Navy Terms Isolated Incident After Plane Shot At
Navy officials described the shooting of an American plane by a Communist Chinese shore battery as an isolated incident. The plane from the Hornet was eight miles off the Formosa Strait when fired on, sustaining light damage during a routine training flight. Diplomatic repercussions were considered unlikely, with Peiping and Nationalist claims disputed by observers.
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Phele
C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
ASP
Navy
Formosa Strait
kUpe
Peiping Radio
London
Hornet
Hong Kong
South China Sea
China
Swatow
U.S. Navy
Formosa
Peiping
United States
7Th Fleet
Reda
Far East
Taiwan
Peiping People's Daily
Communist Party
Red Leader Rejects Arms Control Plan
Khrushchev at Helsinki rejected Western disarmament proposals calling them a screen for expanding the arms race. He signaled possible acceptance of international inspection posts in the Soviet Union United States Britain and other nations if it aided a test ban. He argued no control system can stop a state from planning aggression.
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Helsinki
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
Toktea Onehour
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Khrushchev
London
U.N
Harold Stasten
U. S
Russia
France
Canada
Prem
Rice Exchanges Fire Across Formosa Fronts
Formosa clashes continue as Nationalists exchange rice shipments for artillery fire with Chinese Communists. Reports say Fukien and Kwangtung provinces suffer influenza deaths amid harvest troubles. Quemoy Island shells rise as battles escalate near the Red Chin coast.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chiank Kai-shek
Nationalu
Ist
Bureau
Quemoy Island
Red Chin
Gianetti to Retire as Blues Pig Inn closes for highway
Gianetti plans to retire from the restaurant business and beautify his property. He will build a new restaurant behind the Blue Pig Inn at 2323 Gallia St and lease to Les Horne of Horne's Inn. The Blue Pig will close Sunday as Robinson Ave. is extended to Kendall Ave and the site is razed. A new store building rises at 387 Gallia St and Rich Oil Co. leases a gas station at 2355 Gallia St. Ito remains to be seen how the street project affects nearby structures.
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West End Market
George Taylor
Gallia St
Young St
Robinson Ave
Ing
William Gianetti
Dorman Ave
Gianetti
Gallin St
Les Horne
Horne’s Inn
Kendall Ave
Tore
Hurston Shepard
Tha
T. Leo Coleman
Florida
State Highway Department
Lighter Moments In Antarctica During Deep Freeze
Navy and scientific personnel of Task Force 43 share lighter moments amid the second phase of Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. Their major achievement is a 600 mile trek to Marie Byrd Land where facilities were built for ongoing studies during the polar night as part of the Navy involvement in the International Geophysical Year.
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Perow
Navy
Task Force 43
Antarctic
Marie Byrd Land
Little America
New York City
Mayflower II Arrives Off Historic Rock in Washington
The report outlines congressional moves to curb foreign court trials of U S servicemen overseas. Key figures Rep Gordon and Rep Burleson push for action on a status of forces resolution amid Eisenhower foreign aid debates. The piece details Japan graft cases and a separate shipping incident near New Zealand.
Mayflower II Returns Home After Historic Pilgrim Voyage
Plymouth crowd cheered as the replica Mayflower II entered Provincetown Harbor then sailed to Plymouth completing a 5000 mile re enactment of the 1620 voyage. Skipper Alan Villiers said a cracked boom limited travel during the storm weeks ago and that the vessel sailed with a fair wind.
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Plymouth
Mass
England
Coast Guard
Alan Villiers
Plymouth Rock
Garnet Light
Provincetown
Villiers
Australia
Provincetown Harbor
Japanese police tie Michigan soldier to shell casings in killing
Police say Victor Nickel admitted tossing empty shell casings at a U S Army range before a Japanese woman scrap collector was shot Jan 30. The statement is in a secret file, not in court records, linked to Specialist 3 O Girard charged with bodily injury resulting in death. Conviction could mean up to 15 years in a Japanese prison. US protest and court actions arise over Girard's transfer for trial.
