
Johnson
Harold Wilson
Britain
George E. Reedy
London
Wilson
John L. Lewis Skips 85th Birthday, Hides From Visitors
John L. Lewis, elder statesman of organized labor and longtime UMWA president, turns 85 but avoids birthday interviews and photographs. An aide notes birthdays bother him since age 70 as Lewis ducks from his office to dodge well wishers after retiring in 1960.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Organized Labor
Lewis
United Mineworkers of America
Kosygin Claims Soviet China Unity Gains in Asia
Premier Kosygin said imperialist provocations in Vietnam united the Soviet Union and Communist China to curb aggressors. Speaking in Pyongyang after talks in Peking, he cited Khrushchev’s ouster as opening new opportunities for socialist unity. He urged stronger cooperation with North Korea and China, and voiced support for North Vietnam.
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Alexei N. Kosygin
Viet Nam
Soviet Union
China
Socialist Commonwealth
North Korea
Kosygin
Peking
Communist Party
Mao Tze-tung
Chou En-lai
Tass
Pyongyang
Republic of China
Korean Democratic People’s Republic
Indochina
North Viet Nam
Moscow
Red China
World Communist Movement
Soviet Communist Party
Cold Spell Persists For Southern Illinois Weather
Cold tonight for Southern Illinois with lows around 10 to 18 degrees. Increasing clouds and milder on Saturday with highs in the 30s. Maps and full details on page 19.
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Southern
Illinois
Steel Vote Court Fight Expected
The United Steelworkers union election in Pittsburgh moved toward a possible court fight as voting irregularities sparked disputes. Incumbent David J. McDonald and I. W. Abel led with Abel ahead unofficially. 2,859 locals reported, Abel 278,943 McDonald 269,182.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
I. W. Abel
Abel
Basic Steel Industry
James Griffin
McDonald
USW
Youngstown
Picketing Protest: Georgetown Students Demonstrate Outside Soviet Embassy
About four hundred American students mainly from Georgetown University picketed the Soviet Embassy in Washington at a distance of a block and a half. The orderly protest, reacting to a Moscow embassy attack, wore homemade signs and carried a bed sheet banner reading To Russia, With Love.
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New York Times
Washington
U. S
Moscow
Georgetown University
Viet Nam
Russia
Pilot Seized Three Naval Aircraft Lost
In Saigon on February 12 AP reported three U S Navy jet fighters were lost and one pilot captured in the latest US air strike against North Viet Nam. About 160 planes took part in the raid described as the week’s third and the most massive retaliation.
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North Viet Nam
U.S. Navy
North
U.S
South Viet Nam
Hanoi
Peking
Moscow
Chan Hoa
Chap le
South
Viet Nam
da Nang Air Base
Radio
Qui Nhon
John Throckmorton
Throckmorton
South West Nam
Senator Simon Proposes Campaign Spending Limits Bill
Sen. Paul Simon drafts legislation to cap campaign spending for state offices and the Illinois General Assembly. The bill would require disclosure of contributors and expenditures, with ceilings of 500000 for governor 200000 for secretary of state and 100000 for other state offices and lower caps of 10000 for Senate and 7500 for House. Support from Mikva Thiem Dixon but enforcement warned as difficult due to proxy spending by groups.
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Arthur L. Srb
Associated Press
Springfield
Paul Simon
Troy
Illinois General Assembly
Simon
William G. Stratton
Stratton
U.S. District Court
Chicago
Illinois
Ilinois Senate
House
Mikva
Thiem
Ronan
Survivor emerges after 35 hours buried in Qui Nhon rubble
Spec. 4 Arthur Abendschein of Deptford New Jersey crawled free from the bombed billet in Qui Nhon after 35 hours trapped beneath debris. He was the fifth American rescued from the shattered enlisted men quarters as Viet Cong bombings left two dead and 19 missing. Survivors were wounded and aid crews faced slow digging through concrete blocks as dawn brought rescue by Vietnamese forces.
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Peter Arnett
Associated Press
Qui Nhon
South Viet Nam
Arthur Abendschein
Abendschein
Deptford
N.J
Abendscheis
Union Orders Longshoremen To Work In Most Ports
The International Longshoremen’s Association ordered longshoremen back to work in all but two ports after rejecting a full settlement. South Atlantic and West Gulf ports resisted, while a federal mediation plan urged a nationwide back to work move as talks continued under a presidential panel. Johnson’s aides prepared a briefing as the deadline neared.
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Washington
International Longshoremen’s Association
South Atlantic
West Gulf
Miami
Galveston
Thomas W. Gleason
Afl-Cio Union
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Johnson
W. Willard Wirtz
West Gulf Coast
Wirtz
White House
Secretary of Labor
J. Ross Dunn
Peter Ruffin
Wilmington Shipping Co
Wilmington
S.C
Ralph A. Massey
ILA
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast
Herschel Newsom
National Grange
Newsom
New York
Mobile
Ala
West Germany halts arms sales to Israel
Bonn Germany Feb 12 AP West Germany confirmed it has stopped arms shipments to Israel after Egypt announced a halt Earlier Ludwig Erhard and his cabinet decided against arms shipments in areas of tension in the Middle East indicating the move aims to reduce conflicts in the region and reflect future policy.
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Bonn
Germany
Egypt
West Germany
Karl Guenther von Hase
Ludwig Erhard
Middle East
Erhard
Divers Check On Wreckage
Salvage crews in rain and fog aimed to raise a mass of metal believed to be the Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 wreckage. Navy divers from Earle New Jersey joined five others on ships near the scene 6.2 miles south of Jones Inlet. A seven foot fuselage section including a window was recovered by civilian divers and sent to Jones Beach for examination.
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New York
Atlantic
Navy
Earle
N.J
Eastern Air Line
Jones Inlet
Allegheny
Freeport
N.Y
3000 Arrests Send Sheriff To Hospital Forces Demonstrations
Selma Alabama February 12 AP Sheriff James G Clark was hospitalized after more than 3000 arrests occurred during demonstrations. A jailed Negro civil rights leader had been moved to another hospital and placed in shackles about 12 hours earlier.
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Selma
Ala
James G. Clark
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Abner Mikva
George Thiem
Evanston
James Rowan
Alan Dixon
Belleville
Otto Kerner
Charles H. Percy
Kerner
Percy
William J. Scott
Israel
Jones Beach
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