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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1973
Page
1
Six American POWs met newsmen at Clark Field in the Philippines less than a day after their Freedom Flight from Hanoi arrived. The men spoke calmly about reentry, joked with reporters, and discussed future plans, family and war views while adjusting to postwar life.
A grandmother rescues a child from a Los Angeles fire as a family keeps vigil nearby. The dramatic incident underscores neighborhood courage amid rising smoke and sirens.
A driver reports daily near misses with school children crossing at the Florida Street overpass. He says 87 percent of the time he dodges them while navigating 34 pan most days. Four months of ongoing risk prompted a police call with no action, and he fears a fatal accident if inaction continues.
In a Vatican move Pope Paul VI convenes the fourth world synod of Roman Catholic bishops for 1967 in Rome to discuss evangelization of the contemporary world. The pope tasks the synod with exploring ways to update Christianity to meet modern expectations and needs.
Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger arrived in Tokyo for a one day visit highlighting his four nation tour across Hanoi Peking and Tokyo The main engagement was a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka Officials described talks with Mao Tse tung in China and discussions with Chinese leaders as frank and wide ranging The visit follows Kissinger s discussions on Taiwan troop withdrawal a U S trade office in Peking and a broader China U S rapprochement
Ten former prisoners of war recover at San Antonio area military hospitals with upbeat reports from Brooke Army Medical Center and Willard Hall at Lackland. Three of four men from Brooke left for a club visit while CWO James H. Hestand remained fatigued. Air Force officers at Lackland enjoy visits as debriefings and medical exams continue.
Mrs Elida Solis 34 carries her grandson Brandson 4 from a four room frame house on the near South Side after a mattress in a bedroom ignites. The woman suffers first degree burns while Brandson and Solis’s grandson Danny Balderas 34 percent burn coverage. Both were hospitalized in critical condition at Bexar County Hospital with damage estimated at about 2000 for the structure and 1000 for contents.
A Soviet Tupolev 164 airliner carrying 99 aboard crashed at Prague airport, killing 77. Twenty two people were rescued from the burning wreckage as the jet slammed into ground near the runway, its wings and tail detaching and the fuselage breaking into pieces.
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