Talks in Paris site eyed for Vietnam peace
U S and North Vietnamese envoys met at the French Foreign Ministry seeking a Paris area venue for preliminary peace talks. Street clashes in Paris amid Sorbonne protests shadow the discussions as Washington and Hanoi weigh possible meeting sites and timing.
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Hanoi
U. S
Paris
Foreign Ministry
Vietnam
University of Paris
Sorbonne
Seine
Woodruff Wallner
Mai van Bo
Herve Alphand
Washington
Saigon battle rages as enemy attacks city
North Vietnamese forces clash from cemetery to graveyard near Tan Son Nhut airport and near Dong Ha and Khe Sanh as U S and allied troops defend Saigon. Reports cite casualties, newsmen killed, and ongoing ground fighting amid pacification efforts and peace talks.
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Barry Kramer
Associated Press
Saigon
South Vietnam
Mao Tsetung
Hanoi
Johnson
Tan Son Nhut
U.S.C
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
John Cantwell
Time Magazine
Singapore
Hong Kong
Baron Ruedt Hasso von Collenberg
Charles R. Eggleston
Watertown
N.Y
United Press International
Vietnam
Eggleston
Arthur Greenspon
Nguyen Ngoc Lian
Lian
Northwest Frontier
Khe Sanh
IBEW crews return to Illinois Bell as strike ends
AP reports that IBEW members at Illinois Bell largely returned to work after a CWA led 24 day strike. service remains hampered as installers and electricians continue a work boycott. The CWA approved a three year contract with Illinois Bell. IBEW members who refused to cross picket lines did not report for work. In southern Illinois, 158 Local 399 installers walked off in sympathy, refusing to stay on payroll after reporting, as the union negotiates a new contract to replace the expiring one.
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Chicago
Illinois Bell Telephone Co
Communications Workers of America
Afl-Cio
Illinois Bell
Jack Gable
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
CWA
Gable
IBEW
Illinois
Bell
Jerry Clark
Unit 2
Local 399
Clark
Centralia
Vandalia
Greenville
Mount Vernon
Salem
Cairo
Clinton County
Electrical Workers Union
Father and daughter cross picket lines at Rhode Island plant
Joseph Dansereau, 46, of Lincoln, and his daughter Janice, 18, meet at a Pawtucket phone company building during a telephone strike. Dansereau is a non striking supervisor and Janice is a teletype operator with the striking International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers. No management meetings are scheduled.
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Joseph Dansereau
Lincoln
R.R
Janice
Pawtucket
R.I
Striking
International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers
Stanford patient dies as heart transplants advance
Surgeons in Houston performed their second heart transplant in three days with both new patients improving. Joseph Rizor, eighth transplant recipient, died at Stanford after his new heart stopped briefly due to lung oxygen failure.
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Associated Press
Houston
Tex
Joseph Rizor
Stanford
Calif
London
National Heart
Everett Claire Thomas
Thomas
Stanford Medical Center
Rizer
Rizor
Bank Robbery Reported at St. Anne Bank
State police traced a robbery at the National Bank of St. Anne with three gunmen taking an undetermined amount. Early reports said five employees and one customer were herded into a vault as cash drawers were emptied before the suspects fled north toward Kankakee. Troops established road blocks in the area.
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St. Anne
National Bank of
Kankakee
Illinois 1
Flood traps men in mine near Richwood
A Gauley Coal and Coke Co mine in Nicholas County south of Richwood was flooded trapping possibly up to 27 miners. Company officials said the crew cut into a wall of water and were either trapped by or isolated in the rising flood with no immediate word on their fate.
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Nicholas County
Richwood
Gauley Coal and Coke Co
Bread Supply Seems Largely Unaffected by Bakers Strike
A survey found eight St. Louis wholesale bakeries on strike by Bakers Union No 4 did not seriously cut bread in Southern Illinois. Continental Baking Co distribution from Du Quoin serves Perry Jackson Randolph Williamson and Franklin counties with nine trucks. Bunny Bread in Anna remains unaffected.
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St. Louis
Illinois
Bakers Union No. 4
American Bakery and Confectionary Workers
Continental Baking Co
du Quoin
Wonder Bread
Hostess Cakes
du Quoiin
John Lynch
Perry
Jackson
Randolph
Williamson
Franklin
Lynch
Bunny Bread
Anna
Indiana primary races test Kennedy McCarthy Humphrey Nixon
Indiana heads a week of major political activity with five primaries including Indiana and Ohio and three state conventions as Kennedy and McCarthy seek delegates while Humphrey presses for the national slate. Nixon gains attention after Rockefeller joins the GOP race.
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Washington
Indiana
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Kennedy
McCarthy
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Alabama
Florida
Ohio
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Wyoming
Delaware
Alaska
Maine
Humphrey
Columbia Ends Classes Amid Chaos at Ivy League Campus
Columbia College halted formal instruction four weeks before term end as protests and picket lines disrupted campus life. Fewer than 200 students staffed lines while staff and others moved through blocked buildings, intensifying the upheaval at the Ivy League university.
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Columbia University
Columbia College
Ivy League University
U S Revolutionaries Detention Camps Considered
A House Un American Activities Committee report urges detention centers under the McCarran Act to curb guerrilla style action by a Communist Black nationalist coalition. It endorses temporary imprisonment of insurgents and even census cards with residents’ photos and addresses. Chairman Edwin E Willis notes mixed Communist and Black nationalist elements planning violent actions. Phillip Abbott Luce, once in the Progressive Labor party, helped prepare the draft.
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Washington
House Committee
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
House Committee On Un-American Activities
United States
Willis
Phillip Abbott Luce
Progressive Labor Party
Spending limitation plan clears way for tax boost bill
The House Ways and Means Committee moved toward a $10 billion tax increase by adopting a spending ceiling plan. It calls for a $4 billion cut under President Johnson's July 1 budget and an $8 billion cut in leftover spending from earlier years. The panel, in a 17 to 6 vote with two abstentions, directs Mills to push for a conference with the Senate to craft a combined tax-economy package.
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House
Ways and Means
Appropriations Committee
Johnson
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
Dark
Senate House
Mills
Congress
Weather Outlook Describes Warm, Mostly Sunny Day
The forecast calls for a warmer day with high near 70 and mostly sunny skies. Increasing cloudiness tonight with lows in the 50s and a mild Tuesday with a chance of showers and highs in the 70s.
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Centralia, Ill
Strik
W. Va
Bakers
Demos
America
Columbia
Way
Senate
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