Escalation Of Air War Seen In 1968
The United States is escalating bombing in North Vietnam with 1.63 million tons dropped by mid November, far surpassing Europe totals in World War II. Weather slows strikes but plans emphasize re strikes on bombed sites and expanded chaff use to spoof radar. Pentagon figures cite mission counts and future buy plans for chaff by Air Force and Navy.
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State Department
United States
North
South Vietnam
Europe
Pentagon
Vietnam
U.S
Saigon
North Vietnam
Air Force
Navy
Bert Lahr Dies Veteran Actor of Oz and Stage
Bert Lahr, veteran actor and famed Cowardly Lion, died at 72 in New York City after a back ailment and pneumonia treatment. His career spanned five decades from vaudeville to Broadway and films, with noted roles in The Wizard of Oz and Waiting for Godot, celebrated by Time and critics. He was born August 13, 1895, in New York and began in Nine Crazy Kids, later shaping modern comic performance.
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New York
Bert
Go- Lahr
Dot
Lahr
Harry Detmars Revels
du Barry
Lady
Bottom
American Shakespeare Theater and
Academy
Ben Jonson
Volpone
Ypsilanti, Mich
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Lahr’ S Career Spanned Some 50 Years and Ranged From the Classic Cowardly Lion
Estragon
Waiting For Godot
Shaw
Moliere
Lion
New York City
Fifth Avenue
Hospital Aide On Trial For Murder
Los Angeles AP. William Dale Archerd, 55, a former hospital attendant, faces a nonjury murder trial for insulin injections alleged to have killed three wives in Los Angeles County. Prosecutor Raymond Daniels links Archerd to six deaths, with Archerd having seven marriages and ties to victims in Fontana, Las Vegas, and El Monte.
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Los Angeles
Raymond Daniels
William Dale Archerd
Archerd
Daniels
Los Angeles County
Zella A. Winders
Mary Brinker Post Arden
Barney Kirk Archerd
Arden
William E. Jones Jr
Fontana
Calif
San Bernardino County
Juanita Plum Archerd
Las Vegas
Nev
Frank L. Stewart
el Monte
Storms Rip East West Coast Areas
Storms ripped both the Atlantic and Pacific north coasts yesterday while much of the nation enjoyed sunny mild December weather. Rain stretched from Washington to central California with mountain snow. Locally heavy snow triggered travel warnings across northern Sierra Nevadas Mt Shasta Siskiyou. Two inches of snow fell in Blue Canyon California in six hours bringing total to 25 inches. Stampede Pass Washington reported 28 inches on the ground. Eastport Maine saw an inch of new snow, total nearly 3 inches in 24 hours. Temperatures ranged from 19 at Rock Springs Wyoming to 78 at Veron Beach Florida.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Pacific
Washington
California
Sierra Nevadas
Mt. Shasta and
Siskiyou
Blue Canyon
Calif
Reno
Nev
Stampede Pass
New England
Maine
Rhode Island
Eastport
Rock Springs
Wyo
Veron Beach
Fla
Post Office Explosion Injures 3 in Elizabeth New Jersey
An explosion ripped through the loading platform of Elizabeth's main post office injuring three employees. Police say the blast occurred as driver Charles Andrews, 33, unloaded packages onto a chute in the parcel post section. A flame swept the basement as the second package exploded, scorching walls.
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Elizabeth
N.J
Charles Andrews
Two Students Charged In Connecticut Bank Burglary
Two college students from affluent families were arraigned in Brooklyn on a New Haven warrant for the 840,093 Thanksgiving weekend burglary of a Connecticut bank. Theodore Kennedy III and Samuel Bernthal faced $10,000 bail each, with prosecutors saying Kennedy staged the entry while Bernthal acted as lookout. A aunt’s barn yielded 41,000 cash in a coat and another 41,000 was buried on her property. Kennedy had worked as a teller at a Norwich CT bank, linking him to the crime.
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New York
Connecticut
U.S. District Court
Brooklyn
New Haven
Theodore O. Kennedy
Norwich
Kennedy
Connecticut Bank and Trust Co
Bernthal
Man jailed for seven hour confinement in Zambia
In Lusaka a 20 year old office worker Henry Banda faced a court hearing after he locked up a girl for seven hours over a dispute about a miniskirt. The judge sentenced Banda to six months hard labor in prison.
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Lusaka
Zambia
Henry Banda
Underground rail link eyed for Ruhr district
West German Transport Minister Georg Leber proposes an underground link between Dortmund and Duesseldorf in the congested Ruhr region to create jobs for coal miners. The two cities are about 30 miles apart.
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BOM
Georg Leber
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Thousands Pay Respects To Cardinal Spellman
In New York thousands in long lines paid last respects to Francis Cardinal Spellman at St Patrick Cathedral. Police used bull horns and barricades to manage a flow of visitors with line extending to Madison Avenue. Spellman died Saturday at 78 and will be interred after Thursday funeral in a crypt beneath the cathedral. Pope Paul VI will select his successor, with no date given.
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NEW York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Fifth Avenue
Madison Avenue
Cardinal Spellman
Archdiocese of
Martin Spellman
Johan Spellman
Marian Pegnam
Helene Garrity
St. Patrick's
Mother and three children die in Syracuse apartment fire
A 55 year old mother Ignazio Puglisi and three daughters Carmella 21 Maria 18 and Geraldina 12 perished when a stairway fire trapped residents in a Syracuse northside building. The father and another daughter and son escaped after leaping from a second story window. A family of five in a lower apartment escaped through windows. Bodies were recovered hours after the blaze began around 4 a.m. Cause undetermined. all deaths listed as asphyxiation with no burn marks.
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Syracuse
UPI
Ignazio Puglisi
Carmella
Maria
Geraldina
William Stover
Health Insurance Plan Debate in Senate Hearings
The hearing weighs praise and criticism of a state plan with supporters urging blended funding and others warning of costs. Leaders from business, government, and medicine discuss compulsory coverage, deductibles, physician fees, and the role of Blue Cross in a shifting funding landscape.
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John J. Roberts
Empire State Chamber of Commerce
Roberts
Enirs
Marion B. Folsom
J. Douglas Colman
Associated Hospital Service of
New York
Blue Cross
Colman
Seymour ‘Thaler
Levitt
Vance Returns to U S After Cyprus Mission
Special Envoy Cyrus Vance landed back in the United States after helping steer a settlement in Cyprus. He said he would brief President Johnson and hoped Greece and Turkey would avoid further strife over the Mediterranean island.
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Washington
U. 5
Cyrus Vance
United States
Cyprus
Johnson
Vance
Greece
Turkey
Mediterranean
Sales Tax Urged For Troy Schools
Troy school board delayed any adoption of a sales tax proposal until April while considering an elementary lunch program under study due to current budget limits. They passed loitering and bond resolutions, noted total oral appropriations at 600000, appointed Barry Margolin as social studies teacher, and accepted resignations of Patricia Hart and James Charron.
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U U Uder
Carroll Hill
Barry Margolin
Patricia Hart
James Charron
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Norman Lent
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