Seoul hotel fire roars to 149 dead in Seoul disaster
The Taeyungak hotel blaze killed 149 people and injured many as rescue teams tore through wreckage. Police detained three hotel officials for questioning while helicopters and ground crews fought the fire, with U.S. and South Korean forces aiding in evacuations and survivor rescues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Kittong-San W i
Taeyungak
Nad Besti
Mbber
South
Ciabelle Pia Wichek
Vic
Korea
Weather forecast for Tri-City expects rain
Partly cloudy skies give way to heavy rain showers in Tri-City tomorrow. Cooler temperatures persist with continued unsettled conditions and a cautious forecast for possible showers today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ve Tri-City
Plgbd
Girl Survives Forest Ordeal In Azerbaijan Russia
Elmira Idayatova, a one year old, survived 23 days alone in a forest infested with wolves bears and wild boar after wandering from strawberry pickers. She drank rain water, ate berries and grass, and was found by a forest ranger lying on a shawl. She endured hunger and cold, later spent four weeks in hospital before discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
UPI
Azerbaijan
Russia
Kokisomalskaya Pravda
Elmira Idayatova
Elmira
Komsomolkaya Pravda
Hope proposes charity drive for POW release via Vietnam visit
Entertainer Bob Hope said he would submit a specific proposal to North Vietnam to speed prisoner releases. He described a "children to children" charity planraising millions in the United States and noted a $10 donation already arrived. Hope doubted visa chances but planned shows for servicemen before touring Europe and Cuba, while a Bangkok audience briefly disrupted by antiwar signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Bingh
Vietnam
Bob Hope
North Vietnam
Hope
Anal
Laos
Vientiane
Neuyen van Tragh
United States
Nangkok
Paris
Nixon
Caiting
U.S
Southeast Asia
Hanoi
Bangkok
Europe
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Los Angeles
Thope
Property tax limit would aid business
A state committee report analyses the Watson initiative to cap property tax assessments at 1.75 percent, freezing 1977 rates and creating sizable state and local deficits. It forecasts a 1972-73 state deficit of 91 million and a 1977-78 local shortfall of 350 million in major counties, with large breaks for railroads utilities and business but higher overall taxes on banks and financial firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
DPT
Watson
Assembly Committee
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Los Angeles
Philip E. Watson
San Francisco
Anal
California
Montgomery predicts stepped up US air raids on North Vietnam
Rep. G. V. Sonny Montgomery of Mississippi warned Sunday of intensified protection raids against North Vietnam to save American lives and said Laos could be overridden by the North Vietnamese. He forecast U S forces in Vietnam would be reduced to about 60 000 from roughly 160 000 and urged a Nixon administration review of Laos involvement with calls for more U S advisors and less U S spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satgon
UPT
Rep
G. V
Sonny’ Montgomery
Bmiss
North Vietnam
Laos
Mississippi Democrat
House Attraxt Services Committee
Vietnam
Montgomery
Also Mentioned on This Page
Plice
Atlanta
Winecoff Hotel
Gould
Keren
Park Chung Hee
Army
U.S. Air Army
Guess
Columahd
Rean
Saigon
Stewart Kellerman
Kel. Terman
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laong
Thailand
Long Binh
Nguyen van Thien
Indochina
Calcutta
Bridge
Ade Worden
Komsonolskaya Pravda
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!