British Airmen Planned Strike Threatens BOAC Operations
The British Airline Pilots Association ordered 1,100 BOAC pilots to strike starting Monday over pay, risking disruption to long haul service and a potential cancellation of BOACs new polar Tokyo flight. The union sought higher wages after a prior seven day walkout cost $21.6 million in revenue.
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London
British Overseas Airways Corp
Britain
BOAC
Tokyo
Airline Pilots Association
Heathrow
Request for preliminary daily production resume and property details
The message seeks a preliminary resume showing daily production, number of wells, producing horizons, and property locations. It promises confidentiality and requests quick judgment on fit, with information to be kept in strictest confidence.
Scientists Push Urgent Talks On Arms Limitations With Russia
A panel of scientists and former officials urged immediate arms control talks with Russia to curb advances in antiballistic missile systems and a new multi warhead missile. They advised postponing those developments during negotiations and called for intensified public education on settlement of the Vietnam war. The group also urged review or dismantling of CIA NSA and Defense, and backed stronger congressional control over military spending.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Congress
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency
Department of de
Larson Charles L. Schultze
Lyndon B. Johnson
Larson
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Donald M. Fraser
D-Minn
House
William B. Saxbe
Rohio
U N Security Council Fails To Break Middle East Standoff
The U N Security Council stalls over condemning all flagrant cease-fire violations amid back stage deadlock before four power talks. African and Asian members resist broad sanctions language while U S presses for stronger Israel censure. A scheduled morning session was delayed to afternoon, then adjourned, ahead of four power meetings at the French U N mission.
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United Nations, N. Y (Ap
U.N. Security Council
Middle East
Ein Hazar
Salt
U.S
Israel
U.N
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
France
New York
Vesna 69 Warsaw Pact maneuvers start in Czechoslovakia
CTK reports joint maneuvers involving Soviet Union Poland and Czechoslovakia underway in Czechoslovakia Poland and East Germany begun in late March with Brig Gen Boleslaw Chocha directing. last similar drills were June 1968 before Soviet invasion.
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Prague
UPI
Czechoslovakia
Poland
East Germany
CTK
Soviet Union
Budapest
Sofia
Bulgaria
Ivan I. Yakubovsky
National Defense Ministry
Boleslaw Chocha
Marine Escapes Two Grenades Near Da Nang
Sgt. Howard Johnson, 24, of West Point Kentucky, crawled through jungle near Da Nang when a Communist patrol fired a grenade that bounced off his back. He then caught a second grenade and threw it back, the blast exploding in the air. Soldiers nearby assumed he was dead and moved away.
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Sgt
Howard Johnson
West Point
Johnson
da Nang
Vietnam
Theft Indictment Returned in Pampa
A Gray County grand jury indicted Ronald Wayne Brawdy 22 of Muldrow Oklahoma on a charge of theft over 50 dollars. He is jailed in Gray County in lieu of a 5000 dollar bond. Brawdy was arrested near Groom in connection with the McLean theft of a highway patrolman’s car and faces Arkansas charges of rape kidnapping and grand larceny. A federal kidnapping charge was filed in Muskogee Oklahoma. The Arkansas case involves a Fort Smith woman who says the suspect abducted her and her 2 year old child at knifepoint and forced them to Oklahoma before raping her.
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Pampa
Gray County
Ronald Wayne Brawdy
Muldrow
Okla
Brawdy
Arkansas
Groom
McLean
Brandy
U.S
Muskogee
Fort Smith
Oklahoma
Counterfeit Ring Cracked in Texas Farm Raid
Secret Service agents and local officers raided a Mansfield area farmhouse on Farm Road 1187 ending a eight week probe into $20 bills and counterfeit plates. Jerry Hughes 40 of Grand Prairie, David Hoyle 32 of Fort Worth and Sue Hoyle 29 were arraigned on counts of manufacturing possessing and conspiring to counterfeit with bonds set at 25000 for the men and 25000 for Mrs Hoyle.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Hoyle
U. S
Bill Adiday
Secret Service
Adkins
Jerry Hughes
Prairie
David Hoyle
Fort Leroy Laziere
Sue Service
Bill Adt
Tascosa Thespian Histrionics Win Hearts of Contest Judges
Budding performers from Tascosa High School Amarillo swept top honors at the University Interscholastic League one act play contest held at West Texas State University. They won Best Actor Best Actress and Best Play for a cutting of Exit the King. The all star cast included Tina Swynson Shelley St Clair and Mary Herbst among others. Winners advance to regional competition in Odessa April 18 19 guided by judges from Baylor and Las Cruces.
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Canyon
Barrymores
Bernhardts
Tascosa High School
Amarillo
West Texas State University
Panhandle
THS
Eugene Ionesco
Branding Iron Theatre
Pampa
Berger, Lubbock
Plainview
Coronado High School of
Lubbock
Edmond Rostand
Caprock High School of
Amar
Steinbeck
Leslie Moorehead
Borger
Richard §. Dunlop
Richard Turner
Caprock High School
John Hildreth
Coronado High School
Neil Hess
Judith Marcell
Cheri Cramer
Fascurail
Odessa
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces
Bill G. Cook
Baylor University
Waco
James W. Swain
Baylor
Herschel Zohn
Three Men Charged In Girl Death in Texas
In Longview Texas three men Roy Erwin James Fisher and William Brown were bound over to Gregg County grand jury after an examining trial for the Jan 25 death of 17 year old Diane Koon. The girl was found slain in a house she used for study as grandparents LeRoy and Mrs Sparks reported the incident and investigators noted a lapsed $25 000 life policy with documents signed including a $25 000 insurance check.
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Longview
Tex
Gregg County Grand Jury
Roy Randolph Erwin
James Bruce Fisher
Fisher William Lamont Brown
Justice of the Peace
Charles Cashell
Leslie Diane Koon
LeRoy Sparks
Offer Aid To Axed Hobbs College Instructor
The New Mexico Civil Liberties Union offered help to Hobbs Junior College instructor David Oliphant who was suspended after a letter to a Hobbs newspaper criticized a proposed legislative inquiry into state colleges. The NMCLU called the suspension a violation of free speech and urged resistance to restrictions on civil liberties.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico Civil Liberties Union
Hobbs
David Oliphant
New Mexico
Lea County
UMCLU
Oliphant
NMCLA
U.S
Wheat Forms Make Up Large Share of American Diet
A 19 percent share of a typical American family’s total food comes from buffalo wheat in its various forms. The statement notes wheat products as a significant staple influencing household nutrition and food costs.
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