Libyan City Ravaged by 15-Second Earthquake
Dawn revealed Al Mars in ruins after a 7 15 p m quake. Eastern Libyan city of 11 000 suffered heavy loss with 250 dead and 500 injured, debris strewn across flooded fields and mud streets as rescue teams from USAF Wheelus and Libyan authorities aided the survivors.
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Red Grandy
Stars and Stripes
Marj
Libya
Benghazi
Rome
al Mars
Wheelus
Tripoli
58Th
U. S
Atoe
Air Force
Mergency
7272Nd
Barry N. Shaklin
Hilside
N. J
Cuba Charges U S With Violating Its Sovereignty
Havana reports Cuba accuses the United States of sending a naval vessel into Cuban waters and infringing sovereignty. The claim follows Fidel Castro's speech blaming US navigation hazards and denying an attack on a shrimp boat. Pictures show the USS Oxford and a counterrevolutionary group alleged to operate from a British-owned key north of Cuba.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Fidel Castro
Americary
Cuban
USS Oxford
Raul Roa
Herbert Stanley Marchant
Fleno Oviedo Alvarez
Juan Reyes Morales
Juan Morales Pasqual Armando
Morales Pasqual
Agustin Viscaino
Pino Fumelio Viera Olimeda
Domingo Martinez Cardenas
Rafael Santana Alvarez
Las Villas
Castro
Rodion Malinovsky
Moscow
U. S
Fidel
Khrushchev
United Party of Socialist Revolution
Washington
Fifty mile hikers in San Francisco question marathon effort
About 2000 teens started a George Washington's Birthday hike from Santa Clara University to San Francisco. By Friday night many lay exhausted on Nob Hill with blisters and fatigue while a KYA DJ who organized the event ended up in St Francis Memorial Hospital. Police warned about traffic congestion as walkers mingle with cars.
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San Francisco
Nob Hill
Saunders
Santa Clara University
San Jose
Disappearance of Two Troy Men Baffles Police
In Troy Pennsylvania two businessmen Loren Leonard 38 manager of Troy Equipment Co. and Jerome Blaine 45 partner in Penn y Leather Goods Co. vanished within 24 hours of each other. Police see no confirmed link but investigate possible leads including a NY trip and a call reportedly from Kansas City. Blaine’s brother in New York State and airline insurance notices surface in scattered reports.
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Troy
Pennsylvania
Loren Leonard
Troy Equipment Co
Jerome Blaine
Leonard
Athens
Blaine
Penn-y Leather Goods Co
N. Y
State Line
Elmira
Red’ York
New York State
Kansas City
Thirteen East Germans Reach West Germany Escape
Thirteen East Germans escaped across the mined Iron Curtain into West Germany near Duderstadt. Among them were two families from Boeseckendorf and a border patrolman who aided the group by guiding refugees to a mine free crossing, feeding them over the frontier.
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Duderstadt
Germany
West Germany
Boeseckendorf
Hamilton Priest At Odds With School Board
In Hamilton New York a Roman Catholic priest clashed with the local school board over granting academic credit for religious instruction. Rev John Carey of St Marys Church sought a quarter credit for high school pupils during school hours. The vote 3 to 2 favored granting the request with James Jones Baptist board president casting the tie breaking vote. The State Education Department supported Carey while a Protestant member joined the Catholic in backing the plan. Jones argued the board cannot control content. Father Carey said he teaches what Jesus Christ taught.
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Hamilton
Upstate
New York
John Carey
St. Mary's
State Education Department
James Jones
Jones
Father Carey
Jesus Christ
Troy Mayor Saves Life Of Employee
Troy Mayor Neil Kelleher, co owner of a local automobile agency, revived 36 year old Mrs Albert O Neil with mouth to mouth resuscitation after she stopped breathing at work. Dr Fred Albright praised his actions as potentially life saving.
