Quaker Peace Vigil Sparks White House Arrests and Turnpike Blockade
In Washington and New Jersey, police arrested 124 Quaker demonstrators at the White House vigil after a permit dispute. On the Turnpike, more than 100 antiwar protesters blocked traffic in a five hour sit down across lanes, delaying thousands. The Washington protest drew 1,000 marchers with a large weekend rally cited as the largest ever.
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White House
Nixon
Indochina
Camp David
New Jersey Turnpike
Washington, D.C
Philadelphia
Washington
Richard Hathaway
New Paltz
N.Y
Pennsylvania Avenue
Toll Road
Storm-Riven Oxnard Coast Sees Homes and Trailers Topple
Writhing whirlpools driven by wind and high tides chew away Oxnard Shores and Big Sycamore Canyon homes. An $85,000 Oxnard Shores house and a $70,000 Fox home are imperiled as crews move structures back. Sonny and Cher Bono’s house is also shored with boulders as sand washes out. Dozens of trailers, including Norman Rowland’s $5,000 weekend unit, are destroyed or endangered while residents work by sand bags and volunteers to fortify the beachfront.
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Oxnard
Ventura County
Ready
Dale E. Johnson
William Fox
Fox
Oxnard Shores
Sonny and
Cher Bono
Melvin Stephens
Stephens
Big Sycamore Canyon
Surf and Sand Club
Norman Rowland
Rowland
Virginia
Burbank
Five Air Force men dead in Cheyenne C47 crash
Five airmen from Warren AFB died when a C47 transport crashed near Cheyenne Municipal Airport during a drizzle landing. Four died at the scene, one died in an ambulance. Names include Lt Col Frank L Trochak Maj Fabian Douzvardis and Sgt Paul Huston. two others unnamed pending relatives.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Air Force
Frank L. Trochak
Warren Air
Fabian Douzvardis
Warren
Paul Huston
Jack Brounink
Chiang Kin Soong Dies in San Francisco Dinner
Chiang Kin Soong veteran official of the Chinese Nationalist government died Sunday night in San Francisco at age 77. He was the eldest son of the Shanghai Soong family connected to Sun Yat-sen Chiang Kai-shek and H. J. Kung. Soong died during a dinner hosted by Edward Su of the Bank of Canton, with autopsy scheduled.
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San Francisco
Upt
V. Soong
Shanghai
Mme
Sun Yat-sen
Chiang
Safe transport of tropical fish for car move advice
The Action Line offers guidance for moving tropical fish by car. Use a large plastic bag one third full of aquarium water, inflate with pure oxygen, and place in a covered styrofoam chest to regulate temperature. The bag can stay healthy for about 24 hours, then float the bag in the new tank 20 minutes before release.
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William Goodwin
Adams Tropical Fish and Supplies
Pacific Coast Highway
Goodwin
Reds bombard 6 U.S. bases in South Vietnam
Communist shelling hit six American bases across northern and eastern South Vietnam. Thirty U.S. troops wounded. no fatalities. Helicopters shot down. two Hueys lost. Ground clashes near Saigon produced six U.S. fatalities and seven wounded.
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Saigon
UPS
South Vietnam
U.S
bin Dinh
Qui Nhon
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Bong Son
Quang Nam
Fall kills cannery worker on Terminal Island
A 47 year old Star-Kist Tuna Co employee, James W. Vance, fell from a tank to a trough on Terminal Island at 1040 Way St. He was pronounced dead on arrival at San Pedro Community Hospital.
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Terminal Island
James W. Vance di
Los Angeles
Star-Kist Tuna Co
Tle
San Pedro Community Hospital
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Chiang Kin
Out
Long Beach
Calif
Reds
Quang Tri
Khanh Hoa
da Nang Harbor
California
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Japan
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