Navy Jet Crashes Into Bay Bridge in Zero Fog
A Navy 1T33 trainer carrying Lt Anthony Miller and Lt Bruce Turnbull crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge upper deck during dense fog. Both fliers vanished in the bay. bridge damage included bent girders and a 15 to 20 foot blackened section. Traffic on the bridge was halted then diverted for 22 hours amid oil slicks and debris recovery by coast guard and Navy units.
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San Francisco
San Francisco- Oakland Bay
San Francisco Bay
Coast Guard
Bay
Navy
Anthony V. Miller
Palm Desert
Calif
Bruce C. Turnbull
Los Angeles
Naval Air Reserve Attack Squadron 773
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
California
Edward Mackey
Napa River
Mike Foley
Golden Gate Bridge
Bay Span
Eight Children and Father Die in Howick Fire
A father identified as Alan Champ and eight of his children were killed when a fire destroyed their home in Howick Quebec, 20 miles southwest of Montreal. The mother and an 18 year old daughter escaped, police said. The father died after several rescue attempts.
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Howick
Que
Montreal
Alan Champ
Rockefeller ends New York sanitation strike with state take over
Governor Rockefeller forces a plan to seize the city sanitation department and pay workers with city funds after a nine day strike. Mayor Lindsay calls the plan unsound and fights a three day delay to allow a settlement. About 6 000 garbagemen return to work with double time pay and a 425 dollar yearly raise retroactive to July 1.
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NEW York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
John V. Lindsay
Rockefeller
Lindsay
New York City
Sanitation Union
S. William Green
Manhattan
117Th Street
Third
Lexington Avenues
Nelson Rockefeller
North Korea Rejects U N Meeting Over Pueblo Crisis
North Korea rejected a U N Command proposal for a Monday MAC meeting at Panmunjom to air alleged Communist truce violations near the demilitarized zone. U S envoy Cyrus Vance met with South Korean President Park as tensions rose after the Pueblo seizure and North Korean infiltration attempts near Seoul.
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Seoul
North Korea
U.N
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Chung Hee Park
Joint Military Armistice Commission Mac
Panmunjom
Pueblo
United States
Vance
Park
Mac
Gunman jailed after fatal Orlando police shooting
A New Jersey man known as Tatu Adams alias John Ervin Sanders told a bystander to watch this then shot patrolman Mitchell Nutter between the eyes. He then wrecked two cars in a failed escape and killed George Merideth and wounded another. Adams was arraigned without bond on murder and related charges.
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Orlando, Fla
New Jersey
Wayne Moore
Orlando
Tatu
Adams
Francis K. Whitaker
Moore
George Merideth
Harry Strange
Strange
Mitchell Nutter
Merideth
Nutter
Cyrus Mutchler
Mutchler
Whitaker
Orange County
Israel and Jordan clash along Jordan River front
Across an 80 mile Jordan River front Israeli and Jordanian forces exchanged fire Sunday. Each side claimed the other started the battle as both reported tanks and guns engaged near the Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee. Jordan said five Israelis were killed and a Palestinian was wounded.
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Jordan River
Israel
Jordan
Amman
Lake Tiberias
Tel Aviv
Abdullah Bridge
Dead Sea
Kibbutz
Gesher
Sea of Galilee
Poll Shows Narrow Support for All-Out Force Over Pueblo
Gallup poll finds 3 percent favor full scale military action to recover the Pueblo, 21 percent back negotiations, 20 percent have no opinion, and 45 percent expect possible war, with 40 percent hopeful for peaceful settlement.
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New York
United States
Gallup
North Korea
Car Paid For After 30 Year Gap in Payment
Anna Konkos of Niagara Falls Ontario received payment 30 years after selling a $40 used car to a man who promised to return with funds. The buyer mailed an $84 money order covering the car price plus interest, saying he had saved it from veterans benefits.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Anna Konkos
Marines Move Up Perfume River In Hue Assault
U S Marines landed about 400 troops in assault boats to flank Viet Cong in the old imperial citadel of Hue as South Vietnamese forces continued fighting there. Across Vietnam, U S jets bombed targets near Hanoi and Khe Sanh while Viet Cong shelled airfields in the Mekong Delta.
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Hue
Saigon
U.S
Perfume River
Imperial Citadel
U.S. Com
Mand
U.S. Navy
Hanoi
North Vietnam
United States
North
South Vietnam
Khe Sanh
Air Force
Kep
Yen Bai
Mekong Delta
Tra Noc
Can Tho
Navy AG
Phuc Yen
Haenoi
U.S. Command
Thi Nguyen
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Coral Sea
Marine
da Nang
Nguyen van Thieu
Mother Fights Fire to Save 10 Children in PA Tragedy
In Franklin Pennsylvania a mother Mary Grossman led her ten children aged from 2 to 13 through a blazing home seeking escape but the children balked at jumping from a second story window and all perished along with Ronald Simpson a resident of the house. Grossman survived barefoot in nightclothes after fleeing to Loyal Blair's home for help. She was treated for shock at Grove City hospital. Fire officials have not determined a cause.
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Franklin, Pa
Ronald Simpson
Mary Grossman
Albert
Braxton County Principal and Wife Die in River Crash
Newton Cooper 50 principal of Sutton High School and his wife Lovern 53 died when their car went off West Virginia Route 4 during a snowstorm and plunged into the Elk River near Ivydale Clay County. Their son 21 and daughter 18 escaped as Mrs Cooper is found days later.
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Sutton
W.va
Braxton County
Elk River
Ivydale
Clay County
Newton Cooper
Sutton High School
Lovern
Robert
Ann
Four Killed in Acapulco Nightclub Fire
A fire at the Hotel Majestic in Acapulco swept the lower floors of the beachfront hotel killing four and injuring more than twenty. U.S. sailors helped rescue evacuees while guests used bedsheets to escape. authorities investigated possible arson as Molotov fragments were found on the club floor.
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Acapulco
Mexico
Majestic
Acapulco Bay
U.S
Pacific Coast
Mexico City
Excelsior
Ciro Zalgado
Quebec City
Quebec
Charles S. Norwood
Goldsboro
N.C
Mimi McClever Davis
Robert Davis
Walter D. Farmer
Allentown
N.J
Alicia Gonzalez de Laechseiner
Santiago
Chile
Anto
Former U S Ambassadors Declare Vietnam War Lost
Former U S ambassadors Edwin Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith on NBC TV urged immediate bombing halt and negotiations. Reischauer said the war failed to meet original aims and that the United States cannot stop insurgency. Galbraith called for stopping the bombing to start talks, warning that continuing would risk worsening arms infilration.
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Washington
Vietnam
United States
Edwin O. Reischauer
Japan
Old Asia
India
John Kenneth Galbraith
Reischauer
Galbraith
North Vietnam
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Edward O'Rourke
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U. N
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Paterson
THE
Associated Press
David Lee Bowles
Kimball
Stevens Clinic
Welch
Tug River
U. S. 52
Big Four
Bowles
Henry Jordan
Mrs. Blair
Braxton Man
State Department
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