U S fighter bombers hit explosives plant near Hanoi
U S Air Force Thunderchiefs blasted an explosives plant 55 miles northwest of Hanoi, dropping 33 tons on Lang Chi plant. The strike damaged several buildings as ground action in South Vietnam remained light, while Viet Cong guerrillas faced heavy attacks elsewhere. Route 19 clearing troops reached Pleiku before withdrawal was signaled. In Saigon, 39 draftees feared drowned during a naval training camp protest, signaling growing draft unrest as recruitment strains mount for both sides.
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Sai
Tuesday vote for Alec's successor in Conservative race
London reports The Daily Express says a powerfully backed campaign aims to force a deadlock among Heath Maudling Powell Thorneycroft Hogg as contenders for the Conservative leadership following Sir Alec Douglas-Home's resignation. The Times notes Quintin Hogg may join if backing grows.
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Tween
Conservative Party
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House of Commons
Alec
Edward Heath
Reginald Mandling
the Express
Enoch Powell
Defence
Peter Thorneycroft
Heath
Maudling
Powell
Thorneycroft
the Times
Quintin Hogg
Lord Hailsham
$103000 in gold disappears between San Salvador and Miami
Three bars of gold bullion worth 103060 dollars vanished June 19 while en route from Managua to Montreal via San Salvador and Miami. PAA employees at Miami International Airport were under scrutiny as agents investigated the cargo handling area and questioned staff. The shipment was to go from San Salvador to Miami then to Montreal destined for Canadian Copper Refineries. Fred Frodbose, Miami FBI district head, said agents were extensively questioning PAA employees.
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Fla
Montreal
San Salvador
Pan American Airways
PAA
Miami International
Managua
Nicaragua
San Salador
Fred Frodbose
FBI
Mail strike spreads to Medicine Hat weekend
Embargo on all but first class mail starts in Medicine Hat with restrictions across classes two to four. Montreal mail held. second class limited to Canada. third class not accepted. fourth class delivery within Canada. Officials warn full impact will show early next week as Vancouver mail declines.
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Twin City
Eastern
B.C
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Canada
Quebec
Ontario
Montreal
Jim Wallace
Vancouver
Necklace Swallowed by Suspect in Japanese Jewelry Theft
In Fukuoka a 20-year-old waitress allegedly swallowed a $30 gold neck lace during a jeweler visit with two friends. After two hours of questioning one girl confessed the other had swallowed the necklace. an X ray confirmed the incident.
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Tokyo
Reuters
Fukuoka
Return to Work Plea Issued By Ontario Judge
Canadian postal workers face widespread strikes weekend as 10,000 walkouts spread across 70 centers in British Columbia Ontario and Quebec. Judge Jacob Carroll Anderson urged a return to work to allow review of civil service pay. union leaders pledge to ignore the appeal while demanding higher raises.
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Canada
Postal Workers Brotherhood
Ottawa
British Columbia
Quebec
Montreal
Vancouver
Jacob Carroll Anderson
Belleville
Ont
Toronto
Alex Powers
Bill Kay
Posetal Employees Association
Kay
Anderson
Plane lands wheels-up after pine grove crash in Williamsport
Allegheny Airlines Flight 601 from Pittsburgh to Newark crash lands in a wooded clearing near the Church of the Good Shepherd in Williamsport. Pilot Allen Lauber, 36, survives with injuries after guiding the Convair 440 through trees. 40 aboard hospitalized, 33 later admitted, 7 released. Co-pilot James McClure and hostess Barbara Ann Creske helped save passengers. Six years earlier a similar Bald Eagle Mountain crash killed 25.
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Allegheny Airlines
Allen Lauber
Philadelphia
Lauber
George H. Parke Jr
Church of the Good Shepherd
Donald Brody
James Mc‘Clure
Barbara Ann Creske
MissCreske
Pittsburgh
Dubois
Philipsburg
Newark
Bald Eagle Mountain
Here
Rivard in Harris County jail linked to $58 million drug case
Lu c i en Rivard a former Montreal resort owner awaits developments in Harris County jail. He faces extradition and a $58,000,000 narcotics case tied to the largest heroin seizure on the Mexican border. Rivard fled Canada, was recaptured, and extradited as U S authorities press to move him to Laredo for trial.
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Houston, Tex
Lucien Rivard
Montreal
Harris County
Rivard
Canada
Laredo
Tex
U.S. District Court
United States
Pierre Lamontagne
Raymond Denis
Denis
Bordeaux
Briton warns of nuclear spread and risks
Britain's disarmament minister Lord Chalfont urges urgent international action to curb the rise of at least five new nuclear powers in coming years. He notes many countries already possess atomic capability and warns that unchecked spread endangers mankind.
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Canada
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Israel
Pakistan
West Germany
Sweden
United Arab Republic
Brazil
Switzerland
Italy
Japan
Indonesia
Sukarno
Five-year sentence for Soviet-convicted teacher
Gerald Brooke, a 28 year old British teacher, was convicted of anti Soviet activity by a Soviet civilian court. He received a five year sentence with one year in prison and four in a labor camp and has seven days to appeal to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The trial noted his admission to distributing propaganda for the Popular Labor Alliance.
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Gerald Brooke
Brooke
Supreme Court
Russian Federation
Nikolai Barovik
London
Popular Labor Alliance
Frankfurt
West Germany
NTS
Gennady Terekhov
Interheegre
STS
Terekhov
Paris
Soviet Union
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Anthony Bishop
Bishop
Wildcat steel strike ends with a sour note
In Valleyfield Quebec about 300 United Steelworkers ended an eight day wildcat strike at Canadian Electrolytic Zinc a Noranda Mines subsidiary. The protest targeted an English speaking foreman over treatment of French speaking workers and linked briefly to Quebec separatist politics. Brought by separatist speakers from Montreal the event faced police limits on political references. Twenty alleged leaders were suspended while strikes returned to work after a union meeting.
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Valleyfield
Que
United Steelworkers of America
CSC
Rassemblement Pour l'Independance Nationale
Quebec
Noranda Mines
Foronto
RIN
Pierre Bourseul
Montreal
Ding
Pierre Vallieres
Parti Pris
REN
Fenglish
Boeat
Charles Bouchard
Lesa
the. Steelworkers
Ean Gerinbatore
Rinateaders
Sus
Hatch faces 3 more charges in CFA case plea
Lethbridge man Hatch, 43, now in Riverside, Calif., was ordered to stand trial in Alberta Supreme Court on three of ten charges tied to the CFA bankruptcy. Bail set at 310,000. A judicial inquiry traced an 844,000 deficit prompting the probe. Prosecutors say Hatch thefts include 2,450 86,996 and 3,000 from the Feeders Association, with earlier counts alleging 4,000 theft and misrepresented accounts. Defense calls the 844,000 figure unfounded and civilly limited to 24,000. Preliminary hearing resumes Monday.
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Lethbridge
Stuart W. Hateh
Lethbridge Central Feeders Association
CFA
Hatch
Riverside
Calif
Alberta Supreme Court
Neil MacLean
Co-Op
Kenneth W. McLean
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Hateh
Feeders Association
Bank of Commerce
Rhee to have private funeral after cabinet vote
Seoul Reuters The South Korean cabinet reversed an earlier plan and approved a private funeral service for former president Syngman Rhee who died Monday in Hawaii at 96 The cabinet had proposed a peoples funeral next highest to a state funeral but Rhee s adopted son In Soo Rhee told a government committee his father wanted a simple service
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Seoul
Reuters
Syngman Rhee
Hawaii
Rhee
In-Soo Rhee
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Wildcat Steel
Max Moscoviteh
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