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Troy
Neil Kelleher
Albert O'Neil
Kelleher
Fred Albright
U S Forces Bar Soviet Buses From Checkpoint Charlie
U S authorities barred four Soviet military buses from entering West Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie as they headed to the Soviet War Memorial in West Berlin for Red Army Day. British officials had directed the trip to use Sandkrug Bridge, the quicker route to the memorial near the Brandenburg Gate, delaying the ceremony by about 30 minutes.
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Berlin
U. S
West Berlin
Charlie
Sandkrug Bridge
Brandenburg Gate
Landkrug Bridge
East Germany
Pyotr A. Abrasimov
Flu Epidemic Spreads Across Texas Cities
The influenza outbreak reaches near epidemic levels in multiple Texas cities with Austin reporting 467 flu type cases in six days. Over 100 teachers sidelined and Dallas school absenteeism rising to 20 percent. Hospitals restrict visitors as Dallas fights a heavy flu surge.
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Associated Press
Texas
Atlantic Seaboard
Missouri
Michigan
Austin
Dallas
St. Louis
Charles Anderson
Detroit
Driver Killed In Cortland Snow Crash
Edgar A. Harmon, 28, of Cortland, died Friday night when his car struck a snow bank and overturned on Route 13 three miles southwest of the city.
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Cortland
Edgar A. Harmon
Route 13
Wealthy Duke of Westminister Dies in Kent
The Duke of Westminister aged 68 and a Grosvenor family member died Friday in Kent. He inherited the title from his father in 1953 and was one of Britain’s richest men.
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London
Duke of Westminister
Britain
Kent
Grosvenor
Relentless Winter Grips East With Heavy Snowfall
Watertown reports nearly five feet of snow amid drifting conditions and near zero visibility. Icy roads and closures stretch across Jefferson County and Genesee Wyoming areas as record lows drift into single digits. Officials expect a warming trend with scattered flurries to follow across the state.
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Albany
Watertown
Jefferson County
Lake Ontario
Carthage
Adams
New York
Batavia
Genesee County
Wyoming County
Southern Tier
Hudson Valley
Weather Bureau
Snowed-Out or Snowed-In Atypical Pupils Stranded
Judy kins a 14 year old pupil at Attica Central School is stranded after a blizzard left 182 pupils at the school. She says she does not mind being snowed in. In nearby Bennnington the Hopkins family is snowed-in with four children home and a snowbound car stuck in a 15 foot drift. Judy’s parents warned her not to return due to her ear infection. Mrs Hopkins notes they are stocked with provisions.
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Atticap
Judykins
Attica Central School
Judy
Associated Press
Pat Frieday
Warner Hopkins
Bennington
Hopkins
More Ransom Goods Ready Aboard Vessel
The freighter Piiamos, owned by Standard Fruit and Steamship Co., is set to depart New Orleans tonight for Cuba with food and medical supplies after loading delays. The shipment, valued near 30 million dollars, supports ransom for invasion prisoners released in December, carrying about 2,600 tons of baby food and medicines worth 1.5 million.
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New Orleans
Piiamos
Cuba
Standard Fruit and Steamship Co
Debbies Smile Bonds Over Toys Not Bus Crash
Waterlooo story notes seven year old Debbie Marcuccilli, leg amputations after bus crash, finds comfort in toys and a new friend, Doctor Koch. She receives thousands of get well cards, hugs an elephant named Ralph Worden, school bus driver. Debbie eyes rehab in Rochester after further surgery.
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Waterloo
Debbie Marcuccilli
Debbie
Taylor-Brown
Ralph
Ralph Worden
Worden
Stevie Lawrence
Rochester
Orazio Marcuccilli
Seneca Falls
Laos Natives See Move Toward Change Says Technician
Reginald Gordon of Schenectady, a 25 year old surgical technician who just returned from Laos after eight months service, says locals want life to go on without fighting and feel communism is strongest now. He served at Ban Houei Sai, the last hospital of three set up by Dr. Thomas Dooley.
