Six Die In Three Troy Area Auto Crashes
Six people died in three separate crashes in the Troy area yesterday. Fatalities included Joseph S. Brown 52 of Troy and Mrs George C Kupiec 46 of Schaghticoke in a Route 40 head on near Speigletown. Montreal residents Louis Taveroff and Alexander Bernstein 65 died in a Northway crash near Clifton Park. Michael Zeltzerman 24 of Burlington Vermont and Michael David Cohen 24 of Essex Junction Vermont perished after a car truck collision on Route 4 near Whitehall. Mrs Kupiec two sons Chester 25 and Kenneth 12 were injured. Wives Ira Traveroff 63 and Fannie Bernstein 63 were seriously injured. Coroner says post mortems and further study needed.
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Troy
Route0
Schaghticoke
Speigletown
Joseph S. Brown
Perry Rd
George C. Kupiec
Northway
Junction
Kupiec
Chester
Kenneth
Montreal
Ira Traveroff
Fannie Bernstein
Brown
Leonard Hospital
Leonard
Rensselaer County
Anthony E. Matera
Paratroops Close In On Viet Cong In Mekong Delta
In the Mekong Delta near Bao Trai the 173rd Airborne Brigade spearheaded a big paratroop push against Viet Cong sanctuaries near the Cambodian border. Reports say limited contact persisted with losses on both sides, including 111 Viet Cong killed and several captured and detained, while U.S. casualties remained light. New Zealand and South Vietnamese units supported the operation.
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United States
Viet Nam
173Rd Airborne
Delta
Bao Trai
Saigon
New Zealand
Associated Press
Horst Faas
Chile Bans Siesta for Government Workers
Chile issued an official decree banning the siesta for government workers at noon. The traditional lunch nap is replaced by a half hour lunch break. Private businesses must adopt the new system by July.
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Santiago
Chile
UPI
Shastri To Face Ayub In Tashkent Talks
Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan meet in Tashkent under Soviet mediation by Alexei Kosygin. They will hold private talks at midmorning with a formal luncheon and a later public inauguration planned.
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U.S.S.R
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India
Ayub Khan
Pakistan
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kosygin
Shastri
Ayub
War correspondent Marguerite Higgins dies at 45
Washington AP reports Marguerite Higgins, famed war correspondent who covered Hitler's fall at 23 and won a Pulitzer for Korea frontline reporting, died from complications likely tropical in origin after a November hospital admission following a Vietnam trip. She wrote from her Newsday column from Walter Reed.
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Marguerite Higgins
Korea
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Viet Nam
India
Moscow
Air Force
William E. Hall
Who's Admit He Isn't Essential
A satirical piece portrays New York residents debating essential status after a transit strike. Otis Fluegelhorne walks to work miles from his desk, proving his inessentiality to his employer. Fear of severance and blisters highlights commuter hardship and political critique of Mayor Lindsay.
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John V. Lindsay
Otis
Fluegelhorne
Manhattan
Lindsay
Long Island Boondocks
Eva Marie Malingerer
New York Terminal
Eva
Threat targets TWU President Quill amid NYC transit strike
An unidentified well dressed man threatened to kill Transport Workers Union President Michael Quill if the strike ends. The remark was made during a radio interview in Albert Hall at the Hotel Americana in New York City.
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New York
UPI
Transport Workers Union
TWU
Michael Quill
New York City
Quill
Hotel Americana
Albert Hall
Nine Transport Union Leaders Held in Contempt
New York State Supreme Court Justice Abraham Geller found Michael J. Quill and eight union officials in civil contempt for violating an injunction during the New Year subway and bus strike. The ruling applied to TWU Local 100 and two Amalgamated Transit Union locals, with potential imprisonment until they comply.
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New York
Transport Workers Union
Michael J. Quill
State Supreme Court
Abraham N. Geller
TWU
Amalgamated Transit Union
Rockefeller backs higher police pay minimum in bid for standards
Governor Rockefeller proposes state backing to raise minimum pay for local police as part of a six point law enforcement program on the eve of the 1966 legislative session. He signals new authority for uniform standards, a broader crime crackdown, air pollution measures, and expanded state crime data networks.
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Rockefeller
Troy
Cated
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
New York State
Hults
Buffalo
Plattsburgh
Ossining
Inland Browns Steel Price Rise in Pentagon Order
The Pentagon pressed Bethlehem Steel and Inland Steel after both firms boosted structural steel prices. Secretary McNamara ordered defense buyers to shift future steel orders away from price hikes, while U S Steel weighed joining the increases. Inland defended the move as inflation containment and said it would have only a minor impact relative to overall steel prices.
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Washington
Pentagon
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Inland Steel Co
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Inland
New York
Bethlehem
John F. Kennedy
U.S. Steel Corp
Joseph L. Block
Block
U.S. Steel
Kennedy
Cleveland
Armco Steel Co
Kaiser Steel Corp
San Francisco
Hults urges drivers to heed grim warnings
New York State motor vehicle chief William S. Hults urged motorists to remember the tragic figures from the record New Year holiday traffic toll. Unofficial counts show at least 44 people died in traffic mishaps from Dec 30 to Jan 1, with 11 killed in fires and several drowning deaths.
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Albany
UPI
New York State
William S. Hults
Johnson buoyed by Humphrey jolted by Hanoi
President Johnson praised Humphrey’s Far East trip as a success and outlined a 14 point peace basket, but Hanoi issued a rebuff, offering no signs of interest in peace talks. Humphrey briefed allies in Japan the Philippines Formosa and Korea while U.S. diplomacy continued in the Middle East and Africa.
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Johnson
Hubert H. Humphrey
North Viet Nam
Mideast
Africa
Humphrey
Japan
Philippines
Formosa
South Korea
U.S
Texas
White House
W. Averill Harriman
Tehran
Iran
Ayub Khan
Peshawar
G. Mennen Williams
Kenya
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Hanoi
Fidel Castro protests China's trade cut with Cuba
Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced Communist China's reduction in trade in a Sunday speech marking the revolution's seventh anniversary. Observers expect the Havana conference of revolutionists to discuss the Moscow Peking dispute as delegates lean toward the Kremlin.
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Fidel Castro
China
Cuba
Castro
Peking
Moscow
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David Cohen
Essex
Nixon
George Kupiec
Harry McKenna
South Viet Nam
Mekong River
Long Island, N.Y
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Harry F. Guggenheim
Miss Higgins
By Hal Cooper
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Bethlehem Steel
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