Seven MIGs Downed in North Vietnam Air Battle
Seven Communist MIG jets were shot down by U.S. Air Force and allied forces over North Vietnam as the 48 hour New Year truce ended. The clash involved F4C Phantom and F105 Thunderchief crews near the Red River Delta, with no American losses reported. B52 bombers returned to strike DMZ targets as ground forces launched operations in Central Highlands.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
North Vietnam
Air Force
Red River Valley
Hanoi
Haiphong
Demilitarized Zone
United States
South Vietnam
Navy
Coast Guard
Mekong
Vietnam
Red River
Dmz
Viet Cong
Nguyen Cao Ky
9Th Infantry Division
Vung Tau
Oakland
Calif
Johnson Plans Busy Washington Week After Texas Stay
President Johnson wraps up a 17 day Texas ranch stay and plans a return to Washington to firm 1967 gun and butter programs. He faces questions on budgets taxes v Vietnam and social programs amid a cautious mood in Congress. In Moscow a Soviet scientist predicts people may live to 300 and sleep one hour nightly by 2000 with artificial foods like caviar.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Johnson
Texas
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Vietnam
White House
Moscow
Vladimir Engelgardt
Pravda
Rusk seeks Thant probe on bombing pause
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the United States is ready to halt bombing in North Vietnam as a first step toward peace but wants to know what the Communists would do in return. He urged U Thant to probe potential reactions and noted the Tet truce proposal would be discussed among allied governments. Rusk warned against vague hopes as the Communists resume operations after truces.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson Administration
U.N
Thant
North Vietnam
Dean Rusk
Rusk
United States
South Vietnam
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
America
90Th Congress
Robert S. McNamara
Congress
Lapp
France
Paper bag containing $25,000 found in California cafe
In Escondido California an unidentified man and a boy left a paper bag with about $40,000 in Colleen's Coffee Shop last Saturday. Waitress Sharon Malty, 19, turned the bag over to police. The money remains in police custody and the case is under investigation with no claimant identified.
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Escondido
Calif
UPI
Colleen
Sharon Malty
Miss Malty
Israel charges Syrians attacked border posts and blasts in Jerusalem
Israelis reported Syrian forces firing rifles and mortars at border points in a tense night. Two loud blasts echoed into Jordan's portion of Jerusalem, one just after midnight and another about seven hours later. Israel suspected the PLO might be behind sabotage aimed at ousting the pro Western King Husain.
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Jerusalem
Israel
UPI
Jordan
Middle East
Holy City
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Hussein
British astrologers predict 1967 year in brief
The Sun day Express reports Britain's astrologers foresee a bright year for Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith amid broader未 war concerns in Vietnam. Other forecasts include Kennedy engagement to a non politician, Castro ousted, Loren’s son born outside Italy, Johnson facing trouble, Gandhi romance, and Britain joining the Common Market after de Gaulle's decline. Academy Award winners include Taylor or Christie and Steiger or Sharif.
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London
UPI
The
Sunday Express
Britain
Ian Smith
Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
Indira Gandhi
Charles de Gaulle
Elizabeth Taylor
Julie Christie
Rod Steiger
Omar Sharif
Dallas eviction with tear gas alarms police
UPI reports a Dallas landlord used tear gas on a family to speed an eviction. Police say the eviction legally began after Jan 1 but the landlord acted on New Year's Eve. A 7 year old boy, recently lung-op operated, fled in tears, collapsed, was treated and released. authorities weigh prosecution.
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Dallas
UPI
New Year holiday toll runs below last year’s high
The 78 hour New Year weekend toll was about 20 percent below the prior year as 317 traffic deaths were counted by 3 am EST with total toll around 390 including fires planes and other mishaps. Texas led with 30 traffic deaths followed by California and Michigan.
