Premier Levi Eshkol Dies in Israel Fatal heart attack
Jerusalem AP report states Prime Minister Levi Eshkol died of a heart attack amid Israel’s tense stand against Arab strikes. Recent events included an El Al attack at Zurich and a Jerusalem supermarket bombing with casualties, followed by Israeli airstrikes on Syria.
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Israel
Levi Eshkol
Jerusalem
Middle East
el al
Zurich
Syria
Abba Eban
Allon
Eshkol
Levi
Dvorah Eshkol
Mt. Herzl
David Ben- Gurion
GM recalls 2.4 million cars and 2.5 million with carburetor parts
General Motors announces recalls affecting 4.9 million vehicles for exhaust intrusion risk and quadra-jet carburetor parts. It cites 48 known failures and 30 exhaust-entry incidents, with removals focusing on 1965 to 1969 Chevrolet Pontiac Oldsmobile Buick Cadillac and GMC trucks.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
GMC
Eisenhower Improves After Abdominal Surgery
Washington AP doctors report former President Eisenhower had a good night and slept comfortably. They say his recovery progressed to where he feels well enough to read.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Chuckle Sign on Elevator Mixes Floors and Buttons
A humorously garbled self service elevator sign reads Eighth Floor But ton Out of Order Please Push Five and Three reflecting a playful misprint. The note echoes a light hearted city slice with a quirky accessibility moment.
Nixon to name Morton for GOP national committee chair
The White House announced President Nixon will nominate Rep. Rogers Morton to be chairman of the Republican National Committee. Herbert Klein said Murray Chotiner will not serve at the national committee, and Morton reportedly would not accept the post if Chotiner became executive director.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Rep
Rogers Morton
Maryland
Republican National Committee
Herbert Klein
Klein
Murray Chotiner
Los Angeles
National Committee
Chotiner
Morton
Ailments Delay Apollo 9 Launch Heads Up Cape Kennedy
All three Apollo 9 crew members developed mild sore throats and nasal ailments. NASA warned the potential illness could push the Friday launch by one or two days.
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Cape Kennedy
The
Space Agency
Sirhan Seen Yielding No Guilty Plea In Kennedy Murder Trial
Sirhan Sirhan, the Kennedy assassination suspect, showed signs of wavering about a not guilty plea. He refused to drink until officers tested beverages, calmed on Wednesday but indicated interest in pleading guilty, then followed his lawyers advice to hold.
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Sirhan
Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan Sirhan
Russell Parsons
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Parsons
Kennedy
Battle Rages On Saigon Fringes In Heavy Fighting
North Vietnamese troops seized two villages near Saigon and held off 2,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces in house to house combat. The four day offensive targeted Dong Lach and Ho Nai near Bien Hoa and Long Binh, with hundreds killed on both sides. Civilian casualties rose as refugee villages were hit. U.S. and Vietnamese losses soared with over 200 American deaths reported.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Dong Lach
Ho Nai
Bien Hoa
Long Binh
Central Highlands
Quang Ngai
Nixon in unprecedented Bonn speech warns NATO must endure
President Nixon spoke to the West German Bundestag in Bonn urging Alliance unity as talks with the Soviet Union loom. He met with Chancellor Kiesinger, received strong German backing for his Kremlin negotiations, and praised lasting Atlantic security amid a largely peaceful Bonn visit.
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Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Nixon
Palais Schaumburg
Bonn
NATO
UPI
Europe
Soviet Union
Bundestag
Kiesinger
West Germany
Kremlin
U.S
Atlantic Alliance
Moscow
Heinrich Luebke
Bad Godesberg
West Berlin
Berlin
Air Force Pilot Missing After Vietnam Jet Crash
Cedar Rapids reports Lt. Col. Donald E. Paxton listed as missing in action after his B 57 jet crashed on a night combat mission in Vietnam. Forward air controller saw the crash and explosion. an intensive search is under way. Paxton, 40, previously with Pentagon intelligence, was with the 8th Tactical Squadron at Phan Rang.
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Air Force
Donald E. Paxton
H. E. Paxton
Twenty-sixth Street
Vietnam
Paxton
Pentagon
Phan Rang
8Th Tactical Squadron
Doris Bleakley
Norman F. Bleakley
Avenue
Leslie
McLean
Victor McAlister
Costa Mesa
Calif
Franklin High School
University of Iowa
Northeast Iowa group forms to back north route for Interstate 518
A new Northeast Iowa Development Association formed at Upper Iowa college campus aims to route Interstate 518 from Cedar Rapids north to Independence rather than diagonally to Waterloo. Forty four representatives from 15 communities in six counties attended the meeting, with a 1965 plan to extend north from Urbana to Independence and then to freeway 520 favored by speakers.
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Fayette
Urbana
Independence
Iowa
Northeast Iowa Development Assn
Upper Iowa College
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette
Buchanan
Delaware
Dubuque
Iowa Highway Commission
Midtowne Mall: Cedar Rapids unveils $14 million downtown complex
Bjornsen Enterprises announced a $14 million downtown shoping center hotel complex to be named Midtowne Mall. The eight story project on urban renewal land between First and Avenues NE spans river to Second Street with 839 parking stalls and 424 hotel rooms. The city has spent about $1.67 million on land and buildings, with demolition costs around $50,000. Approval rests with urban renewal board, city council, and federal authorities.
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Midtowne Mall
Bjornson Enterprises of
Cedar Rapids
First and
Avenues NE
Cedar River
Second Street
Terry Bjornsen
Bjornsen Investment Corp
Bjornsen Interests
Iowa
Bjornsen
Gasoline Prices Rise at Three Major Suppliers
Three large oil companies announce higher pump prices. The Standard Oil Co. raises by seven tenths of a cent per gallon and Nordstrom Oil Co. by one cent, effective Wednesday morning. Texaco Oil Co. increases by six tenths of a cent per gallon, while Shell Oil Co. reports no change. Cedar Rapids Texaco and Standard stations will see price hikes.
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Standard Oil Co
Nordstrom Oil Co
Texaco Oil Co
Shell Oil Co
Texaco
Standard
Cedar Rapids
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Superior Court
Herbert Walker
Saigon Fringes
By Jack Walsh
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