Hijacked Jet Returns After Havana Trip
An Air Canada DC9 with six crew members returned to Toronto after a hijacker wielding a revolver and grenade ordered a Havana stop. The plane refueled in Toronto then Havana then back to Toronto while 82 passengers disembarked, and the hijacker exited before the final leg. Canadian authorities seek extradition while officials describe the suspect as a small man of Latin origin who spoke good English.
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Toronto
Cuba
Thunder Bay
Ont
Lake Superior
Havana
Ministry of External Affairs
K.C. Brown
Air Canada
Air War Escalates Over North Vietnam Passes
U.S. intensified air attacks on the Barthese and Mu Gia passes to cut war supplies to northern Laos and southern Vietnam. North Vietnam responded with stronger anti aircraft defenses and MIG activity as Washington ordered large scale protective reaction strikes. The Ho Chi Minh trail beginning at Mu Gia is a key supply route for forces in Laos Cambodia and South Vietnam.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Laos
South Vietnam
Sarthelemy
Mu Gia
Cambodia
Barthelemy Pass
Highway 7
Hanoi
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
Plain of Jars
Barthelemy and
Southeast Asia
Nixon
Leone Elected Italy President Amid Political Rift
Giovanni Leone, 63, elected by Parliament as Italy’s new president, ending an eight year Center-Left government. The vote followed 15 days of tense bargaining and leftist accusations that the Christian Democrats allied with neo-Fascists. A new center coalition may form if Socialist opposition steps aside, potentially shifting policy right.
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Rome
Italy
Giovanni Leone
Leone
Avanti
Socialists Party
Christian Democrats Today
MSI
Christian Democrats
Emilio Colombo
Amtrak Plans New Kansas City Schedule Changes
Amtrak will shift departure times from Kansas City after a Chamber of Commerce push led by James W. Stephens. The Missouri Pacific route to New York will move from 5 30 a m to 6 45 a m and other lines may follow as officials seek better KC departures to boost passenger traffic.
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Kansas City
Amtrak
National Railroad
Chamber of Commerce
James W. Stephens
Chamber
Volpe
Stephens
New York
Elmer E. Jones, Jr
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
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Haskell
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Gibson Discount Foods
Hormel
4Th
Maine
Medical Arts II Pharmacy
Kentucky “Doctors Building
Florida
Morton House
Canada
Starkist
C&h Sugar
JOYCE
Maxwell
Staley
Gibson's Discount Foods
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