Hijacker Seeks Political Asylum After Cuba Flight Return
A gunman in a white cowboy hat hijacked a Delta DC jet over Florida. He pistol whipped a stewardess and forced a detour to Havana. About five hours later the plane returned to Miami leaving behind the hijacker identified as Lawrence Rhodes, 29, of St. Petersburg, who requested political asylum. The U S government said it would study the request.
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Lawrence Rhodes
St. Petersburg
Iowans aboard hijacked airliner in Cuban interception
Four Iowans were aboard the hijacked Delta Air Lines jet bound from Tampa to Miami. Lex Hawkins, former state Democratic chairman, and other passengers reported the hijacker drank heavily before demanding release. The plane, escorted by four Mig fighters, landed in Cuba after a tense flight from Lake Okeechobee.
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Transcript on Tonkin Release Ordered By McNamara
Defense Secretary McNamara ordered a security review of his Gulf of Tonkin testimony to delete only information needed to protect intelligence before public release. He aims to submit the redacted transcript to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, amid a dispute with Senator Fulbright who accuses the administration of withholding and misrepresenting facts from the 1964 Tonkin incidents.
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Week's 6 Fatalities Heaviest Yet at 543
The Vietnam war death toll rose to 543 in the past week, with 1,359 American troops killed across a three week period. U.S. forces battled to seize Hue Citadel while Hanoi Radio drew air strikes and battles intensified near Saigon and Dak To.
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Blaze Takes Seven Lives in Rural Ohio Fire
A rural Ohio blaze killed seven people at a Powhatan Point home early Thursday. Two survivors were hospitalized, one in critical condition. Victims include Mrs. Cleve Stonebreaker and five of her children along with a teenage relative. Father and a 10 year old son survived. In Paris, poet Maurice Rostand died at 76, brother of a famed biologist.
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Cleve Stonebreaker
Paris
Maurice Rostand
Surgery Set for Lurleen Wallace
Governor Lurleen Wallace was hospitalized in Montgomery for surgery to treat an intestinal obstruction. The 41 year old had been undergoing treatment for possible cancer Recurrence, prompting her husband George Wallace to cancel a Cape Kennedy speaking engagement.
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Saigon Food Prices Fall as Imports Rise
Saigon wholesale and retail food prices dropped over 30 percent this week indicating freer food flow into the capital. Economic reports cited Thursday attribute the decline to increased imports andSupply in the city.
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Saigon
Probe Links Between Embassy Bombing and Virginia Theft
Police and FBI workers under President Johnson pursue several leads in the Soviet embassy bombing near the White House. They explore a possible tie to a dynamite theft of eighteen sticks and 50 blasting caps from a West Springfield construction site. The Soviets protested the attack and sought compensation, while the state department spoke of regrets and rejection of insufficient protection claims.
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State Department
Sues To Halt U. Hospitals Parking Plan
IOWA CITY The only home left in a block the University of Iowa converted to a parking lot is where Boyd F. Brack resides. He seeks a permanent injunction to stop the hospital ramp project and the $1,250,000 bond issuance to finance it. Condemnation actions have begun to take Brack's house and a condemnation appeal is pending. Brack argues the university and regents improper used of self liquidating parking funds to back the bonds.
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South Madison Street
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University of Charge
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Elwin T. Joliffe
Howard R. Bowen
State Board of Regents
R. Wayne Richey
Cahill, Lovelace
Paula
Johnson unveils 6.3 billion ten year urban program
President Johnson urged Congress to approve a 6.3 billion dollar ten year plan to fight decaying cities. The proposal calls for 6 million new housing units, rent supplements, model cities and mass transit planning, plus 2.18 billion for anti poverty, 65 million for rent subsidies and 1 billion for model cities in 1969. Johnson also pressed open housing legislation and a 10 percent tax rise, arguing urgent action is needed to save urban America.
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Year-Round Y E S Proposed for Cedar Rapids Youth Plan
U S Senator John Ely Jr. proposes making Y E S Youth Employment Service operate year round to qualify for 20 percent federal funding. The program would start after school, employ youths ages 16 to 17 in business and 13 to 15 in neighborhoods and public works, with a director and guidance counselor and up to 300 dollars per youth for ten weeks.
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John Ely, Jr
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Mrs Kennedy Ski Trip Ignites London Marriage Rumors
Mrs John F Kennedy and her children vacation in Ste Agathe Quebec prompting rumors of a marriage to Lord Harlech. Both Harlech and a Canadian host spokesman denied any truth to the reports. The kennedys are staying with in laws of press secretary in law Ste Agathe about 55 miles northwest of Montreal.
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Caroline
John
Robert Timmins
Ste. Agathe
Que
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