Britain to Protect Citizens in Nigeria
London reports Britain will safeguard its nationals in Nigeria after two missionaries from Portishead were killed near Okigwi during the Biafra conflict. The government seeks assurances of accountability and plans talks with the ICRC to prevent further tragic incidents.
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Nigeria
London
UPI
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Marjorie
Portishead
Bristol
Red Cross
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICRC
Geneva
Commonwealth Office
Biafra
Lagos
David Hunt
Savory
David
Lord Shepherd
Berlin Protests Call West German CDU Congress Provocation
East German Premier Willie Stoph denounced the CDU congress in West Berlin as a provocation against the Communist states and warned it could pressure East Germany. He accused Bonn of an annexation-like policy and subversion, urging West Berliners to oppose the event and reject West German interference.
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UPI
Willie Stoph
Christian Democratic Party
West Berlin
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Stoph
West Germany
Iron Curtain
East Germany
Europe
West
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Prague
C'mon Guys Give A Gal A Break Melon Missing
Pauline De Pento appeals for seeds from her prize watermelon stolen Saturday night from her Paradise Valley garden. She offers her Las Vegas address at 3337 Rochelle for sending seeds and notes the fruit was so large it required two people to carry away.
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Pauline de Pento
Rochelle
Las Vegas
Paradise Valley
Call for Holy War as Moslems Denounce Jerusalem Desecration
Moslem leaders representing about 750 million people in 34 countries urged a Holy War to recover sacred Islam shrines in Jerusalem after a Cairo newspaper reported a tape of Jews desecrating the El Aqsa Mosque. The call followed UN debates on the Middle East crisis amid quiet Suez Canal cease-fire lines and clashes around the Golan Heights and Jordan Valley.
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Cairo
Judah
United Nations General Assembly
Middle East
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Egypt
Israel
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Golan Heights
Jordan
Jordan Valley
Ashdot Yaacov
al Ahram
el Aqsa
Old City
el Fatah
Amman
Hussein
Workers Front
West Bank
Jerusalem Post
United Nations
Citi
Red Cross
Post
Philippine crime stats show killings at 2.5 daily in Manila in H1 1968
The Philippine Constabulary reports an average of 2.5 killings per day in Manila and 11.7 per day nationwide for the first six months of 1968, highlighting rising violence levels.
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Manila
UPI
Philippine Constabulary
Delegates Arrive for Colombo Plan Conference in Seoul
In Seoul delegates began arriving for the 19th Colombo Plan conference opening tomorrow the plan started in 1950 to aid economic development across 24 South and Southeast Asian countries. In NUMATA Japan two killed four injured as a mini bus plunged off a highway into a river bed. A mine incident on Saturday near the Imjim River killed an American soldier and wounded two others during a night patrol.
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Seoul
South Korea
UPI
South
Southeast Asia
Numata
Japan
Imjim River
Notorious Australian killer dies in prison
Sydney authorities report the death in prison of Stephen Leslie Bradley, a notorious murderer. Bradley was convicted eight years ago of kidnapping and killing Jaeme Thorne, a schoolboy, shortly after the boy's father won a $224,000 lottery.
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Sydney
Australia
UPI
Stephen Leslie Bradley
Jaeme Thorne
Zengakuren Students Protest U S Air Base at Tachikawa
About 700 leftist Zengakuren students demonstrated before the U S Air Force base at Tachikawa in Tokyo suburb demanding withdrawal of American forces from Japan. Two protesters were arrested.
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Tokyo
UPI
Zengakuren
U. S. Air Force
Tachikawa
Bomb blast hits Mexican Consulate in Antwerp
A bomb exploded at the Mexican Consulate in Antwerp, injuring none as police link the blast to student protests in Mexico City. Windows were shattered but there were no injuries.
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Antwerp
Belgium
UPI
Mexico City
Last body recovered from Luenen coal mine shaft explosion
Rescue teams in Luenen Germany retrieved the 16th and final body from a coal mine shaft rocked by Friday morning explosion.
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Luenen
Germany
UPI
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