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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1954
Page
14
The Pasteur departed Marseille today carrying about 1000 French soldiers bound for Indochina to bolster forces fighting the Vietminh in the region.
A Mossadegh backer in Tehran died after a second suicide attempt in jail while awaiting treason trial. He poured kerosene on his clothes and set them ablaze, dying from burns. The publisher Karimpoor Shiriazi had harshly attacked Shah Reza Pahlavi in his weekly Sha jresh during Mossadegh’s power struggle.
An elderly hermit, Flora Miller, 83, accused of murder kin in Cincinnati, is under mental observation after a long-sealed case. Police sought a mental illness warrant as details reveal a violent past and a motive tied to a large estate.
A 36 year old Swedish woman gained entry to Dag Hammarskjold's Stockholm apartment claiming an electric iron was on. She dictated a cable to him during an official dinner, prompting his police contact and an arrest. Hammarskjold later departed for London. The incident involved diplomats Tege Exlander and Osten Unden. authorities released the woman without charges.
Researchers at University of California Los Angeles unveiled a "water pistol" that fires a liquid stream at high speed capable of penetrating four inches of flesh. The device, created by Benedict Cassen, Brian Dunne Jr, and Herbert Gass, may someday deliver medicine into internal organs and tumors using a nitrosoguanidine charge.
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