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big guerrilla force augmented by N Vietnam regulars inflicts moderate casualties on US inf bn in hand-to-hand fighting near abandoned Michelin rubber plantation; US jets and tighter-bombers support ground troops; helicopters airlift about 200 more troops into area; other ground actions described

Hand-to-Hand Fight Rages; U.S.TROOPS FIGHT ENEMY REGIMENT

Vice Premiers Hsieh Fu-chih and Le Thanh Nghi sign pact for China to provide loans to N Vietnam and 'protocol on mutual supply of commodities and payments for '66'; Chou En-lai present; Hsinhua repts on Stewart visit to Moscow, derides his proposal for Geneva conf; charges GB toes US 'line of aggression,'

Hanoi to Get Peking Loan; HANOI TO RECEIVE LOANS FROM CHINA

President Thinks Agency Moved Without Full Facts; President Thinks Board Acted Without Having the Full Facts

Quill rejects Wirtz as chmn of mediation panel; would accept Rosenman; says he will ignore ct ban against strike; Lindsay calls for halt to pub discussion of situation; Wagner and City Council Pres-elect O'Connor urge Lindsay enter talks

Quill Turns Down Wirtz As Transit Pact Mediator; QUILL REJECTS USE OF WIRTZ IN TALKS

Fed Reserve Bd, defying Johnson, votes 4-3 to raise discount rates of NY and Chicago banks to 4 1/2%; Repr Patman urges Johnson to demand Martin's resignation

4 1/2% DISCOUNT SET; Increase Made in Move to Stabilize Prices -- Impact to Vary

Pope and Patriarch Athenagoras I to revoke 1054 mutual excommunication decrees

Pope and Orthodox Patriarch To Nullify Anathema of 1054; 2 CHURCHES MOVE TO END ANATHEMA

de Gaulle, in stunning setback, fails to win majority in 1st direct popular Pres election; runoff election with Mitterrand seen certain; de Gaulle gets 43.96% of vote, Mitterrand 32.04%, Lecanuet 15.78%, Tixier-Vignancour 5.31%, Marcilhacy 1.74%, Barbu 1.16%; de Gaulle illus voting; election seen success for Communist party; sec Rochet takes credit for Mitterrand success; Mitterrand credits Communists, sees victory for entire left; Pompidou says vote splits natl unity

DE GAULLE FAILS TO TAKE 50% OF THE FRENCH VOTE; FACES A RUNOFF ELECTION; MITTERRAND IS 2D Contest Between Two to Be Dec. 19 Unless General Refuses DE GAULLE FAILS IN MAJORITY BID

Lovell fails in 1st try to sight visual acuity 'chart' near Laredo, Tex; Borman sights it on 2d pass but gives correct coded compass direction for only 1 of 3 lines; astronauts have difficulty in using hand-held navigation device that measures light from stars as they disappear behind horizon; noise from cuffs placed around thighs to control blood flow keeps them awake; fuel cell warning light flashes intermittently although cell seems to be working well; astronauts sleep with helmets on for added protection in event of pressure leakage; object sighted on 1st day seen possible fragment of Titan III rocket launched recently by USAF from Cape Kennedy

ASTRONAUTS SET A MEASURED PACE; Prepare for 2-Week Flight -- Exercise, Make Tests and Try Navigation System ASTRONAUTS SET A MEASURED PAGE

White found dead with passenger in wreck; apparently lost life by trying to help others off plane; 1 injured woman dies in hosp; CAB investigator lauds crews of both planes; Constellation wreck illus

PILOT SACRIFICED LIFE TO SAVE 50 AFTER COLLISION; Body Found in Plane's Cabin -- Death Toll Rises to 4 -- C.A.B. Seeks Cause

NYS Atty Gen Lefkowitz sees 'hamstringing' of police in right of suspects to legal counsel during questioning; says he may enter Sup Ct debate as friend of ct

Lefkowitz Says He May Enter Supreme Court Debate on Police; STATE MAY ENTER DEBATE ON POLICE

Adm would intensify 'See USA' drive to cut tourist spending abroad

PLEA TO BUSINESS; Billion Reduction in Investment Abroad Sought Next Year U.S. SEEKS TO CUT DOLLAR OUTFLOW

Govt protests to US Educ Foundation about 'anti-Indian' activities of F Levine, young Amer woman teaching in India under Fulbright grant; holds she wrote articles on war for Newsweek which 'sought only information hostile to India'; Newsweek ed Elliott denies charge

U.S. WOMAN'S ACTS PROTESTED BY INDIA

Soviet Battles Epizootic

de Gaulle votes Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises

De Gaulle Is 49th to Vote in His Tiny Village; Colombey Greets Its 'Grand Personage' With Respect but No Adulation

SOLE candidate of the left, sought to satisfy both pro-Western Socialists and Moscow-line Communists . . . Intense and ironic . . . Taunted Gaullists, urging return to "democratic traditions" . . . Captured by German Army in 1940, escaped, served in Resistance . . .  

De Gaulle's Leading Opponents

Negrao de Lima installed as Guanabara Gov amid strong security precautions

Negrao, Brazil Oppositionist, Becomes Governor at Rio

The Proceedings In the U.N.

Mitterrand sets new campaign, s, victory rally

MITTERRAND SAYS TASK IS BEGINNING; At Jubilant Rally, He Vows New Nationwide Effort

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- African foreign ministers instructed a five-nation committee today to plan sabotage and military action against Rhodesia if Britain failed to topple quickly that country's white-minority regime.  

AFRICANS DECIDE ON RHODESIA PLAN; Agree to Use Force Unless Britain Topples Regime

CAIRO, Dec. 5 -- In the wake of broad price increases, the Government is pressing for higher income and defense taxes and increases in customs duties on "luxury" items items, from carpets and appliances to liquor and soft drinks.

Cairo Seeks to Raise Income Taxes

Pope Expected to Lift Ban On Friday Meat Tomorrow

OAU orders com to plan sabotage and mil action; Bottomley says no Brit or 'any other troops' will go to Zambia, int, London; rejects pleas by Kaunda, Pres Kenyatta (Kenya), Pres Nyerere (Tanzania) and Prime Min Obote (Uganda) to send troops to Rhodesia; says Rhodesia might blow up dam

Briton Rules Out Troops

Kasavubu, held in mil camp since coup, freed; returns to home in lower Congo; reptdly thanked Mobutu for treatment accorded him and family

Kasavubu Allowed to Leave Military Camp in the Congo

industrialists draw up plan to put selves and nation on war basis to survive econ sanctions, memo to be submitted to Govt

Rhodesian Industrialists Prepare Emergency Measures as "Country Fights Economic Sanctions

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December 6, 1965

Headlines from December 6, 1965

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Hand-to-Hand Fight Rages; U.S.TROOPS FIGHT ENEMY REGIMENT

Hanoi to Get Peking Loan; HANOI TO RECEIVE LOANS FROM CHINA

President Thinks Agency Moved Without Full Facts; President Thinks Board Acted Without Having the Full Facts

Quill Turns Down Wirtz As Transit Pact Mediator; QUILL REJECTS USE OF WIRTZ IN TALKS

Billboard 200

Whipped Cream & Other Delights

My Name Is Barbra; Two...

The Sound Of Music

Help! (Soundtrack)

!!Going Places!!

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 6, 1965