Beaten And Paraded Naked Sister Tells Tale Of Congo Horror
Sister Anne Marie Merkins recounts weeks of terror in the Congo as rebels seized power. She describes beatings and forced naked parades, the kidnapping of schoolgirls, looting of supplies, and her eventual capture with another nun before transport toward an uncertain fate. She arrived in Brussels to share her account.
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Sister
Congo
Anne-Marie Merkins
Hoensbroek
Holland
Brussels
Anne-Marie Merkens
Associated Press
Belgium
Bondamba
Stanleyville
Nuns and priests held by simbas in Basoko prison
During a weeklong ordeal in the Congo villagers swarmed the car, shouting Yankees at the travelers. In Basoko the group was taken by simbas to a prison house, stripped, robbed of money and sacred items, and subjected to brutal beating and humiliation.
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Bagoko
Conigo
Basoko
Viet Nam Vet May Get Honor Medal
Captain Roger Hugh Donlon 30 of Saugerties New York a Viet Nam veteran is described as the first to be recommended for the Medal of Honor. He was twice wounded during a July 6 Viet Cong assault on a jungle outpost near Ft Bragg and continued to move under fire until warned he could die from blood loss.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Viet Nam
Roger Hugh Donlon
Saugerties
N.Y
Julian M. Olejniczak
Army
Special Forces Center
Donlon
Olejniczak
Simultaneous assault by simba commander forces on detainees
The report describes rebels forcing detainees to sit, then attacking them with rifles and clubs as Congolese youths jeered from the roadside. Blood flowed as the simba commander ordered the beating to stop, leaving the narrator with a head wound and numerous bruises.
Nam Dong battle edits name of Americans in heavy fighting
Olejniczak, executive officer at Nam Dong camp, recounts the heaviest action near a mortar pit where Spec. 5 Michael Disser and Sgt. Gabriel Alamo were killed. Capt. Donlon and two US advisors returned to the pits to attempt aid as Viet Cong attacked. Sgt. John Houston was also killed. he later was wounded while recovering a radio and directing planes.
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Rillas
Olejniczak
Nam Dong
Gabriel Alamo
Michael Disser
Alamo
Donlon
Disser
John Houston
Frederick Lawyer’s Former Home Sold to Offutt Firm
Attorney W. Jerome Offutt purchased the residence at 22 W Second St formerly occupied by Leo Weinberg a Frederick lawyer of the 1920s Elaine C Cook sold the property to Offutt Building Inc Frederick Transfer stamps show about 35000 The building undergoes renovation to house four or more law offices and is to open around year’s end or early next year.
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Leo Weinberg
Frederick
W. Jerome Offutt
Second St
Elaine C. Cook
Offutt Building, Inc
Offutt
West Second Street
Hot Point
Alvin Gehr Quinn
Marguerite E. Quinn
Orphans Court
Maryland
Charles C. Quinn
Emmert R. Bowlus
Amos A. Holter
Urbana
Frederick County
Circuit Court
Edward Charles Sears
Court House
Frederick City
Greenfield
Sears Road
Park Mills Road
Greenfield Mills
Barnesville
Harry C. Hull
Edward €. Sears
Edward C. Sears
Evelyn A. Stone
Harry M. Talbott
Irene Talbott
Board of Education
Fifth Graders To Hear Talks On Smoking
The Maryland Committee on Smoking and Youth urged an anti smoking education program in public schools starting at fifth grade. The plan aims to expand through higher grades and to encourage teachers to keep tobacco use out of sight on campuses. Recommendations were presented to state superintendent James Sensenbaugh.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Maryland Committee On Smoking and
State Health Department
Department of Education
James Sensenbaugh
Health officials urge school smoking policy and health stance
A coalition of State Health Department and Department of Education officials along with private cancer, heart and tuberculosis groups seeks a department statement on smoking and health. They endorse studies linking smoking to lung cancer and other diseases and cite APHA projections that over a million school-age children could die of lung cancer if trends continue.
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Sensenbaugh
Department
American Public Health Association
State Health Department
Department of Education
Former editor dies in Indiana and Milwaukee figure obituary
In La Porte Indiana Dr Edward A Rumely 82 former editor and publisher of the New Beds Evening Mail died Thursday of cancer In Milwaukee Mary Hilaria 77 former commissary general of the School Sisters of Notre Dame died Friday of cancer
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LA Porte
Ind
Edward A. Rumely
The
New Beds Evening Mail
Thursay
Milwaukee
Mary Hilaria
School
Sisters of Notre Dame
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