Bucher Told He Is Suspect Before Christmas
Navy officials pressed Commander Bucher and his crew with charges after the North Korean incident. His civilian attorney E Miles Harvey demanded specifics on readiness, force to resist, destruction of sensitive material, incinerator capacity, and surrender of classified items. Bucher acknowledged limits and rights to remain silent while defending his actions.
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Bucher
Miles Harvey
Harvey
Navy
ABC Plans Century City Entertainment Center in L A
ABC announces a 20 million two-building entertainment complex in Century City Los Angeles. The project includes a 2,000-seat theater two movie houses seating 1500 and 800 and a five level legitimate theater plus restaurants and shops. Construction aimed to start in five months and finish in about two years with a 2300-car parking garage funded by Century City Inc and Alena Properties Inc.
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Los Angeles
American Broadcasting Co
Century City
Century Plaza
Samuel H. Clark
Proup
Projet
ABC
Motion
Clark
Century City, Inc
Alena Properties, Inc
Arson Fire Scare Closes Poughkeepsie High School
Firemen battled six blazes at Poughkeepsie High School before 5 am causing the 1,500 student school to close for the day. Police labeled the fires arson as investigators searched the two story concrete and stone building.
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Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Poughkeepsie High School
Sirhan Jury Challenges Slow Trial
Jurors for the Sirhan case faced delays as the slow process of jury selection continued. Two jurors were seated, Ronald Evans and Mary Lou Busby, while several were rejected or replaced amid challenges, leaving a nine to three composition and ongoing uncertainty.
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Sirhan
Ronald G. Evans
Inglewood Pacific Telephone Co. Employe
Mary Lou Busby
Downey High
Rosa A. Molina
Harold Baldwin
Alhambra
Wilma Boone
Norwalk
Anderson
Barbara Collins
James B. Avery
Burbank
Whittier Aatique
Geraldine Scherer
Bruce PD
Elliott
TRW
Walker
Floods in Syria halt traffic and destroy bridges
Damascus dispatch reports torrential rains flooding wide areas of Syria. Floodwaters swept across highways demolishing numerous bridges and bringing road movement to a near standstill across much of the country.
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Damascus
Syria
Cosmonauts Shot At Kremlin Parade Noted Ininstability Claim
A lone gunman fired on a Kremlin bound limousine carrying cosmonauts Bois Volynov Yevgeny Khrunov and Vladimir Shatalov and civilian Alexei Yeliseyev. The driver and a security guard were seriously wounded while Maj. Gen. Georgy Beregovoi sustained injuries from shattered glass. Brezhnev and Podgorny watched from adjacent vehicles and were unharmed. The assailant was seized by bystanders as security moved to contain the incident.
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Vladimir A. Shatalov
Aleksei S. Yeliseyev
Yevgeny Khrunov
Boris ¥. Volynoy
Kremlin
Nauts Bois’ Volynov
Vladimir Shatalov
Air Force
Alexei Yeliseyev
Georgy Beregovoi
Family of 4 Stranded Four Days in Snow
Ronald Balster 24 his wife Ellen 27 and children Kim 8 and Ann 6 were stranded four days west of Johnsondale in a Kern Canyon snowstorm. They survived on candy bats and conkies as rescuers found Ellen after she walked 10 miles seeking help. Their car stalled on a tractor track. Balster suffered frostbite during a failed attempt to reach aid.
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Johnsondale
UPI
Here
Ronald Balster
Ellen
Kim
Ann
Balster
Tulare County
Newhall
Kern Canyon
Whey
Dixie Tornadoes Casualties High
A deadly Mississippi tornado tore through Hazlehurst Simpson Harrisville St John’s area and Kemper County. Five killed in St John’s with additional fatalities in Harrisville and nearby Smith County. A school bus overturned injuring students but no deaths reported. Later, a San Jose couple delivered a baby at a fire station after a failed hospital detour.
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Chester White
Brookhaven
U.S. Weather Bureau
Jackson
Hazlehurst
Simpson County
Harrisville
St. John's
Mendenhall
St. John’s
Haziehurst
Highway Patrol
Smith County
Mississippi
White Oak
San Jose
UPI
Araron Smith
Yugoslav Youth Sets Self Afire in Protest
Belgrade reported that 24 year old Marijan Lombar a locksmith poured gasoline on himself and set himself aflame making him the sixth person in Eastern Europe to self immolate in protest following Czech student Jon Palach’s suicide for censorship protest.
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Belgrade
UPI
Smith
Tanjug
Marijan Lombar
Europe
Jon Palach
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Nikolai V. Pod>eony
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