Pan Am 707 Downs Runway in Calcutta Crash
A Pan American Boeing 707 undershot Dum Dum Airport runway in heavy rain at Calcutta. Six of 63 aboard were killed, 56 injured, including several in serious condition. Survivors include 48 passengers and nine crew. Anglican bishop Gilbert Baker among the uninjured. Flight originated in Los Angeles with stops in Honolulu Tokyo Hong Kong and Bangkok.
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Calcutta
India
Pan American World Airways
Hong Kong
Gilbert Baker
London
Thuy Considers Harriman Proposal Amid Talks in Paris
North Vietnam's ambassador Xuan Thuy weighs U S plan to curb propaganda after each Paris meeting as eight sessions run and talks with W Averell Harriman continue. Officials note Thuy agreed to study the proposal though earlier private or secret talks were rejected. Next session set for next Wednesday.
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Xuan Thuy
North Vietnam
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Thury
Thuy
Prison hostage stalemate ends with concessions at Atlanta jail
U S Bureau of Prisons Director Myrl Alexander says four armed inmates at U S Penitentiary agreed to demands to spare 21 hostages. Two inmates transferred, a 30 year sentence reviewed, grievances printed, press tours allowed, and dining facilities probed. Hostages released alive after talks.
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Atlanta, Ga
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
U.S
Myrl Alexander
Alexander
Olin G. Blackwell
Ralph M. Lepiscopo
Frederick Freeman Leister Jr
Justice Department
Robert W. Gorman
Atlanta Journal
H. J. Autrey
School Board Approves 18.2% Hike for Administrators
Austin school leaders approved an 18.2 percent raise for administrators from 300 556 to 355 156 for the coming year. Secretaries and cooks also got raises while custodian salaries remain to be negotiated. Bids for Shaw School remodeling totaled 27 102 with Winkle s Johnston winning the general bid. The board discussed remodeling costs and plans for a new administration building at Sears with a target move before fall.
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Austin
Big Ten
Minnesota
Winkels & Johnston
Shaw School
Wagner Construction
Joseph Construction
Hagstrom & Lpock
JWR Plumbing
Austin Electric
Schammel and Gordon
Schrafel
Austin State Junior College
W. A. Schrafel
Thompson & Lewison
Ing
Sears
Graves
Holiday Inn
Ellis Junior High School
Austin High School
FCC asked to revoke WNBC-TV license over antismoking ads
AP dispatches report a petition to revoke WNBC-TV's broadcast license citing insufficient antismoking messages. The move was filed by Action on Smoking and Health official John F. Banzhat III on Wednesday.
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New York
Federal Communications Commission
Wnbc-Tv
NBC Television Network
John F. Banzhat III
Action On Smoking and Health
Extradition Proceedings Get Okay for James Earl Ray
London authorities authorized extradition proceedings to transfer James Earl Ray to the United States. Home Secretary James Callaghan signed the order directing Bow Street Magistrate’s Court to hold hearings, with Chief Magistrate Frank Milton expected to set a date within about a week. The Foreign Office confirmed the petition meets the 1931 treaty terms.
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London
James Earl Ray
United States
Home
James Callaghan
Bow Street
Martin Luther King Jr
Frank Milton
Foreign Office
Titan 3 launches eight military communications satellites
A Titan 3 rocket lifted from Cape Kennedy at 10 04 a m EDT delivering eight jam resistant military communications satellites. The 12 story booster placed the payload into a near circular orbit about 100 miles high to provide near full time availability for urgent messages between the United States and Vietnam.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
United States
Vietnam
Defense Department
SDS Aims to Move from Campus to Working Class
SDS leaders announce plans to recruit in factories and blue collar neighborhoods to form an alliance between students and workers. National secretary Carl Davidson says summer jobs in big city plants will teach SDS organizers about workers life and views. The move follows campus unrest and French worker student protests, with debates on off campus organizing and potential violence.
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Gaylord Shaw
Associated Press
America
Students For A Democratic Society
France
Carl Davidson
SDS
Davidson
U.S
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Michigan State University
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Brooklyn
Berkeley
SDS National
Chicago
Penn State
Philadelphia
The
Guard
Ian
Steve Halliwell
Columbia
Haliwell
Hari Dillon
Cochairman
San Francisco State College
Saigon Faces Threats of New Ground Attacks and Rockets
Saigon residents faced fear of renewed ground trouble and 100 rocket barrages after Liberation Radio warned of a 100 day campaign with nightly rockets. U S officials doubted the feasibility while Viet Cong suggested residents flee the city.
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Saigon
Liberation
Johnson Conveys Support for Nuclear Nonproliferation Pact
President Johnson, in a surprise United Nations visit, congratulated the General Assembly on approving the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. He called it the most important disarmament pact since the nuclear age began and pledged vigorous U.S. efforts to de escalate the arms race and to move rapidly to signature and ratification.
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United Nations, N.Y
Johnson
United Nations
General Assembly
Assembly
Albania
Cuba
Tanzania
Zambia
U.N
South Africa
South-West Africa
United States
Soviet Union
Humphrey Backers Look Beyond McCarthy Challenge
Strategists for Hubert Humphrey plan to appeal to young voters beyond Eugene McCarthy's challenge while McCarthy counters polls showing Humphrey leads delegates. Rockefeller tours Watts and calls for restraint before American commitments. Nixon declines a debate. Wallace pushes for gun control and strict law enforcement in Chattanooga.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
Humphrey
McCarthy
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Watts
Los Angeles
Vietnam
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
George C. Wallace
Chattanooga
Tenn
Minnesotan Killed in Iowa Headon Collision
A headon crash on Highway 13 four miles south of Central City Iowa killed Kerry Wick 28 Hartland Minnesota and Donald Cruise 32 Hopkinton Iowa. The two were the drivers of the respective cars in the collision.
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Central City
Iowa
Minnesota
Here
Kerry Wick
Hartland
Minn
Donald Cruise
Hopkinton
Parade kicks off 67 Miss Minnesota pageant in Austin
A gala parade through downtown Austin opened the competition for 67 Miss Minnesota contestants. Notables Judy Peterson Elizabeth Van Hook and Margaret Carroll rode among pageant officials floats judges and bands from Austin Glenville Albert Lea Rose Creek and Blooming Prairie.
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Austin
Judy Peterson
Elizabeth van Hook
Margaret Carroll
Floata
Glenville
Albert Lea
Rose Creek
Blooming Prairie
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Shaw
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Southgate
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