guerrilla toll climbs in Saigon campaign
The Communist campaign in South Vietnam fries up heavy losses with 4,959 enemy killed and 1,862 Viet Cong suspects captured as Saigon and other centers face intensified clashes. U S casualties reach 232 killed and 929 wounded, while South Vietnamese losses total 300 killed and 747 wounded.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Man
Hue
Kontum
Nha Trang
Qui Nhon
Nguyen van Thieu
Mekong
Cholon
Cho
25Th Infantry Division
House rewrites bill for lenders and buyers
The House approved sweeping revisions to a bill requiring lenders and sellers to disclose credit costs in annual percentage terms. The measure, broader than the Senate version, excludes some revolving plans and small charges. A wage garnishment provision and several war updates follow amid Vietnam conflict reporting.
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Washington
House
Senate
Administration keeps mum on a response to Communist terror
President Johnson met with Republican leaders and reviewed intelligence on attacks in Saigon as White House delays a wartime decision. The briefing included embassy assaults and other targets with briefed sections of Armed Services and Appropriations committees. A formal plan awaits more information on outcomes.
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Saigon
Lewis Gulick Washington
Johnson
South Vietnam
White House
Senate
House
House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees
George Christian
North Korea hints at Pueblo crew release conditions
North Korea signaled possible Pueblo crew release under conditions and warned the U S against military threats or UN discussions. White House aides briefed on the crisis with Rusk McNamara and President Johnson advisers weighing diplomacy to recover the ship and crew.
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Seoul
United States
Pyongyang
North Korea
Kim Kwang Hyup
Central Committee
North Korean Workers (Communist) Party
Communist Party
U.S
United Nations
Palmer Named Assistant Retail Advertising Manager
Palmer, longtime Montana Standard retail advertising salesman since February 1962, is named assistant head of advertising. He will assist Retail Advertising Manager Ed Noonan and previously held posts at Burr's of Butte B F Goodrich and Anaconda Copper. He and his wife Delores and children Gay and Linda reside west of Butte.
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Guy L. Palmer
Montana Standard
D. R. Campbell Jr
Palmer
Burr’s of
Butte
B. F. Goodrich
Anaconda Co
Ed Noonan
Delores
Gay
Linda
McGlone Retires as Anaconda Executive VP
Edward S. McGlone retires from the post of executive vice president of the Anaconda Co headquartered in New York City. Robert B. Fulton of New York City becomes McGlone's successor on the Anaconda Co board of directors, having been elected president of the Anaconda Wire and Cable Co in 1965. McGlone, a North Platte Nebraska native, earned mining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1923 and moved to Butte that year to work for Davis-Daly as a mining engineer.
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Edward S. McGlone
Anaconda Co
New York City
Robert B. Fulton
Anaconda Wire and Cable Co
McGlone
North Platte
Neb
Colorado School of Mines
Butte
Davis-Daly
Miner rises through ranks at copper firms
A worker began as a miner at Copper Co and, a year later, joined Anaconda Co. He progressed from miner to sampler to shift boss and assistant foreman before continuing on another page.
Unions and companies clash over copper strike fate
A federal panel hears from union and company witnesses as a six percent month-old copper strike cripples industry. Union leaders demand companywide bargaining and higher wages while companies oppose it, arguing the strike hinges on negotiations. Phelps-Dodge and Anaconda testimony frames the dispute ahead of sessions with American Smelting and Refining.
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Neil Gilbride
Washington
Union and Company
Kennecott
Edmund J. Flynn
Flynn
Molony
Phelps Dodge Corp
George Taylor
Anaconda Co
American Smelting & Refining Co
Phelps-Dodge
Copper strike cost to Montana nears twenty six million
Montana's Unemployment Compensation Commission estimated the copper strike caused about 24.3 million dollars in lost wages and nearly 1.3 million dollars in state tax losses through mid August. Welfare and food stamp benefits reached over 599 thousand dollars for 1,094 striking families in Silver Bow Deer Lodge and Cascade counties with additional totals for Butte Anaconda Great Falls and other areas.
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Helena
Montana
Unemployment Compensation Commission
UCC
Silver Bow
Deer Lodge
Cascade
Anaconda
Great Falls
Butte
Dussault Announces Run for Lieutenant Governor
Missoula state senator Edward T. Dussault announces plans to file Thursday for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. A longtime farmer and clothing retailer, he has served since 1959, was Senate majority leader in 1965, and president pro tempore in 1967. his term expires January 4, 1969.
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Missoula
Edward T. Dussault
D-Missoula
Dussault
Senate
Soviet Red Cross backs Yemeni Republican aid effort
The Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent announced sending blankets tents surgical instruments and medicines to the Yemeni Republican side in the civil war. Saudi Arabia accuses Russia of also providing military aid.
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Moscow
Red Cross and
Red Crescent
Saudi Arabia
Railroads ask Montana for intrastate freight rate hike
Five railroads serving Montana Milwaukee Burlington Northern Pacific Great Northern and Union Pacific seek a statewide freight rate increase. The Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners set February 15 for a public hearing at 10 a.m. in Helena to consider allowing intrastate rates to rise by about 34 percent, matching interstate increases.
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Helena
Montana
Board of Railroad Commissioners
State Regulatory Agency
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Milwaukee
Burlington
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Union Pacific
Local talks resume between Anaconda Co and unions
A new round of local issue negotiations continues between Anaconda Copper and unions that struck Montana operations. Meetings are planned with the Butte Operating Engineers and company negotiators, plus sessions with the Butte Miners Union, United Steelworkers and crafts unions.
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Anaconda Co
Montana
Butte Operating
Butte Miners Union 1
United Steelworkers of America
Crafts
Miners and Crafts
Washington, D. C
Federal grand jury in session in Butte
A 22 member federal grand jury convened by Judge W D Murray in Butte considers 45 criminal matters from U S Attorney Moody Brickett. Indictments and reports will reach the court beginning Friday as court attachments estimate.
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W. D. Murray
Butte
U.S
Moody Brickett
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Lon
Korea
By Bob Pool
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Rusk
McNamara
Christian
Asia
Guy B. Palmer
Butte - Anaconda
Tinue
Joseph P. Molony
Afl-Cio
United Steelworkers Union
Siti
Soviet
Red Cross
Dan Edwards
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Carl Clavadetscher
FMCS
Congressional
Merlyn H. Dethlefsen
Derby
Kan
North Vietnam
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