Evans Turned Into Path Of Carrier, Aussies Say
Australian accounts fault USS Evans handling as Melbourne cut the destroyer in two in the South China Sea collision. 74 sailors died. 199 survivors, with two later flown to a hospital, described rapid, chaotic moments before rescue.
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Evans
Melbourne
Australian Navy Department
U.S. Navy
Navy Department
Cmdr
A.S. McLemore
Pearl Harbor
Navy
U.S
Kearsarge
Subic Bay
Philippines
Cam Ranh Bay
South Vietnam
Webster School Bell Ends 78 Year Silence in Farewell
Webster School bows out with a 78 year run to be replaced next fall by a new campus. Students filled the basement for a last assembly as the sixth grade chorus performed and Becky Crum handed the building keys to School Superintendent Edsel VerGin. Five students earned presidential fitness awards while the cherished bell rang one final time signaling dismissal.
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Webster School
Spence
Hamilton
Hogan
Longfellow
Webster
Becky Crum
Edsel Vergin
Kevin
Steven Churchill
Mark Piazza
Robert Heilman
Kristie Anderson
U S Recon Plane Shot Down Over North Vietnam
An unarmed U S reconnaissance plane was shot down over North Vietnam. Two escort fighter bombers attacked antiaircraft positions near Dong Hoi. The crew of two bailed out and were rescued by a helicopter three miles off the North Vietnamese city. One crewman was injured and treated on the hospital ship Repose.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
North
Gulf of Tonkin
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Vietnam
Repose
U. S
U.S. Command
United States
Americans violence amnesia and the 1960s violence era
A National Commission task force says Americans are historically violent and prone to collective amnesia about past turmoil. The two scholars Graham and Gurr note unprecedented antiwar protest and university unrest in the 1960s, with eleven of every thousand Americans taking part in civil strife from 1963 to 1968.
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Joseph E. Mohbat
Washington
National Commission On Violence
Robert F. Kennedy
National Commission On the Causes and Prevention
Commission
United States
Hugh Davis Graham
Johns Hopkins University
Ted Robert Gurr
Princeton
Jerusalem
Graham
Gurr
Belgium
France
Italy
Gunpowder Blows Up At DuPont Plant Killing Four
A chain reaction of blasts at DuPont Co explosive plant in Carneys Point New Jersey destroyed three storage buildings and killed at least four men with three missing. The blasts sent shock waves across the Delaware River breaking windows and injuring others in nearby towns.
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Carneys Point
N. J
DuPont Co
Delaware River
Two Are Killed Near Hayward in Wisconsin Crash
Two people die in northern Wisconsin traffic incidents. William H. Webber Jr. 41 and Bertha Webber 39 of Hayward perish in a Sawyer County collision on Trunk B east of Hayward. Anthony McFadden 7 of Allouez is struck and dies in Green Bay suburb. Elaine M. Berray 42 of Madison dies later from injuries after a Madison auto accident May 24.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
William H. Webber Jr
Hayward
Bertha
Sawyer County
Anthony McFadden
Allouez
Green Bay
Elaine M. Berray
Madison
Mexican Tennis Star Among 79 Dead In Crash
A Mexicana de Aviacion Boeing 727 crashed eight miles west of Monterrey killing 79 aboard including Mexican tennis star Rafael Osuna and political leader Carlos Madrazo. Rescue efforts battled rugged terrain and bad weather as 300 troops, police, and volunteers prepared to reach the site.
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Monterrey
Mexico
Mexican Airlines
Mexicana de Avicion
Mexico City
Rafael Osuna
Australia
Carlos Madrazo
Friars Mountain
U.S. Coast Guard
Brownsville
Tex
Mexicana de Aviacion
Fernando Garcia
Platteville Area Among Hardest Hit
A Wisconsin tornado outbreak struck southern counties including Grant and Dane with at least six twisters. In Platteville area, farms reported cattle losses and property damage on about 20 farms while Belmont and Nora saw destroyed homes and damaged trailers. Utility poles toppled and communications cut as storms spared most homes.
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Wisconsin
Platteville
Grant County
Irvin Langkamp
Milton Boley
Nora
Dane County
Belmont
Lafayette County
Boley
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Mark A. Gee
Port Angeles
Wash
Charles M. Frey
San Mateo
Calif
McLemore
Jerome H. King
Pentagon
Clarence D. Long
Dmd
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Naval Command
Long
Pueblo
California
Ernest Sage
South China Seas
Mary Callaway
Brownie Troop 52
Sion
George M. Cohan
Theresa Ruud
Walter Ruud
Old Webster School
Cub Pack 11
la Crosse
N. Vietnam
Platteville Area
The
Sherman Eustice
WSWW
Dubuque
Beloit
H. D. Casper
Wis
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