82nd Airborne begins Vietnam pullout on National Day
Advance elements of the 82nd Airborne started leaving Vietnam for home and turning Saigon defense to the ARVN. The 300 troopers depart as fighting flares near the Cambodian border with 7,000 North Vietnamese posing a threat to U S bases. Five Americans killed and 22 wounded in Friday clashes.
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Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPI
Elems
82Nd Airborne
Vietnam
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Fort Bragg
N.C
U.S
Nixon
Cambodia
Kate
Highlands
Halloween pranks mix fun and danger across states
Pranks ranged from an outhouse on Indiana highways to razor blades in treats in Buffalo and needles in apples in Oneida. Berkeley held a faux trial ritual while fires and mock funerals appeared in Grand Rapids. In Vietnam War theater, U S forces reported heavy fighting with B 52 strikes near Saigon as National Day marked Ngo Dinh Diem’s 1963 coup anniversary.
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United Press International
Rossville
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Indiana 26
U.S. 421
Water Township
Mich
Buffalo
N.Y
Oneida
Berkeley
Calif
U.S. District Court
Julius Hoffman
Chicago
Grand Rapids
TV fires prompt crash program by manufacturers
Washington reports the National Commission on Product Safety says TV makers will launch a two week crash program to curb an estimated 10,000 fires annually, with 10 deaths linked to TV fires. Rep Royball criticizes lack of full facts and public hearings. Safety chair Elkind warns fires can occur even unplugged. owners should ventilate sets and keep flammables away.
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Washington
UPI
National Commission On Product Safety
Edward R. Royball
Dcalif
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Arnold B. Elkind
Royball
Congress
Product Safety Commission
Elkind
Chicago Eight trial gains rare recess amid agreement
The Chicago Eight riot conspiracy trial entered a long weekend recess after a rare accord among judge Hoffman prosecution and defense. The defense sought time to confer with Rain Garry amid demands for his presence from Bobby Seale who has disrupted proceedings and complained of gagging and restraint.
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Tony "Uller
Chicago
UPI
U.S. District Court
Julius J. Hoffman
Charles Garry
San Francisco
Bobby Seale
Seale
Garry
U.S
Fremont Professor’s Father Exhumed From Cryo-Cabinet
Fremont police found Donald Kester Jr a psychology professor at Chabot Junior College beside his father’s body, dead since July 1968, after workers cut open a coffin sized metal tube. The son had frozen his father after death to revive him, later deciding to bury normally. The body was shipped to a mausoleum in Creston after a $5,000 project.
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Fremont
UPI
Donald Kester, Jr
Chabot Junior College
Hayward
Kester
Donald Sr
New Mexico
Donald Jr
Acme
Lompoc Record Adopts Monthly Home Delivery Rate Change
The Lompoc Record lists staff and affiliations under the Superior Court decree, noting publication duties and association memberships. It specifies a monthly home delivery rate of $2.00 by mail, with daily distribution excluding Sundays and Christmas Day.
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Lompoc Record
Lompoc
California
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
Marine Corporal tied to TWA hijack faces court martial
Hijacker identified as Marine Cpl Raffaele Minichiello a Vietnam veteran who turned 20 today had a clean record until charges of breaking and entering the Camp Pendleton post exchange. He escaped authorities on the way to a general court martial after forcing a TWA flight to Rome.
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United Press International
Raffaele Minichiello
TWA
California
Rome
Corps
Marine Post Exchange
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Anna
Luigi
Naples
Minichiello
Oceanside
Pacific
Nixon
San Clemente White House
Prison tunnel discovery near Idaho prison escape plot
Idaho State prison officials closed a 40 foot tunnel beneath the kitchen area less than 48 hours before a planned escape involving up to 15 inmates. The tunnel featured its own power system and tools, with ringleaders identified among the convicts.
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Boise, Idaho
UPI
Idaho
Glen Jeffes
Police Break Up Ink Attack on San Francisco Picket Line
Police intervened to quell a melee in front of the San Francisco Examiner as two men dumped ink on a Gay Liberation Front protest. Ten of 45 demonstrators were arrested after inked hands smeared the building. officers later dispersed others at City Hall.
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San Francisco
UPI
Gay Liberation Front
San Francisco Examiner
Fifth Street
Front
Joseph Alioto
Jeremiah Taylor
Special park plan for handicapped near Mammoth Lakes
The U S Forest Service proposes a mountain park in Inyo National Forest near Mammoth Lakes California with a four foot wide nylon guided trail benches and a fishing pier. It includes 20 family camping units and accessible picnic tables designed for wheelchair users and features like taped interpretive points.
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UPI
U.S. Forest Service
J. W
Jack’ Deinema
Inyo National Forest
Mammoth Visitor Center
Mammoth Lakes
Calif
High Sierra
Mammoth Lakes Lion’s Club
Deinema
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