U S weighs need for own POW camps in Vietnam
Washington AP report says the Pentagon may consider operating U S POW camps in Vietnam as the war grows, but current numbers are small with about 19,0600 POWs reported by Saigon since 1962. Complications include lack of formal war declaration and potential need if U S ground activity expands.
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Pentagon
United States
Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Koje Do
United Nations
Ronnie Baker Overcomes Amputation To Plan New Year Party
In Van Nuys California Ronnie Baker who had his cancerous left leg amputated above the knee last year after fleeing home last Christmas has adapted well. He walks climbs stairs drives a car and works as a painter aided by a prosthetic leg. Now 17 he plans a New Year’s Eve party with friends from Monroe High School and aims to attend Pierce Junior College after studying horticulture. His mother Lois Eisenbeiss says things look brighter and this is a real Christmas.
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van Nuys
Calif
Ronnie Baker
Ronnie
Flagstaff
Ariz
Lois Eisenbeiss
Pierce Junior College
Canoga Park
Black Ice Kills 12 Aboard Greyhound Bus
Twelve travelers died and about 30 were injured when a Greyhound bus slid off Interstate 5 near Rogue River Oregon in freezing rain. The southbound Portland to San Francisco bus left the road, overturned 50 feet from the highway, and responders transported the injured to hospitals in Grants Pass Medford and Ashland. Police blamed black ice from rain that froze on the highway for the multiple mishaps.
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Rogue River, Ore
Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital
Sacred Heart Hospital
Medford
Josephine General
Grants Pass
Archaeology Paying Off In Worcester
In Worcester Massachusetts amateur historians Daniel A Farber and Charles H Bouley uncover 12 year buried grave markers from 300 early settlers in the Common. Undertaken with city consent they have identified stones including descendants of Jonas Rice and the jailer's wife near clues of a past school site and a town gallows.
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Worcester
Mass
Daniel A. Farber
Charles H. Bouley
Farber and Bouley
Jonas Rice
Federal inquiry urged in Passamaquoddy death case in Maine
The National Council of Churches urged a federal probe into the November slaying of Peter Francis, a 58 year old Passamaquoddy electrician, and the beating of his brother in law Christopher Altwater in Perry Maine. The group said four of five white suspects were not prosecuted and noted a pattern of violence against Passamaquoddy Indians since 1948 with no convictions.
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New York
UPI
National Council of Churches
Perry
Maine
J. Oscar Lee
Council
Division of
Christian Life and Mission
U.S
Margaret Chase Smith
Edmund S. Muskie
Francis
Pleasant Point
Altwater
Massachusetts
Passamaquoddy
Dr. Lee
Escapee Kennedy Surrenders After Worcester Gunbattle
James Edward Kennedy, 28, listed on the FBI most wanted list, and Paul V. Davis, 26, surrendered after a gunfight with Worcester police and FBI agents in a city underpass. Kennedy, who escaped from Ceyshoga County Jail last year, had been living in Worcester and worked at the Silhouette Cafe under the alias Paul Johnson. No other injuries reported. Both suspects were arraigned in Boston and held overnight. Handley noted the arrest followed a stakeout after Kennedy was spotted in central Massachusetts.
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UPI
Worcester
FBI
James Edward Kennedy
Kennedy
Point Bank
Paul V. Davis
Davis
Massachusetts
U.S
Silhouette Cafe
Paul Johnson
William J. O'Leary
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