Quake Toll Feared High as Turkish City Ruins
A strong earthquake struck eastern Turkey causing widespread destruction in Bingol and surrounding towns. Officials fear hundreds dead and about 2,000 injured with Bingol city reported in ruins including its prison and hospital.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Bingol
Bingig
Elavic
Erzerum
Anatolian
Gene
Ankara
Kigi
Erzincan
Tunceli
Mus
Tatvan
Diarbakir
Sim
Ellazig
Malatwa
Lineni
Kandilli
Burdur
Elazig
Eighth Army Corps
Girl Who Started On Dope
Six years of drug addiction began with pep pills at age 15 in high school and progressed to marijuana speed and heroin. The account frames the descent as a life of agony, the struggle to break free, and the danger of relapse while urging a strong will to resist future use.
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Nothe
Enliese
Dinter
Officers Shot in Back in Harlem Slaying
Scores of investigators searched Harlem streets Saturday for the gunmen who killed two patrolmen. Police expressed anger and bafflement over the attack as probes continued.
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Associated Press
New York
Harlem
Two Officers Slain as City Police Face Surging Violence
In Lubbock area news, EX-ASTRONAUT Frank Borman pilots Lockheed Tristar and hails it a real winner on Page 2. A second police shooting in three days leads Police Commissioner Patrick Vo Murphy to order support units with patrols. The slain officers were shot from behind after responding to a call, while witnesses and officers debate gun access amid growing unrest.
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Frank Borman
Lockheed
Patrick Vo Murphy
Murphy
Harlem
West 135Th Street
Ron Thompson
State
Pig Police
Black Liberation Army
See Police
Soviet to Put TU144 Into Service This Year
Soviet Civil Aviation Minister Boris Bugayev says the TU144 supersonic airliner will enter service in 1971. The move would give the USSR a victory in the supersonic race over the Anglo-French Concorde and the American SST program.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Boris Bugayev
Russia
Prayer Teaching Wisdom Through Good Works
A reader's devotional note asks for guidance to apply hearts unto wisdom. It urges following God by being good for something and living righteously.
Ancient Mexican garb on display at Texas Tech Museum
Visitors view life sized mannequins from the Amon Carter Museum in a Cordry Collection exhibit at the Texas Tech Museum. The display recreates an ancient market scene with Indians grinding metates, patting tortillas, weaving and trading goods as modern materials encroach.
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Market Place
Texas Tech
Cordry
Johnson Library Dedication Highlights LBJ Era Records
Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson unveiled the LBJ Library containing about 31 million documents spanning 40 years of his public life. President Nixon and other dignitaries attended the dedication on the University of Texas campus as the library opens to the public amid praise for its comprehensive archive.
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Associated Press
Austin
Lyndon Baines Johnson
the Nation
LBJ
Nixon
Johnson
Ninveal
United States
U.S
University of Texas
Eisenhower
OFF CANADA Blast On Ship Kills Crewmen
Radio messages from the stricken Norwegian cruise ship Me teor indicate more than a dozen crewmen died as explosion and fire ripped through the forward section while steaming through the Strait of Georgia. All 70 passengers aboard were rescued, 66 of them by the Alaska state ferry Malaspina, with Coast Guard officials unsure of the death toll.
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Vancouver
B.C. Cap
Strait of Georgia
Canadian Coast Guard
Alaska
Malaspina
Coast Guard
Veteran says after tour Vietnam duty not all bad
Joe Rexroat of Lubbock returned home after a one month Vietnam tour assigned to Ft Hood on June 15 He served as an aviation crew chief on Huey helicopters at Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border He says few company casualties and that mechanical failures caused crashes He recalls being shot at but notes most missions were routine and the danger was not as severe as others claim
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Avalanche-Journal
Joe Rexroat
Lubbock
Vietnam
Rexroat
T. L. Rexroat
Ave. V
Ft. Hood
Tay Ninh
Cambodia
New Idea Eyed For Earthquakes
A UC report urged a federal lead on earthquake hazard preparation and post disaster repair. It criticized cities and counties for inadequate programs and said the government should take charge to improve future quake readiness.
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Berkeley
Calif
UPI
University of California
Texas Legislature Weekend Session Ends Amid Busy Lawmaking
In Austin legislators push to finish work on bills before the May 31 deadline. Senators approved 79 bills in a one hour session then attended the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library dedication. The House endured a long overnight session and resumed debate into Saturday afternoon. A conference committee met for hours on appropriations.
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Austin
Texas
Lyndon JB. Johnson
House
Ldman House-Senate Conference Committee
Shellings Persist On DMZ Amid Air Strikes And Attacks
U S Air Force F105s attacked North Vietnamese anti aircraft batteries in two raids, firing three radar seeking missiles during protective reaction strikes. Meanwhile DMZ border bases faced renewed shelling with dozens of rockets and mortars reported Saturday night. South Vietnamese forces reported heavy fighting on ridges near A Shank Valley and A Luoi, with 45 guerrillas killed and arms captured.
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U.S
Dmz
Charley 2
Alpha 4
U.S. 178Rd Airborne Brigade
Bone Sea
Central Highlands
Vietnam
A Shan
Saigon
A Luoi
City seniors choose life theme for graduation sermon
The 1848 graduating seniors from five public high schools will attend a 2 pm graduation sermon at Municipal Coliseum. Christ the King High School also holds graduation for 19 seniors with Rev. Sam W B Laine delivering the sermon on the topic Choosing Life. A parochial service follows at Christ the King Church with Bishop Lawrence M DeFalco presiding. A massed choir and orchestra perform during the convocation.
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Lawrence M. DeFalco
Amarillo
Christ the King Church
James Ef. Fitzgerald
Christ the King
Christ’ S the King Catholic Church
Weather listing for Lubbock area and Southwest
Lubbock and vicinity mostly fair and cooler through Monday with a high in the 60s and a low in the 50s. Winds westerly 15 to 25 mph and gusty afternoon. City plains Abilene El Paso Albuquerque Hobbs Amarillo Houston Oklahoma City Denver Dallas Fort Worth show varied highs around 64 to 88 and lows near 48 to 70 with humidity around 4 to 23 percent.
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Lubbock
Plains City
Pal Abilene
el Paso
Albuntroque
Hobbs
Amarillo
Houston
Hialhaes
Okla
Denver
W. Falla
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Mexico
Gerry Burton
Amon Carter Museum
Off
Canada
By Sam Fletcher
The
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U.S. Air Force
North Vietnam
Laos
South Vietnam
By Rose Usby
MHS
C. Jroy Wilson
Lubbock High School
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