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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1970
Page
2
A new tremor near Gediz Turkey adds to the Saturday quake devastation. Officials say 1,067 dead from the earlier quake with a final toll around 1,300 possible as about 90,000 are homeless. Two survivors were rescued after 62 hours under rubble.
Overnight attacks across South Vietnam involve 100 plus rocket mortar and ground strikes as observers flag a spring offensive. US Navy jet claims eight MiGs shot down near a recon flight over North Vietnam. West’s arms aid totals rise to 3.4 billion over two decades with Korea and Greece among top receivers. Israeli jets strike Soviet missiles in Egypt as Syria engages on the Golan Heights front.
The West German ambassador to Guatemala, 63, with a heart ailment, was kidnapped at gunpoint Tuesday as part of a wave of diplomat abductions in Latin America. Radio alerts demanded medicines for his condition while guerrillas reportedly kept him for possible prisoner exchange.
Defense officials denied any slowdown in the Vietnamization withdrawal, with White House aides saying April troop reductions to 434,000 would be addressed when a decision is made. Separately Maryland moved to enact a liberal abortion measure, Gov Mandella weighing whether to sign. Flagstaff reported a heavy snow event after Easter. Chevron oil slick cap halted offshore leak probe. a Soviet Badger bomber and American Phantom collided with minor damage in the Mediterranean.
Congressman John Dowdy of Athens Texas faces a Baltimore grand jury indictment charging him with accepting 25,000 dollars in a sealed deal tied to a Justice Department inquiry. Co-defendants include Myrvin Clark and Nathan Cohen. A second indictment accuses Washington attorney Hugh McGee of conspiracy and perjury. Dowdy defends the charges as political retaliation.
A 19 year old sophomore Dee Hodson of Obie Dominican College in Columbus raised 596 dollars to meet her paratrooper boyfriend on leave from Vietnam. A clever penny bottle drive netted 506 dollars from bottles and 90 dollars in cast offs. News stories worldwide spurred donations including a Korean bottle shipment from Stars and Stripes. A donated van and store purchases helped store the bottles. Some shops turned away donations.
Police identified ta total Brown a New York City College senior as the man who planted an explosive device at the Blacktic Circus Discotheque last Saturday injuring 17. Detectives say Brown attacked after discotheque owners refused full proceeds to bail Panthers members awaiting trial in Manhattan 1969 bomb conspiracy charges. Episcopal Bishop J Thooke Mosley was chosen to lead Union Theological Seminary in New York, the nation's oldest interdenominational seminary.
Senator Edward Kennedy flew to Phoenix to offer support to Gene Tunney whose daughter is accused of murdering her husband in England. Kennedy said Tunney was a longtime friend of his father Joseph Kennedy, and he came in that spirit. Tunney, recovering from spinal surgery, declined to comment on the incident involving his daughter Joan Tunney Wilkison. Hale Sugarman resigns to join New York Mayor Lindsay’s poverty program.
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