Obituary notes on Harry Ruskin and White House visit highlights
Harry Ruskin writer of the Andy Hardy and Dr Kildare films dies at 75 in Bur. He also penned I May Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful Ballyhoo and postwar screenplays. In a separate event, Detroit boy Will Caldwell cancer battle draws Nixon to invite his family to White House church services, joined by 550 guests and 10 year old Jahe Bell of Annandale seeking divine help.
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Chutists Collide Fall to Deaths Near Lumberton NJ
Two parachutists Kay K. Komac 28 Maple Shade NJ and John McGuire 2 Philadelphia died after a midair collision at Burlington County Air Park. Police said Komac’s chute failed to open from 2000 feet while McGuire’s did not deploy. both were unconscious on impact after being dropped from a plane at 7200 feet.
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Lawyer seeks single trial to avoid double jeopardy in hijacking case
Marvin Mitchelson, representing Marine Lance Corporal Minichiello, says he will seek to unite all U S and Italian charges in an Italian court to ensure one trial. Minichiello is indicted in Brooklyn on kidnaping, assault, and air piracy for the TWA jet hijacking. He has been held in Rome on Italian charges and his mother and sister traveled from Seattle to be with him.
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Allied Planes Hit Viet Reds Second Day Inside Cambodia
Allied planes attacked inside Cambodia for a second day, silencing two Communist artillery positions that had shelled Du Prang Special Forces camp 112 miles north of Saigon. The strikes went 0.5 to 0.75 miles inside Cambodian territory after Bu Prang endured 68 mortar and artillery rounds in the 21st straight day of bombardment from Cambodia. Heavy fighting around the area was also reported by UPI correspondent Nat Gibson.
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Nixon Returns to White House After Camp David Visit
President Nixon flew back to the White House with Pat and Tricia after an overnight Camp David stay to work on the 1972 budget. He will meet with Prime Minister Eisaku Sato on Okinawa's return to Japan. Separately, reports say U S and Vietnamese forces bombed inside Cambodia and troop levels in Vietnam fell to a 1967 low as redeployments continued.
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Supreme Court trips over own order on obscenity review
The Supreme Court briefly signaled a review of obscenity positions then reversed the order citing an error. The court had planned to hear an appeal from Louis Carles of Watertown New York for selling girlie magazines, but later canceled the plan without explanation. The incident comes amid other term slips and ongoing cases, with the calendar still unsettled. Separately, five workers were killed in Osaka Japan when paint thinner exploded during basement tank painting at a building under construction.
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Two Women Shot Dead by Robbers in New York City
Police say a mother and daughter were killed and a father critically wounded when two gunmen forced entry into a Washington Heights apartment on the 12th floor. They robbed the family of about $100 before firing on them as they left.
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Israel Jets Hit Arab Gun Posts in Retaliation
Israeli planes carried out a two hour air strike targeting Iraqi Syrian and Jordanian artillery units in Jordan. The attack focused near Salt and involved Egyptian backed forces in Jordan, following clashes that left Israeli troops wounded. Prime Minister Golda Meir convened a caretaker cabinet meeting on the Eilat incident and potential further action.
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Wake is More Fun Without the Body in East Boston
Boston report recounts Charley Willis organizing gatherings with friends at wakes, noting the twisted appeal of the wake ritual rather than mourning, as he and his circle met more when someone died. The piece hints at a dark, humorous social pattern among longtime friends in East Boston.
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Senate Opens Probe Into Viet Nam Black Market Currency
The Senate Permanent Investigations Committee will start an inquiry into a alleged billion dollar black market in U S and South Vietnamese currency in South Vietnam. Chairman Abraham Ribicoff said the illicit trade drains American aid efforts and harms the Vietnamese economy.
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