Leaking Oil Floods Lima Sewers And Streets
Crude oil from a 22 inch pipeline leak flooded a 90 block area on Lima Ohio's south side. Police and National Guard moved 8 000 people to shelters while 4 000 residents sheltered with others. Fire teams used liquid foam to combat outbreaks as mains and sewers carried oil into the Ottawa River.
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Lima
Ohio
National Guard
Ronald Coe
Buckeye Pipeline Co
Air Force
Wright-Patterson Afb
Dayton
Salvation Army
Toledo
Ottawa
Hickel Faces Senate Confirmation On Interior Post
Walter J. Hickel, Nixon’s pick for secretary of the interior, defends his conservation record as he and ally Russell Train prepare for Senate confirmation. Critics worry his stance may favor oil development and public lands use, while supporters bill his nomination a step for western and New England interests.
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Washington
Nixon
Walter J. Hickel
Senate
Alaska
Senate Interior Committee
Hickel
Capitol Hill
Russell E. Train
The
Conservation Foundation
Train
David Packard
Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
Packard
Hewlett-Packard Co
Mike Mansfield
Congress
David M. Kennedy
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert
New England
Edward M. Kennedy
Edward Brooke
North Slope
Ans
Maine
Interior Artment
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Lee Metcalf
Montana
Hievel
Augusta
Natural Resources Council of
Marshall F. Burk
Margaret Chase Smith
Edmund S. Muskie
Senate Committee of the Interior and Insular Affairs
Council
Cosmonaut Shatalov Orbits Soyuz In Test Flight
Soviet cosmonaut Air Force Lt. Col. Vladimir Shatalov launched aboard Soyuz-4 to test the troubled spacecraft. Tass reported he maneuvered the craft and tracked the sun, circling Earth every 88.25 minutes on a mission described as complex and responsible.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Air Force
Vladimir Shatalov
Shatalov
Vladimir Beregovoy
Vladimir Komarov
Komarov
Tass
Mother Earth
Moscow Radio
Moscow Television
Rbaikonur
Elm Laundry Sold to White Star
Raynald P. Larochelle White Star general manager announced the purchase of Elm Laundry at 327 Elm St Biddeford by White Star Laundry Inc 38 Prospect St Biddeford. Elm equipment will move gradually to White Star and Paul and Donald Labonte will stay with the firm to serve customers. Owners were Mr and Mrs Conrad Labonte.
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Elm
Elm St
Biddeford
White Star Laundry Inc
Prospect St
Raynald P. Larochelle
White Star
Prospect Street
Larochelle
Paul
Donald Labonte
Elm Laundry
Conrad Labonte
Local Laundry Firms Merge After Decades of Service
The Labonte family operated for about 30 years in the business, and Larochelle’s White Star has served the area’s laundry and dry cleaning needs for 56 years with about 35 employees before the merger. The merged operations will add roughly 45 workers.
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Labonte
Larochelle
White Star
Boston Risk Placed Among Nations Seismic Hotspots
The Boston area ranks with seven regions as having the highest earthquake potential per a new Commerce Department map. Harvard geologist Dr Lewis Don Leet agrees, noting uncertainty about timing and saying a severe quake could come in three years or five days.
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Boston
US Department of Commerce
United States
Harvard University
Lewis Don Leet
Four Dead As Airliner Crashes Into Sea Off Los Angeles
A Scandinavian Airlines DC8 on approach to Los Angeles International Airport plunged into rain swept seas eight miles offshore. Of 45 aboard 28 were rescued. four dead and others unaccounted for. Survivors clung to wreckage as Coast Guard cutters and private boats aided a long rescue effort.
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Los Angeles
Scandinavian Airlines
International Airport
Copenhagen
Seattle
Wash
Coast Guard
Marina del Rey
Kenneth Davis
Sweden
Mats Hellstrom
Vasteras
Scandinavian Airlines System
Marines Strike Pearl of the Batangan Peninsula in Vietnam Assault
U S Marines land two battalions on the Batangan Peninsula northeast of Saigon in the largest seaborne assault since the Korean War. The push aims to trap about eight square miles housing up to 800 North Vietnamese regulars and guerrillas. The operation, conducted under heavy monsoon conditions, seeks to pacify the area amid fierce tunnel defenses and village outreach.
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Batangan Peninsula
Vietnam
Saigon
Batangan
U.S
Chu Lai
Peninsula
Howard Cooksey
Alexandria Va
Cape
U.S. Navy
Inchon
William W. Behrens Jr
Coronado
Calif
7Th Fleet
Saligon
Brandeis Afro-American Studies Plan Faces Student Rebellion
Brandeis University in Waltham MA sees a student-led clash as dissidents barricade Ford Hall in rejection of the Afro-American Studies Department proposal. Faculty vote to establish the department stands amid calls for a seven member head search and a student strike vote by about 200 supporters.
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Waltham
Mass
Brandeis University
Brandeis
Peter Diamond
Ford Hall
University Communications System
Diamandopoulos
Abram
Waltham City
Stu
University
Ford
MetroLiner Opens Era for Railroading with Record Speed
In Washington Union Station a modern MetroLiner locomotive prepares to launch a new era in rail travel. The electric traction train aims to reach 160 mph, offering a faster Washington to New York option and competing with air travel. Regular service starts next day with 22 daily trains planned. initial passengers include VIPs and newsmen.
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Washington
Casey Jones
Union Station
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Wilmington
Del
Trenton
Newark
N.J
Philadelphia
Metroliner
Penn Central Railroad
U.S. Department of Transportation
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Old Orchard Beach
Ann FE. Pennell
Adelbert M. Jakeman Jr
Rupert H. Davis
BE. Emerson Cummings
Gordon G. Smith
Charles J. Anderson
William Mullen
D-Mass
Romanow
Portland
Forest Ave
Paul E. Benoit
Mgr
ST. Louis
Alumni Association
St. Louis High School
Russians
Cessfully
Morris B. Ablam
Vkc
Main ST. Biddeford
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