Flying Scotsman travels to Dallas amid British trade exhibit
Alan Pegler, the London businessman who saved the Flying Scotsman, travels aboard the historic engine in Dallas. The train tours towns at $1 per person, showcasing railway history and Churchill era items, with plans to return the locomotive to Britain in November and send the rest to Wisconsin’s Green Bay Railroad Museum.
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Casey Jones
Union Station
Dallas
Davina Flint
Davina
Birkenhead
Chesire
England
U.S
Edinburgh
Alan Pegler
London
Santa Fe
Slaton
Winston Churchill
Hinchcliffe
Troy
Pegler
Trinity Valley Railfans, Inc
Fort Worth
Denison
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Katy Road
Oklahoma
Britain
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Cambodian Battle Rages Near Phnom Penh amid Rail Attack
Reports say fighting surrounds the Cambodian capital with fighter bombers and reinforcements as Viet Cong strike along Highway 1 and threaten Kompong Thom. Rail links to Thailand severed and roads into Phnom Penh deemed unsafe as Thai and Vietnamese forces contemplate moves.
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Reap
Angkor
Kompong ‘Thom
Cambodia
Thailanh
Phnom Penh
High Command
Los
Saigon
Samrong Thom
Met
Thailand
Black Panther
Vietnam
Thanom Kittikachorn
Giveni
Penh
Kompong
Thom
Kompong Thom
Shem'Thom
Soviet Soyuz 9 Mission Sets Endurance Milestone
The Soviet Soyuz 9 mission, launched June 1, extended nearly five days, breaking prior endurance records. Astronauts Nikolayev and Sevastynov conducted medical tests, manual piloting, and fitness exercises while in a spacious cabin, with a diet of four hot meals daily.
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Valery Bykovsky
Soviet Union
Nikolayev
Sevastynov
Mexico City
Pers
Commerce Official Critics Split Over Textile Imports Policy
Davis and Stans clash over handling rising imports of Japanese textiles while a Mills bill to restrict them gains support in Congress. The dispute mirrors prior White House staffing shifts and hints at possible shifts toward quotas versus voluntary limits.
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White House
Nixon
Stans
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Public Patience Growing Thin on Campus Violence
Roger A. Freeman senior adviser to President Nixon on education urged at the Washington State Research Council that the campus free speech movement has become a flashpoint. He argued public patience with on campus violence is waning and fault lies with trustees, administrators, and faculty who allow destruction and intimidation to persist.
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Seattle
UPI
Roger A. Freeman
Nixon
U.S
Washington State Research Council
Freeman
Suit blocks UT system funds for Permian Basin plan
A group of Ector County landowners filed in 53rd District Court Austin to halt use of extra state money for the University of Texas at Permian Basin near Odessa. They contend the UT system regents failed to follow the last year bill creating the university and seek a court order stopping further appropriations by Comptroller Calvert, arguing the land title for the 600 acres was not properly conveyed. The suit was filed by H Winston Hull of Santa Rosa California and John B Ashmun of Calgary Alberta.
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H. Winston Hull
Santa Roga
Calif
John B. Ashmun
Calgary
Alberta
Rail from old narrow gauge lines fuels amusement park railways
L. B. Foster Company, a national distributor for rail and accessories, reports a thriving market for used rail from dismantled narrow gauge lines. The material is sold in thousands of tons for construction of scenic railroads in amusement parks across the country.
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New York
UPI
L. B. Foster Company
Peru Expels AP Official Over Earthquake Coverage
Peru's military government expelled Associated Press bureau chief Joe McGowan Jr. after a Council of Ministers resolution denounced his Lima description as unreal and offensive. McGowan had reported foreign relief workers and thriving businesses in quake zones, while Augusto Zimmerman said McGowan was to be expelled immediately.
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Lima
Peru
Associated Press Bureau
Joe McGowan Jr
Council of Ministers
Augusto Zimmerman
National Information Office
McGowan
Zimmermas
Etl Fonga
Council
Maor
Containers Double Rotterdam Leads 1969 Port Cargo Rise
West European ports moved 4.7 million tons of container cargo in 1969 up from 2.7 million in 1968. Rotterdam handled 44 percent, Amsterdam 25 percent, Bremen 17 percent, and Hamburg 10 percent of the total.
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Rotterdam, Netherland
UPI
Rotterdam
New Sat Echoes Cold War Orbital Monitoring Mission
Sources report a new satellite will track Russia fractional orbital bombardment tests and detect Soviet submarine missile launches in the Indian Ocean or western Pacific. Most U S military satellites use polar orbits, but stationary orbits require launches from the Cape. Up to six operational satellites of this type were planned to be fired Friday.
