Cuban Athletes Reach San Juan After Tugboat Detention
More than 200 Cuban athletes stepped ashore in San Juan from a tugboat after two days at sea when their freighter Cerro Pelado was barred from Puerto Rican waters. A crowd of about 3,000 jeered then cheered as the ship docked, following a State Department stance tied to Fidel Castro’s travel restrictions and later modified to allow the tug’s use.
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At Least Three Die In Traffic In North Carolina
At least three people were killed in traffic accidents in North Carolina over the weekend bringing the year’s toll to 679. Dell Burkhead Long, 38, of Biscoe died when the car she rode in ran off a rural road near Fair Bluff and struck a tree. Alvin Reid, 16, of Cary died in another crash the report states.
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Associated Press
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Biscoe
Fair Bluff
Robeson
Alvin Reid
Cary
140 Million Russians Vote In One-Party Parliament Election
Soviet voters nationwide began casting ballots for the Supreme Soviet led by Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin. All 1,517 seats were decided in an uncontested slate for four-year terms. Early ballots were cast in Velen and far eastern cities.
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Bering Straits
Alaska
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Vladivostok
Khabarovsk
Queen Elizabeth II Celebrates Official Birthday in Colorful Trooping
Queen Elizabeth II marked her official birthday with Trooping the Colour beneath Whitehall and a religious service uniting major faiths at St. Martin in the Fields. Attendees included King Frederick of Denmark, Princess Benedikte, Billy Graham, and representatives of Buddhism Hinduism and Islam.
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Denmark
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Tragic Michigan City Trestle Crash Claims 3 Children
A passenger train struck four local children on a rural Michigan City trestle killing three as they tried to reach the far end. Victims Douglas Pepple 6 Stephen Stark 8 and Diane Hayes 13. A dog also died. Engineer Floyd Jones said the locomotive horn sounded but the train could not stop at 70 mph on the Grand Rapids to Chicago run.
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Dust From Space Falls On Earth Each Year
Scientists estimate about a million tons of dust from distant space lands on Earth annually. They note that special equipment is needed to identify these cosmic particles.
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