Steel layoffs begin as demand falls after price row
U S Steel Corp and Pittsburgh Steel began shutting furnaces and laying off workers due to dwindling demand from overstocked customers. Bethlehem Steel furloughed temporary summer workers in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Government purchases may be canceled per President Johnson's directive. firms including U S Steel Bethlehem Youngstown Sheet and Tube Armco offered no comment.
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Pittsburgh
UPS
U.S. Steel Corp
Pittsburgh Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem, Pa
Johnson
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Armco
Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union celebrate reconciliation in Bratislava
Crowds cheer as the last Russian troops withdraw from Czechoslovakia and Josef Smrkovsky proclaims all promises kept. Brezhnev and Smrkovsky share a kiss on the Bratislava balcony as a 10 page declaration voices unity among six communist nations against Western imperialism and signals Czechoslovakia’s return to the Warsaw Pact. A second brief notes Congo coup and Western steel price shifts and industry layoffs.
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Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
UPI
Soviet Union
Josef Smrkovsky
Smrkovsky
Leonid I. Brezhnev
United States
Morning Greeting Echoes Through Quiet Day
A cheerful morning message repeats a maxim about honesty, urging people not to deceive others. The tone is friendly and invites reflection without accusation.
Two More U S Planes Shot Down in Vietnam War
On the fourth anniversary of the air war US military officials confirmed two additional American aircraft were shot down over North Vietnam. The losses raised the total to 875, with no immediate details on the downed planes. Earlier, B 52s bombed the A Shau Valley as North Vietnamese forces claimed another loss and a helicopter downing near Khe Sanh.
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Saigon
UPS
United States
North Vietnam
U.S
Shau
Khe Sanh
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam Hints At New Offensive Tied to Bombing Halt
Paris sources say Hanoi would unleash a renewed South Vietnam offensive only if the United States would suspend all bombing of the North. North Vietnamese and Allied observers see pressure tactics aimed at forcing a full bombing halt and resuming peace talks, with possible military and psychological gains.
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Paris
UPI
Vietnam
Hanoi
South Vietnam
United States
North Vietnam
Saigon
Washington
Rockefeller Strives for GOP Nomination at Miami Beach
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller arrived in Miami Beach confident he can win the Republican presidential nomination from Nixon. He predicts a first ballot Nixon lead, with a shift to Rockefeller on later ballots, aided by delegates and strategic endorsements as convention dates loom.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Opa-Locka
Miami
Laurence
Stati
Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
California
Nixon
Reagan
GOP
Montauk
Long Island
Robert Douglass
Douglass
Leonard Hall
Tarrytown
N.Y
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Michigan
George Romney
Maryland
Hall
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Meade Alcorn
Congress
Howard Baker
R.tenn
House of Representatives
Texas
Mission to Hanoi Sought by 60 Representatives
Sixty members of South Vietnam's National Assembly signed a petition calling a mission to Hanoi to pursue direct peace talks with North Vietnam. The plan seeks to have the United States and the Viet Cong play subordinate roles in any talks and aims to contact North Vietnam's National Assembly to organize negotiations while urging allies to enable direct negotiations.
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Saigon
UPI
House of Representatives
Hanoi
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
United States
Republic of
South
Paris
National Assembly
Reagan Backers Suir Fray Over Vietnam Plank
The Vietnam issue fractures Republican ranks as Nixon and Rockefeller allies push for a peace oriented plank. Reagan conservatives clash with hawks and doves over a platform pledge to seek a negotiated settlement, aiming to influence the convention with a hawkish speech or to present a united peace message. The platform committee battles threaten to delay final language until Sunday.
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Miami Beach
Vietnam
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Republican Party
Party of Peace
Ronald Reagan
California
Platform Committee
South Vietnam
Reagan
Hawks
Doves
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Nixon
Rockefeller
Jacob Javits
New York
John Tower
Texas
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
Javits
Peter Freylinghausen
New Jersey
Freylinghausen
United States
Mountaineers Stor in the Beach Delegates May Hold Key to Nomination
In Miami Beach 50 West Virginia delegates attend the Republican National Convention with 14 official delegates and many alternates. Led by former U.S. Sen. Chapman Revercomb, the group includes Nixon and Rockefeller supporters among Charleston, Parkersburg, Wheeling, Huntington, and Morgantown figures. Delegates and alternates weigh which candidate earns nomination as the convention opens.
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Miami Beach
Fla
West
West Virginia
U.S
Chapman Revercomb
Charleston
Rockefeller
Melvin C. Snyder
Kingwood
Morgantown
James C. Welden
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Edgar Thomson
Geneva
Provo
Utah
Bethlehem Steel Co
United Steelworkers Union
USW
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Wheeling Steel Corp
Defense Department
Navy
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Bethlehem Steel Corp
J&l
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Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Crucible
Syracuse, N.Y
Republic
Inland Steel
Pat Paulsen
UPI Telephoto
Suir
John W. Finney
New York Times News Service
John Shanklin
D. Boone Dawson
Mahlon Guthrie
Ruthrie
Shanklin
Dawson
Parkersburg
William P. A. Nicely
Ronald L. Love
Wheeling
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