Talks Start Today At Pearl Harbor LBJ Pledges Firm Viet Nam Stand
President Johnson denounces retreat advocates and vows the United States will stay firm in Viet Nam. He meets with South Viet Nam’s Ky and Thieu at a Hawaii strategy conference, with Westmoreland seeking more troops and possibly expanded bombing. Full talks begin at Pearl Harbor as U.S. leaders urge steady resolve and peace aims.
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Honolulu
Johnson
Viet Nam
United States
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Ky and
Thieu
Hawaii
Europe
Luna 9 signals raise Moon mystery after mission claim
The Soviet Luna 9 sent two poor photos and part of a third as signals and frequency shifts puzzled observers at Jodrell Bank. Sir Bernard Lovell suggested power or temperature issues explained the erratic actions, while Moscow offered no clarity.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Jodrell
Bank
England
Sir Bernard
Belgian medics halt strike over fees and clinics
Belgian doctors postponed an indefinite strike aimed at raising fees under the state health insurance. A general practice association told members to ignore the strike and follow Premier Harmel's truce proposal after his resignation was rejected by King Baudouin. The government offered 5 percent while doctors seek 25 percent and oppose free treatment at Socialist clinics.
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Brussels
Belgium
National Doctors’ Federation
Pierre Harmel
Harmel
Baudouin
Italian Crisis Deepens as Moro Exits Picture
Italy drifted into a government crisis with Premier-designee Aldo Moro out of contention after resigning the government. President Giuseppe Saragat ordered a third round of consultations as parties eye a possible interim solution during a fragile economic recovery and labor unrest.
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Italy
Aldo Moro
Moro
Giuseppe Saragat
Saragat
Quakes Ravage 20 Greek Villages in New Tremors
Three fresh earthquakes struck the Eurytania region of central Greece after King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie toured the area. No deaths were reported as villagers remained away from ruined homes, camping in fields following Saturday's strong quake that almost wiped out 20 villages.
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Greece
UPI
Eurytania
Constantine
Anne-Marie
Luna 9 signals renew hope for moon landing race
Western scientists were startled as Luna 9 resumed transmission arriving at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Soviet observers suggested the surface is not dusty but a sponge like mass with rock capable of supporting a manned landing. Dr. Raymond Lyttleton said Soviet data could speed US plans, though a Washington official doubted a year’s acceleration due to limited lunar material release.
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Lovell
Raymond Lyttleton
Cambridge University
England
United States
Washington
U.S
America
Pope seeks neutral summit on Vietnam mediation at Geneva
Vatican says Pope Paul VI is pursuing support for a neutral nations summit in Geneva to mediate an end to the Vietnam war. Envoys reported direct contacts with Switzerland Austria and other neutrals. Sweden Finland and Syria were mentioned as possible participants. No formal Vatican announcement yet on the summit format or dates.
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Paul VI
Geneva
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Vienna
Austria
Sweden
Finland
Syria
U.N
Switzerland
Salvage Underway After Tokyo Bay Jet Crash
Salvage operations began to raise three large sections of the Boeing 727 that crashed into Tokyo Bay killing 133. Recovery has included 30 bodies with divers locating the plane’s front, part of the fuselage, and tail section 75 feet deep off Haneda Airport.
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Tokyo Bay
Bay
U.S. Navy
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Allies Attempt Biggest Snare
In Vietnam a task force of Marines and two brigades of the 1st Cavalry closed in on Bong Son area to trap North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong. Air attacks continued but weather limited missions. ground contact was light and casualties small as the operation, Operation Double Eagle, tracked 122 Viet Cong killed with 11 captured and more than 1,000 suspects detained last week.
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South Viet Nam
1St Cavalry
Laos
Cambodia
North Viet Nam
Bong Son
Viet Nam
18Th
Leathernecks
Thant Eyes Eight-Party Vietnam Peace Conference
U Thant voices plan for a Vietnam peace conference involving Britain France the Soviet Union Communist China the United States North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong front The move hinges on neutral nations mediating a conference despite U S rejection and Cold War hurdles
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Viet Nam
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France
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China
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South Viet Nam
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Thant
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Liberation Front
Fires Kill 20 Plus in Nation Across Multiple States
A spate of fires nationwide yesterday left more than 20 people dead and dozens injured. The worst blaze occurred in Miami, killing ten people including seven children and three adults. Fires in Hohenwald Tennessee Helmetta New Jersey Minnesota and two South Side Chicago hotels added to the toll. Investigators blamed a kerosene stove explosion for the Miami fire in a 40 year old building. The Hohenwald fatalities included Guy Whittenberg Betty Whittenberg their daughters Judy and Katy and Guy Whittenberg's father W C Whittenberg. In Helmetta a young couple Robert N Longeilli Evelyn Longeilli and two of their three children died in a wooden ranch home fire. The couple's other child survived with grandparents.
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Hohenwald
Tenn
Helmetta
N.J
Minnesota
Chicago
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Betty
Judy
Katy
Whittenberg
W.C. Whittenberg
Robert N. Longeilli
Evelyn
Robert Jr
James
President Chung Hee Park’s Asia Trip This Week
South Korean President Chung Hee Park will visit Malaysia Thailand and nationalist China in a state tour aimed at positive participation to foster peace and security in Asia as stated to the legislature.
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Seoul, Korea
Chung Hee Park
Malaysia
Thailand
China
Asia
Periscope Local Accident Injures Troy Man
A brief local accident report details injuries to a Troy resident as reported in the Periscope. No further condition or cause is given in the fragment.
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Troy
De Gaulle and Erhard Open Brief Bonn Paris Talks
French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard opened a two day conference in Paris to narrow foreign policy differences. Erhard arrived from Bonn with cabinet ministers and experts for the sixth meeting since the 1963 friendship treaty pledging semi annual leaders meetings.
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UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Ludwig Erhard
Erhard
Paris Gare de l’Est
Bonn
de Gaulle
Konrad Adenauer
Viet Cong Hit Johnson Ky Talks as War Broadens
The Viet Cong charged that President Johnson's Honolulu meeting with South Vietnam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky aims to widen the war, while the Communists vowed to fight to final victory.
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Tokyo
Johnson
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Viet Nam
Honolulu
Viet Nam
Ice cream pause as President visits church crowd
The President attended a church service with Gov Sassocompanied by Ben and Kee iel K Inouye and Patsy Mink. Returning to his hotel his motorcade faced larger crowds and he halted the car to send a Secret Service man for four cups of ice cream.
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Cuba and China Near Break Over Trade and Propaganda
In Havana Fidel Castro denounced China for extortion in trade and for covert propaganda aimed at Cuba’s armed forces. He said the dispute goes beyond rice and sugar to a fundamental question about whether powerful nations may blacklist smaller countries.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
China
Peking
Castro
Communist Party
Gramma
Lottery bill to dominate Albany week as budget hearings begin
The New York Legislature, idle through January and early February, moves to hard cases with the lottery bill, tax revisions, and reapportionment. Hearings on Gov Rockefeller’s budget open Wednesday, with proposals on state sales tax and local revenue likely to provoke debate.
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Rockefeller
Sen
Warren Anderson
Binghamton
Harvey M. Lissett
Albany
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