Crew abandons ship in stormy Pacific search underway
A United States plane and the Greek freighter Khian Star aided in a search for 25 missing crew members from the ammunition ship Badger State after its cargo of bombs and rockets broke loose in 40 knot winds and 20 foot seas off Hawaii. Fourteen sailors were rescued. the ship, carrying munitions to Da Nang, Vietnam, burned and drifted 1,500 miles northwest of Hawaii as an explosion tore a hole in the stern.
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Pearl Harbor
UPI
U.S
mid-Pacific
Vietnam
Hawaii
Washington
Air Force
Navy
Honolulu
da Nang
South Vietnam
Naval Ammunitions
Bangor
Wash
Three Air Force linked youths hurt in Wye crash
Three people from Vandenberg related areas were injured in a two car collision at the Wye intersection north of Lompoc just before midnight. Clifton Norman Twine 18 Jennifer Rachel Smith 20 and Rennine Renard 17 were treated at the base hospital with facial cuts possible broken arm and other injuries. Both vehicles suffered major damage.
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Wye
Lompoc
California Highway Patrol
Clifton Norman Twine
Maple Ave
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Jennifer Rachel Smith
Stardust Ave
Vandenberg Village
Rennine Renard
Calle Nueve
Mission Hills
Smith
Miss Renard
MIT professors urge halt to anti-ballistic missiles
MIT provost Jerome Weisner and three colleagues urged immediate suspension of all ABM and MIR programs without waiting for Soviet action. At a AAAS symposium in Boston, they called for halting Safeguard deployment and halting new missile testing while pressing for SALT talks to reduce strategic forces.
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Boston
UPI
Jerome B. Weisner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Science
John F. Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
Weisner
MIT
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Helsinki
Vienna
Dredges Begin Work to Reopen Santa Barbara Channel
Newport Beach dredge joins city unit to pump sand from Santa Barbara Channel After two week closure 800 boats marooned Entrance narrowed to 10 feet deep four feet at low tide City Engineer R Dennis Hogle says repairs completed and a larger Newport dredge funded to widen and deepen the channel to about 15 feet and 100 feet by low tide Fishermen pass at high tide leaving the harbor in the blockade period
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Santa Barbara
UPI
Newport Beach
Santa Barbara Channel
Dennis Hogle
Commandos raid Ras Gharib in Gulf of Suez
Israeli commandos backed by jet fighters attacked Egyptian military posts in Ras Gharib on the Gulf of Suez. The raid reportedly killed several Egyptian soldiers and captured four, with one Israeli wounded but all forces and aircraft returning safely. It marks the third such raid in ten days.
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United Press International
Gulf of Suez
Suez Canal
Ras Gharib
President urged to slash DOD spending by ten billion
The joint House Senate Economic Committee urged President Nixon to cut the 1970 defense budget by at least 10 billion dollars below 1969 actual expenditures. Proxmire defended the figure, while Republicans called it unrealistic without data, noting prior cuts and Vietnam reductions.
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DOD
Washington
Department of Defense
Congress
Sen B. Jordan
Idaho
Barger G. Conable, Jr
N.Y
Charles H. Percy
B-Ill
Proxmire
Vietnam
U.S
Knotty personnel problem before Co supervisors
The Board of Supervisors faces a complex decision in the Robert Smith personnel case. Options include rehiring Smith, suspending him without pay while keeping him on payroll, adopting partial findings, or delaying final decisions to hear more testimony. The hearing officer found no justification for firing Smith while noting some charges’ validity.
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Board of Supervisors
Robert Smith
Smith
Wilbur
Bill) Wagstaff
Palo Alto
U S Troops Battle Near Cambodia Reports 72 Killed
U S forces engaged in their sharpest clash since the Christmas truce near the Cambodian border. Helicopter crews spotted two NVA companies about 83 miles north of Saigon and American troops, backed by air and artillery, destroyed 40 bunkers. Casualties for Americans not disclosed as fighting continued.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
da Nang
Northeast Snowstorm Strands Thousands Across Region
The fourth winter storm in two weeks dumps up to 24 inches from Maine to New York. Thousands stranded at Kennedy LaGuardia Newark O Hare airports and others. Boston Nantucket report heavy rain. storms reach New England while a second system forms in the Southwest.
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United Press International
Maine
New York
Kennedy
LaGuardia
Newark
N.J
Chicago
O’hare
George Bulgarelli
Pittsfield
Mass
Augusta
New
Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
John V. Lindsay
Bahamas
Virginia Beach
Easport
Matinicus
Nantucket
Boston
Pro American LDP Leads in Japan Election Returns
Early returns show Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic Party leading with 59 seats counted out of 74, while the Socialists hold 10, Democratic Socialists 3, and others 1 each. Turnout slumped to about 61.5 to 65 percent under cold, snowy conditions, with final results expected Sunday.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Liberal Democratic Party
LDP
Diet
Eisaku Sato
Liberal Democrats
Japan Socialist Party
Asia
Democratic Socialists
Communist Party
Komeito
Clean
Japan Broadcasting Corp
NHK
Sato
Yamaguchi
Osaka
Kyoto
Eisaku Sato Dee
United States
Okinawa
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