Starving Bengalis corraled in Dacca grim famine scene
In Dacca hundreds of starving refugees, mainly women and children, crowd into camps described as gruel kitchens. Guards block exits as diplomats warn of a potential death toll reaching up to a million within weeks amid exhausted rice stocks and delayed food aid, including 150000 tons from the United States.
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Dacca
Bangladesh
Carp
Dagea
Indian Subcontinent
Floridas Aad
U.S
Bakery slayings stun New Britain shoppers
Police search for suspects after six people were executed in the Donna Lee Bakery robbery in New Britain. Victims include bakery owner John Salerni and clerk Helen Giansanti plus four customers. Authorities note no sign of a struggle and say two to five assailants may be involved. A second item reports Florida officials unable to repay 4.5 million to investors in a SEC action against A J Allen and Associates. A separate Washington briefing discusses government findings that high density housing costs less and benefits the environment than single-family suburbs.
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New Britain
Donna Lee
George Berescik
Berescik
Henry Crisafulli
Thomas Ormsby
Ilo
Fead
John Salerni
Helen’ Giansanti
Newington
Michael Kron
Thomas Dowling
Anna
William J. Donahue Jr
West Warlford
Miami
Florida
Vietnam
Securities and Exchange Commission
A.J. Allen and Associates
U. S
Charles Fulton
Tuskegee
Ala
SEC
Fulton
Southeast Asia
Viet Cong strike two bridges near Saigon in campaign
Viet Cong saboteurs blew two bridges north and west of Saigon, part of a weeklong effort to disrupt South Vietnam’s economy. Officials cited frogmen on Hoa An Bridge and a provincial highway span, with about a dozen bridges damaged in the period.
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Saigon
Hoa An
Heroic Melbourne bus driver dies saving 30 passengers
Frank Parkhill, 44 or 82? killed when brakes failed on a steep Melbourne hill. He steered a bus away from cars, swerved to miss hazards, and crashed into a ditch after heroic efforts to protect riders and a 1 year old who were injured. Fellow driver Jim Norgate reported the brakes failed as the bus plunged down. Parkhill was praised for risking his life to save others.
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Frank Parkhi
Pather
Gwen
Jim Nérgate
Parkhill
Melbourne
Australia
Frank
Norgate
Marines recreate Leyte landing and wreaths for fallen on Remembrance Day
About 200 Marines staged a mock assault on Red Beach Leyte, honoring allied liberation sites 20 years after the Philippines campaign. Japanese-American veterans from the Go For Broke 442nd Battalion, many from Hawaii, paid respects at a World War I memorial in Braye, France, laying wreaths and visiting a battalion memorial.
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U.S
Philippines
Red Beach
Leyte
Manila
Douglas MacAvthur
Brayeres
France
Hawaii
First American diplomat arrives in East Berlin ahead of embassy opening
Brandon H. Grave deputy chief of mission arrives at Schoenfeld Airport East Berlin from Copenhagen Sunday night in advance of the U S Embassy opening on November 1 He is greeted by an East German Foreign Ministry representative and a member of the U S mission in West Berlin.
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East Germany
East Berlin
U.S
Brandon H. Grave
Schoenfeld
Copenhagen
Foreign Ministry
West Berlin
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Cadesh
Irm
Washington
Tow House
Tokyo
Japan
Ford
Midway
Yokosuka
U.S. Navy
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Yepocapa
Red Cross
Mexico
Fiego
Santiaguito
Santa Maria
Cora Dudley
Mrs. Dudley
Fla
Dudley
Rocky
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Happy Rockefeller
New York
Memorial Hospital
Rockefeller
William H. Morigeau
Stevens County
Wash
Morigeau
Colville
Lorelei
Carol Channing
Britain
Prince Philip
E. Berlin
Bullock's
Qiana
Bac
DuPont Registered
Castle OF Chills
Ghoul
Gur
Count Dratuli
Assistance League of
Long Beach
Dudlick
Neste
Fillow Lakewood
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