Boston Strangler linked escape at Walpole stirs manhunt
Lawyer Bailey asserts Albert DeSalvo is the Boston Strangler amid a major Walpole escape and security reevaluations at Bridgewater. DeSalvo, 35, fled with two others after a cell-door breach, later surrendering in Lynn. Police launched a wide search across Greater Boston as Bailey contemplates a habeas bid to secure psychiatric care.
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DeSalvo
Bridgewater
Charles Gaughan
Gavin
Public Safety
Leo L. Laughlin
Anthony Defalco
Walpole
Lynn
Boston
F. Lee Bailey
Charles Burnim
Burnim
New York
Logan International Airport
James J. Canavan
Gaughan
Fred E. Erickson
Brockton
Bat
Richard
Joseph
DeSalvo Brothers
Albert
Opea
U.S. Planes Lower Mines In Rivers Amid War Moves
U S planes continue river mine sweeps in shallow waters along South Vietnam rivers feeding Saigon. Mines are triggered by contact water pressure noise or magnetic attraction and not placed in deep waters. Spokesman notes Viet Cong mines on Long Tau and other routes but not Haiphong or Hon Gai.
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South Vietnam
Long Tau
Saigon
South China Sea
Haiphong
Hon Gai
Cam Pha
North Vietnam
U.S
Mu Gia
Ho Chi Minh
Wheeler McNamara Disagree On Missile Defense Plans
Wheeler and McNamara clashed over a surface to air missile system and ABM development. Wheeler said expansion of air defenses makes no military sense as the U S shifts to missiles, while noting possible ABM work under the atmospheric test ban treaty.
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Wheeler
United States
European Communist Parties Plan Meeting Draws Diverse Stances
Romanian, Yugoslav, Albanian, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish and Icelandic parties assemble for a continental gathering. Albanian delegates back China while Romanians and Yugoslavs emphasize independence over unity, signaling varied bloc loyalties and likely low turnout at Karlovy Vary talks.
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Tyet
Karlovyar
China Leaders Targeted in Red Guard Posts
A Red Guard campaign labeled Peking officials Peng Chen Lu Ting-yi Yang Shang Kun and Lo Jui ching as counterrevolutionaries. Wall posters claimed nine Red Guard groups were disbanded and leaders arrested. Some reports say rival guards clash with Mao supporters and army orders to Henan.
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Peking
Peng Chen
Lu Ting-yi
Lo Juiching
Yang Shang Kun
Chou Yang
Hsia Yen
Culture Ministry
Peng
Yang
Red Guard
Mao
Wall
Liu
Teng Hsipao-ping
Chou
Teng
Tanjug
Henan Province
Taipei
Honan
Loyang
Chengch‘an
China
Peking Wall
Honan Ribao
Postcard From Front Reveals Austrian Soldier in 1918
An Austrian army private on the Italian front wrote a postcard dated November 1 1918. It was delivered to his wife in Innsbruck Austria this week, the UPI reports.
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Innsbruck
Austria
UPI
Georgetown Postmaster Examination Open To Applicants
The U S Civil Service Commission announced an examination for Postmaster at Georgetown with a salary of 7088 dollars per year. Applications close March 21. Applicants need at least three years of experience or education beyond high school can substitute for part of the experience. Submit forms to the U S Civil Service Commission in Washington, D C 20415 by the closing date.
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Georgetown
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Washington, D.C
Nixon Plans Globe Tour Against Iron Curtain
Former vice president Richard M. Nixon will tour Europe and Moscow on a personal fact finding trip as part of a possible 1968 Republican presidential bid. He travels London Paris Bonn and Rome before a NATO allies swing and a Moscow visit ending the tour.
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New York
Richard M. Nix
Nixon
United States
London
Paris
Bonn
Rome
America
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Moscow
Nikita S$. Khrushchev
Whitney Young Lectures Today At Jacoby Social Work
Dr Whitney Young renowned civil rights commentator and author of To Be Equal delivers a Jacoby Lecture today. He has served on numerous presidential commissions and writes a weekly column appearing in seventy five newspapers nationwide.
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Dr. Young
Lincoln School PTA Founders Night Set
The Parents and Teachers association of Lincoln School at 1260 Stratford Avenue will hold Founders Night at 7 30 p m tomorrow. The PTA founded February 17 1897. Members urged to attend as the executive board hosts with hospitality chair Mrs Josephine Antrim assisting.
