Blast injures twelve at Marietta Union Carbide plant
A chemical reaction in an epoxy resin unit caused a runaway pressure led to a tank rupture. Twelve workers were injured, one critical and four serious, as a vat hurled debris 400 feet toward the Ohio River. Most workers were in the emergency squad spraying water to control the reaction.
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Marietta, Ohio
Union Carbide Corp. Plastics and Chemicals
David Lewis
Belpre
Lewis
Parkersburg
W. Va
Riverview
Marie‘ia
Ohio
Sheriff's Deputies
Ohio 7
Union Carbide
Middletown Area Weather Outlook Turns Colder This Weekend
No more rain in sight for Middletown and the valley area. Increasing cloudiness and colder tonight with lows in the upper 20s to 30s. Saturday will bring little temperature change. Outlook for Sunday is clear and cold.
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Middletown
Train Crash Kills 31 in Korea Snowstorm Collision
AP reports 31 dead and 77 injured as two passenger trains collide near Chonan 60 miles south of Seoul during a heavy snowstorm. Officials say it is South Korea’s worst railway disaster with about 300 passengers stranded on six buses along a snowbound mountain road.
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Seoul
South Korea
Pusan
Chonan
Chuckle You have to hand it to the Venus de Milo
A lighthearted quip about the Venus de Milo, praising her resourcefulness with a pun on starve and hand.
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Venus de Milo
Nixon seeks end of draft as crime drive expands
President Nixon asks Defense Secretary Laird to form a commission to draft a plan ending conscription amid a broader crime push in Washington. The White House outlined steps for more police, judges, and prosecutors, plus a push for a volunteer army and cost offsets in training.
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Washington
Nixon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
White House
Congress
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Atty
John Mitchell
Laird
Vietnam
Middle East moves loom as Nasser dialogue follows Brezhnev message
The Soviet leadership sent a Brezhnev letter to President Nasser via Alexander Shelepin amid Middle East crisis talks. Al Ahram warned Nixon against Johnson era policies as U.S.-Soviet tensions mount. In Beirut, Rashid Karami’s government won a 60 to 30 confidence vote, ending a month of turmoil after the airport raid. An Israeli court jailed six Al Fatah saboteurs for 25 to 40 years. Haaretz notes 300 to 500 saboteurs linked to Syria operate on the Lebanese frontier.
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Associated Press
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Middle East
Cial
Cairo
al Ahram
Washington
Nixon
Johnson
Muhammed Hassanein Keikal
Nasser
Beirut
Rashid Karami
Israel
Inel Aviv
al Fatah
Jordan
Soviet Officer Fires At Kremlin Parade Cosmonauts
A Soviet Army lieutenant wearing a policeman’s uniform fired at a motorcade carrying government leaders and cosmonauts near the Kremlin Borovitsky Gate on January 22, then died after taking poison. He had left his post in Leningrad on January 20, borrowed a militia uniform to observe the parade, and was subdued by Kremlin guards. Authorities have not disclosed a motive or whether others were involved.
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Washington
Washington Post
Moscow
Anatole Shub
Ilyin
Leningrad
Kremlin
Borovitsky
Plane hijacked to Cuba diverts from Louisiana coast
National Airlines DC8 with 63 aboard was seized off Louisiana by a gunman and flown to Havana. Flight 44 from San Francisco to Miami with Tampa stop landed in Havana at 6:58 a.m. EST. Pilot Capt Leeds told Houston control I am diverting to Havana.
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Miami
Fla
National Airlines
Louisiana
Cuba
San Francisco
Tampa
Havana
C. Leeds
Houston
Huge North Vietnamese Base Found Northwest of Saigon
U S air cavalrymen uncovered a vast North Vietnamese base about 53 miles northwest of Saigon in War Zone C. The four square mile site reportedly housed 750 to 1 000 bunkers, a large underground hospital, dining halls, a bicycle shop, and a command post as forces suspected preparations for a winter spring offensive.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Henry
Merron
Peace Talks Deadlocked After Long Session
Paris AP reports the Vietnam peace talks stalled after seven hours in the longest session since talks began last May. Four delegations blamed each other over basic approaches and agreed to meet again next Thursday as public rhetoric continued.
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Paris
Vietnam
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