Didchenko, (Mrs) D: slain by ex-husband in Amer Museum of Natural History

Visitors to Museum Hall See Man Slay Ex-Wife; Violin Maker, 72, Shoots His Former Mate After Talk

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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7 -- Plans were announced today to recruit 150 volunteers from the leading law firms of the nation to represent civil rights workers in Mississippi.  

LEADING LAWYERS JOIN RIGHTS DRIVE; 150 Will Be Recruited to Go to Mississippi in Summer -- Jackson Office Planned

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N Vietnam claims 4 US jets downed during raids; charges jets strafed and bombed villages around Donghoi; terms attacks further sign of US 'sinister designs'; Kosygin renews USSR pledge to aid N Vietnam if attacked, rally, Hanoi; warns US against 'schemes' to provoke war against N Vietnam; backs call of '64 Cairo conf for new internatl conf to try to settle issue; illus with Pres Ho Chi Minh

REDS CLAIM TOLL; ' Barbarous' Attackers Lost Four Planes, Hanoi Declares Hanoi Declares U.S. Lost 4 Planes

Last major collective bargaining dispute ended as 5 non-operating unions and rrs reach pact on job security issues

5-Union Pact Ends Last Rail Dispute; 5 Rail Unions Sign Agreement Ending Last Industry Dispute

Armed forces to unload Canadian shipment as dock workers balk in sympathy with elec workers strike

Strike in Bermuda Perils Food Supply; BERMUDA STRIKE PERILS FOOD STOCK

Phila accord reached; Gleason to call exec council meeting on ending strike in N Atlantic ports after Phila craft locals settle; pact terms reptd similar to NY accord; Phila Marine Trades Assn repr sees basis for new program; S Atlantic negotiator sees no effect on Miami talks

ACCORD REACHED ON DOCK CONTRACT IN PHILADELPHIA; Agreement Could Pave Way for Return to Work in All North Atlantic Ports ACCORD REACHED ON DOCK CONTRACT

Bronston pledges aid to end lulu system, TV int; says he and Levitt back periodic audit of Legis budget by Controller, including evaluation of jobs; sees chmnships distributed on basis of merit; lauds Zaretzki's qualifications but warns he will fight if his backers are barred from key posts; holds he should be named Joint Educ Com chmn, Greenberg Sen Finance Com chmn, Satriale Assembly Ways and Means chmn; proposals on Legis budget and other reforms noted; Zaretzki and Travia pledge $1-million budget cut and to cut out 'superfluous and no-show jobs'

ALBANY LEADERS PROMISE TO SLASH 'LULUS' AND JOBS; $1 Million Cut in Costs of Legislature Is Pledged by Zaretzki and Travia

Adm reptdly ordered attack in belief that inaction be interpreted as defeatist attitude; acted on assumption that Kosygin had no warning of N Vietnam plans; sends special message to USSR explaining raid as retaliation, not expansion of war; Johnson and aides reptdly believe they were being tested; Johnson confs with State and Defense Dept officials, summons Natl Security Council; US reprs and S Vietnamese leaders conf, Saigon

U.S. VIEWED RAIDS AS A TEST OF WILL; Administration Retaliated in Belief That Inaction Would Be Seen as Defeatist

Taylor confs with Acting Premier Nguyen Xuan Oanh, keeps in touch with Johnson; Bundy and Westmoreland fly to Pleiku; Bundy visits Amer wounded, Nhatrang; leaves Saigon for US; guerrillas stage 15-min attack on Amer air base, Soctrang, but fail to inflict any casualties; 21 Pleiku wounded evacuated to Clark Field Hosp, Philippines; Bundy illus with Westmoreland and Nguyen Khanh

TAYLOR CONSULTS WITH SAIGON CHIEF; Bundy, Back From Saigon, Reports to Johnson -- Vietcong in New Raid Taylor Meets With Saigon Chief And Hears From White House

only 44 of 100 available security guards were on duty when guerrillas attacked Pleiku airfield and billet area; Amer toll put at 8 dead, 108 wounded; US adviser estimates 300 Vietcong guerrillas infiltrated at Camp Holloway; Lt Col Hughes told Bundy that Amers and S Vietnamese share blame for costliness of attack; US sentry, killed in attack, credited with preventing higher casualty toll among 180 US advisers billeted at Pleiku; B Mauldin, at camp to visit son, survived attack; damage to billets detailed; injured US soldier illus

