Calgary F-27 Crash: No Fatalities Reported
A West Coast Airlines F-27 crashed in a Calgary area pasture after skimming power poles. Twelve passengers and three crew survived with no serious injuries. Passengers and crew, including Captain Daniel Wells, received hospital treatment. investigation by Transport Department officials followed the Sunday crash.
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McCall Airfield
West Coast Airlines
William Cohen
Portland
Transport Department
Weather Office
Earl Elston
Missoula
Mont
William Ray
Joan
Palo Alto
Calif
Dorothy Jeffry
Eugene
Ore
James Hilliard
Spokane
Donna Pearson
Cynthia Hunt
Grace Pearce
Colfax
Sask
Anatole Rasum
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Blast Kills Thieves in Butte Explosion
In Butte Montana an explosion from a load of stolen dynamite damaged the area and killed unknown suspects. Sheriff Bill Dalling reports confusion and secrecy hinder details while deputies nearby escaped injury. Early word suggested up to five could be dead and a deputy fired at least one shot before the blast.
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Butte
Mont
Bill Dalling
Dalling
Ken Cunningham
Cunningham
Dynamite Stolen Near Montreal in Laurentian Foothills
Quebec police report 6000 sticks of dynamite vanished from a highway construction shack 32 miles north of Montreal in the Laurentians. The break in occurred over the weekend and a manhunt is under way. The case follows recent FLQ activity linked to a St Lawrence Seaway bridge blast and ongoing trials in Montreal.
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Que
Quebec
Montreal
Laurentian
St. Lawrence Seaway
FLQ
Front de Liberations Quebecois
South African plane grounded in Niamey airfield
Niamey authorities hold a South African aircraft after a forced landing on the Niamey Airfield Sunday night. In Amherst a biologist warns extended use of antibiotics may retard human growth. In Washington the Soviet ambassador delivered Khrushchev's appreciation to Kennedy for the test ban treaty. Canada reports 44 weekend deaths including 30 highway fatalities.
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Niger Republic
West African Republic
Amherst, Mass
Washington
Anatoly F. Drobynin
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Rescue Drill Reaches Mine Plug for Trapped Miners
In Hazleton Pennsylvania rescue teams reach the concrete plug at the bottom of the escape hole for miners Henry Throne and David Fellin after a 13 day entrapment. Fellin reports a plastic object seen as drilling proceeds and both men await surface transfer in a specially designed capsule while progress continues toward the two thirds mark of the shaft.
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Hazleton
Henry Throne
David Fellin
Fellin
Gordon Smith
Smith
Throne
Hank
D-Day Nervousness as Civil Rights March Looms in Washington
Washington braces for a possible 100000 to 200000 marcher presence for the protest along Constitution and Independence avenues. Police plan for orderly, determined crowds while extremists and a potential rail strike threaten disruption and tension.
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Constitution
Independence
George Lincoln Rockwell
American Nazi Party
Medical staff increased to cope with Sons hunger strike
Mountain Prison added six staff members as the Sons of Freedom Doukhobor prisoners press hunger strike. The Canadian Army supplied a doctor nurse and four orderlies joining a doctor, nurse and three orderlies already aiding the 34day protest. Five Freedomites have been hospitalized and one died since the strike began. A human rights committee group sought to mediate with over 500 Freedomites who camped in the area and received a telegram from Stefan Sorokin urging prisoners to resume eating.
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B.C
Mountain Prison
Sons of Freedom
MacLeod
The
Human Rights Committee
Freedomites
Vancouver
Stefan Sorokin
Uruguay
Freedomite
Soldier Killed In Exchange In Jerusalem Border Clash
Premier Levi Eshkol told parliament that Israel would take steps to defend itself if peace does not return along the Syrian border. He noted the sharp exchange of fire between Israeli and Jordanian forces in Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier was reported killed and Jordan claimed shells hit densely populated areas of the city.
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Ap-Reuters Jerusalem
Levi Eshkol
Israel
Sunay
Jordan
Nehru Renews Fight Within Congress amid resignations
In New Delhi Prime Minister Nehru shifts power inside the Congress Party to curb factional fighting and corruption concerns as about a dozen cabinet and state leaders resign to devote full time to party work. Some resignations were given reluctantly amid calls for revitalization.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
Congress Party
Lodge Diem meet in wake of riot in Saigon
U S ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge met South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem after a massive student revolt quelled by police and troops. They exchanged pleasantries in a 12 minute ceremony and postponed hard talks on the Viet Nam crisis. Police arrested thousands of students and wounded several. A 17 year old girl was reported killed.
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Saigon
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Ngo Dinh Diem
Lodge
Diem
Viet Nam
University of Saigon
Canada weighs scrapping Bobcat armored personnel carrier
Ottawa reports the Canadian Army may scrap the Bobcat after a decade of development and high costs. Five hundred amphibious Bobcats were planned for deployment in Europe, but 20 prototypes remain undelivered and trials delayed. NATO pressure on mechanization raises urgency to replace or retool with the American M 113 option.
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Ottawa
Army
Defence
Harkness
Europe
NATO
Geoffrey Walsh
Canada
Racing Driver Suspected In Great Train Robbery Case
Scotland Yard probes whether Roy John James known as the weasel is disguising as a priest after a fast Goodwood practice lap. Police seek 17 suspects including Bruce Reynolds and James White as they pursue leads from the Glasgow mail train robbery.
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London
Scotland Yard
Roy John James
James
Goodwood
Glasgow
Bruce Reynolds
James White
Khrushchev Tito Hold Talks on Brioni Island
Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Yugoslav President Tito continued informal policy talks at Tito’s Brioni home. Khrushchev arrives on Brioni for a two week stay aboard Tito’s yacht and discusses Comecon ties and Yugoslavia’s role in socialist division of labor amid a yacht trip to nearby islands.
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Yugoslavia
Reuters
Khrushchev
Josip Tito
Adriatic
Brioni
Tito
Vanga
Tanjug
Nina
Comecon
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