Air Force flies home 376 GIs after Saigon blocks jumbo jet
UPI report says the U S Air Force used a fleet of C141 Starlifters to fly 376 American GIs home for Christmas after South Vietnam refused landing rights for a Pan Am 747 at Tan Son Nhut. The 747 was to land in Saigon but delays and runway issues halted the plan. Passengers dressed in uniforms prepared for transfer from Long Binh to the base.
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Pan American
Saigon
Pan Am
Tan Son Nhut
Long Binh
U.S
Singapore
Air Vietnam
Maheu to continue to search for Hughes
Robert A. Maheu says he will press on to determine whether Howard Hughes is safe after losing a Nevada corporate post in a court ruling. Judge Howard Babcock upheld the Hughes Tool Co. firing and barred Maheu and his security chief from Hughes facilities as Maheu contemplates appeals.
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Nev
UPI
Robert A. Maheu
Howard Hughes
Nevada
Maheu
Hughes
Hughes Pol Co
Howard Babcock
Hughes Tool Co
Babcock
Mr. Maheu
The
Tool Company
Jack Hooper
Storm Toll Mounts Across Pacific Coast and Midwest
Weather officials reported gale warnings along northern and central California, heavy snow in Oregon and Nevada, and freezing rain across Oklahoma to Missouri. Rescue teams tunneled through five foot snow drifts to free about 1000 travelers on Interstate 5 near Los Angeles.
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United Press International
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Oregon
Nevada
Utah
Midwest
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Alabama
New England
Hibbing
Minn
Brownsville
Tex
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Pioneer Hotel blaze kills twenty nine in Tucson
A seven story fire at the Pioneer Hotel in Tucson killed 29 people and injured 44 as hallways filled with superheated air. Investigators probed arson with seven unidentified victims and several juveniles with prior arson records questioned.
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Tucson
Ariz
UPI
Pioneer Hotel
Ellis Franklin
Franklin
Pioneer
Robert Slagel
Ann Arneson
Washington, D.C
Sheaffer
Slagel
Sonora
Mexico
Francisco Luken
Carmelita
Cambodian positions near Phnom Penh hit by Viet Cong
Cambodian Command said Viet Cong and North Vietnamese units attacked positions more than seven miles from Phnom Penh Sunday night. Saigon reports include Da Nang base shelling and a Saigon rail yard bomb. U.S. troop levels in Vietnam edged down by 4,500 to 339,200 as Nixon’s Phase 6 withdrawal starts.
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UPI
Saigon
da Nang
U.S
Vietnam
Nixon
Am Rong
Dalath
Highway 4
U.S. 5Th Marine Regiment
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Wilma Jack
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University Hospital
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