Allied holdings struck by Reds in Da Nang air base attack
Communist forces mounted coordinated assaults across the northern 1st Corps area killing 241 North Vietnamese soldiers in two main actions while sparing few in Da Nang. The Da Nang Air Base suffered a $2 million Phantom jet loss and multiple aircraft damage as 122mm rockets hit air lines. Casualties included 18 Americans in the base strikes and 19 more in other clashes with US forces.
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Saigon
1St Corps
da Nang
Associated Press
George Esper
U.S
1St Air Cavalry Division
Que Noon
Big da Nang
Johnson signs antipoverty bill and related measures
President Johnson signed the last of 453 bills from the 90th Congress before the midnight deadline. The antipoverty package totals 1.842 billion dollars, including 1.773 billion for the Office of Economic Opportunity and 57.4 million for Appalachian regional development and 16.9 million for saline water programs. The action also expands Social Security benefits and federal aid to education, and names Yale professors Merton Peck and Arthur Okun to the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Appalachian
Interior Department
Johnson
Yale Economics
Merton J. Peck
Council of Economic Advisers
Gardner Ackley
U.S
Italy
Ackley
Arthur M. Okun
Arge Christian
Third heart transplant patient Blaiberg shows progress
Cape Town doctors report Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 58, doing very well after the transplant that used Clive Haupt’s heart. Blaiberg regained consciousness and spoke his first words, expressing a wish to send regards to his wife. The operation followed the landmark Washkansky case and faces ongoing questions about long term survival.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Philip Blaiberg
Clive Haupt
Balthazar J. Vorster
Christian Barnard
Blaiberg
Barnard
Louis Washkan
Peace talks drift as U S seeks clarification
The United States and North Vietnam have narrowed their differences on starting peace talks but officials doubt talks would be productive. Washington seeks answers to whether stopping bombing would prompt prompt talks, whether questions would be substantive, and why Trinh did not use the word permanently in stating talks would follow.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
North Vietnam
United States
U.S
Johnson
Nguyen Duy Trinh
Trinh
North
DRV
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
San Antonio
Tex
South Vietnam
Hanoi
McCarthy Plans New Hampshire Campaign Push
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota said he will enter the New Hampshire presidential primary and campaign actively for about three weeks before the March 12 vote. His supporter David Hoeh of Hanover said McCarthy will vie for a full slate of pledged delegates and appear on the ballot’s preferential side.
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Washington
Eugene J. McCarthy
Dminn
New Hampshire
McCarthy
David Hoeh
Concord
N. H
Hoeh
Hanover
Johnson
Europe
Southeast Asia
20 000 gallons cyanide transferred under tight security
In Dunreith Indiana crews transferred 20 000 gallons of acetone cyanohydrin from a damaged rail car to tanker trucks amid strict security. Evacuations continued as officials tested Buck Creek and Big Blue River and assessed damage including a cannery and several structures.
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Dunreith
Ind
Indiana
Pennsylvania
George Winburn
Rohan & Haas Chemical Co
Louisville
Winburn
Buck Creek
Evertt Thompson
Robert W. Heider
State Board of Health
Big Blue River
George Streett
Cincinnati
Ohio
Butterfield Canning Co
Indianapolis
Treasury transfers $450 million in gold to fund contingency needs
The Treasury reported an additional 450 million dollar gold transfer from the monetary stock to the Exchange Stabilization Fund on December 28, raising December transfers to 925 million. Separate 475 million was moved in the first week of December to cover London market sales and future contingencies, with 1967 totals at 1.175 billion.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Europe
Exchange Stabilization Fund
Treasury
Department
U.S
London
Riot at California rehabilitation center injures officers
About 250 narcotics addicts seized the California Rehabilitation Center 60 miles east of Los Angeles burning buildings and pummeling guards until 300 law enforcement officers reclaimed control. Six officers were injured and five rioters wounded one fatally. 51 inmates were moved to a maximum security facility in Chino. In Acapulco Mexican soldiers machine-gunned four men, authorities said.
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Noorco
Calif
California
Los Angeles
Roland W. Wood
Chino
Colder With Light Snow Late Tonight Through Thursday
Frigid conditions with cloudy skies persist. A chance of light snow develops late tonight and continues Thursday, with lows in the teens and highs in the 20s.
Subzero Freezewide Grips Much of Nation
The Arctic invasion chilled a wide swath from Rockies to New England with lows reaching 29 below in Hibbing Minnesota. Readings of zero or below were forecast for 23 states as sleet and freezing rain affected travel from Oklahoma to Maryland and the Virginias.
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Rockies
New England
Texas
New York
Hibbing
Minn
Denver
Kansas City
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Maryland
Virginias
Altorfer attacks Kerners road program as fiction
Springfield AP John Henry Altorfer a Republican candidate for governor charged that Gov Kerners 1968 highway program is political fiction. He said it fails to list projects or account for funds and notes 77 duplicated projects valued at 26.2 million from 1967 never undertaken.
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Springfield
John Henry Altorfer
Otto Kerner
Peoria Republican
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Reds
da Nang Base
Hoi An
Navy
Hue
DaNang
San Antonio, Tex
Congress
BILLS
Fish Hoek Beach
Haupt
Washkansky
Denise Ann Darvall
Hampshire
Okun
Western Hemisphere
Acapulco
Mexico
Dist. Atty
Manuel Berdeja Fierro
The
Plains
Midwest
Florida
Inside Classified
Family Living
Altorfer
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