28 Aug 1974
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1974
Page
1
A candle lit service for Charles A Lindbergh was held in a coastal Hawaii church with his widow Anne Morrow Lindbergh and two sons present. Lindbergh 72, died of cancer Monday after his world famous 1927 solo flight. Twenty three attend, others missed due to distance.
Private Robert K Preston 20 from Panama City Fla faced court martial for wrongful appropriation and breach of the peace after stealing a helicopter at Fort Meade and breaching airspace over Washington. A security guard testified Preston performed a marvelous recovery after taking fire near the White House.
A White House spokesman says Shan the 4-year-old sealpoint Siamese is Susan Ford’s cat and keeps litter in her rooms. The house pet, once shy, now roams the executive mansion’s family quarters.
Prince Junio Valerio Borghese once a Mussolini comrade and flamboyant fascist war hero died in Cadiz Spain at age 87 from acute pancreatitis after hospitalization. In Idaho Evel Knievel rocket jump rights sparked a live telecast bid and potential cancellation. Otto Strasser Nazi dissident dies in Munich at 76 after years in obscurity. Western court previously rejected his claim for a state pension.
Paris authorities move toward lifting the arms embargo on Middle East states including Israel Egypt Jordan and Syria as part of a broad defense policy review. Also report cites Peres on an Israeli-Soviet water confrontation and Soviet Soyuz 15 pilots reaching orbit. In Argentina gunmen kill Renault labor chief Ricardo Goya as plant operations halt.
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