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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1969
Page
4
London report from the Institute for Strategic Studies says Russia now matches the United States with about 1,050 ICBMs each and is poised to lead by end of 1969 by 100 missiles. Submarine missiles favor the US 4 to 1, while Russia ramps up submarine construction to four per year, each with 36 rockets.
Four teenagers who escaped from the Butte County Juvenile Hall were recaptured on a Feather River island about 12 hours later. A California forestry division plane confirmed their location as officers moved in to retake them. The group, three boys and one girl, reportedly swam to the island after stealing a track.
A Dallas driver, Troy Undspeth, 37, lost the rear wheel from her car on a freeway but avoided a crash. A passing pickup allegedly seized the runaway wheel and sped off, prompting police alarms as witnesses described the odd incident.
The Atomic Energy Commission reported evidence of another possible Soviet underground nuclear test, raising this year’s confirmed or suspected tests to six and total tests since 1963 to 28. Seismic signals indicated a low yield blast from the Semipalatinsk region, with earlier signals from the southern Ural area also noted.
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