Freighter Skipper Reports Strafing Off Cuban Area
Captain Gerhard Krause of the J. Louis, a Liberian freighter, said his ship was at least 13 miles from Cuban land when unidentified aircraft strafed and fired on it for about 61 minutes. No injuries were reported. air support arrived as attackers left and the ship headed for Corpus Christi for unloading and repairs.
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Corpus Christi. Tex
UPI
J. Louis
Corpus Christi
Gerhard Krause
Hamburg
Germany
Walter L. Rice
Berynolkls Metals Co
Richmond
Rice
U.S. Navy
Inger
Yucatan Straits
J. W Louis
Navy
State Department
Krause
Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Louis
Douglas-Home Faces First Labour Attack In Parliament
London. Labour savaged Prime Minister Alec Douglas Home for delaying Parliament by two weeks to win a Commons seat. Douglas Home, resigning his Lords seat, was not in Parliament as Harold Wilson opened the debate. He planned to campaign in Kinross Scotland that night.
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London
OPL
Labor Party
Alec Douglas-Home
Douglas-Home
House of Lords
Commons
Harold Wilson
Douglas- Home
Kinross
Scotland
Britons to Spare Civilization for Tristan da Cunha Return
A group of about 19 000 Britons plans to sail to Tristan da Cunha aboard the Bornholm, leaving behind modern life in Southampton for the rugged island in the South Atlantic. Two years after volcano evacuation, eleven Tristaners stay in England, five died, eight babies were born, and Victor Rogers notes education and hardship differ from life in Britain.
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Thampton
England
Tristan da Cunha
South Atlantic
Bornholm
Victor Rogers
Britain
Big Lift Ends Smoothly As End Nears In Germany
FRANKFURT Germany American Air Force planes neared the end of the massive troop carrying Operation Big Lift. The airlift, moving 14 300 soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division from Bergstrom Texas to Germany, was scheduled to complete about 10 40 pm. EDT, hours under the 72 hour allotment. The final C130 was to land at Sembach Air Force Base near Frankfurt. Weather delays caused diversions through Mildenhall Prestwick and Chambley Evreux with planes expected to reach German bases before the last Texas aircraft arrived tonight.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Texas
U.S
2Nd Armored
Big Lift
Sembach Air Force Base
Bergstrom Air Force
Rhein - Main
Chaumont
Toul
Etain
France
Mildenhall
Prestwick
Britain
Chambley
Evreux
Ethics probe launched by Senate Rules Committee
The Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously to launch a full investigation into Robert G. Baker and any current or former Senate employee who may have conflicts of interest. Baker quit as secretary to the Democratic majority after FBI scrutiny of his outside business deals, following a $300,000 damage suit accusing him of using his Senate position for contracts with another vending firm. The chairman said the inquiry may request FBI files, payroll records, and tax information to uncover potential conflicts of interest.
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Washington
Senate
Robert G. Baker
Baker
FBI
Rules Committee
R. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
Ginny Weakens Then Heads North Along Florida Coast
Hurricane Ginny moved along Florida’s east coast with peak winds near 74 mph but without shore impact likely in the next 12 hours. forecaster Gordon Dunn warned of possible offshore travel 50 to 100 miles, while a hurricane watch stretched from Cape Canaveral to Brunswick Georgia with gusts up to 40 mph and gales offshore from central Florida to South Carolina.
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Miami
Fla
Ginny
Florida
Weather Bureau
Gordon Dunn
Cape Canaveral
Brunswick
South Carolina
Palm Beach
Jacksonville
Britain urged to spend four billion on universities
A government committee proposes Britain invest 4 billion dollars to more than double university enrollment by 1980. The plan, aimed at closing the gap with the United States, would raise university numbers from 32 to 60 and create space for about 560,000 students, up from 216,000.
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London
Britain
United States
Communication Key to Peace, Caldwell Says in Sofia
Author Erskine Caldwell told Bulgarian writers that communication between people and nations is the only way toward better understanding in this world. Caldwell, en route to cow, attended a meeting of Bulgarian writers during a three day stopover.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Erskine Caldwell
Caldwell
Nigerian begs aid to support newborn quadruplets
Ka diri Olupa, 41, a Lagos garbage cleaner, pleads for money to help feed his newborn quadruplets. He says he earns about 22 dollars a month and laments his poverty, asking for charity to sustain his family.
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Lagos
Nigeria
APL
Kadiri Olupa
Morning Post
Olupa
U S Rejects Appeal To Lift Cuban Embargo
Washington reports the United States bluntly rejected Fidel Castro's plea to lift the embargo on Cuba. The State Department stated the policy remains due to the regime's communist character hostility and violent actions. The J Louis freighter incident was noted, with no link to the embargo decision.
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U.S
Washington
UPI
United States
Fidel Castro
State Department
Cuba
J. Louis
Castro
Department
Hemisphere
East German frees American student after 21 months
Berlin reports Robert F. Mann, a 20-year-old California student, is released after 21 months in East German jail for aiding Berlin students' escape to the West. A spokesman said he is in good health, and the six months already served awaiting sentencing were subtracted from his term.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Robert F. Mann
Sepulveda
Calif
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