Three Nebraska Brothers Served Together in Navy Tragedy
Niobrara Nebraska mourns as Linan Sage Gregory Sage and Gary Sage three brothers die in USS Frank E Evans collision with the Melbourne. Their mother says they served together and God took them together while the town holds memorials and flags fly at half staff.
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Nebraska
God
Niobrara
Lin
Sage
Gregory
Ernest Sage
Radarman 2.C
Gregory Sage
Gary Sage
Seaman
Kelly Sage
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
South China Sea
Douglas
Sages
Charles Lindgren
Rollie ‘Buck’ Noyer
Main Street
Billy
Greg
Kelly
Masonic Temple
Niob‘tara
Armed Services
Harry Tichy
Michael
Navy
Sage Brothers
Subic Bay
Philippines
Cheryl Hargens
Paul Thierolf
Niobrara Fifth School
Gary
Batt
Harold Moeller
Omaha
Dak To area sees heavy shelling in three week operation
North Vietnamese shelling around Dak To and Ben Het wounded Americans and civilians as U S forces and ARVN units pressed a two month long operation code named People's Rights. Reports say the action includes artillery and helicopter gunships with light ground clashes and ongoing South Vietnamese military losses.
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Dak To
Laos
U.S
Ben Het
U.S. 2Uth
Hivouac
Saigon
Quang Neai City
Due Pho
People’s Rights
ARVN
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Prince Ini
Haiti
Cambodia
Dak Te
Bey Het
South Vietnam
Op seraTlion
Vish Airborne Division
A Shiau
Ben Lue
Nixon urges cadets to balance defense with liberty and leadership
Nixon spoke at Nixon Springs warning young graduates that excessive militarism risks turning America inward. He urged support for defense funding and outlined a stance of strong security tempered by scrutiny of military power. He warned against peacetime complacency and called for measured arms control within a robust national defense.
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Nixon
Tam
Congress
United States
America
América
Amevica
Art Crode
Collision Continues in Sinking Wreck Rescue Efforts
Sailors aboard the 25,000-ton Melbourne battled after a collision with the Evans off Vietnam coast. Crewmen pulled comrades from crevices as a whirlpool formed from wreckage. Survivors were aided by Australian sailors and later evacuated to Subic Bay. A Navy court of inquiry was ordered to investigate the incident.
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Charles M. Frey
San Mateo
Calif
Everett 3
Dees
Long Beach
Albert S. McLemore
Melbourne
Evans
Dime
Navy
Sam Ranh Bay
Vietnam
Crdr
Albert
McLemore
San Pedro
Han
Philippines
Tawasi
Subic Bay
Dahady Tyland
Pacific Het
Army Denies Sergeant Sent To Vietnam For Criticizing War
Washington AP report states Sgt. Michael Sanders, 22, of Kentucky, a critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, was ordered to Vietnam due to physical qualification and a hearing limitation. Secretary Resor says he may receive a quiet assignment near a hospital, with orders to Vietnam potentially reinstated for others with similar limits. The Army notes no punitive action and Sanders’ lawyers allege constitutional abdication by courts. Sanders had opposed Vietnam in a Louisville newspaper interview.
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Washington
Army
Michael Sanders
U.S
Vietnam
Hall
Sgt
Sanders
Verity
American Civil Liberties. Union
Philip Hirschkop
Hirschkon
Resor
Sandders
Kentucke
John Sherman Cooper
Marlow W. Cook
Louisville
Saunders
Nil
Arlington National Cemetery
Louisville Couriers Journal
Cuban Soldier Survives Wheel-Well Escape From Plane
A 22 year old Cuban soldier, Armando Socarras Ramirez, survived a 29,000 foot dash in a DC8 wheel well after fleeing Havana. A fellow stowaway, Jorge Perez Blanco, is believed to have fallen to his death during the Madrid flight. Socarras, frostbitten and unconscious on landing, regained consciousness and was hospitalized in grave yet improving condition. The pilot noted an unretracted wheel incident during takeoff.
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Madrid
Armando Socarras Ramirez
Havana
Sonarras
Socarras
Iberia Airlines
Cifra
Jorge Perez Blanco
Cmdr
Valentin Vara
Cuba
Plane crash near Elc village prompts search
The pilot departed Monterrey in bad weather and failed to land at the airport. He steered northwest and did not radio in again. Early reports suggested a fuel or landing issue, but authorities and eyewitnesses later said there was no explosion. The crash site lies near the isolated village of Elc.
