Peru crash kills 49 U.S. youth exchange students
An airliner returning from Machu Picchu crashed near Cuzco Lima, killing 99 of 100 aboard including 49 American high school students. International Fellowship Inc. and state department identified 49 teens aged 14 to 19 among the victims. the plane carried crews and other Americans with numbers varying by list.
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Lima
Peru
Machu Picchu
U.S
Mildred Brown
Buffalo
N. Y
International Fellowship Inc
International Fellowship
State Department
Lansa
Government Aviation Department
Cuzco
Alejandro Calegari
San Jeronimo Hill
New York
New Jersey
Indiana
Ohio
Maine
Wisconsin
Georgia
Maryland
North Carolina
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Nerve Gas Train Leaves Richmond For Sunny Point
A heavily guarded munitions train carrying 113 obsolete nerve gas rockets rolled from Richmond Kentucky toward Sunny Point North Carolina to be scuttled 16 000 feet deep. A pilot decontamination train led, with 12 rabbits and 12 pigeons for gas sensing.
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Richmond
Anniston
Ala
Sunny Point
N. C
Cape Kennedy
North Carolina
Army Chemical
Cuba Comment Sparks Jet Precautionary Landing
An Eastern Airlines flight from New York to San Juan diverted to Dulles after a passenger named Angel Devila Jr. reportedly hinted at landing in Cuba. He was removed for questioning and later held on marijuana possession charges as authorities checked other passengers and a woman showing signs of a heart attack was taken to a medical center.
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Washington
Eastern Airlines
New York
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Dulles
Cuba
Angel Devila, Jr
Bronx
FBI
Devila
William Bennington
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Herndon Medical Center
American Executed by Guerillas in Uruguay
Tupamaros killed American police advisor Daniel Mitrione after a Sunday deadline for hostage release passed. His body, found in a bloodstained car, was identified by a friend. authorities offered few details. Other captives include Brazilian Consul Aloysio Dias Gomide and Claude Fly of Fort Collins. Forces raided neighborhoods, detaining over 100 suspects as the government faced international pressure.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Daniel Mitri
Mitrione
U. S
Tupamaros
Aloysio Dias Gomide
Claude Fly
Fort Collins
Colo
Dias Gomide
Fly
White House condemns Uruguay murder of U S official Mitrione
The White House denounces the killing of Daniel Mitrione in Uruguay as a callous act andwan ton assassination. Ronald Ziegler said the terrorists’ actions show inhumanity and pledged U S support to secure Claude Fly, another kidnapped American, and aid peaceful progress.
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Washington
White House
U. S
Daniel Mitrione
Uruguay
Ronald Ziegler
Mitrione
Ziegler
Nixon
Claude Fly
Luxury Cruises Benefit From Hidden Federal Subsidy
Government subsidies pay up to 400 dollars per passenger for American passenger liners sailing to exotic ports like Hong Kong Tahiti Jamaica and Bora Bora. The program has cost taxpayers about 240 million dollars in five years and mainly supports higher wages for U S crews, with ships such as the Santa Paula receiving about 120692 dollars for a two week Caribbean cruise.
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Washington
Hong Kong
Tahiti
Jamaica
California
South Pacific
Caribbean
Congress
S.S
Wilson
San Francisco
Mexico
Atlantic
Nixon Warns of Ecological Disaster in Landmark Report
President Nixon warned of an ecological disaster and urged congress to enact sweeping reforms. The 326 page White House report calls for national land use and energy policies, higher water prices to curb waste, mass transit expansion, recycling, and tighter pollution standards. It emphasizes individual responsibility, shifts in taxation, and the creation of a single federal agency to oversee environmental programs.
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Nixon
Congress
White House Council On Environmental Quality
Cambodian and Viet Cong clash near Phnom Penh core
Cambodian defenders fought Viet Cong and North Vietnamese infiltrators two miles from downtown Phnom Penh in the closest approach to the capital. Overnight shelling hit 25 allied installations as U.S. casualties rose with two helicopters and a cargo plane down.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Saigon
South China Sea
Cam Ranh Bay
da Nang
Tonle Sap
Governors Meet in Secluded Lake resort for Comforts and Security
At the Tan-Tar-A resort on Lake of the Ozarks Missouri 46 governors stay in private homes with limo service cabins and two dozen gifts as more than 700 national guard and state police provide security. Governors hold morning sessions and plan private meetings and recreation each afternoon with newsmen housed nearby and bussed in.
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Lake OF the Ozarks
National Guard
Tan-Tar-A
Missouri
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Rome
Associated Press
Army
Col. S . Burney
Bremen
Griffin
Macon
Athens
Care Olinas
N.C
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Dan Mitrione
Pacheco Areco
Daniel
Curacao
Haiti
St. Thomas
Uncle Sam
Maritime Administration
Santa Paula
Battle Reds
China
Cambodia
By Carl P. Leubsdorf
Gov
Warren Hearnes
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