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Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - September 17, 1967, Oakland, California British p London a Scotland Yard detectives wrestled on Steps of a bound plane saturday to free a Sian student who was dragged aboard toe soviet Jet entry against his will a Scotland Yard statement said police went to the Airport after a Man answering the russian s description was naked on a Busy London Street forced into a soviet embassy car and driven to tile Airport the Man s Call for help set off a police Alert and just As an Aeroflot Jet was about to taxi for a Takeoff British lice squad cars ringed the plane Scotland Yard officers and immigration officials rushed aboard there was a struggle inside the plane and o f f i c e r s emerged with the russian there also was a tussle on the Steps of the with the Captain of the Airliner and the Young russian s wife trying to keep him aboard the police won and the Man was taken Back to the Airport buildings the soviet Consul saturday night identified the student As Vladimir Kachenko about 25 who had been in England for eight months takings graduate degree in is i j i Art Kuss ing at Birmingham to soviet embassy officials told a British newsman that the Young russian was suffering from a nervous breakdown and was on his Way Back to Sia for treatment they gave this version of what he went to the soviet embassy with his wife at 5 Sam he was tired of being in England and asked if he could shorten his duties a doctor gave him an in because he was in a state of nervous exhaustion and arrangements were made for him to take the Moscow plane soon after mid Day while he was at the embassy he wandered out into water Road and members of the embassy staff were seat put to bring him Back because they feared something might happen to him according to the russians Kachenko was willing to leave Britain and he was removed from the plane against his wishes but witnesses at the Airport said that before police arrived he fought off attempts to get him on the plane the Home office spokesman said that because immigration officers thought Kachenko was taken aboard the plane against his will police on the plane and with some difficulty brought him out after police had spoken to the soviet Consul and a an doctor from the embassy said Kachenko had been taken to a place of safety he would not say where but it was believed the Young Sian and his wife were taken to Scotland Yard although the russian Consul had said Kachenko was in student prof Philip b Moon head of Birmingham University s department physics said Kachenko had been working in the Field of Low temperature physics he is a very Good physicist indeed Good enough for them to want him Back but there was certainly nothing secret about his work year no 260 sunday september 17 1967 sunday a month Rumford returning to politics by Dave Hope i writer 1 William Byron Rumford Veteran who missed a try for the state ate last year by of one per cent of the vote is not v through with politics i la be a candidate for something next says Rumford and he cites four county Sor which would make him one in a Field of several who threaten to oppose the newly appointed Joseph Bort which would involve a contest with John j Miller who took Over the office Rumford held be fore he ran for senator which would pit him against another former assemblyman Las a Petris who won a Aie Post last Yean entailing a Challenge to rep Jeffery Helari who had trouble i last year i the s up e r v i so r contest be a non partisan race of the others would produce a democratic by fight i m looking at All of Rumford says and i la go for the one that looks most encouraging when the time comes that will be shortly after the Start of next year would be a Page a col 3 red mortars hit jail kill a i Saigon a Viet Cong mortar fire hit the provincial jail in Tarn by and the nearby province Headquarters Early sunday killing four prisoners and wounding 42 vietnamese sources said the sources said no ground attack accompanied the ing of the jail which was the target of an enemy assault 10 Days ago in the earlier fion vietnamese authorities said 217 of the attacking com were killed the reports from Tarn by 350 Miles Northeast of Saigon said the prisoners were the Only casualties of the mortar attack they said some at tempted to escape when the barrage began but none made it most of the jail s inmates were said to be suspected Viet Cong soldiers held for investigation but some were civil criminals and South army personnel charged with violations of regulations sunday s attack was the fifth in recent months against a provincial prison in the province 1st corps military zone in Northern South Vietnam previous attacks at hoi an Quang Tri and Quang Ngai restored Viet Cong cadres and sympathizers to the guerrilla ranks 1 Hanoi s Vietnam news 1 Agency claimed that North Vietnam s fighters j tend two american planes r saturday 140 Miles West of r continued Par 7 col 4 Tribune photo by Howard Erker Ward a place of pain and courage where the War is Over but recovery just started the Marine corps builds men Oak spare parts for them an by Tom Flynn Tribune military Marine Corporal Kip turn came to Oakland naval and was issued a part it was a left leg the Young texan from san Angelo the original at South the fourth of july when the Viet Gong mortared his artillery unit a Days later he was being wheeled through the front door of an old wooden Racks building near the front Gate of Oakland naval for his first meeting ver Twenty seven Days later he was walking on a new left leg the Man who saw to it that he