Comedians voyage to Maui ends after three weeks at sea
Dan Rowan and two companions arrived at Maui aboard a battered 27-foot sloop from Los Angeles after a three week voyage. He described 30-foot waves and many squalls with a broken mast and failing lights nearly endangering the trip. They departed April 1 from Los Angeles Marina Del Rey without radio or engines.
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Haiti Adopts Duvalierist Line After Papa Doc's Death
Haiti's Francois Duvalier dies at 64 after a 14 year rule blending voodoo and autocracy. His teenage son Jean Claude Duvalier, soon to be 20, vows to continue the revolution as he appoints a cabinet and moves to a president for life. The constitution had been amended to lower the age to 18.
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Papa Doc” Duvalier
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U S and Saigon strike North Viet Nam and Laos fronts
U S fighter bombers hit three sites Thursday near Quan Lang air field and across the Laos border in deep incursions into North Vietnam. One raid penetrated 185 miles targeting MIG bases while Navy missiles hit airfield surroundings. In Paris peace talks Xuan Thuy and Mrs Nguyen Thi Binh praised U S peace demonstrators. Lon Nol forms new government in Phnom Penh as he recovers from a stroke.
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Raids Uncover Vast Arms Booty Across Illinois Cities
Thirty raid teams hit 10 southern Illinois cities shortly after dawn. Authorities say more than 100 weapons including a bazooka and 800 pounds of dynamite, narcotics, ammunition, and stolen goods valued over 100000 were seized or purchased for undercover agents. At least 43 people arrested. IBI led four month probe. Some items may have headed to Cairo amid local tensions and a mayoral election.
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Space agency delays high-altitude cloud experiment launch
WALLOPS ISLAND Virginia NASA postponed the planned Thursday night launch of a West German designed high altitude barium cloud experiment. Officials cited cloud cover over South American observation sites and said the launch would be attempted tonight.
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Bomb rips Amtorg trade offices in Manhattan
A bomb exploded in the Amtorg Soviet trade agency offices in a 22 story midtown Manhattan building late Thursday. Police defused a second bomb seconds before detonation. evacuation occurred with no injuries as U S ambassador to the U N George Bush condemned the act and telephoned Soviet Ambassador to express regrets.
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