Air fleet resumes Viet attack after Tet cease-fire
U S bombers from Guam resume heavy air operations in South Vietnam after a 24 hour Tet cease fire. 251 strikes reported in 12 hours before the truce and more in Laos and Cambodia. Bunkers and ammunition depots hit, with 43 enemy cease fire violations and 19 casualties.
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Cambodia
Vietnam
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Iggne
Lantian
A Shan
Laos
Camboria
Nanis
U.S
Nixon
China
Saigon
Ferryboat Collision Off Hamburg Kills Eight
A ferryboat struck a launch carrying 43 workers in Bamberg Harbor on the Elbe River and sank it amid ice and darkness. Rescue teams saved 35. four bodies recovered with others feared dead. Police expect no one else alive. divers search the wreck for additional victims. The crash occurred in predawn darkness as fog settled over the river.
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Hamburg
Germany
Bamberg
Jcy
Oher
Elbe Es- Wary
West Coast dockers near end of 130 day strike talks
The ILWU caucus of 29 locals moves toward recommending ratification of a proposed contract amid discontent over pay guarantees and other terms. A secret vote by longshoremen across 24 West Coast ports could be set within days, with ratification by shipper and owner groups possible soon after. If approved, dock workers may return to work within 24 to 465 hours.
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San Francisco
West Coast
ILWU
Harry Dridges
Pacific Maritime Association
Nixon
Congress
Tlavu Miles
Author claims saboteur caused Hindenburg disaster
Arthur Michael Mooney asserts in a 1987 book that a leftist crewman planted a bomb on the Hindenburg, killing 36 at Lakehurst New Jersey on May 6 1937. He identifies Eric Spehl as the saboteur and cites German and US archives supporting sabotage over natural causes.
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New York
Arthur Michael MacDonald
Mooney
Dodd-Meade
Eric Spehl
Lakehurst
Spehl
Frankfurt
Germany
United States
National Archives
Spehr
Hitler
92 year old man survives six days trapped by nephew
In Columbus Ohio George Page aged 92 awoke to find his nephew Carlton Brown 64 blocking his bedroom door. Brown had died of a heart attack and Page endured five days without food or water before police and a neighbor summoned help. Page was hospitalized in critical condition but improving.
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Columbus
Ohio
George Page
Carlton Brown
Page
Thomas
Summnon
Rev
Calvin Thomas
Brown
University Hospital
La Habra man pleads guilty to tax evasion
John J. Costanzo, 48, of 321 Norma Street La Habra, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Los Angeles to failing to file his federal income tax for 1971. He faces up to one year in prison and a $10,000 fine. He had a $48,572 gross income and IRS said he owed $15,482. The court dropped two other counts. Costanzo is a partner in Spray Gould and Bowers in Los Angeles.
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la Habra
U.S. District Court
Los Angeles
John J. Costanzo
Norma St
U.S
Curzow
Curnow
Costanzo
Spray, Gould and Bowers
Laird warns Soviet military aid boosts Moscow leverage
Defense chief Melvin Laird says Soviet military aid gives the USSR political leverage in recipient nations and pressures U.S. relations. He cites Egypt, Syria, Iraq and others, notes dangers of dependence, and urges major expansion of U.S. nuclear and naval forces amid possible Soviet space capabilities.
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Washington
UPI
Liefense
Melvin R. Laird
Soviet Union
Laird
U.S
Comity
Cyn- Laird
Russia
Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Af-ghanistan
China
Pakistan
Tanzania
United States
America
Dr Philip R Lee resigns as UC Medical School chancellor
Dr Philip R Lee former assistant secretary of Health Education and Welfare resigns as chancellor of the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He will stay on the faculty as University President Charles J Hitch announced.
L A chief lashes high court for freeing police slayer
Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis condemns the California Supreme Court for freeing a 16 year old who killed Officer Jerry Maddox in 1959. Davis calls it yo yo justice and questions court delays and the case pending a second review.
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L.A
High Court
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Ed Davis
Moniay
Davis
California
Supreme Cenl
Donald R. Wright
Jerry Maddox
Mexico Establishes Diplomatic Ties With China
Mexico becomes the fifth Western Hemisphere nation to form relations with Communist China. Officials say ambassadors will be exchanged soon after signing at the Mexican U.N. mission in New York. Mexico cut ties with Nationalist China in November after the Nationalists were expelled from the United Nations.
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Mexico City
Mexico
China
U.N
New York
Foreign Ministry
United Nations
U S Liberal Wins 23rd International Pancake Race
Kathleen West of Liberal Kansas wins the 23rd annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race in a 99.5 second run on a 415 yard S shaped course along Kansas Avenue defeating Olney England entrants. British winner is Filla Crouch, a 23 year old housewife.
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Kan
UPI
Kathleen West
America
Kansas Avenue
Olney
England
Literal
Filla Crouch
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