Revolt in Laos Ends Premier's Trip Abroad
Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma cut his overseas trip and returned to Vientiane after last week's air force revolt. He said a Bangkok stopover noted a local bombing incident caused by discontented officers. Thai PM Thanom confirmed 11 Lao pilots fled to Thailand seeking refuge, including Air Force chief Brig. Gen. Thao Ma, with planes to be extradited. one plane had crash landed.
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Woodsboro Sets Trick or Treat Hours for Saturday
Woodsboro will permit Halloween trick or treating Saturday from 6 30 to 8 30 p m for children 14 and under who reside in the Woodsboro area. Mayor Carroll Wickless announced the plan last night.
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Spain Bars Cars From Gibraltar
Spain imposes a blockade on Gibraltar with a ban on vehicles and goods from Spain effective Monday night. Britain must supply Gibraltar by air or sea for 25,000 residents, while 9,000 Spaniards who cross daily to work will have to walk. No female workers will be allowed into Gibraltar. Spain demands Britain cease using the airfield for military purposes. Britain says it will continue to use it. The airfield sits in a neutral no man’s land between the territory.
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Bulldozer Kills Operator in Northwest Washington Mall
A bulldozer plummeted through four concrete floors of an underground Northwest Washington construction site, killing operator Edwin Duehring, 24, of La Plata Route 3, and seriously injuring rider James Barnes, 24, of Washington, who suffered multiple fractures and received care at Washington Hospital Center.
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McKeldin backs Negro history in Baltimore schools
Baltimore Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin calls for Negro history to be taught in all grades in city public schools. He avoided specific proposals in a Saturday speech but endorsed the Education Committee's Civil Rights Task Force recommendation.
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Three Die In Weekend Maryland Car Crashes
Three people died in Maryland traffic crashes over the weekend, raising the toll to 588. At Andrews Air Force Base a serviceman, Billy Edward Simpson, 30, reportedly fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a traffic sign. passenger Henry Alford, 35, was injured. Alford, also an Andrews serviceman, was in the West 495 area near Lanham. In a separate collision on U.S. 50 and the Baltimore Washington Expressway, Alonzo Linwood Leath, 31, of Washington, was killed when his car skid after being rear ended and struck a light pole. Marlene Anne Gladden, 28, of Seat Pleasant, was en route and badly injured. In Kingsville, Klaus Reiser, 31, of Fallston, died when his car ran off U.S. 1, struck a telephone booth, and hit a building in Baltimore County.
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Pianist Fou Ts Ong Reveals Parents’ Death Report
Fou Ts Ong says he heard from Hong Kong friends that his Shanghai-born parents Fou Lei and his wife killed themselves in a death pact after Red Guards humiliation. The 31 year old pianist, now in Britain, has no confirmation and seeks reliable contacts. Also noting a Wisconsin winter sighting of over a hundred snowy owls in 1960-61.
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Aberfan Miner Relives Disaster Aftermath
In Aberfan Wales families face the school avalanche of 200 dead as miner Harry Short recalls searching for his daughter Martine 11 among the rubble. His son Robert 15 helps, both exhausted and grim as they condemn the slag heap built on bog soil.
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Aberfan disaster toll climbs as inquiry ordered
Police said 135 bodies had been recovered by Sunday night. Robert Price of the National Coal Board cited an underground spring in the mine refuse area near the bottom, with water buildup causing a sudden eruption. Willam Shepherd compared the water build-up to a water bomb. Experts hesitant that the spring alone caused the avalanche, citing heavy rainfall as a factor. About 50 more bores could be buried under mud and coal sludge. Nearly all victims were children, most of the village wiped out. Prime Minister Wilson ordered a national inquiry with Lord Justice Edmund Davies to head it. Lord Roberts of the Coal Board said checks would be run on 500 other piles in Wales.
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