Plane Search Underway for Boggs Missing in Alaska Coast
A fleet of private planes joined an Air Force HC130 in a search along Alaska's southern coast for a light Cessna 310 carrying House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and three others. Heavy clouds and rain hampered efforts as officials warned of marginal flying conditions after the craft failed to arrive in Juneau.
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Boggs
Alaska
John Morrison
Associated Press
Anchorage, Alaska
Hale Boggs
Air Force
Anchorage
Juneau
Air Forces
Gary Hymes
Washington
Jonz
D-La
Nick Begich
Begich
Egyptian Soviet talks in Moscow aim to normalize strained relations
Egyptian Premier Aziz Sidky meets Soviet leaders including Kosygin and Podgorny in Moscow as negotiations seek to repair ties after Cairo expelled Soviet advisors. The talks follow years of cooling between Egypt and the Soviet Union.
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Aziz Sidky
Moscow
Sidky
Alexei Kosygin
Nikolai Podgorny
Andrei Gromyko
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Aid bill snags threaten adjournment and polls ahead
Washington lawmakers face a $250 billion spending cap and a trimmed foreign aid bill as they push toward adjournment. Senators demand tight limits on new presidential spending authority, opposing a conference compromise. The Senate trimmed foreign aid by $515.4 million, returning the measure to the House for reconsideration while a $6 billion Medicare compromise appears likely to pass.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
House
Senate
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Sen
Willam Proxmire
D.wis
Five train crewmen found guilty in Mexico rail disaster
Federal judge in Piedras Negras convict five train crewmen of homicide in the Oct 5 disaster that killed over 200. They face formal imprisonment on charges including attacks on communications and property damage amid claims of negligence. In Seoul, President Park declares martial law suspending parts of the constitution.
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Piedras Negras
Mexico
Jose Becerra Santiago
Bomb blast hits Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires
A bomb exploded on the 22nd floor of the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires killing a Canadian woman and gravely injuring her husband and a Massachusetts woman. Peronist supporters were blamed as bombings spread during a surge tied to Oct 17, 1945.
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Buenos Aires
New Sheraton
Massachusetts
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Navy
Peron
Madrid
Fund reaches midpoint in Chaves County United Way campaign
Co-Chairmen John Bassett and Bill McAlpine announced $95 316.75 raised, over 54 percent of the year’s $75 889 goal. Local banks and 400 volunteers boosted totals as divisions report varying progress including Education at 90 percent and Pattern at 62 percent.
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Chaves County
United Way
John Bassett
Bill McAlpine
Roswell
First National Bank
Roswell State Bank
Security National Bank
Bassett and
McAlpine
Bassett
Ken Bonnell
Nancy Hartman
Jane Ray
President to ink revenue sharing bill at Independence Hall
President Nixon plans to sign the revenue sharing bill in Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Invitations go to 50 governors and numerous officials for a 12 30 p m ceremony. The measure allocates 5.3 billion dollars from federal to state and local governments this year with larger sums later. first checks mailed Oct 27.
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Washington
Nixon
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Congress
Federal Treasury
Boggs Career Arcs From Rayburn Protege To Majority Leader
A retrospective on Hale Boggs of Louisiana tracing his rise under Sam Rayburn, service in World War II, and pivotal roles as House whip and later majority leader. The profile notes his civil rights voting record, Kennedy era support, Warren Commission service, and late 1960s leadership amid liberal shifts.
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Boggs
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Johnson
Rayburn
House
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Peking
Naval Reserve
U.S. Maritime Service
Climber Portwood airlifted from cliff to Carlsbad hospital
Elton C. Portwood, 21, of Carlsbad, was rescued from a ravine near Sitting Bull Falls in Eddy County. An Air Force helicopter from Roswell airlifted him to Carlsbad Regional Medical Center after state police helped secure an improvised landing zone.
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Carlsbad
N.M
Elton C. Portwood
Eddy County
Carlsbad Regional Medical Center
Air Force
Roswell
Portwood
New Mexico Medical Center
Queen's Area
Sitting Bull Falls
Texas Line
Guadalupe Mountains
Lincoln National Forest
Roswell Area Weather Outlook Through Wednesday
Partly to mostly cloudy conditions prevail today through Wednesday with a chance of scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. No significant temperature changes expected. Highs near 84 degrees, lows around 47 tonight.
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Roswell
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Federal Aviation Administration
Pan-Alaskan Airways
Prince William Sound
Panhandle
William Moore
National Transportation Safety Board
Patrick W. Whitaker
HC130
By Jim Adams
Seoul
Chung-hee Park
Park
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Russell Brown
Supreme Court
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