Venezuela Battles Terrorists Across Caracas and Countryside
Venezuelan forces deployed in Caracas and rural areas as the government hunts Castroite terrorists. Defense Ministry says guerrilla leader Hugo Daniel Castillo, alias Commander Behuma, was killed 128 miles south of Caracas. Police occupied Central University with 15 party officials among 850 detainees. weapons cache found after campus lockdown. Deputy Interior Minister called rights suspension temporary to curb attacks. Raul Leoni ordered it amid unrest.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Defense Ministry
Hugo Daniel Castillo
Comandante Behuma
Central University
Venezuelan Communist Party
Juvencio Pulgar
University Federation of Student Centers
Luis Vera Gomez
Raul Leoni
Shenandoah County Names Scholarship Week
The Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors proclaimed the week of January 22 to 28 as Shenandoah County Scholarship Fund Week. Publicity director Lester Lam urged the action at the board meeting amid strong support from Commonwealth Attorney Kermit Racey. Also in Richmond Harrisonburg officials attend a statewide committee on school board relations, studying cooperation and possible legislative improvements. The 18 member panel, named by the Virginia associations, will examine difficulties between boards and governing bodies and seek harmony. In Woodstock the board approved printing 25 laminated Miranda rights cards to be read to prisoners, requested by Commonwealth Attorney Racey to ensure defendants understand their rights.
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Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors
Lester Lam
Kermit Racey
Harrisonburg
Frank C. Switzer
Wilbur S. Pence
Rockingham County
Richmond
Virginia Association of Counties
Virginia League of Municipalities
Virginia Education Assn
Switzer
Municipal League
Pence
Education Association
Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Board of Supervisors
Commonwealth
Ruby cancer prognosis clouds bail bid effort
Doctors said Jack Ruby’s cancer cannot be cured by surgery or radiation and is advanced. Ruby rests well, reads, and watches TV as his lawyers consider seeking bail, with William Kunstler stating planning meetings will occur. If tried, Ruby could face the death penalty again for the Oswald killing.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ruby
William M. Kunstler
New York
Oswald
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Jay Sanford
Eugene Frankel
Southwestern Medieval School
Detroit Free Press hosts Great Ghastly Necktie Contest
Detroit readers are invited to mail the most ghastly Christmas necktie to Y EsC-H Post Office Box 919 Detroit 48226 with a dime for handling. Every entrant receives a tie in return. The contest title explains Your Excruciating Cravat Horror.
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Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Governors blame losses on surge against Great Society
Democratic governors meeting at the National Governors Conference in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia blame the November defeats on opposition to President Johnsons Great Society and discuss Johnsons 1968 bid. They note limited communication with the national administration and urge a broader role in policy shaping while supporting Johnsons potential renomination.
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John Volpe
Massachusetts
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
George Romney
Michigan
John Connally
Texas
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Johns Son
Great Society
Governors’ Conference
Johnson
GOP
House
Ocratic
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Hughes
Cauc
Nations contest three mile rule and extended claims abroad
Several countries dispute the three mile limit and others assert extended seas claims from four to twelve miles. South American nations reportedly claim jurisdiction up to 200 miles beyond their coasts. Colombia is personified as a stately woman in flowing white robes with a peaked hat bearing five stars.
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Columbia
The
United States
Library of Congress reaches vast milestone in history
The Library of Congress in Washington D C grew from a 6 000 volume Jefferson collection after 1815 to become the world s largest library with about 44 189 100 items including 13 453 100 books and pamphlets established 1800 by Congress and rebuilt after the 1814 fire.
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Library of Congress
Washington, D.C
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
McDonald Heads Raritan Club in Shawquon Meeting
J Kenneth McDonald was installed as president of the Shawquon Raritan Club at a regular meeting in Stephens City VFW Home. Officers installed include William J. Rickard as Vice President Elwood W. O’Hara as Secretary Douglas N. Seabright as Treasurer Ronald H. Pierce as a three year director. E L Lord conducted the ceremony. George L. Riggs of C P Telephone Co spoke on upcoming telephone changes effective January 1. The president closed the meeting with the flag salute.
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J. Kenneth McDonald
Shawquon
Trussed Himself Up Says Carolina Student
Kenneth Wayne Glasgow a North Carolina State University 18 year old freshman admitted lying and gagging himself to test police theories about death by own action in the case of fellow student Raymond P. McCauley. McCauley was found strangled in his locked dorm room with an extension cord around his neck bound and gagged. Glasgow told police he read theories of McCauley’s death and wanted to test them on himself. He said he believed no hoax was intended and that he was attacked from behind before fainting. No charges were filed.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina State University
Kenneth Wayne Glasgow
Halifax
Raymond P. McCauley
McCauley
Glasgow
Memory of Bastogne pad note finds old farm
During World War II siege of Bastogne Les Nichols press officer with the 10th Armored Division wrote his name on a pad left in a farmhouse. He returned decades later and found the pad still there the house wife recognized his name and retrieved it, confirming the pad remained.
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Louisville
Bastogne
Les Nichols
10Th Armored Division
Nichols
Shawnee Fire Suppression Review of City Dump Blaze
Shawnee firemen responded to a dump fire at 11 45 p m prompted by a call claiming an out of control blaze. A Shawnee spokesman said low cloud cover last night made a small intentional burn on the dump appear larger than reality.
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Carolina
Winchester Evening Star
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