Jets Collide in California. 49 Dead Feared
A DC9 airliner carrying 48 passengers and crew plus a Navy F4 Phantom collided with a fighter jet near Duarte in San Gabriel Canyon. Both aircraft crashed in rugged terrain. nine bodies were found around the Air West plane. Authorities fear all aboard the airliner and one airman died. Rescue work hampered by fog and darkness.
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Los Angeles
Here
Navy
Air West
San Gabriel Canyon
America
Duarte
Jim Frisbie
Frisbie
Mike Zarate
U.S. Forest Service
Robbery Suspects Named In Amex Office Heist At Sangley Base
Police say 12 suspects including four patrolmen and an assistant city prosecutor are charged with robbery with homicide in the $50,000 Amex heist at Sangley Point Naval Base near Manila. One robber and a U.S. Marine officer were killed during the Friday holdup. five officers are in custody and six more suspects are being hunted.
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Manila
UPS
American Express Co
Sangley Point
U.S. Naval Base
Oscar Pageda
Cavite
Pageda
Soviets Launch Soyuz 11 In Docking Mission With Salute
Three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 lifted from Baikonur for a planned rendezvous with the uncrewed Salute space laboratory. Dobrovolsky Volkov and Patsayev reported well as the craft closed to within a few miles, with docking expected after a 10 hour rest phase and continued orbit experiments toward a permanent space station.
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Moscow
Navy
Baikonur Space Center
Earth
Georgi Dobrovolsky
Soyuz 11
Dobrovolsky
Tass
Vladislav Volkov
Viktor Patsayev
Patsayev
Volkov
Soviet Union
Orbital Scientific
Forest Fire Threatens Homes in Jemez Mountains NM
A 3,000 acre blaze grew to 4,000 acres in the Jemez Mountains threatening summer homes near La Cueva and Horseshoe Springs. About 750 firefighters fought the fire with five WWII bombers and two helicopters as winds and spot fires hampered containment. No injuries reported. evacuations occurred and investigators probed the cause.
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Fenton Lake
N.M
Jemez Mountains
New Mexico
la Cueva
Horseshoe Springs
Forest Service
Wildcat Canyon
Nelson Bernard
Bernard
Lobby of Americans Opens Capitol Antiwar Push Today
Four former senators lead the Lobby of Americans in a Capitol rally and conference to press antiwar votes and revive the McGovern Hatfield amendment. The campaign targets Dec 31 war-fund termination and includes radio and newspaper ads and nationwide volunteer efforts.
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Washington
Joseph Clark
D-Pa
Charles E. Goodell
R-N.y
Ernest Gruening
Dalaska
Stephen Young
Ohio
Capitol
East Steps
Senate
Saigon repels third Vietcong assault near Khe Sanh
South Vietnamese forces and U S air power repelled the North Vietnamese attacks along the northern frontier. Allied reports claim 257 enemy killed during air and ground fighting over the weekend. Marine positions near Camp Sarge endured a heavy attack with 83 enemy killed and several weapons seized. U S B 52 bombers joined the operation Lam Son 810 as about 3 000 Marines advance in northwestern Vietnam.
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Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
de Viet
U.S
Khe Sanh
Camp Sarge
Lam Son
South Vietnam
Egypt Army Says It Is Ready To Confront Israel
Egyptian War Minister Gen Mohammed Sadek announced Egypt’s military is superior to Israel’s and fully prepared for war, waiting only for President Sadat’s order. He defended Arab strength as Meir’s cabinet discussed the Soviet Egyptian pact and a policy speech to parliament.
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Mohammed Ahmed Sadek
Egypt
Israel
Anwar Sadat
Jerusalem
Sadat
Golda Meir
Israel-occupied
Gaza Strip
Middle East
Beirut
Daily
Star
Sadek
United Arab Republic
Nixon considers faster Vietnam troop withdrawals amid heroin abuse concerns
Rep. Robert H. Steele cites a high heroin addiction rate among U S servicemen in Vietnam and says administration sources plan to raise the monthly troop withdrawal rate from 14 300 to about 20 000 beginning in December. He notes a 10 15 percent addiction rate among troops.
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Washington
UPI
Robert H. Steele
R-Conn
U.S
Vietnam
Nixon
Steele
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Morgan F. Murphy
D-Ill
Indochina
Washington Post
Robert H. Finch
Donald Rumsfeld
Finch
Rumsfeld
Abc-Tv
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Lewiston
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Ree Silipino
Zarate
Ladislav Volkov
Baikonur
Air Force
Black Sea
Jemez Canyon
Arizona
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Lucien N. Nedzi
D-Pay
Charles W. Whalen
House
Stuart J. Land
Arnold & Porter
Lobby of
Common Cause
HEW
John Gardner
Committee For Peace and New Priorities
United Press International
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Wasfi Tel
Jordan
Mideast
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