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Albany
Laos
Reginald Gordon
Schenectady
Gordon
Ban Houei Sai
Thomas Dooley
Wagner Ready To Suggest Strike Settlement Terms
New York mayor Robert F. Wagner announced he is prepared to propose terms to settle the 78 day newspaper blackout if mediation fails. He will review sessions with publishers and printers Sunday at City Hall, stressing the proposal is an extension of bargaining not arbitration. Three non striking unions urged mediation while striking printers feared compulsory arbitration.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
City Hall
Kennedy
New York City
Afl-Cio International Typographical Union
New York Newspaper Guild
Deliv
Afl-Cio Guild
Bridgetown Visit By Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Bridgetown hosts Arthur Schiesinger Jr an adviser to President Ken Igdy for a ten day vacation. The prominent figure arrives as Barbados plans cultural and diplomatic engagements during his stay.
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Bridgetown
Barbados
Arthur Schiesinger Jr
Ken Igdy
Family of 10 in Missouri Dies in Fire
A Missouri family of ten perished in a house fire in Morehouse. The victims include Paul Saville and his wife Shirley and their eight children. Police say the one story frame dwelling was consumed by flames before responders arrived. Saville was a disabled war veteran on a government disability pension. The cause remains undetermined and the coal stove heating the home is noted.
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Morehouse
Paul Saville
Shirley
Paul David Jr
Michael
Henderson
Zelda Mae
J. T. Kindred
Kindred
Saville
Rusk classifies Moscow speech as propaganda
Washington dismissed the Moscow speech as propaganda and warned it would not alter U S policy on Cuba. Secretary of State Rusk said the rhetoric was typical anniversary oratory while Defense Secretary McNamara outlined American steps toward Castroism removal.
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Washington
Cuba
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Fidel Castro
Moscow
United States
Dean Rusk
Senate Armed Services Committee
Robert S. McNamara
U. S
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
McNamara
Russell
Relentless winter grips East with record low readings
A bitter cold spell stretches from the Midwest to New England and into West Virginia and northern Florida. Readings fall to subzero in several cities, with Albany and Charleston reporting new date lows, while heavy snow blankets Water town. Lake Superior nears its first complete freeze as frigid air shifts across the region.
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Midwest
New England
West Virginia
Florida
Tallahassee
Charleston
W. Va
Albany
N. Y
Louisville
Philadelphia
Old Town
Maine
Rumfomd
Oneonta
Pittsfield
Mass
Bennington
Concord
N. H
Elkins
Watertown
Lake Superior
International Falls
Hibbing
Duluth
Minn
Wausau
Wis
Eau Claire
Sault Sainte Marie
Mich
Arizona
California
Gulf Coast
Texas
Plains
Plateau
Rocky Mountain
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
North Carolina
Illinois
Iowa
Dakotas
Siberian Ice Box Shifts West in USSR Weather Watch
Soviet weather experts report the pole of cold in northeastern Siberia moved west and south into European USSR this winter. They offer no cause, while Siberia enjoyed warmth and Moldavia and Ukraine suffered their coldest frosts in three years.
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Moscow
Europe
Soviet Union
Pole
Siberia
Moldavia
Ukraine
New Way To Become Parking Ticket Exempt
Peter Hicks a fruit and vegetable dealer fits an electrifying anti theft unit in his car. Anyone touching the vehicle receives a blue flash and an electric shock. Hicks claims since installation he has not received a single parking ticket, whereas previously he got one almost daily.
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London
Peter Hicks
Hicks
Good Samaritan killed aiding crash on Long Island Expressway
A Long Island man, Daniel Suppto, 32, from Bethpage, was killed early today when he went to help victims of a two car crash on the Long Island Expressway and was struck by a truck that plowed into the wreckage. Police identified the victim and described the crash scene.
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Syosset
Long Island
Daniel Suppto
Bethpage
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