Red China claims embassy raid by Soviets
The Chinese Embassy reports 31 staff members were beaten during a Soviet raid on the embassy including three women. Beijing calls the incident barbaric and fascist.
04 Feb 1967
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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1967
Page
1
The Chinese Embassy reports 31 staff members were beaten during a Soviet raid on the embassy including three women. Beijing calls the incident barbaric and fascist.
Walter Reuther aims to pull the United Auto Workers from AFL-CIO with April as a possible withdrawal. Reuther quit as AFL-CIO vice president but may resign the union from the federation, threatening a major split in the labor movement.
Investigators say three Apollo astronauts died from smoke inhalation after reporting a fire during a test countdown at Cape Kennedy. The NASA report cites a nine second window with a rapid rise in cabin temperature and pressure as the crew began emergency egress procedures.
A frozen elephant, kept in a cold storage facility since its death in 1962, is set for auction Monday amid a stalled legal action against the dealer who sold it to circus operator Stan Kramien. Plant staffer Roi Mercereau notes $50 in storage fees and little interest from potential buyers.
Explosions and fire damaged a large U S Army ammunition depot at Long Binh 14 miles north of Saigon. Two American servicemen were wounded. The Long Binh site had been struck previously on three dates in the past three months.
The four surviving Brooklyn quintuplets from Hildarene Harris are reported doing fine on the eve of the mother’s 32nd birthday after being born at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital. The babies, born to Lionel Harris, include a boy and three girls with one girl still on intravenous feed. the fifth was still-born.
Four tired but jubilant Americans shouted Freiheit as they crossed into West Berlin after release from prison in Communist East Germany. The group included Mary Hellen Battle, 26, from Oak Ridge Tennessee, and others whose names and origins followed in later lines.
Washington reports Vladi mir Kazan-Komarek an American travel agent convicted in a Czech court of attempted overthrow of the government and espionage has been released and flies to the United States. He served part of an eight year sentence before release.
A Chicago firm bought 100000 tons of World War II era radioactive dirt in Clayton Missouri for 880000 dollars. The material contains uranium and metals but no clear plan exists for extracting minerals. The sale covered Continental Mining and Milling Co assets including buildings and land after foreclosure.
The forecast shows a cold weekend with morning low around 20s and daytime temperatures in the 20s. Cloudy conditions expected on Sunday with no snow forecast.
Four executives of Jacob Schilachter's Sons Co. face a federal trial after an 18 count indictment alleging the wholesale meat firm sold low grade beef to Wright Patterson and Lockbourne bases. William H. Remke and three relatives are named along with sales manager Frank V. Boettcher. The charges include false payment claims and use of false grading instruments covering beef delivered between November 1965 and April 1966. The case stems from FBI and Agriculture Department investigations.
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