Suharto takes over Indonesia as Sukarno steps down
Singapore sources report ailing President Sukarno relinq uishes power to Lt Gen Suharto amid armies ultimatum to oust Subandrio. Suharto likely to impose martial law with leftists targeted. Jakarta plans a victory parade as unrest spreads, with anti Communist protests and attacks on Red China facilities increasing.
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Singapore
Sukarno
Indonesia
Suharto
Jakarta
Subardrio
Subandrio
Dutch East Indies
Achmad Yani
Kula Lumpur
Yani
Red China
Red Chinese
Peking
Abdul Haris Nassution
Nassution
Astronauts Cleared for Gemini 8 Flight
Gemini 8 crew Neil Armstrong and David Scott passed a four and a half hour medical exam and were declared ready for launch on Tuesday. Ground crews rehearsed the space walk sequence as engineers tested tracking and communications systems for the mission.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Neil A. Armstrong
David R. Scott
Gemini
Air Force
Scott
Norman Pincott
Fred Kelley
Earth
Neil Armstrong
Cape Kennedy, Space Center
Rockefeller signals waivers for snow related absences
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller told about 500 Civil Service Em ployes Association delegates that state workers hit by January's blizzard may receive time off without dipping into leave time or credits. He urged agency heads to seek waivers from the Civil Service Commission where appropriate and backed five CSEA proposals including quicker grade based raises, travel expenses paid in advance, reopening the Age 55 retirement plan, job protection amid automation, and death benefits for families of retired workers.
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Rockefeller
Civil Service Employes Association
New York
Civil Service Commission
CSEA
Glenn Ford to Wed Kathys Hays This Spring
Film star Glenn Ford and fiancée Kathys Hays plan a religious wedding on Sunday March 27. Time and venue for the ceremony are not yet announced.
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Glenn Ford
Hollywood
UPI
Kathys Hays
Democrats Propose Bid Based TV Coverage Of Conventions
Democrats consider selling broadcast rights to their national conventions with networks bidding up to about 2 million dollars to offset potential tax deduction losses. Wayne Phillips says networks can sponsor coverage as a major sports event while CBS News and ABC executives react skeptically.
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Washington
Wayne Phillips
Democratic National Committee
CBS News
Richard S. Salant
Salant
Republican National Committee
GOP
Phillips
Congress
Atlantic City
N.J
Police Kill 9 Rioters In Calcutta
AP reports second day of food riots in Calcutta and West Bengal with nine rioters dead as mobs burn streetcars loot and pelt bombs. Parliament session sees Prime Minister Indira Gandhi blame deliberate violence by leftist parties. leftist MPs walk out. About 20 killed since Thursday dawn including a 15 year old boy. Two policemen among the dead. protests continue amid food and kerosene shortages.
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New Delhi
India
Calcutta
Indira Gandhi
West Bengal
Congress Considers Temporary Tax Changes for Vietnam Funding
In Washington, Congress prepares for hearings on a possible quick tax change package to finance Vietnam efforts and curb inflation. The joint committee will study whether to modify existing taxes or introduce new ones, with economists as witnesses. The $6 billion tax bill faces passage after a Senate House conference settled differences.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Senate
House
Senate House
Martha W. Griffiths
D-Mich
Viet Nam
Tax Writing Ways and Means
Joint Committee
Treasury
April Draft Call Sets Low April Quota Since August
The Defense Department called for 21,700 Army inductions in April, the lowest monthly draft quota since August after the Viet Nam buildup. March’s quota stood at 22,400, revised downward from over 32,000 due to high voluntary enlistments. Navy Marine Corps and Air Force will rely entirely on enlistments for April.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
Viet Nam
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Humphrey vows U S stay in Viet Nam until free elections
Vice President Hubert Humphrey asserted the United States will remain in South Viet Nam until conditions allow genuinely free elections. Congress moves to appropriate over 13 billion for military and economic aid in Asia. He rejected a pre election Communist victory and urged negotiations while warning Asia faces clear and present danger from communism.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
United States
South Viet Nam
Humphrey
Congress
Haiphong
North
Viet Nam
China
National Press Club
Peo
Asia
Hubert Humphrey
Southeast Asia
Pacific
Helicopters Save 161 Survivors in Ashan Valley Fight
U S Marine helicopters rescued six more survivors from the Ashan Valley Special Forces camp amid heavy fire. The day’s actions brought total rescues to 161 as B 52 bombers and fighter jets targeted frontier areas near Laos and Cambodia. Vietnamese troops reported 17 Viet Cong killed and three captured in a coastal sweep of Binh Dinh Province. Four Americans and four Vietnamese bystanders injured in a grenade attack en route to Saigon airport.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U. S
Ashan Valley
Frontier Camp
Laos
Guam
Cambodia
U.S
Viet Nam
Ashan
Binh Dinh
Students Seize Two Radio Stations in Viet Nam Protests
In Da Nang, about 2,000 soldiers students and civilians staged an orderly demonstration demanding the reinstatement of First Corps Commander General Nguyen Chanh Thi after his purge. The action followed unrest across major central Vietnamese cities as authorities reported protesters taking control of two government radio stations.
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DA Nang
UPS
Viet Nam
First Corps
Nguyen Chanh Thi
Pandas Chi Chi and An An Arrive in Moscow for Mating
Chi-Chi the female panda arrived from London to Moscow to mate with An-An the male. She faces 20 to 30 days of quarantine before moving next door to An-An for courtship. Experts warn cohabitation risks and a single cub is most likely, though twins possible.
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Moscow
Chi-Chi
London
An-An
Zoo
Vechernaya Evening Moscow
Pan
Das
London Zoo
Sam Morton
Chi- Chi
Sniper Shoots Captain in Bogalusa Civil Rights Scene
Capt. Donald R. Sims 29 from Sun was wounded in Bogalusa by a .22 bullet while on leave. He was in satisfactory condition at a New Orleans hospital after the shot shattered a service station window. FBI joined the hunt as local leaders warned of daily protests if arrests are not made by Tuesday.
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Bogalusa
Donald R. Sims
Sun
New Orleans
Washington
Robert S. McNamara
FBI
Sims
Viet Nam
Spanish Soil To Be Shipped To Carolina
Tons of top soil and plants contaminated by a January 17 nuclear bomber crash will be packed in 5,500 steel drums and sent to the AEC burial ground near Aiken South Carolina. More than a hundred airmen from the 16th Air Force will load drums onto a freighter at Palomares for the voyage to South Carolina.
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Palomares Beach
Spain
U.S
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Aiken
S.C
Italy
U.S. 16Th Air Force
South Carolina
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Kwame Nkrumah
Kenya
Mohammed Hatta
Bung Karno
Um Jung
Voice ‘of
Free Indonesia
Njono
Indonesian Communist Party
Ratna Sari Dewi
Hartini
Hariati
Agena
Atlas
Albany
Elmer Lower
American Broadcasting Co. Now
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HHH
Ple
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D-N.v
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Olivier Graham- Jones
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