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Russia
Globe
Earth
Indian Ocean
Western Pacific
Air Force
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Cape
Lubbock officials challenge juvenile report draft
Lubbock County officials led by Shaw Bean and judges clash with NCCD over a draft examining juvenile services. They dispute population figures and veto claims of inactivity by the county juvenile board while demanding changes and noting potential staffing boosts.
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Lubbock
Shaw
Heath
Bean
U.S
Davison
Moore
James Ellis
Austin
Hong Kong Sent 960 Million Hong Kong Dollars to Nationalist China
In 1969 Hong Kong shipped goods valued at 960 million HK dollars to Nationalist China via its free port, mainly medicines. The record also notes the first nonstop round-the-world flight completed by the B-50 bomber Lucky Lady.
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Hong Kong
China
Peacemakers End Dusk-To-Dawn Curfew In Miami
In Miami the dusk to dawn curfew in Negro neighborhoods was lifted as about 300 black volunteers patrolled slums to quell four days of racial violence. City Manager Melvin Reese cited restoration of order while unincorporated areas remained under curfew. Relations with Black Coalition leaders prompted a list of grievances and calls for investigations into police conduct and job opportunities for teenage blacks.
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Miami
Athalie Range
Melvin Reese
Fred Weller
Weller
Widow to keep Medal of Honor widow benefits
The Pentagon clarified that Shirley Jean Bellrichard, widow of a slain Medal of Honor recipient, may retain survivor benefits while enlisting in the Army. Her survivor payments of about 350 to 400 dollars monthly are not forfeited by her new enlistment, except if she remarries.
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Washington
Pentagon
Santa Clara
Calif
Shirley Jean R Bellrichard
Army to try two more in My Lai massacre case
Army orders Pvt. Gerald A. Smith of Chicago and Sgt. Esequiel Torres of Brownsville to stand trial by general courts martial for murder in the 1968 My Lai killings. Each faces life imprisonment if convicted. Both were stationed at Ft. McPherson Atlanta. they join 120 soldiers charged in the raid that left multiple Vietnamese dead and injured.
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Atlanta
Army
My Lai
Gerald A. Smith
Chicago
Esequiel Torres
Brownsville
Smith
Torres
Ft. McPherson
Ab ‘Lanta
U.S
South Viettnamese
Ft. Benning
Mitchell
iCalley
Tal
Ft. Hood
Tex
A& Grand Jury
Ernest J. Medina
Pico Rivera
Capif
Eugene M. Kotwuc
Milford
Neb. S
Kenneth ‘L. Hodges
Dublin
Charles FE
Hiate
Tallulah
Kenneth Schiel
Swartz Creek
Mich
Wiliam F. Doherty
Readeville
Mass
Robert W. T.souvas
San Jose
Calif
Pyt
Max
Hirtson
Attica
Ind
Rites Set for Canton Broadcaster Dr. E. M. Mortenson
Funeral services will be held Sunday for Dr. E. M. Mortenson of Canton president of the Christian Broadcasting Association Inc He died Thursday from a heart attack The Christian Broadcasting Inc operates WTOF Canton and WHKK Erlanger Ky.
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Canton
Ghia
E. M. Mortenson
The
Christian Broadcasting Association, Inc
Christian Broadcasting Ince
WTOF
WHKK
Erlanger
Seven Die In Grain Elevator Collapse In Iowa
Seven workers were killed when a concrete and steel roof collapsed at a grain elevator project in Albert City Iowa. Two others were injured as scaffolding failed during roof concrete pouring at the Farmers Cooperative Elevator.
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Albert City
Iowa
UPI
Al Capp Eyes Senate Run Against Ted Kennedy
Cartoonist Al Capp said hordes talked to him about running against Sen. Edward Kennedy in the November election. He noted interest from New York figures and discussed possible paths through the Massachusetts GOP process while maintaining homes in Cambridge and New York.
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Boston
al ‘Capp
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Capp
New York
Senate
Washington
Teddy Kennedy
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Thanom
van Vien
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da Nang
Go Dau Ha
Fishhook
U.S. 1st/Air Cavalry Division
Fishpias
Vitaly Sevastyanov
Soyuz
Andriyan Nikolayev
Karaganda
Kazahastan Steppes
Tass
Sihanouk
Peking
Commerce
Davis
Department of Commerce
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Leon Panetta
Civil Rights
Sec
Robert H. Finch
James E. Allen
Stanley Yolles
National Institute of Mental Health
Department
International Business
Machines
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Robert F. Kennedy
Spiro T. Agnew
Renton
Wash
Army States
Rites
Plunge
Ted Kennedy
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