Dispute over POWs takeover fuels protests and returns
The article details rifts over the release of three U S prisoners held in Vietnam. Families greet veterans in Maxwell, St Albans and San Diego as Defense officials discuss negotiations with Hanoi. Critics accuse peace activists of using prisoners as propaganda while officials stress verified identifications and the push to bring all POWs home.
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Hanoi
United States
Elias
Los Angeles
National League of Families of American Prisoners and
Southeast Asia
Chaperonts
Stephen Hanson
Paris Opera Ends Norma Cold After Star Is Absent
Paris spectators booed as Ulpi Marti Marti, billed as Barnabe Mari, did not appear for the final act of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma at the renovated Paris opera house. A doctor diagnosed a voice failure prompting the curtain to remain down in the final fourth set, leaving the capacity crowd dissatisfied.
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Paris
UPI
Vincenzo Bellini
Norma
Barnabe Mari
Opera House
Marti
Laborer arraigned in double slaying
A 22-year-old Bell Gardens laborer was arraigned Thursday in Compton Municipal Court on two counts each of murder and sex perversion and one count of burglary in the Sept. 17 rapes and slaying of a Willowbrook woman and her 6-year-old daughter. Robert John Garcia was ordered returned Oct. 11 to Dept. 3 for preliminary hearing before Judge Harry Shafer. The judge had issued a warrant for Garcia's rearrest late Wednesday following further investigation by sheriff's homicide detectives.
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Bell Gardens
Compton
Willowbrook
Robert John Garcia
Dept. 3
Harry Shafer
Garcia
Sherif
Woman, 70, Found Safe After Being Lost In The Woods
MELYON UP I Miss Minnie Loesch aged 70 was located unharmed after two days and nights lost in the Santa Cruz mountain woods. She arrived at a small shopping center about three miles from where she disappeared last Wednesday, a sheriff's deputy said.
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Melyon
UPI
Miss Minnie
Loesch
Sante’ Cruz
ACTION LINE updates on missing payments and park plans in Long Beach
Readers seek help with missing child support funds traced to Los Angeles DPSS and with the city plan to add a school park site near Jane Addams Elementary. Also covered are a jewelers insurance gap after a store robbery and advice denying recovery without negligence or insurer coverage.
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Hus Tea
Los Angeles
Action Line
M.E.M
Reno
Nev
Kent Radford
Los Angeles County
DPSS
Long Beach
Platt
Mountain View
A.N.G
Seal
Jane Addams
Pine Ave
Chance Hill Jr
Hill
Hum
Petition sought to end 23 cent parking meters at Huntington Beach Cliffs
A Long Beach reader notes the end of surfing days due to meters at Huntington Beach Cliffs and asks if a petition exists to restore free beach access for youths. The writer plans to help gather signatures and shares fond photos of surfers.
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Huntington Beach
E.B
Long Beach
Rogers criticizes McGovern defense cuts on world peace risk
New York Secretary of State William P. Rogers accused George McGovern's proposed defense cuts of seriously undermining foreign policy and endangering world peace and security. He questioned the wisdom of McGovern's military plans without naming the Democratic nominee directly.
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New. York
William P. Rogers
George McGovern
Rogers
McGovern
Outback
1967 killer of officer sets life
Thom as Hugeno Spychala a gun crazy hermit lured a highway patrolman into an ambush in Rolling Hills Estates and murdered Officer Merle Andrews in 1967 He was sentenced to life imprisonment at Torrance Superior Court Judge Bernard Lawler followed a jury verdict of first degree murder Spychala a Maywood resident was once found sane and returned to stand trial after a rambling spree that included car theft hostage taking and a planned shootout with police
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Thomas Hugeno Spychala
Spychala
Torrance
Bernard Lawler
Lawler
Jnlica
Merle Andrews
Maywood
Andrews
Spychaia
Lomita
Mesothelioma Kills Shipyard Workers Warns of Exposure
Mt Sinai doctors report twenty mesothelioma cases in six months among shipyard exposures to asbestos. Selikoff urges urgent treatment development and early chest x ray screening. He notes a rise since 1930s and cites naval engine rooms and Admiral-linked cases. Rauscher cautions against alarmism.
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Mt. Sinai Hospital
Mt. Sinai
Selikoff
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Garage owner stabbed dies at Fountain Valley station
Louis J. Lovko a 45 year old garage and service station owner was stabbed to death in the rear of his Talbert Avenue station at about 820 p m Thursday night Two youths in their late teens approached the station while one distracted an attendant The other entered the back room and found Lovko dead after Lovko had been stabbed 12 times John Craft 16 identified by police as the distractor discovered the body
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Fountain Valley
Louis J. Lovko
Talbert Ave
John Craft
Lovko
Meni
Craft
U S F111 Raids North Viet Nam Amid Ground Attacks
U S forces mounted another raid against North Viet Nam using F111 swing wing jets for the first time since 198 amid heavy daylong bombing. Reports said two F111s were shot down near Hanoi while pilots were captured. Ground fighting along Highway 1 on the central coast marked a new front as allied pacification efforts continued.
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Saigon
UPS
United States
North Vietnam
North
U.S
Hano
U.S. Command
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
Quang Tri
Hanoi
Highway 1
Paramount girl drowns in pool
An 11-year-old girl, Diane Schnoor, daughter of Mrs. Doris Schnoor, drowned in a neighbor’s pool in Paramount on Thursday afternoon. She was found floating in a residential pool near her home on Marcelle Street and died at Paramount General Hospital at 5:30 p.m. The incident was reported by sheriff's deputies.
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Sandra Diane Scehnoor
Paramount
Doris Schnoor
Mote St
Paramount General Hospital
Marcelle SL
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Vietnam
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U.S. Navy
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Defense
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Fort Worth
Tex
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Coffin
William P. ‘Rogers
Wre
Paris Opera
Mark Gartley
M.T
Frank. J. Rauscher Jr
National Cancer Institute
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Rauscher
North Viets
Springfield
Mass
Christopher J. Weldon
Nired
Cherry Ave
Market St
K-Mart
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