Speno introduces eight-bill anti smoking package
New York State Sen Edward J Speno chairman of the inter agency committee on the hazards of smoking unveils an eight bill package aimed at protecting non-smokers. One bill would ban smoking on all public buses and trains while another bans smoking on mass transit trains except in designated cars limited to one in every three cars.
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Haseen
New York
Edward J. Speno
State Inter-Agency Committee
Spenn
Hershey Ends 30-Year Draft Career as Selective Service Chief
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey retires after nearly three decades directing the draft with 26 million enlisted and 16 million registered. He will move to an upstairs government role as manpower adviser while the White House plans an acting draft director and a successor in the near future.
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Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Indiana National Guard
White House
Nixon
Hershey
Supreme Court
Mexican
Pancho Villa
Texas
Washington
Hitler
Army
Dee Ingold
Ingold
Dowding and Britain’s Battle Glory in Wartime Tributes
Winston Churchill lauds Air Chief Marshal Dowding while others say he deserved greater recognition after his 1940 Battle of Britain leadership. Dowding died at 87 after a controversial clash with Churchill over air defense strategy. Nearby, Tricia Nixon battles measles, recovering at home with doctors monitoring spots and vitamins as a birthday approaches.
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Winston Churchill
Germany
Luftwaffe
Britain
Lord Dowding
Douglas Bader
Dowding
Royal Air Force
Churchill
France
Scot
Messerschmitts
Heinkels
Junkers
Tricia Nixon
White House
Morida
House
Tricia
Planes Collide Kill Six Near El Dorado County
Six people died when two private planes collided and crashed about 18 miles east of Camero n Park Airfield. Victims included pilot George Mahoney and his 11 year old stepson Dennis Widmer from Redwood City and four others from Folsom aboard a Beechcraft Bonanza. Wreckage found Sunday morning after Saturday night crash. witness Pat Casey described flames in the sky and smoke.
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Placerwille
UPI
Here
el Dorado County
Mammoth Lake
Cameron Park
James Kuntz
Charles
Geoffrey
Dale Hansen
Folsom
Pat Casey
Cameroon Park
Auto Blast Fireball Burns Five in Los Angeles Area
The car exploded at a San Fernando service station flinging flaming gasoline. Four children and a 73-year-old grandfather suffered burns, with Vintel Torres-Garcia 14 in Mission Hills listed extremely critical. Others, including Gilbert Hurtado 9 and Felipe Hurtado, plus two 11-year-old twins, were hospitalized with varying burns. Police probe if faulty mechanics caused the blaze and gas tank rupture.
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San Fernando
API
Vintel
Torres-Garcia
Mission Hills
Gilbert Hurtado
Felipe
Los Angeles
Ismael
Richardo Vasquez
Rudy Marin
Professor threatens demonstrators. Seattle heads turn
University of Washington economist Henry T. Buechel drew praise and doubt after removing coat and glasses to threaten five demonstrators in his Economics 20 class amid a campus invasion by the Seattle Liberation Front. Faculty split on the method, while supporters hailed his courage and critics warned of mob action risks.
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Henry T. Buechel
University of Washington
Seattle
Hns
University
UPS
Chicago
Seattle Liberation Front
Buechel
Hubert Stumphrey
Bueechel
Washington
New 14 Story Apartment Crumbles in Buenos Aires
A completed 14 story apartment building in a northern Buenos Aires suburb collapsed at night after a top floor swimming pool filled with water apparently gave way. Three injured, no deaths reported at that time. The building’s manager and his wife escaped by leaving to make a telephone call across the street as the structure fell. Police and four rescue crews worked through the rubble overnight, recovering a smashed automobile with no occupants.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Juan Ortiz
Bomb threat called into Augsburg synagogue in Germany
A bomb threat directed at Augsburg Synagogue in southern Germany was received by telephone over the weekend. Police cordoned off the building as a precaution while authorities investigated the warning.
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Aupsburg
U.S. Pullout Will Continue Amid S Viet Setbacks
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and General Wheeler say U S troop withdrawals will persist under Vietnamization despite battlefield losses by the South Vietnamese army. They warned against expecting complete victories for either side and cited ongoing reductions, with Abrams and Bonker expressing confidence in South Vietnamese capabilities.
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U.S
S. Viet
Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Vietnam
Earle
Drews
Nixon
Saigon
Laird
Ellsworth Bonker
Creighton Abrams
South Viet forces battle in northern provinces kill 182
In heavy new year clashes in South Vietnam's northern provinces, South Vietnamese troops killed 182 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese fighters. The battles centered south and southwest of Ho An, 30 miles northeast of Saigon, with air strikes and naval gun support. American losses totaled four killed and 34 wounded, with 65 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed nationwide.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Ho An
South China Sea
U.S
Hoi An
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
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