FDA Moves to Ban Toys Dangerous to Children
The FDA under a 1969 act targets four toys for bans and sets checks on department stores for hazards. Protect-O-Product rattle, Party Pack Five Fringed Balloon Squawkers, Jarts lawn game, and Wasp Cap Gun face removal. Inspections will test toys nationwide after a 15 day comment period.
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Food and Drug Administration
Reliance Products Corp
Woonsocket
R.I
American Party Favors
Pittson
R.B. Jarts, Inc
South Glen Falls
N.Y
Ohio Art Co
Bryan
Ohio
FDA
Toll From Bay Of Bengal Wave and Violent Storms
Reports from Hatia island near Bangladesh describe devastation after a tidal wave and a four hour cyclone. Official death counts are uncertain with local magistrates claiming thousands. Pakistan coastal witnesses report 3530 bodies along eight miles and communications remain down across 250 miles of coastline.
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Island
Hatia
Bay of Bengal
Pakistan
Attacks Rise in Hue Area as U.S. Losses Grow
North Vietnamese forces stepped up activity in South Vietnam with two Hue area attacks killing eight Americans and wounding 49, plus four killed and 24 wounded along the northern coast near Da Nang. In a separate ambush near Firebase O'Reilly, 101st Airborne units repulsed an attack that left two Americans dead and 15 wounded. Cambodian defenses held after a mortar and ground assault on Kompong Cham's airport.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Hue
da Nang
101St Airborne Division
O'Reilly
Laos
Cambodia
Kompong Cham
Military Takes Over In Syria
Damascus reports a quiet midnight coup d etat as Defense Minister Gen. Hafez al Assad seizes control from a Marxist civilian government. Most citizens near the capital remain unaware of the upheaval.
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Syria
Damascus
Hafez al Assad
14 Hurt In Oil Rig Explosion
An offshore Humble Oil platform 27 miles in the Gulf of Mexico exploded Friday night injuring 14 workers. A Humble spokesman said no fire occurred and subsurface safety valves debate tied to 33 Gulf platforms is separate. Two injured were critical. others ranged from good to unknown.
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New Orleans
Humble Oil Co
Gulf of Mexico
Humble
Gulf
Raceland
California Blazing Once More
A football shaped fire 20 miles wide burned in brush near San Bernardino forcing about 2,000 people from four towns and a Indian reservation. The blazes, caused by extreme winds, scorched over 36,000 acres and destroyed three homes a construction site and a fire truck.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Tip
Here
California
Bear Creek
Fredalba
Smiley Park
Running Springs
San Manuel
Highland
Los Angeles
San Bernardino National Forest
San Bernardino County
Cucamonga
ABC Cancels Six Shows and Reshuffles January Lineup
New York AP reports ABC will cancel six fall shows and replace them with four new ones in January to trim hours by about 2 percent. Changes aim to boost fall competitiveness amid FCC prime time hour reductions.
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New York
ABC
Federal Communications Commission
Pearl Bailey
Henry Fonda
Pete Duel
Ben Murphy
Young Rebels
Silent Force
Mattincoln
Tom Jones
Will Ap
Dan August
Danny Thomas
Weekend Weather Forecast for Southwestern Ohio
Miserable weather is the outlook for southwestern Ohio this weekend. Rain is forecast tonight and intermittently tomorrow with a chance of wet snow mixed in. Lows around 35 tonight and highs near 40 Sunday.
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Ohio
Senator Tydings Cleared After Election Loss
The State Department cleared Senator Joseph D. Tydings of wrongdoing in a 1954 65 Nicaragua housing project ten days after his defeat for re election. The inspector general found no evidence that Tydings Bridston or developer Raymond K Mason misused influence in the project.
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Washington
Joseph D. Tydings
State Department
Maryland Democrat
Tydings
Capitol Hill
Maryland
Scott Heller Jr
State Department Inspector General For Foreign Affairs
Paul J. Bridston
Agency For International Development
Raymond K. Mason
West Germany and Poland draft postwar normalization treaty
West Germany and Poland draft a treaty to end the 21 year break in ties begun by Nazi Germany's 1939 invasion. Foreign Ministers Scheel and Jedrychowski to initial and sign. Bonn likely recognizes Poland's western frontier at the Oder and Neisse rivers, ending decades of nonrecognition.
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Warsaw
West Germany
Poland
Bonn
Walter Scheel
Stefan Jedrychows
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Salah Jadid
Syrian Baath Party
Jadid
Atassi
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Air Force
Mustafa Tlas
Ming
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
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Willy Brandt
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Ruediger von Wechmar
Derstood
Oder
Neisse
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