Prison break at Phu Quoc POW camp leaves 29 at large
Forty prisoners escaped Monday as nine were killed and two wounded in a gun battle with guards. Prisoners seized weapons near the camp, killing one guard and wounding another. South Vietnamese officials said 29 escaped, potentially into jungle camps housing Viet Cong forces. The island camp holds about 60 percent of the 26,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam.
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Tokyo
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Vets Eye New Sites Army Set To Move In
Salvation Army will move into the VFW Club building on October 1, while the VFW Building Association seeks new quarters. A board meeting discussed buying an existing building or land to build, and rejected purchasing the Corry Moose Lodge site as excessive. The group decided not to buy land in the north end and would pursue further options.
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Man Revives Dying Woman On Jet Flight to Pittsburgh
On a DC49 flight from Atlantic City to Pittsburgh, Thomas McGarrity of Penn Hills helped Helen Subasic who fainted and stopped breathing. Acting on stewardess guidance, he urged landing at Philadelphia and performing artificial respiration, reviving her after descent.
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UAW Aims To Avert National Auto Strike
Detroit AP report notes UAW seeks a settlement with General Motors Ford and Chrysler to avoid a mid September strike. President Woodcock warned the union will not be intimidated as 720000 of 1.6 million members work for the Big Three.
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American Motors
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Grand Rapids
Secret U.S. spy satellite launched toward Asia in haste
The Air Force sent aloft a new spy satellite from Cape Kennedy to reach a stationary 19 000 to 24 000 mile orbit over Southeast Asia. Officials say it will monitor Red China and Soviet missile tests with TV cameras and sensors for two hourly passes daily.
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North Vietnam
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Middle East
See page seven of today's Journal
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Vandals and thieves strike again in Corry area
Police report a surge in larceny and malicious mischief as two auto battery thefts occurred within 24 hours. Corry contractor Leland Crosscut reports $500 in damage at the Worth street gravel pit with missing gas caps air cleaners and broken windows. Batteries stolen from cars of Dejeania Diehl and Donald Bachottier, each valued at $25, were removed after cutters clipped cables at First avenue locations. Crosscut's requests for more patrols follow prior incidents.
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Crosscut
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First Avenue
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Philadelphia Emergency Raids Prompt Police Ban on Days Off
Fourteen Black Panthers are jailed on $100000 bail after police raids on party centers in Philadelphia. Seven officers have been wounded by gunfire since Saturday, and Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo canceled all days off, ordering 12 hour shifts during the current emergency. The violence followed a Saturday guard killing at a Fairmount Park guardhouse, with police arresting three men and a woman in connection with the murder and shootings.
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Hugh S. Williams
Hubert Joyner
Joyner
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Marian Copes
Peoples
Elbert Howard
Panthers
Rizzo
Move In Right Direction Move In Right Direction
The Police Department began moving into its new headquarters early today and by noon officers occupied the station east of East South Street. City employees are shown in the early stages transporting equipment by hand. No public viewing date has been set.
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