Vietnamese Guard Was Half Strength When Reds Struck; Air-Base Guard Was at Half Strength

49 US planes bomb and strafe Vietcong barracks and staging areas, Donghoi area, N Vietnam; Johnson terms attack ltd response to Hanoi provocations, not signal for gen expansion of war; orders US dependents evacuated from S Vietnam; orders air-defense bn equipped with Hawk ground-to-air missiles into Danang area; repeats pledge that US seeks no wider war but warns outcome lies with N Vietnamese aggressors; in 2d statement, reiterates US determination to back S Vietnam in fight for independence; Sec McNamara, at news conf with Ball, repts US plane down in S China Sea, backs Johnson statement that US seeks no wider war; illus; charges N Vietnam directed attacks on Pleiku; describes Donghoi area as starting point for infiltration of men and supplies for Vietcong; Ball says US and S Vietnam had no choice but to respond as they did; Hanoi radio claims 4 aircraft knocked out in attack; speculation on possible link between Kosygin's presence in Hanoi and severity of Vietcong attacks; wreckage of US helicopter, Camp Holloway, illus

CAPITAL IS TENSE; But President Asserts Nation Still Opposes Widening of War U.S. Jets Bomb North Vietnamese Bases in Reprisal for Guerrilla Raids in South PRESIDENT ORDERS MISSILES TO AREA Tension Grips Washington -- Johnson Asserts Nation Opposes Widening War

house approves plan and promotion through large-scale natl educ drive

A.M.A. MOBILIZES TO BEAT MEDICARE; Votes Own 'Eldercare' Plan and an Educational Drive

rowdyism in recent Commons debates prompts new suggestion that sessions be televised

TELEVISION URGED AS COMMONS REIN; Rowdyism Brings New Calls for Publicity as Curb

Govt asks US advice on settling internal finances before seeking $400 million in foreign capital from Alliance for Progress

ARGENTINA CONSULTS U.S. ON FISCAL PLANS

New Soviet Arms Reported

Middle East News Agency says UAR Arab Socialist Union exec com decides to warn W Ger that UAR will break diplomatic ties if it continues arms shipments; Al Ahram repts Nasser told W Ger Amb Federer UAR would be obliged to recognize E Ger if arms shipments continue; Israeli C/S Gen Rabin says UAR will soon receive large new consignment of USSR arms

U.A.R. Says It Will Cut Bonn Tie If Arming of Israel Continues

Articles on background and life of Shiptars (Albanians) in Kosovo-Metohija area; map

Social Changes Are Overtaking Yugoslav Region

Yiddish Lexicology Inst to sponsor Yiddish dictionary; 10-vol project, to be done at CCNY, expected to take 17 yrs

Work on Yiddish Dictionary To Be Done at City College

only 86 copies of 1st Yiddish language book pub by Sovetish Heimland reach Moscow bookstore; speculation on distribution of others; pub not yet announced in USSR

NEW YIDDISH BOOK SCARCE IN MOSCOW; 86 Copies of 15,000 Turn Up and Are Quickly Sold

Conservative party exec com rejects Que bid to oust Diefenbaker as leader

Diefenbaker Keeps Leadership

The Proceedings In the U.N.

Prince Michael weds commoner M Karella; illus; Constantine attends; granted permission after Michael renounced right to throne; Peter absent

PRINCE MICHAEL WEDS COMMONER; King of Greece Is Cousin's Best Man at Athens Rites

L.I.U. Offers Series on U.N.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 was a domestic passenger flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Atlanta, Georgia, with scheduled stopovers at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York; Richmond, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Greenville, South Carolina. On the night of February 8, 1965, the aircraft serving the flight, a Douglas DC-7, crashed near Jones Beach State Park, New York, just after taking off from JFK Airport. All 79 passengers and five crew aboard died.

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing all 84 people onboard.

February 8, 1965

Headlines from February 8, 1965

Visitors to Museum Hall See Man Slay Ex-Wife; Violin Maker, 72, Shoots His Former Mate After Talk

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LEADING LAWYERS JOIN RIGHTS DRIVE; 150 Will Be Recruited to Go to Mississippi in Summer -- Jackson Office Planned

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REDS CLAIM TOLL; ' Barbarous' Attackers Lost Four Planes, Hanoi Declares Hanoi Declares U.S. Lost 4 Planes

Billboard 200

Beatles '65

Where Did Our Love Go

Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady

Beach Boys In Concert

Historical Events

Historical Context for February 8, 1965