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Parents and Teachers Association of Lincoln School
Stratford Avenue
PTA
Josephine Antrim
Reward Placed on Outlaw Tiger Khao in Bangkok
Thai police set a $2,000 bounty on Tiger Khao the infamous outlaw and former soldier. He is wanted for a 1985 daylight market town holdup in which three people were killed. Police later captured six gang members and executed them at the crime scene.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Tiger Khao
Dallas student dies in fall during parachute drill at A&M
College Station Texas. Donald William Luhr a Dallas architecture student at A&M was practicing delayed opening of his parachute when he fell to the ground Saturday. A university spokesman said the victim appeared to delay opening the safety canopy too long.
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College Station
Tex
Tong
Texas A&m University
Donald William Luhr
Dallas
A&a
Two Fire Victims Improve in Bridgeport Hospital
Two people burned in a Saturday morning house fire that killed 79 year old Mrs. Julia Jaswaye were reported off the critical list at Bridgeport Hospital. Mrs Rose Falco 57 of Success Park and Howard Barker 33 of Stratford remain under treatment for extensive burns as investigators pursue the cause.
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Rose Falco
Apt
Success Park
Howard Barker
I Martin Terrace
Stratford
Julia Jaswaye
Falco
Barker
Joseph Kryssak
Ozzie Paolillo
Derby
Felix P. Curci
Mia Farrow Sinatra Denies Baby Reports
London AP Mia Farrow denied reports she is pregnant. She said it is not true though she would like many children, noting they have been married six months. Farrow, 21, returned from a U S vacation and begins work Tuesday in A Dandy in Aspic with Laurence Harvey in London.
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Frank Sinatra
Mia Farrow
Frank
Miss Farrow
United States
Dandy
Laurence Harvey
Pope Urges Prayer for World Peace
Pope Paul VI urged prayer for world and spiritual peace in preparation for Easter. Speaking to crowds in St. Peter's Square he said the world longs for peace among peoples and for interior peace within individuals, stressing renewed prayer for peace during the Easter season.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
St. Peter’s Square
Goldwater Warns of Treaty Trouble in Missile Plan
Goldwater told CBS Face the Nation that the Soviet Union may be building a missile system and urged talks with Moscow toward a moratorium. He noted the evolving plan and supported initiating discussions to curb nuclear arms.
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Goldwater
Gas Seer Blast Destroys Four Tenements In Suburban Fire
In Hastings on Hudson two large gas fueled explosions shattered four tenements Saturday night. A woman was killed and two men hospitalized as natural gas leaks from underground pipes fed flames that leveled homes and scorched two more structures. The fire felled telephone poles and raced along overhead lines with witnesses likening it to slicked oil.
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Hastings -On - Hudson
N.Y
Two Men Robbery Attempt at Los Angeles Liquor Store
On a Saturday in Los Angeles two would-be robbers failed when owner Joseph Cambianica fought back leapfrogging the counter. Two off duty officers in the rear aided and chased the gunmen out, with Allen Aloyian and Steven Melford captured and jailed on suspicions of armed robbery and illegal narcotics possession.
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Los Angeles
jStreet
Allen Aloyian
Temple City
Steven Melford
Redmen to Meet in Milford Area Lodge Meeting
Redmen No 80 covering Milford Stratford Bridgeport and Fairfield will meet Thursday at 8 oclock at Viking Hall 40 Alfred Street Nello Ceccarelli Sachem presiding Francis Beaudin Senior Sagamore will report on committee progress for the St Patrick party on March 16th.
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Milford
Stratford
Bridgeport
Fairfield
Viking Hall
Alfred Street
Nello Ceccarelli
Sachem
Francis Beaudin
Sagamore
St. Patrick's
Garrison widens probe into Kennedy case in Dallas
Dallas officers interpret a widening Garrison probe to cover persons tangentially involved in the Kennedy assassination. Investigators questioned Sergio Arcachia in Dallas with legal counsel present, while other witnesses at White Rock, Redbird, and Highland Park airports described interviews and photo sessions. Dallas Vital Statistics barred public access to death records for Kennedy Oswald and Ruby, citing privacy but allowing legitimate requests.