could stand again was Golbranson the Silver military writer in american in Nam to bring Tribune reports now he reports another unheralded front where grievously wounded heroes quiet courage daily Flynn Dawn to dusk Day after in the amputee Ward at Oakland naval Hospital this is the first penetrating studies of Brave men and modern Medicine in the Battle of recovery a big Burly orthopaedic surgeon who runs the naval prosthetics research Laboratory More commonly known initials Frank Golbranson and the men of build the spare parts for sailors and marines half whole legs left or right Complete with foot and shoe through the years since the lab was started continued Page col s to Dona rids i i c East loses her punch for if Norfolk a a Richane Doria slashed a path of death and destruction Ward on the East coast Day night and then dwindled to tropical storm size with 45 winds meanwhile two sister storms moved toward other parts of North first time since 1961 multiple hurricanes had headed toward land at the same time the weather Bureau s latest advisory Doria has weakened and longer a Hurricane Hurricane warnings Are discontinued Gale Ings Are in effect Over lower Chesapeake Bay and from the Virginia capes to c ape Teras around touched North Carolina Virginia line at a Doria had killed one son left two others missing and had forced of coastal residents to flee Inland new Jersey to Virginia the weather Bureau located Eye at Over sound in North Lina some 60 Miles North West of Cape Hatteras immediate evacuation o f Low lying sections in the Hampton roads area had been called for earlier by the Norfolk but the anticipated High tides failed to materialize the weather Bureau said the water Rose to about 2 feet above Normal in some one third the height that had been feared there were no immediate re ports of any More than minor flooding some tides in the Virginia Beach area were reported As much As 4 feet above Normal and caused some moderate flooding the rapid movement of Ria past the Virginia capes and its Early entry Inland said the Norfolk weather continued Page 2 col 1 Swank Reno Casino closed for cheating Reno a state bling authorities ordered the Riverside closed saturday night and charged the Multi million Dollar club with cheating the on the Banks of the Truckee River in downtown Reno closed about two hours before officials said they would serve the order Frank Johnson chairman of the Nevada gaming control Board said it was the second closing of a major Casino in Nevada history the Silver Slipper in Las vegas was closed on cheating charges five years ago officials said the club had cheated in craps and other undisclosed games the officials moved two rows of Slot machines into a Between the hotel by and the to keep trons away from the tables a handful of gamblers con pulling the handles of the Slot machines until the machines went dead from China Washington a Secretary of defense Robert s has informed key Pentagon and congressional officials of president Johnson s historic decision to deploy a thin antimissile system to guard against nuclear attack by red China it was Learned saturday Mcnamara gave the word at a secret Pentagon meeting on Friday is said he swore All those present to remain silent until a formal and is made the announcement May come monday in a speech Mcnamara is making to an in co but some authorities tested there is a possibility mat Jonnson May Omer Une announcement delayed however rep Charles e Bennett gave that it is coming in a prepared for the Reserve cers association at Ville naval air station Bennett said the defense department appears to have finally broken the logjam which has held up the much needed development of an an missile system Bennett a senior member of the House armed services committee said it has just been revealed recently that funds have been spent on hardware items for the deployment of an abm system for the million Congress provided for this but which the defense department has heretofore refused to use this is an apparent Tion that our nation is finally about to embark on the full development of an abm Bennett said i expect Secretary Mara will soon make a ment on this subject sen Richard b Russell chairman of the Senate armed services committee said when asked about son s reported go ahead Deci it s been the Best news the american people have had for years Russell declined to say whether the administration has notified him of the de decision in talking with newsmen he commented that a thin system in t quate Protection but it will Crosby enters classic Bing Crosby in celebrity Golf classic by de Schoenfeld Bing no 1 celebrity golfer and the Man who originated the whole idea will play in Oakland s first Golf classic i m Crosby said yesterday in accepting an invitation to play in the next sunday sounds like it s going to be a Good time the swinging golfing party will be played a week from today at pretty Willow Park in the Castro Valley Foothills two dozen of the biggest names in show business and sports Are ready to tee up with Bing this puts the icing on the Perry Phillips the tournament Host said of entry i Hope continued Page a col 3 continued Page 3 col 5 coliseum excitement an Indian s an Astro House on the Moon and the Home you la be living in in a decade or so from now what do have in each is one of the Avenue of the Ages features of the California International Home and exciting living show which runs through next Day at the county coliseum Complex kit i i for details and a preview of the show turn to the Nia Magazine Section of Day s Tribune Index on Page a

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