Airlines Strike Grounds Major Carriers Causing Distress
Newswire report details widespread disruption as a 35,400 machinists strike halts United Eastern Trans World National and Northwest. Travelers including a 24 year old Army wife and servicemen face delays while others seek alternatives to reach loved ones and events across the country. A San Francisco business traveler pays high fares to reach New York.
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Maine
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Lions
New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Los Angeles
Pan Am World Airways
London
Pentagon grants priority air travel for servicemen on leave
The Pentagon authorized use of military planes on a priority basis to transport servicemen on leave before Southeast Asia duty or returning from Asian assignment. In New York Mrs. Cain attempted to reach the Red Cross as her children, Tommy aged 3 with diabetes and Loise aged 2, suffered finger injuries from a folding booth door. Mrs. Cain had left her husband Jack in an Air Force hospital in Tripoli with a stomach ailment to visit her father.
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Southeast Asia
Burglar credits Billy Graham with life change in court
A 19 year old Bri ton burglar who confessed to 40 burglaries says American evangelist Dr Billy Graham converted him from crime. He pledged to start anew if punished and told magistrates the change began after attending Graham's Earl's Court crusade last month with two friends.
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London
UPI
Billy Graham
Stephen Harvey
Harvey
Graham
Earl’s Court Arena
Christ
Nine Cubans hijack Soviet plane to Jamaica
Nine Cubans who arrived from Cuba in a hijacked Soviet built plane are held in protective custody awaiting asylum appeals. A crew member was shot during the flight and is in satisfactory condition at a Kingston hospital. A second Cuban plane arrived to repatriate the injured crewman along with the hijackers.
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Jamaica
UPI
Cuba
Adlai's Former Wife Is Evicted
Chicago police ousted Ellen Borden Stevenson the former wife of Adlai Stevenson from her home. She refused officers entry and a police locksmith was summoned to open the door of the three story stone faced building.
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Chicago
UPI
U.N
Adlai FE. Stevenson
Ellen _ Borden Stevenson
Maryland Penitentiary riot leads to charges against leaders
Officials prepared to prosecute ringleaders of Friday's riot at Maryland Penitentiary as inmates set fires and looted the commissary. Police used tear gas and riot gear to restore order after clashes that involved 1,000 prisoners in Norwalk Reflector source.
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Baltimore
UPI
Maryland Penitentiary
Copinger
Mother offers eye in swap to save daughter's sight
In Workingham England a mother Mrs Winnie Lewis vows to donate her eye to save her daughter Mrs Clarice Mainwaring who has lost one eye in a traffic accident and risks total blindness. Doctors race to save the second eye and the outcome remains uncertain.
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Workingham
England
UPI
Clarice Mainwaring
Winnie Lewis
Romania Presses Independent Path in Warsaw Pact Talks
Romanian Communist Party chief Nicolae Ceausescu asserted Romania's unilateral course toward national Communism after a Warsaw Pact summit. He reportedly defeated Brezhnev and Kosygin in face to face talks yet signed two declarations. He watered down Europe security language while winning concessions from Moscow.
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UPI
Communist Party
Nicolae Ceausescu
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Ceausescu
U.S
Viet Nam
Europe
Kremlin
Automobile Production At 66 Low
Detroit Ward s Automotive Reports said Ford strike and model changeover cut total car production to 124 213 this week the year s low. The engine shortage in Cleveland suburb halted 30 000 jobs and reduced weekly output by 8 000 cars and trucks. General Motors plants in Doraville Southgate Wilmington and Chrysler and Ford sites paused for 1967 model changeovers.
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Southgate
Calif
Wilmington
Del
Chrysler
Hamtramck
Mich
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