Homesick American Returns From Korea Turncoat Voyage
Andrew Fortuna a former U S Army corporal who won the Bronze Star boarded the President Wilson for the United States after refusing repatriation with 20 other prisoners of war. He spoke of home sickness and said he preferred not to discuss communism while noting Chinese people looked happy. Fortuna due home July 3 to San Francisco he has one living relative in Dearborn Michigan and a half brother in prison.
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Hong Kong
Andrew Fortuna
United States
Ionia
Mich
Red China
Korea
China
U.S. Army
Fortuna
President Wilson
San Francisco
U.S
Dearborn
Detroit
Viola van Oast
Eeence Andy
van Oast
Donald
Southern
Michigan
Delay Granted In Bribe Trial In Hoffa Case
A federal judge granted a delay from Monday to Wednesday in the conspiracy bribery trial of James R. Hoffa vice president of the Teamsters union. District Judge Burnita Matthews ordered Hoffa and Hyman I. Fishbach of Miami to examine FBI records provided by John Dye Cheasty as part of their defense mapping.
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Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Burnita S. Matthews
Hoffa
Hyman I. Fishbach
Miami
FBI
John Dye Cheasty
New York
Supreme Court
Fishbach
Cheasty
Senate
Cheasty Cooper
Prisoners Told to Behave or Lose TV Access
San Antonio sheriff Owen Kilday warned county jail inmates to straighten up or face a TV blackout. If further riots damage television sets, prisoners will be barred from watching Dragnet The Lineup or any other programs. Bills from last month are reported pending.
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San Antonio
Tex
Owen Kilday
Dragnet
Jenn
Johnson Kept Contact With Red China From Geneva
Secretary of State Dulles named Alexis Johnson ambassador to Czechoslovakia but he has spent 22 months maintaining talks with a Chinese Communist representative in Geneva. The routine involves travel between Prague and Geneva, with meetings at the United Nations building and shared fees. Johnson, seasoned diplomat, has long counseled Washington through U N and Panmunjom talks and even lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
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Washington
Dulles
Alexis Johnson
Czechoslovakia
Johnson
U. S
United States
China
Geneva
Prague
Panmunjom
Peiping
Wang
Red China
United Nations
U.N
Warsaw
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
U.S
Tokyo
Mukden
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Japan
Americans Die in Moscow Plane Crash Amid Snowstorm
Three American tourists and a Polish stewardess survived a twin engine crash near Moscow Vnukovo Airport as a Polish airliner overshot a field in rain. The five US travelers were en route to a five day Russian visit sponsored by WOOD-TV and had toured Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Mrs Tremper, wife of a Grand Rapids osteopath, was severely injured and rescued from the wreckage.
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Moscow
Vnukovo
Nee Harvey Beuker
Grand Rapids
Mich
Beuker
Warsaw
Pureviyn Bator
Margaret Tremper
Sears Michelle
Mares
Russia
Wood-Tv
Iron Curtain
Britain
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
Tremper
Harold Milks
Roy Essoyan
Associated Press
Irving R. Levee
National Broadcasting Co
Levine
Essoyan
Voukovo
Helsinki
Milks
Cheverton
Michelle
Mrs. Tremper
Miss Lexington Beauty Queen Crowned in Pageant
Miss Helen Dave Thomason, a 20 year old brunette from Lexington, won the 1987 88 Miss Lexington title after a dramatic reading from Joan of Arc. She is a Lexington draft board employee, Jaycee sponsored, and daughter of Mr and Mrs Tommy Thomason. Second place went to Linda Gay Taylor, 18, a Statesville High School graduate with voice training in Chicago.
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Lexington
Helen Dave Thomason
North Carolina
Sam Crofts
Leington
Honey
Linda Gay Taylor
Statesville High School
Chicago
Boy chews weed killer thinking it gum in Azusa
A nine year old, Britt Poland, found a small black crystal while waiting for the school bus in Azusa, California. He put it in his pocket and later chewed some of the substance mixed with his bubble gum. Tests showed the crystal was weed killer. He recovered after treatment.
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Azusa
Calif
Britt Poland
Britt
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Wang Ping-Nan
A. Alexis Johnson
High Point
CAR Wash Equipment Co., Inc
4Th ST
S.W
D. C
Sterling
Eastern Distributor
Chem-Thermo Equipment
UMUC
Nya 3
High Point Hardware CO
S. Main ST
Brunette
Betty Jo Ring
Miss Thomason
Thomason
Merie An
Jaycees
Lexington Merchants Association
Lenora Newsome
Lexing
Ralph Taylor
Jinemy Myers
Winstom Salem
Jim Grimes
Jaycee
Thomasville
Paul Maidian
Salisbury
Jean Urban
Winston Salem
Gh Guller
Montlieu
Montlieu Ave
Bermuda
Robes
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