Secret group hunts to raise USS Monitor off Cape Hatteras
A North Carolina partnership and Tidewater Services probe wrecks off Hatteras with a nine square mile permit. They use a differential proton magnometer to find buried hull outlines and seek the 127 foot Monitor feared sunk in 1862. Navy cites no interest.
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Norfolk, Va
New Jersey
Pacific
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Hatteras
North Carolina
North Carolina Tidewater Services, Inc
Samuel P. Townsend
State Department of Archives and History
Hatteras Point
Robert L. Simmons
Simmons
Marx
E. M. Eller
Naval History
Navy
Townsend
Hibit
Monitor
N. C
Nixon to Stress Television Campaign Over Rallies
Nixon plans a GOP presidential bid built on television outreach rather than bustling campaign rallies. He will rely on running mate Spiro Agnew to extend the ticket and coordinate a tightly integrated campaign, with a focus on rest and preparation after primaries. Agnew will campaign independently in California and visit Maryland officials as part of the strategy.
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Nixon
San Diego
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
Mission Bay
Agnew
Tricia
Seattle
Los Angeles
Sen
John Tower
Texas
Herbert G. Klein
Klein
Sion
John F. Kennedy
GOP
San Francisco
George Christopher
Convention Site Work Progresses for Democratic Convention
The International Amphitheatre in Chicago is fortified as prep continues for the Democratic National Convention opening August 26. A half-mile barbed wire fence now surrounds the site while security overseer Robert Burke coordinates measures at several checkpoints. About 5,500 Illinois National Guard troops will be in Chicago with one battalion on nightly training at a Chicago armory.
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Chicago
International Amphitheatre
John B. Criswell
Robert R. Burke
Secret Service
Illinois National Guard
Richard T. Dunn
Illinois Guard
Two Prison Guards Freed Unharmed After Prison Disturbance
In Michigan City Indiana two state prison guards were released unharmed after six hours of inmate grievances aired to Warden Ward Lane and corrections chief Anthony Kuharich. Ringleaders William Francis Brown and James Lee Collins were placed in maximum security cells as police riot squads stood by outside.
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Michigan City
Ind
al Spiers
Ward Lane
Anthony Kuharich
State Correction
Spiers
Fred Parker
Frank Dunn
Portage
Lane
William Francis Brown
James Lee Collins
Brown
Collins
Assatt
Seizor
Indiana
Kuharie
Niron
Michigan City News-Dispatch
State Parole Board
John J. Barton
Indianapolis
Barton
Miami Narrows Curfew to 6 P.M. to 6 A.M. in Race Violence
Miami authorities cut the city wide curfew by four hours to midnight through 6 a.m. after three deaths in street fighting. National Guard and police remain deployed in Liberty City and other Negro districts as residents form advisory councils and demand arrests, with calls for troop withdrawal and public inquiries.
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Miami
Fla
E. Wilson Purdy
Purdy
National Guard
Liberty City
Uruguayan Kidnapping Release Follows Major Manhunt
Ulises Pereira Reverbel, adviser to Uruguay’s president, was released drugged after a high profile kidnapping that spurred police raids on the national university and nationwide protests. Captors linked to a pro‑Peking group demanded policy reversals, but President Pacheco Areco refused to negotiate.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Ulises Pereira Reverbel
National University
Pereira
Graciela Perez
Perez
Tupamaro
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Pacheco
Four British diplomats reach Hong Kong en route home
Four persons from the British diplomatic mission in Peking arrived in Hong Kong Sunday and entered seclusion while Immigration Director W. E. Collard identified them as R. A.
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Hong Kong
Peking
W. E. Collard
R. A
Five Sailors Dead as Toxic Gas Suspected on Boat
Five men unloading fish on the 125-foot trawler Novelty died in the vessel hold. Sheriff James Loeffler said a mysterious poison or gas caused rapid collapse within two minutes. Rescue crews pulled bodies, while a sixth man survived with help from the ship’s cook. Investigators sought the poison’s source and tested water and tanks.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Lee County Sheriff's
James Loeffler
Joseph
Punta Gorda
Loeffler
Francis Webb
Peac Dale
R.I
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Greenpoint Navy Yard
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N.Y
Robert F. Marx
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Demand Homes
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Sicily
Trafffic
Miller Shoes
Austin
Francis L. Winter
Clyde Parrish
Roy McNeely
McNeely
Parrish
Lawrence Finley
North Port Charlotte
William Conrad
Fort Myers Fire Department
Kenneth Smith
Stephen Richmond
Winter Brothers
U.S
Protein Product Co
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
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Mercury
A.M
H.D
Decor Group
Rockingham
Car and Driver Magazine
Jim Lebens
Highway 116
Tiffany
Vow
Air Mail
S-C
IBM
4Th Ave
Paramount Theatre
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