Allied sweep sideslights Iron Triangle near Saigon
An 8000-strong Allied force, including paratroopers and Australian units, launched Operation Crimp 20 miles northwest of Saigon to trap Viet Cong in the Iron Triangle. The assault used helicopters, artillery, and nonlethal gas, with light enemy contact and several helicopter losses.
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U.S
Iron Triangle
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Thi Tinh
Triangle
Saigon River
Americans’ Hanoi trip yields little trust in peace offers
Yale professor Staughton Lynd and Thomas Hayden said North Viet Namese leaders doubt U.S. readiness to negotiate a settlement. Aptheker did not join the statement. The trio urged Americans to see a split between people and government and stressed independence for Viet Nam.
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NEW York
North Viet Nam
State Department
America
Yale
Staughton Lynd
Thomas Hayden
Students For A Democratic Society
Kennedy
U.S
Herbert Aptheker
American Communist Party
Hanoi
Aptheker
Viet-Report
Viet Nam
Lynd- Hayden
United States
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Lindsay Demands Early Mediators in Transit Strike
New York Mayor Lindsay pressed negotiators into a late session at City Hall as the 10th day of a crippling transit strike dragged on. temperatures dipped, commuters faced freezing cold, and vendors warned of economic pain while unions and the Transit Authority traded figures and refusals on pay and hours.
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NEW York
John V. Lindsay
City Hall
Afl-Cio Transport Workers Union
Amalgamated Transit Union
Lindsay
Manhattan
Central Park
Transit Authority
TWA
Subway
Johnson
Congress Eyes Rough Session Amid Viet Nam Debates
The 89th Congress opens in a stormy year with Viet Nam policy and the Great Society as top issues. Johnson will unveil priorities in the State of the Union, budgeting $110 to $115 billion and seeking over $10 billion for war funding while balancing domestic programs. Ford leads GOP on war priority and tax opposition as labor-law disputes linger.
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Washington
Viet Nam
Senate
Johnson
Congress
John V. McCormack
D-Mass
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Ford
Shastri Ayub Meet Aims for Last Minute Accord
In Tashkent Kosygin pushes for breakthrough at the India Pakistan summit with Shastri and Ayub Khan meeting separately for hours. With two leaders already far apart the chances of a settlement fade as debate centers on a joint statement and its wording.
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Tashkent
U.S.S.R
Alexei N. Kosygin
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Pakistan
Shastri
Ayub
Altaf Gauhar
Nimitz Posts Signs of Improvement in Oakland Hospital
Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, 80, showing progress at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital where he is convalescing from a brain blood clot. He entered the hospital last Monday for a routine checkup and the clot on the brain affecting his left side was reported last Wednesday. Doctors call his condition satisfactory.
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Oakland
Calif
Chester W. Nimitz
Oak Knoll Naval Hospital
America
Oakland Hospital
Formally Busy Week Opens 1966 Legislature
The 1966 session starts its first full week with lawmakers likely to appoint committees and handle formalities. Actual bill introductions on the floor are not expected until next week.
Lisset Favored For Ways and Means Chair In Albany Fight
Albany—Assembly Speaker Travia plans to name Harvey M. Lisset of Albany County as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee amid Bronx pressure for Melville Abrams. Lisset’s rise comes as Abrams seeks the post or a whip role, with others like John Kirvin also discussed. The post brings a $15,000 expense allowance plus a limousine. Travia cites 1965 spending cuts, reporting $11,054,669 total expenditures, $607,821 under 1964.
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Albany
Assembly
Anthony J. Travia
Harvey M. Lisset
Travia
Bronx Democratic Organization
Bronx
Melville E. Abrams
Abrams
Earl W. Brydges
Senate
Brydges
Lisset
Albany County
Ways and Means
John Kirvin
Schenectady
Senate Finance Committee
House
Periscope AREA reports Cohoes Citizens Party purge charged
Colts crush Cowboys 35 to 3 in sports pages with page references to comic Snoopy and a mention of eating and sleeping in the comics section.
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Cohoes
Citizens Party
Colts
Cowboys
Snoopy
Tragedy in Kentucky A lab tech and family die in apparent murder suicide
In Logan County Kentucky a 30 year old lab technician Bobby Dean Claiborne his wife Betty Hines Claiborne and their two young sons Tony and Mark were found fatally shot in what Sheriff Gene Sweatt calls a triple murder suicide. The family lived on Route 2 Olmstead in a rural southern Kentucky community. Tony was shot in the forehead and chest fragments indicate a .22 caliber rifle was used.
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Russellville
Logan County
Gene Sweatt
Bobby Dean Claiborne
Betty Hines Claiborne
Tony
Mark
Rt. 2
Olmstead
Kentucky
Claiborne
Harriman Presses Campaign Across Global Tour
Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman pressed Johnson's peace initiative from London to Australia, while the Soviet Union condemned U S actions in Vietnam and urged withdrawal of troops and materiel. Hanoi and Peking warned of continued hostility as Shelepin pledged support for North Vietnam. Harriman said diverse countries want the war ended.
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London
W. Averell Harriman
Johnson
Australia
Soviet Union
United States
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Peking
Kremlin
Laos
Cambodia
Indochina
Alexander N. Shelepin
Democratic Republic of
U.S
South
Canberra
Tokyo
Harriman
Poland
Yugoslavia
United Arab Republic
India
Japan
Upstate Hit by Partial Blow From Northeast Storm
The Associated Press reports a fierce Northeast storm exited to sea after buffeting New England with gale winds and heavy snow. Temperatures plunged 20 to 30 degrees below zero in western Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire while most of New England saw 5 to 10 degree readings. Upstate New York received only a light snow shower with subzero temps across the region.
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Associated Press
New England
Weather Bureau
Massachusetts
Vermont
New Hampshire
New York City
Upstate
New York
Massena
Watertown
Emergency declared after protests over language bill in Ceylon
Premier Dudley Senanayake declared a state of emergency in Colombo after clashes over a language bill killed one and injured 90. He ordered law and order measures and censorship while curfews were imposed. A Buddhist monk died of injuries as police clashed with thousands of demonstrators amid Tamil language rights debate.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Dudley Senanayake
Trio Charged With Killing Mother Of 5 In Syracuse
Three men from Syracuse and Nedrow were charged with first degree murder in the beating death of Beverly Abreau aged 34, mother of five. Her nude body was found in a creek near Jamesville after a drinking party altercation. The suspects were arrested hours after the discovery and appeared in De Witt court.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Jackie Lee Buffington
William E. Buffington
Manuel Johnson
Nedrow
Town of De-Witt
George Kimball
Snowden
William Buffington
Beverly TI. Abreau
Mattysdale
Jamesville
Asst. Dist
Edward Gerber
Abreau
Gerber
Defectors' Plane Downed Peking Gains Revenge
AP dispatch from Taipei reports Chinese Nationalist defectors aboard a 25 ton seaplane carrying three sailors who killed a Communist landing craft skipper before reaching Matsu. Red Chinese jets shot down the unarmed plane fifteen minutes after takeoff, with six others dead in the clash.
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Taipei
Formosa
Matsu
Chiang Kai-shek
Defense Ministry
Peking
Formosa Strait
Lin Piao
Min River
Foochow
Kuantou
Fukien Province
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