Offshore oil leak feeds 18 mile slick off southern California
An unpredictable offshore leak continues to drive an 18 mile oil slick off the southern California coast. Winds push the mass away from shore while Coast Guard surveys describe a fishhook shape near the Union Oil drilling platform 50 miles out.
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Calif
UPI
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Coast Guard
Union Oil Co
Walter J. Hickel
Phillips Petroleum
Carpinteria
Pueblo testimony continues during court of inquiry
Five admirals questioned the USS Pueblo crew as more men testified about failures during battle stations and captivity after the 1968 North Korea incident. Enlisted accounts cited ammunition handling, watertight integrity, and ignored lieutenant suggestions. A judge advocate general expert and a House subcommittee probe add to the inquiry.
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John R. Brook
Judge Advocate General’s Office
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Naval Operations
Adm
Thomas Moorer
Sirhan admits killing Kennedy on witness stand
Sirhan B. Sirhan testified he shot Senator Robert F. Kennedy during his murder trial. He sat calm in the box and admitted authoring notebook lines stating Kennedy must die while describing his past fears and antisemitic remarks.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan
Grant Cooper
Herbert V. Walker
Jerusalem
Cooper
Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Paul Schrade
United Auto Workers
Kennedy
Nixon plans department shake ups
Nixon aims to reorganize at least half of the 12 Cabinet departments to tighten White House control and improve efficiency. A White House informant says the plan may phase out programs like the Job Corps and pushes reform under a pending reorganization bill.
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UPI
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HEW
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HUD
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Office of Economic Opportunity
East Coast Digging Out After Snow Storm Passes
The East Coast and South faced renewed snow and rain as a surge of storms moved along a Northwest to Southeast jet stream. Travel warnings remained in effect for New England states while Utah Nevada and Arizona faced heavy snow and flood risk grew nationwide.
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United Press International
U.S. Weather Bureau
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Maine
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Midwest
Navy aquanaut's last moments captured on tape
videotape shown to Navy board shows Aquanaut Barry Cannon convulsing as Robert Barth attempted to resuscitate him 610 feet below the Pacific surface during Sealab 3. Cannon died from carbon dioxide poisoning while colleagues struggled to bring him to the transfer capsule aboard Elk River.
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San Diego
UPI
Pacific
Navy Board of
Barry M. Cannon
Robert Barth
Navy
Barth
Cannon
Elk River
Walter Mazzone
Oil Spill Rips Hull of Yukon Tanker Near Anchorage
A tanker carrying 150000 barrels of crude oil, the 628 foot S S Yukon, ripped its hull after striking an unidentified submerged object about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage in Cook Inlet. The leak and damage were not immediately determined.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Reagan wary on peace vote by striking teachers
Governor Ronald Reagan expressed doubt that a teachers vote to return to work would restore calm at San Francisco State University. He warned of possible renewed violence and urged emergency laws to curb campus disturbances, including banning disruptive leaders and restricting readmission of students involved in campus violence.
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Carl Ingram
Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
San Francisco State College
Sacramento Businessmen’s Club
San Francisco State
Reagan
University of California At Berkeley
Cam
Sens
Fred Marler
R-Redding
James E. Whetmore
R-La Habra
Eisenhower Shows Sign of Improvement in Walter Reed Care
Doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center report former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, age 78, is getting stronger as pneumonia disappears. Vital signs including heart are stable and overall condition continues to improve with diet being increased.
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Washington
UPI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Eisenhower
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