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United Press International
Texas
California
Michigan
Ohio
Illinois
North Carolina
Alaska
Delaware
Nevada
South Dakota
Vermont
Wyoming
Interstate 35
Hillsboro
Three Rivers
Mich
Kalamazoo
National Safety Council
Truck spills bombs on Texas highway in Grand Prairie
A truck overturned on the Dallas Fort Worth turnpike in Grand Prairie Texas spilling 36 napalm bombs weighing 1 000 pounds each. The devices had no fuses and did not explode. Demolition experts from Carswell Air Force Base Fort Worth and firefighters reloaded the bombs onto the truck. The cargo was en route from Gallup New Mexico to Orlando Florida.
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Grand Prairie. Tex
UPI
Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike
Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth
Gallup
N.M
Orlando
Fia
Skeptical scientist questions Nike-X antimissile plan
Prominent physicist Dr. Ralph E. Lapp doubts a workable defense from nuclear attack. He warns that each defense wrinkle spawns ten offensive wrinkles and cautions that submarines armed with dirty missiles could bypass an antimissile shield. He notes China and Russia could deploy such threats, risking widespread fallout.
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Ralph E. Lapp
UPI
Airliner Delayed as Saigon Withholds Pan Am Landing Rights
Pan American World Airways had landing rights pulled as a 707 neared Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon. The 133 passengers aboard were kept on the plane for over two hours until deputy ambassador William Porter appealed to Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky. 23 outbound passengers were denied boarding as the plane finally landed and later resumed service after lunch.
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United States
California
Panam
Hal Williams
Growth period seen in home lighting demand
Philadelphia based lighting chief Maurice M. Rosen of Lighting Corp. of America says despite 1965 sales topping 750 million the strongest growth lies ahead. He notes a shift to better quality and luxury fixtures in new homes but 75 percent of residential lighting sales go to updating existing homes, driving residential fixture volume from 1954 to 1965 to about 190 million.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Maurice M. Rosen
Lighting Corp. of America
Scientists Aid Hunt In Dulwich Art Theft
Scotland Yard brought nuclear scientists from Aldermaston to analyze a drill used in the bold Dulwich Gallery theft. The probe targets a thin, nimble man and a bearded beatnik, amid rumors of a secretive “screwy millionaire” financing and two fences in Tangier and Mexico handling the eight masterpieces worth up to 8.4 million dollars.
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London
API
Scotland Yard
Tangier
Mexico
Atomic Energy Authority
Aldermaston
Rembrandts
Rubens
Adam Elsheimer
Gerard Dou
Rents Surge as U.S. Car Rentals Grow
New York report notes one in every hundred Americans rents a car today and foresees the share rising to twenty percent of the population in coming years, driven by demand for rental services and industry expansion.
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New York
UPI
U S population shows big growth in 1967 estimate
The United States began 1967 with an estimated population just under 198 million, 197,900,000 as of midnight Jan 1, per Census Bureau figures. The gain of about 17.96 million since the 1960 census marks notable growth since 1960.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Census Bureau
Snake charmer loses her eight foot black snake
In London on New Year’s Day professional snake charmer Eve Richardson performed a trick with an eight foot rat eating black snake. The snake slid into a chimney, eluding Chimney sweeps Monty Burton and his son Michael who tried suction and dismantling the fireplace. The tail was pulled free and Richardson recovered the snake.
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London
UPI
Monty Burton
Michael
Monty
Eve Richardson
Boy shoots father in triple murder case in Texas
Ronnie Lee Ozio, 14, killed his father John Ozio and the father’s fiancee and grandmother with a knife and rifle after an argument over remarriage. He also stabbed the stepson and fled, later surrendering to Sheriff C.A. Holts. The Orange County case may see charges as an adult after juvenile handling.
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Orange
Tex
UPI
Ronnie Lee Ozio
Debbie Mayberry
Ronnie
C.A. Holts
Port Neches
John Ozio
Ozio
Bobby Mayberry
Arkinda
Ark
Victoria Ozio
Craig
Thomas Wiegand
Carr Junior High School
Orange County
Texas
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