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Fran
Monterrey
Raymundo Tage
Channel 3
Elovision
Piliee
Hed Cross
Elc
Ronald L. Ziegler
Colorado
Nixon
State Department
Robert J McCloskey
Norlaw
Foundation uses United Durham project as alleged black capitalism plan
The foundation defends a plan linked to United Durham, Inc. ongoing in Durham, tied to a Malcolm X Liberation University project and featuring three supermarkets, a jam and jelly factory, and a casket plant. Howard Fuller, a civil rights activist, faces scrutiny as critics call the effort a smoke screen to channel federal funds to a stockholding group.
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Malcolm X Liberation Univeration University
Garrett
Duke
Howard Fuller
Foundation
Fuller
Durham
Belmont Abbey College
Charlotte
United, Durham, Inc
Kennedy
United Durham
Gartett
Speculation Nixon to Reveal Troop Pullout at Midway
Washington AP report says administration spokesmen gave non committal replies fueling talk Nixon will announce U S troop withdrawals at Midway Island summit. Both Nixon and Thieu signaled possible pulls but no date set. officials caution against assuming a timetable or specifics amid Paris talks and South Vietnamese training progress.
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Nixon
Midway
Washington
U.S
Vietnam
Midway Island Sunmimuti
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Paris
Wiliam P. Rogers
Mudway
Rogers
Saigon
Creighton Abrams
Indictments of Columbus Officers Linked to Numbers Trade
The grand jury indicted Melvin Helmandollar John Kaiser Wilbur Stevens Frank Drungold Charles Wilkins Michael Caiafa Lewis Mullins Art Lee Cornelia Banks amid a broader federal probe of public officials tied to numbers gambling. Kaiser had immunity. payoffs reportedly 250 to 500 dollars monthly. Columbus mayor Sensenbrenner defended officers and city integrity.
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Tors
Sgis
Melvin Helmandollar
John Kaiser
Wilbur Stevens
Florida
Frank Drungold
Charles Wilkins
Michael
Caiafa
Lewis Mullins
Art Lee
Cornelia Banks
Makley
Baus
Kaiser
Grand Jury
Internal Revenue Service
US Justice Department
Columbus
U.S. Atty
Will Wilson
U.S. Senate
Washington
Wilson
U.S. Justice Department
Sensenbrenner
Simon
Ryan
Taylor
Herman Beck
Pension funds face mafia linked abuse and SEC findings
Investigators note labor unions and welfare funds may be controlled by racketeers as part of a broader anti crime drive. More than half of 130 new staff join task forces nationwide to audit reports in Washington. Untaxed billions span 160000 funds with two thirds uninsured and high risk. SEC data show 310 billion in stocks bought and 5 billion sold in 1967, dwarfing other insurers' activity. The House Labor Committee reported fund misuse and self dealing in pension plans.
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Department
Washington
Exchange | Commission
SEC
Mouse Labor Committee
Fulbright Assails Military Budget and World Policing Idea
In a Senate corridor news conference Senator Fulbright criticized the President for portraying critics as unpatriotic and for a budget skewed toward military spending. He warned the greatest threat to peace lies in colleges and urban ghettos, not in Hanoi or Moscow. He pledged to push for open discussion of policy unless the Thieu meeting changes course.
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Yomie
Senate
America
Fulebright
Fulbright
Nguyen van Thieu
Hanoi
Moscow
Peking
DuPont powder plant blast injures pupils and damages facility
A blast near the Lwin Delaware Memorial Bridges eight miles from DuPont headquarters in Wilmington injured 15 Carlton Elementary School pupils as flying glass broke windows. The explosion damaged a 70 foot blending tower and a Chambers Works building, with 200 workers on site and damage likely over 500000 dollars. Officials noted power and telephone outages and a second DuPont blast the prior day in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Lwin Delaware Memorial Bridges
DuPont
Wilmington
James W. Young
Young
Chambers’ Works
Carlton
Penns Grove
Louisville
Irish American cop and family life in 1940s NYC
The piece profiles Officer Hughes, 24, a Manhattan policeman and Navy veteran, with five citations including a cop killer capture. It contrasts his service drive with Mary Tinnehue’s struggle, feeding and clothing 11 children on a policeman’s pay. He plans teaching work while continuing college.
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New York City
Hughes
Manhattan
East Harlem
Bronx
Navy
Pacific
Yorkville
Mary
St. Joachim and Anne’s Catholic
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