Storm Slam Hits Long Beach Area Weather Destroys Power Lines
A multi storm period battered the Long Beach area with power outages from 7 to 8 15 am in Downey and a KHJ station blackout at 6 22 am Officials reported at least 200 traffic deaths nationwide linked to weather while local toll stood at one in 24 hours All schools except Martin Luther King Elementary in Compton remained open as winds uprooted trees and toppled signs Forecasters warned of a fourth storm with warm temps reducing mountain snow to about 7500 feet Rain and thunder showers covered deserts and warns extended offshore
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Long Beach
Orange County
Martin Luther King
Compton
Tthat
Weather Bureau
Point Concepcion
Mexican
Harbor City Girl Dies After Car Collision
A 5 year old Harbor City girl, Tomeka Peterson, was killed when she was hurled through the rear window of her mother's station wagon during a collision at Leesdale and Western Avenues. She died at Harbor General Hospital from a slashed throat. The other driver was Pete Joseph Zankie of 2609 Zephyr Ave Harbor City.
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Harbor City
Leesdale
Western Avenues
Tomeka Peterson
Loretta Peterson
Harbor Hills
Harbor General Hospital
Pete Joseph Zankie
Zephyr Ave
Pakistan Soldiers Fire On Students In Dacca Protest
Pakistani soldiers opened fire on student demonstrators in Dacca East Pakistan today amid protests over the police killing Manday of a student at Dacca University. At least 10 people were wounded including two girls, with two in serious condition.
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Dacca
East Pakistan
Dacca University
Nixon seeks peace as praise pours from Capitol Hill
President Nixon's inaugural call for peace drew broad praise in Congress and from the Kremlin and Vatican, while many Americans remained puzzled or disappointed by the lack of urgency on hunger, poverty, and race. reactions ranged from praise to doubt about domestic specifics.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
Capitol Hill
Kremlin
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Congress
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
Arkansas
Nixon
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Defense
John J. Williams
Delaware
House
Gerald Ford
Soviet Union
United States
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Vatican
Paul VI
Hanoi
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Radio
Hong Kong
Eo 4
New York Post
Post
Hubert H. Humphrey
New York Times
Humphray
Richmond
D. M. Wetter
Des Moines
Iowa
New York
Julie
Tricia
Ralph D. Abernathy
Mixon
Inauguration Day Clashes Mark Nixon's Start
Crowds of about 250000 watched Nixon take the oath as nearly 5000 police and National Guardsmen enforced security with paratroopers from Ft Bragg. About 80 arrests were reported and several injuries occurred amid tense demonstrations.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Sures
Walkouts in Haly Fear General Strike
Rome reports strikes across Italy as workers clash with authorities. In Rome bus and streetcar crews staged the morning rush hour walkout for higher wages, signaling at least a dozen brief stoppages planned for January and February as the country faced a potential nationwide central strike.
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Haly
Rome
Italy
Czech protest wave follows self immolation
In Prague 150000 people march in silence to honor Palach as President Svoboda warns of danger from further immolations and possible Soviet intervention. A 7 year old, Sandor Bauer, remains in grave condition while authorities report workers and students pledge solidarity and a push to end censorship and Soviet sheets.
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Radio
Budapest
Sandor Bauer
Prague
Wenceslas Square
Joseé Hlavily
Ludvik Svoboda
Svoboda
Palach
Hlayaty
Starling
Earth slide halts main line. one man dies
Paired with a Portola stop, a continuing earth slide through the Sierra claimed Richard Maounkes, division engineer from Sacramento, crushed by falling rock while supervising cleanup. The Western Pacific main line remains blocked and the California Zephyr was held at Portola with passengers bused onward.
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Paxton
Trincresus
Western Pacific
Sierra
Richard Maounkes
Sacramento
Portola
Apollo 9 Spare Ship Under Full Range Tests
Moonpark engineers ran a full range of systems tests on the Apollo 9 spare spacecraft at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the earth orbital test. The exercise aimed at a simulated flight with astronauts James A. McDivitt David R. Scott and Russell L. Schweickart at the controls, ahead of a 10 day Earth orbit mission next month to test the lunar module.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Moonpark
James A. McDivitt
David R. Scott
Russell L. Schweickart
McDivitt
Scott
Schweickart
Pueblo's Mission Spy on Red Ships
Testimony at a San Diego panel recounts Pueblo commander Bucher describing a plan to scuttle the ship with fire axes and sledgehammers, the limited destruct system, and the Navy's cost cuts that left only basic tools on deck as the Pueblo neared conversion to an intelligence vessel.
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Pueblo
Bucher
Navy
Pacific Fleet Command
Pearl Harbor
Plas
Air Force
William Newsome
Naval Ammphibious
San Diego
Adm
Harald G. Bowen Jr
Mr. Roberts
Puget Sound
Chief of Naval Operations
Washington, D.C
Eet
Newsome
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Times
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Aubert
Ee Free
Long Beach Blvd
Long Beach Beach
Conan Ta Tl Ua
N. Calif
Slide Knalls
Pueblo's
the Pueblo
Bowen
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