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Peavy
O |Garrison
Kennedy
Oswald
Ruby de Dallas
Orm
Legitileani
Sergio Arcachia
Bill Gervitch
Garrison
Gervitch
Wwl-Tv
Arcachia
Asst. Dist. Atty
Bill Alexander
Arcadia
New Orleans
Fred Lenz
White Rock
Ferrie
Bobby Pike
Nelson Knight
The
Times Herald
Knight
Pike
Lenz
Redbird
White
Rock
Highland Park
Wayne McWhirter
Dallas Bureau of Vital Statistics
Jack Ruby
Ruby
J. E. Peavy
Secret Service
Austin
State Capital
German Shoots Dumplings at Low Flying Jets
BOMN West Germany AP four men advertised for an antiaircraft gun to shoot down low flying planes near an airport home. Helmut Winter a commercial artist fired dumplings from a mock fifth century catapult at Starfighters disturbing work. No planes were reported downed by Winter's barrage.
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BOMN
West Germany
Helmut Winter
Two Area Students To Pick Orchids In Puerto Rico
STORRS 14 University of Connecticut botany students led by Dr. Howard W. Pfeifer will travel to Luquillo forest in Puerto Rico March 16 for a 10 day field trip. Andrew Kasper and Michael LeFor of Connecticut will study taxonomy of flowering plants and collect tropical specimens for later herbarium work. The trip, supported by the university and NSF, includes collaboration with University of Puerto Rico and Harvard Arnold Arboretum.
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National Forest Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Puerto Rico
Pfeifer
Fajardo
Luquillo Forest
Connecticut
Botanical Museum
Department of Botany
Uofc
National Science Foundation
Dr. Pfeifer
University of Puerto Rico
R.A. Howard
Arnold Arboretum
Harvard University
Area AFROTC cadets tour Wright-Patterson in Ohio trip
Eighteen University of Connecticut AFROTC cadets flew Saturday from Bradley International to Dayton Ohio aboard a T 26 trainer. Cadets David St Hilaire Rick A Chery Peter Markle and Michael Dzickowski were listed among participants with Lt Col John W Rapp as pilot and escort for the weekend briefing at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and tours of the U S Air Force Museum as part of annual AFROTC requirements.
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Wright - Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Air Force Logistics Command
U.S. Air Force Museum
Air Force
John W. Rapp
Uofc
Bradley International Airport
Jtour
Cong Shells Kill 11 GIs 30 S Viets at Da Nang base
The 37th Signal Battalion base complex near Da Nang was hit by shellfire killing 11 U.S. troops and 30 South Vietnamese. The attack caused fires in a Vietnamese community nearby as Marines Air Force and Navy units evacuated the wounded. A bus mine blast southwest of Da Nang killed 14 Vietnamese civilians and injured 34, with aerial observers coordinating medical evacuations.
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Bon Homme Richard
Tonkin Gulf
Ticonderoga
Panhandle
South Vietnam
War Zone
Saigon
Xuan Loc
Qui Nhon
Hue
Kontum
Highlands
U.S
North Vietnam
United States
Moscow
Pravda
Hanoi
International Control Commission
Vietnam
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
da Nang
China Sea
Air Force
Navy
U.S. Navy
USS
Da.Nang
Lunar Orbiter 3 Extending Moon Picture Return Time
Lunar Orbiter 3 cameras captured 422 lunar scenes between February 15 and February 23. The spacecraft was on its 122nd lunar orbit, indicating a longer lead time to receive the images.
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Lunar Orbiter 3
Man Chained to Train Tracks in Fatal Attack
Police described a grim incident as Swart was found chained to railway tracks. Nguy reported a blue and white car with four or five men nearby just before the attack. Swart recalled signaling Nguy to retreat and halt the train, but authorities said the chains could not be loosened in time.
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Swart
Nguy
Neguy
Air Force Academy Resignations at 36
Air Force Academy in Colorado reports 36 cadets have resigned amid a continuing cheating scandal. Lt. Col. Stewart Bachtelle notes the cadet honor committee is investigating 24 additional cadets, with 36 resignations since the latest wave began.
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AIR Force Academy
Colo
Stewart Bachtelle
Bachtelle
Air Force
Bachetette
East End Council Set to Meet at Newfield Library
The East End Neighborhood Council, affiliated with Action for Bridgeport Community Development, Inc., will gather at 7 30 tonight in the basement of the Newfield branch library located at 85 Revere Street. All East End residents are eligible to join.
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East End
The
Action For Bridgeport Community Development, Inc
Newfield
Revere Street
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