Notorious FBI Fugitive Scruggs Arrested in Lompoc Flight Case
Harold Dean Scruggs, 27, once among the FBI's ten most wanted, was arrested in Lompoc after being traced for days. He was arraigned in Santa Barbara on a federal unlawful flight to avoid prosecution charge and remanded on $5,000 bail. A female companion, Donna Moseley, was questioned and released.
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Vaughn Proctor
Harold Dean Scruggs
FBI
U.S
Arnold D. Gowans
Santa Barbara
Lompoc
Scruggs
West Ocean Avenue
Donna Moseley
Mississippi
Wesley G. Grapp
Los Angeles
Topeka
Kane
South Carolina
Tacoma
Wash
Santa Maria
N. Daisy Ave
Gowans
Kansas
New Orleans Air Crash Kills 15 on Charter Flight
A privately owned charter plane bound for the British Honduras hunt with 26 aboard crashed in thick fog at New Orleans International Airport. Fifteen died, 11 survived. survivors taken to Ochsner Hospital. Flight originated in Memphis. FBI to assist in body identifications. Witnesses noted runway damage and a fire on impact.
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New Orleans
UPI
New Orleans International
Ochsner Foundation
Memphis
Tenn
Dan Goldstein
WNOE
Lake Pontchartrain Levee
Washington
FBI
Western Tennessee Sportsman’s Association
C. L. Broadwell
Broadwell
Soviet built plane crashes in Aswan killing 92
A Soviet-made turbo prop operated by United Arab Airlines crashed on landing at Aswan while returning Mecca pilgrims. Ninety-two people were killed, 14 survived but five later died in hospital. The runway was blocked and the airport closed.
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Cairo
UPI
Mecca
Aswan
United Arab Airlines
Nile
Cairo Radio
Middle East News Agency
MENA
Egypt
Speer
Aswan m
Anguilla rebel chief calls for troop withdrawal
Anguilla leader Ronald Webster demanded immediate British troop departure and removal of Commissioner Anthony Lee. He planned a high school rally to protest the invasion, while 6,000 residents watched paratroopers dig fox holes and polish weapons after storming ashore.
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the Valley
Anguilla
UPI
Ronald Webster
Anthony Lee
Webster
Commonwealth
Michael Stewart
Caribbean
Lee
West Indies
Czecho- Slovakia
Shoppers Watch as FBI Arrests Suspect in Downtown
Citizens见 buzz as FBI agents arrest a suspect yesterday drawing attention from political enthusiasts who wonder about the next city mayor. "Follow me to the library" bumper stickers appear as local Scouts volunteer to plant flowers in vacant downtown lots.
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FBI
Soviet SS9 ICBM Threat Prompts Safeguard Debate
UPI report of Senate hearing where Defense Secretary Laird, Deputy Defense Secretary Packard, and John Foster discuss Russia deploying a large improved SS9 ICBM capable of destroying substantially all U.S. Minuteman missiles. They warn of rising Soviet capability by 1973 1975 and advocate Safeguard ABM as a peace building measure amid Chinese missile spending.
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John Hall Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Russia
America
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Nixon
Laird
David Packard
Soviet Union
Hiroshima
John S. Foster Jr
Laird and
Packard
United States
Peking
China
Defense Secretary
Lodge defeats Communist claims on Vietnam war escalation
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge publicly refuted Communist charges that Nixon era escalation spurred the South Vietnam offensive. In a four hour Paris session, Lodge presented evidence rebutting their assertions and noted the Communists could not counter his points. Both sides agreed to return for another meeting.
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Paris
UPI
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Vietnam
Nixon
Lodge
Saigon
Hanoi
Weekend Weather Outlook With Showers Possible
Cloudy through Friday with a chance of rain today and showers tonight. Highs in the 60s and lows around 40s. South winds pick up to 12 to 25 mph tonight and Friday. Friday tides include a high of 3.6 feet at 12:02 p.m and lows of 0.1 and 1.5 feet at 5:56 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. Sunrise 6:06 a.m. Sunset 6:22 p.m.
Woman Escapes Injury After 1969 Pontiac Crash
Linda Joy Bolin 23 of 505 No. T St Apt B escaped injury when her brand new 1969 Pontiac slid off Lompoc Casmalia Road 2 000 feet south of Pine Canyon Road at 11 40 a m. She told officers she swerved to avoid a milk truck then blacked out and was unfamiliar with the car's controls. Traffic officers noted minor damage to the car and noninjury.
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Linda Joy Bolin
No. T St
Apt
Bolin
California Highway Patrol
Lompoc-Casmalia
Pine
Aircraft wheel drops on Palm Springs car in daylight
A one wheel aircraft apparently descended in the Southwest. Mrs Ruth Stevens of Palm Springs said a wheel with a rubber tire struck the hood of her car on Vista Chino Road around 3 30 pm. Police checked other airports but found no matching case.
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Palm Springs
UPS
United States
Ruth Stevens
U.S. Tanks Break Through Communist Bunker Line Near Saigon
U.S. tanks punched into a North Vietnamese bunker complex 45 miles northwest of Saigon burying defenders. Three tanks were hit by rockets. Casualties stood at two Americans killed and 14 wounded. Da Nang area saw renewed attacks with mortar fire on Marine targets.
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Saigon
UPS
da Nang
UPI
Nat Gibson
Howard Harmless
Greencastle
Ind
U.S. 1St Marine Division
Marine
Marble Mountain
Pham Dang Lam
Paris
U.S
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