Tornado Strips Tracy Minnesota Kills Nine
Cleanup crews began removing debris in Tracy after a tornado killed nine people and sent more than 70 to hospitals. The SBA designated Lyon County a disaster area enabling low cost loans to rebuild. Governor LeVander and Sen Mondale pledged federal aid as volunteers and guardsmen worked amid rubble and roadblocks.
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Tracy
Minn
Small Business Administration
SBA
Lyon County
Walter Mondale
Dminn
Washington, D.C
St. Mary's Catholice
Dale Johnson
LeVander
Hanoi's Propaganda Guns Make Peace Seem Distant
Paris AP reports U S negotiators in Paris worked Friday on Vietnam talks strategy as Hanoi escalates propaganda attacks. Vo Nguyen Giap told El Moudjahid that current battles form a new Dien Bien Phu with victory certain, while Washington ponders possible changes to bombing restraint amid Saigon bombardment.
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Paris
U.S
Vietnam
W. Averell Harriman
Cyrus R. Vance
North Vietnam
Algiers
el Moudjahid
Vo Nguyen Giap
Dien Bien Phu
France
Indochina
Giap
South Vietnam
Johnson
Panhandle
Saigon
United States
Viet Cong mortars hit Saigon edge as air base spared
Viet Cong gunners fired 20 mortar rounds at Saigon’s southern edge while a major allied sweep and ground bombardments failed to touch the city center. Light casualties and minimal damage were reported, with police wounded near a border outpost and civilians hurt by two rounds inside the city. US spokesmen noted fewer than 60 troops north of Saigon and air strikes hit oil storage near Mu Gia pass. Hanoi radio warned of continued shelling and civilians were urged to stay away from Allied facilities. The war of nerves persisted as Saigon officials urged retaliation and Viet Cong attacks continued.
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U.S
Bien Hoak
Kinh Doi Canal
Go Vap
North Vietnam
U.S. Air Force
Mu Gia
Laos
Ho Chi Minh
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Viet Cong
Gia Dinh
Males Design Better Bra Contest Draws Mixed Reactions
College engineering students are invited by Lovable Co to design a improved brassiere using slide rule methods. MIT declined to participate while Columbia students express differing views with Mary Frances McGuire and Rachel Mizrahi among the respondents. Prizes run up to 500 dollars.
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New York
Columbia University
School of Engineering
Mary Frances McGuire
Rachel Mirrahil
Columbia
Mizrahi
Andrew Gaspar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
N and W Moves To Stop the Arrow Route
The Norfolk and Western Railway seeks discontinuation of the Virginia portion of the Powhatan Arrow service and will stop the Arrow between Cincinnati and Ironton Ohio unless protests delay action. Ohio officials note a 30 day notice suffices without a hearing if no protest is filed.
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Virginia
Ohio
Daily Telegraph
Columbus
N&w
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Arrow
Cincinnati
Ironton
Commission
Charles R. Greer
Norfolk & Western
Virginia Corporation Commission
Virginia Commission
Arrows
Norfolk
Spock Convicted On Draft Conspiracy Charges
Boston AP report finds Benjamin Spock convicted on federal conspiracy to violate draft laws. Co defendants Coffin and Ferber also found guilty, Raskin acquitted. Jury foreman announced verdicts amid surprised spectators. maximum penalty five years and ten thousand dollars fine.
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Boston
Benjamin Spock
Marcus Raskin
Washington
William Sloane Coffin, Jr
Yale University
Spock
Coffin
Michael Ferber
Harvard
Mitchell Goodman
Temple
Maine
Richard G. Hussey
Hussey
Raskin
Calvin Bartlett
U.S
Francis J.W. Ford
Police disperse Paris student siege at Odeon Theatre
In Paris over 1 000 police persuaded 208 students to leave the Odeon Theatre after a month of occupation. Police seized items including Molotov cocktails, gas masks, clubs, and a stolen typewriter. Five mercenaries were expelled from Sorbonne rooms as unrest continued at the University of Paris.
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Paris
Odeon
Sorbonne
University of Paris
Abby Opens Early May Tropical Storm Season
The first tropical storm Abby formed in the Gulf near the Yucatan on the season's second day. Hurricanes like Beulah last year caused 46 deaths and $207.65 million in damages, with New England suffering extensive wind and flood losses.
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Associated Press
Abby
Gulf of Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Robert H. Simpson
Hurricane Center
Miami
U. S
Texas
New England
Caribbean
Pacific
Central American
U.S. Weather Bureau
Cuba
Florida
Abel elected head of AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department
I W Abel was elected Friday to lead the AFL CIO Industrial Union Department amid calls for retrenchment due to financial troubles inherited from Walter Reuther. The department, with 59 unions and about five million members, faced a multimillion-dollar surplus decline and ongoing tensions with Reuther’s former Auto Workers union.
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I.W. Abel
Afl-Cio
Walter Reuther
Abel
Reuther
Auto Workers Union
Industrial Union Department
George Meany
Labor Movement
Reuther-Meany
Aflcio
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