Americans Demolish Red Fortifications in Crimp Operation
Allied forces smashed Viet Cong fortifications on the Iron Triangle edge near Saigon during Crimp, with 8,000+ troops including U.S., Australian, and 1st Infantry Division units. The attack yielded 22 Viet Cong killed, 38 captured, and 269 detainees, while air strikes continued with 281 missions and four planes lost.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Iron Triangle
U.S
173Rd Airborne Brigade
da Nang
Ninh
An Khe
French Indochina
Protest on Mall Cited by Frederick County Supervisors
A seven member Frederick County delegation appeared before the board of supervisors to oppose a planned mall along the county court house on Rouss Ave. The Downtown Development Committee seeks approval to close the street and create a grassy mall, with Joshua Place urging a no vote.
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Frederick County
Board of Supvisors
County Court House
Rouss Ave
Board of Supervisors
N. Loudoun St
County
Joshua G. Place
Gainesboro
Donald G. Baughman
Baughman
Place
Frederick County Taxpayers’ Association
Association
Loudoun St
Mr. Place
Tax help with IRS agents at Winchester office
The Winchester IRS office at 208 Cameron Street will host agents to answer tax return questions. Available Fridays from 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. through April 15. The notice then references young people who sold something.
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Internal Revenue
Winchester
Internal Revenue Service
Cameroo St
15-Degree Low Yesterday and Forecast Cold Snap
The report notes a 15 degree low Sunday after a 22 degree low Saturday and a 25 degree low Monday morning. The five day outlook calls for colder midweek with possible weekend precipitation. If warm, rain. if cold, first major snow possibly of the season.
Monroe College Moves to New 40 Acre Middletown Campus
Monroe College plans a $250000 initial move to a 40 acre campus east of Middletown, with dorms for 200, an academic building, library, dining hall and classrooms. The move from 309 Fairmont Ave follows a ten year expansion to reach about 600 students, with enrollment rising from 150 this September to 240 by 1967.
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Monroe College
Middletown
Monroe Business College Today
Howard Wilbur
Fairmont Ave
Interstate 81
Wilbur
Business College
Middletown Development Corporation
Fairmont Ave. Business School
India and Pakistan Agree To Troop Withdrawal
In Tashkent the leaders Lal Bahadur Shastri and Ayub Khan signed the Tashkent Declaration to pull back troops by February 25 and restore normal relations. They pledged noninterference, repatriation of prisoners, and to renew exchanges while leaving Kashmir unresolved.
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India
Pakistan
Tashkent
U.S.S.R
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Mohammed
Ayub Khan
Pakeistan
Kashmir
Alexei N. Kosygin
Ayub
Shastri
Ayub Land Shastri
Rivers Presses Early End to Vietnam Bombing Pause
Washington AP Chairman L Mendel Rivers of the House Armed Services Committee urged an early decision to resume bombing North Vietnam targets as a respite from a Christmas truce nears. Rivers and several GOP leaders argued the pause has not yielded gains and that renewed air strikes could force Hanoi toward talks.
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Washington
L. Mendel Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
North Viet Nam
Rivers
South Carolina
89Th Congress
U.S
North
Viet Nam
Johnson
Hanoi
Haiphong
Ho Chi Minh
Senate Armed Services Committee
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
House
GOP
Sen
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Byrd Jr Takes Oath to Start Senate Term
Sen. Harry Byrd Jr. was sworn in as the 89th Congress opened its second session. He inherits his father’s seat after appointments to Armed Services and Aeronautical and Space Sciences committees. He may seek election in November and faces a July primary option. He brings Virginia state government experience and family business ties in publishing and apple growing.
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Washington
Harry Byrd Jr
D-Va
Byrd
Senate
Armed Services
Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Virginia
A. Willis Robertson
Winchester
Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley
Adm
Richard JF. Byrd
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Virginia Commonwealth
United States Senate
Virginia Advisory Board On Indust
Arctic Cold Returns to Border Area
The Arctic chill moved south from Minnesota to North Dakota and into north central Montana with subzero readings. Grand Forks North Dakota reported 9 degrees as brisk 30 to 45 mph winds whipped eastern North Dakota to western Upper Michigan. Conditions stayed dry and clear in most regions while the cold air pushed southeast across the central United States.
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Associated Press
North Central States
Atlantic
New England
North Border
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Grand Forks
N.D
Upper Michigan
Gulf States
New York Bus Subway Strike Talks Break Off
In New York City the 10 day bus and subway strike negotiations recessed at City Hall with union chief MacMahon calling the talks unproductive and meaningless. Mayor Lindsay signaled the recess as traffic impacts grow and a $50 million TA plan is rejected by the union for hourly workers only.
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New York
City Hall
Manhattan
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Douglas L. MacMahon
Michael J. Quill
MacMahon
Transit Authority
China Downs Plane Carrying Defectors
Nationalist China reports three defectors aboard a seaplane from Matsu to Formosa shot down during an air seam attempt by Soviet built MIGs. An unarmed seaplane with 17 people aboard disappeared after the attack, with no survivors found. The incident followed a mutiny on a landing craft and heightened tension between Taipei and Peking.
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Taipei
Formosa
Peking
China
Matsu
Taipei Defense Ministry
Matsu Defense Command
Lin Piao
Defense Ministry
Johnsons Message to Set Tone for 1966 Congress
Washington awaits President Johnsons State of the Union as Viet Nam and war funding loom. Congress grooms committees and new members while a 12 to 13 billion dollar war bill faces possible cutbacks and renewed antipoverty program scrutiny.
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Washington
89Th
Congress
Johnson
Viet Nam
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
ABC
Office of Economic Opportunity
Camp Breckinridge
Jack Miller
Relowa
Weather front moves across Virginia from Great Lakes
A cold front extending from the Great Lakes will sweep eastward across Virginia. The system signals cooler air and possible scattered showers as it tracks along the Atlantic seaboard.
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Richmond
Great Lakes
Virginia
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Royal Australian Regiment
Artil
Lerymen
Alfred Barrett
National Presbyterian Church
The
Middletown State Bank
Sion
Arends
Rivers’ Committee
Hickenlooper
Braddock & Boscawen
Corrigan Rug Cleaners
Berryville Avenue
Byrd, Jr
Albertis Har
N.Y
China Downs
Pingley & Carper Cleaners
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