Seven killed in Easter morning gas explosion in El Paso
An Easter dawn natural gas blast leveled an old brick apartment block in El Paso injuring eight and killing seven family members including two newlyweds. Fire officials blamed a gas leak near street work and noted residents had smelled gas but no action was taken.
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EL Paso, Tex
Ments
Joe Wilson
Hattie Spruiel
Ruben
Celia Padilla
John Gardner
Rafael Aguirre
Rafael Jr
Maria Aguirre
Aguirre
Miguel Valles Jr
Piedras
San Antonio
Wilson
Spruiel
Edna Williams
el Paso
Bruce Bissonette
The
el Paso Times
Thomasson General Hospital
Providence Memorial Hospital
Hess Plot to Free Hitler Reported by Activist
BERLIN AP Approaching his 79th birthday Rudolph Hess Hitler’s deputy was linked to a hijack plot to free him from Spandau Prison. Carl Holzapfel told officials a plan to seize a British European Airways jet from Stuttgart to Berlin to force Soviet release talks.
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Berlin
Rudolph Hess
Hitler
Spandau
Moscow
Carl Holzapfel
Berlin Wall
British European Airways
Stuttgart
Bild Am Sontag
Holzapfel
Hess
Britain
Nuernberg
British Military Hospital
Tie
Nixon knew of Watergate poll finds broad awareness
A Gallup Poll shows 41 percent of Americans believe Nixon knew in advance about the Watergate bugging plan and 83 percent have heard of the case, indicating the incident is widely known nationwide, according to Gallup on Sunday.
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Princeton, NJ
Nixon
Cording
Gallup
Death leaves one Rough Rider alive
Frank Brito a Yaqui Indian who helped create the Rough Riders died at 95 in an El Paso nursing home leaving Jesse Langdon the lone surviving Rough Rider at 92 from Milan New York Brito died after illness and surgery and is survived by a son and a daughter He recalled reading and writing Spanish and English and leading the stockade in Tampa during the 1898 campaign without Cuba service he remembered the Rough Riders as a diverse, brotherly group with little training and low pay and the last reunions ending in 1968 with aging veterans now confined to chairs and beds.
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Tex
Frank Brito
Brito
Rough Riders
Teddy Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
Cuba
Jesse Langdon
Milan
N.Y
Santiago Brito
Las Cruces
N.M
A. D. Mendosa
Tampa
Fla
Yaqui
McGuffey
Pinos Altos
New Mexico
Silver City
Rough Rider
Las Vegas
River convoy under fire on Mekong bound for Phnom Penh
American sources report a four freighter and four fuel tanker convoy moved 60 miles up the Mekong under heavy South Vietnamese naval escort after taking small arms, machine gun, and rocket fire near the Vietnamese Cambodian border. Two rockets hit Hong Ngu with no casualties.
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Saigon
Phnom Penh
Mekong
Hong Ngu
Sam
Hong Neu
Saigon Command
Hue
Phu Cu
Hanoi Radio
United States
Thailand
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Hoffa to Be Honored at $100 Plate Dinner in Washington
James R. Hoffa former Teamsters leader released from prison in December 1971 returns to Washington for a black-tie testimonial dinner at the Shoreham Hotel sponsored by a prison reform group. President Nixon declined an invitation, as did Hoffa's successor Frank Fitzsimmons. Over 1,000 guests expected to attend to aid a nationwide prisoner assistance program.
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Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Nixon
Hoffa
Frank Fitzsimmons
Shoreham
National Association For Justice
Lewisburg
Dredging Contract Awarded for Mata Gorda Ship Channel
Col Nolan C. Rhodes says a contract worth 854064 dollars funds dredging of about 4.3 million cubic yards to restore the Mata Gorda Ship Channel in Galveston Texas to 38 feet deep and 200 feet wide over 20 miles.
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Galveston, Tex
Matagorda
Nolan C. Rhodes
Corps of Engineers
Man plants trees in park without permit in Detroit Easter scene
Paul Boatin, 62, a retired UAW organizer, planted 600 pine seedlings in a city park over Easter weekend to create a buffer against dust from a nearby building materials firm. He admits violating a city ordinance but says city officials refused to issue a permit. Officials planned an inspection to ensure adequate space for mowing.
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Detroit
Johnny Appleseed
Paul Boatin
Boatin
United Auto Workers
Newport rocked by huge cut back at Navy base
Newport faces mass layoff as Pentagon orders shift of nearly 14 000 military and civilian jobs from the Newport Naval Base. Payroll losses total 116 million annually, affecting Newport Middletown and Portsmouth. Cutback to be completed by July 30 1974. Navy school and labs remain. Local merchants report gloom amid cancellations and anxious prospects.
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Newport
Pentagon
Newport Naval Base
Middletown
Portsmouth
Navy School
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