Former U.S. Diplomat Pawley Dies by Own Hand in Miami Beach
William D. Pawley, an 80 year old diplomat and financier who served as ambassador to Peru and Brazil and aided multiple campaigns, shot himself at his Sunset Island home after years of ill health. He left a note for his wife Edna and police called to the scene found the body.
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Miami Beach
Fla
UPI
William D. Pawley
Sunset Island
Pawley
Edna
U.S
Peru
Harry Truman
Brazil
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Florence
D.C
Caimanera
Cuba
Miami
John Kennedy
Nikita Krushchev
Castro
FBI Nabs Suspected Soviet Spy In Space Center Case
The FBI arrested Ivan N Rogalsky of Jackson Township New Jersey on charges of conspiring to obtain classified RCA Space Center information in Princeton to pass to Yevgeniy Karpov a Soviet official at the United Nations in New York City. He was nabbed in Lakewood New Jersey with material on a sensitive Defense project. The case ties Rogalsky to Karpov over an extended period with contacts in California New Jersey and New York. If convicted he faces life or death sentence.
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Washington
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
Ivan N. Rogalsky
Jackson Township
N.J
Yevgeniy Petrovich Karpov
United Nations
New York City
Rogalsky
Lakewood
Department of Defense
RCA
Kelley
Newark
Karpov
United States
Spain
Germany
Space Center Project
California
The
Space Center
US District Court For
District of New Jersey
Hughes Estate Aide Testifies On Signature Of 28.2 Million Note
Former Howard Hughes aide Clarence Waldron testified the late billionaire personally signed a 28.2 million loan renewal with Texas Commerce Bank. Judge Pat Gregory weighed if the estate may repay debts as creditors allege most funds financed the Sands Las Vegas and Hughes Air West.
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William R. Lummis
Hughes
Lummis
John Meier
John Holmes
Gregory
Texas Commerce Bank
Bank of the Southwest
Hughes’ Associates
Sands
Las Vegas
Hughes Air West
Nixon asks Supreme Court to bar release of White House tapes
Former president Richard Nixon petitions the Supreme Court to stop public distribution of the Watergate tapes used against aides in the trial. He argues tapes produced for court remain private and should not be exploited for broadcasts or sales, while appeals and confidentiality questions continue.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Nixon
Supreme Court
White House
Watergate
Nixon
Public Broadcasting System
Radio-Television News Directors Association
Phonograph
U.S. Court of Appeals
John J. Sirica
John Mitchell
John D. Ehrlichman
H.R. Haldeman
Tanker Runs Aground With No Oil Leakage
A Liberian tanker carrying 13 million gallons of crude oil ran aground about 25 miles off the Texas coast with no oil spill reported. The incident follows a string of Liberian and Panamanian tanker mishaps in U.S. waters over the prior weeks, including fires and groundings, one with nine dead.
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Port Arthur
Tex
UPI
Texas
U.S
Nantucket Island
Los Angeles
Aeoe
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Guayanilla Bay
Puerto Rico
Cape Sable
Nova Scotia
Salem
N.J
Austin
San Francisco Bay
Shell Oil Co
Martinez
Califha Gin Ae “Sega Hegp Cola
Lifejackets From Zenith Found Near Cape Cod
Two orange lifejackets stenciled Grand Zenith were found floating 300 miles east of Cape Cod, the first clue in the Grand Zenith disaster. Debris including a mattress and trunk followed a southeast pattern. Coast Guard noted a possible sinking with no survivors. The 642-foot tanker, carrying 8.2 million gallons of fuel, departed England December 19 and has been missing with a 38 crew.
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Boston
UPI
North Atlantic
Cape Cod
Coast Guard
Bernard Hoyland
New England
Hoyland
Dallas
Quincy
Mass
Somerset
Coast
Cape Sable
Nova Scotia
England
Hoyland Sal
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Havana
Pan American World Airways
China
China National Aviation Corp
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Franklin Roosevelt
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Roosevelt
Flying Tigers
Truman
Hindustan Aircraft Co
Bangalore
India
Army Air Corps
Southeast Asia
Soviet Committee For State Security
KGB
Prouvost Francois
Colette
Prouvost
Ireland
Africa
Pacific Ocean
World Hitchikers
Sunfoto
Tom Braun
Acapulco
Houston
High
Sirica
Appeals Court
Thames River
Groton
Villsbonita Homes
Oeste
Brian and
Floyd Wright
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