Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAMES G. EKSTRAND Operations Manager Consumers Public Power District Lincoln...
Some 70 miles to the south, the Reds mounted another regiment-size assault -this time on the district capital of Tuy An. A relief force hit the traditional Communist ambush but backed away quickly to let "Puff the Magic Dragon" take charge. One of the squadron of slow-circling C-47 transports converted by the U.S. Air Force, the plane harassed the Reds with its three General Electric-built "Miniguns"-six-barreled super Catlings that can deliver up to 6,000 rounds of 7.62 mm. slugs a minute. Flying in increasingly widening circles, one Puff can slash a swatch...
Terror & Treason. Throughout the far-flung archipelago, at least 30,000 proCommunists have been arrested since the Red-led October coup attempt. According to rumors, hundreds of Red leaders have been quietly killed. In West Java, the Moluccas and the East Celebes district military commanders last week took it upon themselves to ban local Communist parties-a move that Sukarno has been "considering" but has not yet been able to stomach. The Bung, who badly needs the Communists as a balancing force against the military, has been toying with the idea of a new nationalistic Communist Party, free of Peking...
Died. John Taber, 85, longtime (1923-62) Republican Congressman, from New York's Finger Lakes district, an unyielding economizer who, as ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, consistently pared large chunks from Administration budgets, concentrating on "taberizing" New Deal legislation and foreign aid; of congestive heart failure; in Auburn...
After earlier less serious attacks the University and the Metropolitan District Commission Police took steps to make the bridge safer. The MDC installed lights along the bridge. From time to time the University Police assigned an officer to patrol the area on the north side of the Charles. But these measures have proved ineffective...