Ship Explodes Off Port Welchpool. Three Dead, Twenty Hurt
Shipping authorities probe explosion aboard the Western Spruce at Port Welshpool damaging the wharf and rail line. Two tanker drivers killed instantly, a third dies in hospital, and about 20 crew and workers are injured. The 400 ton vessel had been transferring liquid oxygen and diesel fuel when a leak sparked a fire and a series of explosions. The ship, owned by Western Geophysical and leased to Fiso RHP, drifted and burned overnight. fate of salvage remains unsure.
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Toora
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East Preston
Charles Young
Port Welchpool
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Western Geophysical Company
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Fire Devastates Western Spruce Crew After Valve Blows
New Zealander David McLeod, 23, a Western Spruce crew member, describes a catastrophic blast as oxygen vented and the deck froze creating a red flash. He was blown overboard, swam to the wharf, and reported crew trapped between burning ship and wharf with fuel flames and people in danger.
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Melbourne
New
Toora
Liberal branch meeting over St John claims in NSW
In Sydney a Liberal Party meeting in Warringah centers on Mr St John as controversy grows over his remarks about Prime Minister Gorton. NSW officials debate endorsing St John for Warringah while other states defend Gorton, with暗 ongoing party unity discussions and internal votes planned for March 28.
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St John
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Gorton
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F. M. Osborne
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Warringah Federal Conference
Liberal Party of Nsw
Prie
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Gosford
Federal Press Gallery
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Barnes
Queensland
Get Gorton smear campaign shocks London
A London group called the Get Gorton Ad Hoc Committee launches a smear against Australian Prime Minister John Gorton. The Sunday Times links a late night party, two young women, and alleged friendships with Liza Minnelli and Geraldine Willesee to the attack. The Guardian notes Gorton appears politically unscathed despite private life scrutiny.
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Aap-Reuter
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Sunday Times
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John Grey Gorton
Australia
New
Savoy Hotel
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Anarchy reigns in Pakistan appeal by President
Pakistan faces deep turmoil as Ayub Khan calls for unity on national day while Afzal Rehman Khan notes no third force exists. Bhutto demands Ayub's resignation amid deteriorating law and order as mobs terrorize northern regions. Reports describe mobs crucifying, beheading, and burning suspected “corrupt elements” with hundreds killed.
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Muslim League
India
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Mab
Firing on border at Malda frontier raises tensions
Calcutta reports say Pakistani border troops fired mortars after hours of small arms fire along the Malda border 175 miles north of Calcutta yesterday morning. No casualties were reported.
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Malda
Flight to Fiji after drug find on Himalaya in Sydney
A senior Customs officer will fly to Fiji to interview an English seaman after the seizure of about 30 pounds of marihuana valued at $20,000. Forty Customs officers took part in the raid on the Himalaya as it berthed in Sydney, locating the drugs in a secret compartment built in a passenger cabin. No-one was allowed to leave the liner.
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Fiji
Himalaya
Youth Escaped Center Fails to Flee Long
A youth who escaped from the Juvenile Remand Centre in Mu Road Red Hill yesterday morning was recaptured about an hour later after a chase involving several police vehicles.
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Red Hill
Mass Striker Operation Strikes North Vietnam Front
US forces report a second major counter-offensive with over 2000 paratroops aimed at slowing Communist attacks on Da Nang and Hue as the spring offensive enters its second month. Casualties include 23 Americans killed and 53 wounded with 109 enemy dead reported along coast trails amid sheathes of B 52 air strikes.
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Hue
South Vietnam
Nixon weighs Vietnam war course after talks in California
President Nixon will brief with Ellsworth Bunker and General Andrew Goodpaster on the Vietnam offensive and progress of Paris peace talks. Secretary of Defense Laird said private contacts toward a settlement are ongoing, defending no U.S. escalation since January 20.
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Electrician Michael Hawke Killed at Phillip Department of Works
An apprentice electrician, Michael Hawke, 19, of Durville Crescent Griffith, was electrocuted yesterday while working in the new Department of Works building at Phillip. He died at Canberra Hospital.
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Canberra
Girl, 12 strangled near Broadbeach on Gold Coast
The naked body of 12-year-old Joyce Patricia Armold from Mermaid Beach was found in a rubbish dump six miles from Broadbeach. Police suspect rape and say the corpse was dumped from a car around midnight on Saturday. A nearby PMG line crew alerted police after discovering the body at 21Spm. An 18-year-old PMG technician was questioned by Southport CIB.
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Broadbeach
Gold Coast
Joyce Patricia Armold
Mermaid Beach
PMG
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Southport Cib
Pill-Takers and Global Talks Highlight Uneven News Pages
The text notes a Moscow conference removal from an agenda and discusses New Zealanders as a nations of pill takers. It mentions Cape Keraudren nuclear explosion warnings and a Victorian racehorse, Vain, winning the Golden Slipper at Rosehill. Back-page report by John Hourigan. Classifieds list weddings on pages 11 and 12.
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Australia
Rosehill
John Hourigan
Miss Susanne MacClelland Visits Canberra For Talks
Miss Australia Susanne MacClelland arrives in Canberra for a two day visit. Her first engagement tomorrow is a morning meeting with Prime Minister Gerton at Parliament House.
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Susanne MacClelland
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Gerton
Parliament House
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