Dozens of Florida forest fires burn across central counties
Fires in tinder dry brush destroyed at least 50 buildings including 20 homes in Flagler and 15 in Seminole counties as winds threaten flare ups. Gov. Chiles orders National Guard ready. Evacuations around Geneva and Palm Coast rose through Sunday with damage in St. Johns Duval Lake and Brevard counties.
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Liz Compton
State Agriculture Department
Lawton Chiles
National Guard
Flagler
Seminole
Florida
St. John’s
Duval
Lake
Brevard
Flagler County
Palm Coast
Bunnell
Seminole County
Jim Karels
Forest Protection Bureau
State Division of Forestry
Mimi Davis
Palm
Slow moving slide devours Aldercrest Hills homes
A coastal Washington neighborhood above a timber town suffers a slow moving landslide that has destroyed or damaged at least seven homes and threatens 57 more. Renters and homeowners, including Kelso Mayor Keith Lawrence, evacuated as cracks grow daily and utilities are cut. geologists say the ancient landslide was reactivated by heavy rains, with officials seeking state and federal aid as Gov. Locke planned a visit.
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Kiso
Wasi
Cedar Glen Court
Sitka Place
Aldercrest Hills
Washington
Kelso
Keith Lawrence
Ms. Buckner
Rick
Buckners
Kay Adams
Doug Robinson
Cowlitz County
Gary Locke
Locke
U S Gassed Defectors in Vietnam Operation Tailwind
CNN and Time report that the Nixon White House and CIA approved using nerve gas on a mission to kill U.S. defectors during Vietnam. Retired Adm. Moorer and former SOG members described orders to kill defectors, with questions over whether deaths occurred during gas or later conventional-weapon assaults.
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Washington
U.S
CNN
Time Magazine
Nixon White House
CIA
Adm
Thomas Moorer
Naval Operations
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Robert van Buskirk
Vietnam
Pentagon
Jim Turner
Associated Press
Nixon
Senate
Japan
CNN & Time
Mike Hagen
Moorer
SOG
John Singlaub
Ted Sampley
Kinston
N.C
United States
Sampley
Special Forces
Medal of Honor recipients gather in New York
Medal of Honor recipients, 163 living, convene in Saratoga Springs New York to swap war stories recall battles spanning Civil War to Vietnam. Veterans from Pope to Dix discuss pride in the award, note the rarity and hope no future awards, wishing to be last of a vanishing breed.
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New York
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Lyverett
Pope
Pacific
Ron
Rosser
Korea
Drew Dix
Paul Bucha
Vietnam
Bucha
Medal of Honor Society
Roseville
Ohio
China
Douglas MacArthur
Eddie Rickenbacker
Audie Murphy
Dix
Fairbanks
Alaska
Peleliu
AD Tate
Ron Rosser
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Justo Urquiza
Doughnut Lake
Perry Schenck
Geneva
Orlando
AP Pater
Fla
Diane Buckner
Wash
Islim
Everett Pope
Jcpenney, Lawrence
Ousdahl
Jcpenney
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