U S Transport Plane Crashes at Clark Air Base
A four engine C-135 of the Military Air Transport Service crashed near the Clark runway in rain, killing 73 of 83 aboard and injuring three in a taxi. The plane had flown from Travis AFB via Hickam Field and Manila's Clark is a shuttle hub for South Vietnam support.
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U.S
Viet Nam
Clark
Travis Air Force Base
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Hickam Field
Hawaii
Military Air Transport Service
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Guantanamo
U.S. 5Th Air Force
Japan
Air Force
Army
Navy
Clark Air Base
U.S. Air Force
Southeast Asia
13Th Air Force
South Viet Nam
44Th Air Transport Squadron
Pacific
Philippines
Hickam
Arias Leads in Fragmentary Panama Election Returns
Former president Arnulfo Arias takes a slight early lead in Panama's presidential race over government candidate Marco A Robles as ballot counting drags on. Observers note Arias may have the 60 percent margin needed to win in the capital while rural areas favor Robles. turnout is about 300000 of 472000 registered voters.
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Panama City
Arnulfo Arias
Panama
Marco A. Robles
Arias
Robles
Col
Valivar Vallarino
National Guard
Belgian doctors ready to strike on short notice
Belgian doctors unions have prepared to call another strike at short notice if negotiations with the government collapse again. Talks stalled over the new national health insurance law, which would reimburse patients at higher rates with doctors signed to the new rules, drawing strong opposition from medical unions.
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Brussels
Reuters
Social Christians
Khrushchev Backs Arabs Over Jordan River Confrontation
Soviet Premier Khrushchev voiced support for Arab opposition to Israel's planned diversion of Jordan River waters during a speech to the United Arab Republic's National Assembly in Cairo. He urged Israel to withdraw from frontiers, condemned British bases in Cyprus and Aden, and defended arms shipments amid mentions of regional tensions.
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Khrushchev
Jordan River
Israel
United Arab Republic
National Assembly
Rael
Egypt
Jordan
Negev
Cyprus
Aden
Soviet Union
Hoffa Fraud Trial Jury Picked in Look Look Magazine Era
A jury of eight men and four women was chosen in the Hoffa fraud case with seven co defendants. They face a 28 count indictment over alleged conspiracies to obtain 20 million dollars from the Teamsters pension fund and divert one million for personal use. Alternates remain to be selected. Judge Austin ordered isolation in guarded hotels with limited visits. mistrial motions were denied though defenses argued for broader cross section and questioned FBI involvement.
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Chicago
James R. Hoffa
International Teamsters Union
U.S. District Court
Richard B. Austin
Hoffa
Teamsters Union Pension Fund
Austin
Ing
FBI
Teamsters Union
Look Magazine
Medicine Hat Census Shows Growth Yet Sparks Disappointment
The city reports 25 271 Hatters this year up from 25 109 in 1963, the smallest rise yet mayor Harry Weiner calls very disappointing. Red Deer gains ground to No 4 while Alberta cities Edmonton Calgary and Lethbridge remain ahead. About 400 names may be missing from lists, and future enumerations will be more thorough. The census was taken by 13 city enumerators April 21 to May 8.
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Medicine
Weiner
Saskatchewan hog board plebiscite yields tight vote
Unofficial results from 182 Saskatchewan polls show 3,329 in favor and 3,223 against a compulsory hog marketing board, about 51 percent yes. Official results expected May 16 or later. turnout seen far below prior estimates.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Farmers’ Union
Dae van Sickle
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Saskatchewan Livestock Producers Committee
Steuart Thiessen
Saskatoon
SFU
Farmers Union
Thiessen
Rail workers' walkouts end amid court injunctions across lines
A shaky peace returned to US railroads as a federal court injunction halted a Pennsylvania Railroad wildcat strike in Chicago. Firemen struck on NY Central at Mattoon and other lines, then returned after union advisories declared the walkouts unauthorized.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Mattoon
Ill
Congress
U.S. Supreme Court
Alexander Holtzoff
Washington
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Peoria and
Pekin Union Railway
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway
Canadian units to be redeployed in Cyprus Kyrenia Pass
Canadian UN forces in Cyprus will move troops Tuesday and Wednesday to bolster positions in the Kyrenia Pass area north of Nicosia. The 1st Battalion commandant’s post and a reconnaissance squad join the pass, and a company from Finland’s UN contingent will replace them in Nicosia. The shift raises Canadian presence there to 550 from 125 with new small camps and around‑the‑clock posts.
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Nicosia
Canadian United Nations
Cyprus
Kyrenia Pass
Royal 22Nd Regiment
Royal Canadian Dragoons
Here
Royal 22Nd
Kyrenia
C-company
Finland
Crash Probe Focuses on Possible Shot Message
Investigators from the Civil Aeronautics Board and FBI pursue clues into the Pacific Air Lines F-27 crash that killed 44. A garbled radio message sounding like “shot” is under analysis while a revolver found at the wreckage is traced to Frank Gonzalez of San Francisco.
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Concord
Calif
Civil Aeronautics Board
FBI
C.A.B
Pacific Air Lines
Fairchild
Green Hills
Here
Reno
San Francisco
Washington
Rsources
IBI
Frank Gonzalez
Gonzalez
San Francisco Examiner
Kiko
Palm
Jack Carroll
Human Factors Group
Carroll
Oakland
Bell Laboratores Acoustical Centre
New Jersey
Assassination plot fails in Viet Nam
A Viet Cong operation to kill Defence Secretary McNamara failed after a suspect Nguyen Van Troi leaped from a police window and was injured. Police say Troi may have tried to escape as explosives were uncovered and three suspects were rounded up near a river bridge before McNamara and Gen. Taylor met in Saigon.
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Defence
McNamara
Nguyen van Troi
Troi
U.S
Henry Cabot Locge
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Taylor
Washington
West Germany
Bonn
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