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Maebashi
Japan
Michigan
William Girard
Victor ‘Nickel
Inkster
Mich
Girard
U. S
United States
Flinond Thane
Bow Testimony Delayed Amid Girard Case Strain
The House panel will delay Bow's testimony until after Japan PM Kishi visits the U S in June 1987. Tensions rise over Army Specialist 3 C William S Girard held in Japan and facing trial for the death of a Japanese woman under a status of forces agreement. The Foreign Affairs Committee opposed Bow's resolution last year, but current sentiment shifts due to the Girard case and strong public opposition to a Japanese trial.
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Bow
Kishi
United States
Army
William S. Girard
Girard
U.S
Japan
Eisenhower
Foreign Affairs Committee
Long Heads Move To Cut Foreign Aid
Senator Long led a drive to slash 390 million dollars from foreign aid totaling 3.637 billion. He proposed cutting military assistance for the year starting July 1 from 1.2 billion to 1.1 billion and defense supports from 800 million to 710 million, matching a two-year authorization proposal opposed by Morse who warned against surrendering loan direction to the executive.
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Washington
Lhen
Long
D-La
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Morse
Congress
Long’t
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texy
House
William Knowland
Calif
Morse
Bid opening for Cotter Dam section underway near Greenup
Huntington District engineers began checking the low bid for the first cotter dam section of the Greenup high level project. Roy Ryan & Sons of Evansville submitted the low bid of 26262 dollars, with six bids total ranging up to 492100 dollars.
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Huntington District
U.S. Army
Greenup
Roy Ryan & Sons
Evansville
Ind
Gallipolis
Nixon's Civil Rights Meeting Signals Senate Move
Washington reports Nixon plans talks on racial issues with Montgomery preacher the Rev. Martin Luther King as he presides in the Senate potentially shaping moves to bypass the Judiciary Committee on a civil rights bill. House debate resumes with a states rights clash and King reports South conditions to Nixon.
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Washington
Roe
Senate
Nixon
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Martin Luther King
Montgomery
King
Ghana
South
Eisenhower
Ex Senator Walter F George Stricken in Atlanta
Walter F George a longtime Democratic senator and Eisenhower envoy to N A T O is listed as serious after arriving by train to Emory University Hospital Atlanta for diagnostic tests. Doctors cited coronary atherosclerosis and anticoagulant treatment as he faces possible impact on his ambassadorial role.
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Atlanta
Walter F. George
Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Emory University Hospital
George
Washington
Statesman
Senate
Injunction Secures Pinball Seizures at New Boston Venues
Common Pleas Judge Vernon Smith enjoined further seizures by Distel’s Pinball Company after State Liquor Control agents seized five machines at Pat's Cafe and two each at Crystal Lunch and the Red Bar in New Boston. The board will hear charges of Regulation 33 while 24 or 25 machines have been seized statewide in the last month.
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State Liquor Control Department
Common Pleas
Vernon Smith
R. Wt. Ripberger
Ripberger
Ripberser
Pat's Cafe
Vine St
Crystal Lunch
Rhodes Ave
Red Bar
Columbus
Te State Liquor Control Board
Jerome Distel
Scioto Novelty Co
Eighth St
Common Pleas Court
Pal
Smith
Distel
D. Ridge
W. Bottes
Seloto County
Ralph A. Stevens
Premier Bourges-Maunoury Wins Narrow France Vote
France confirms Maurice Bourges-Maunoury as 22nd postwar premier by a tally under 50 votes after a three week cabinet crisis. The 240 to 194 vote shows Assembly reluctance with 73 abstentions and Bourges-Maunoury missing a full majority of its 595 members by 38 votes.
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National Assembly
Maurice Bourges- Maunoury
France
Assembly
Bourges-Maunoury
Mollet
Bourges - Mattnoury
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