New Orleans Sniping Day of Confusion and Rumors
In New Orleans a chaotic siege at the Howard Johnson hotel left seven dead, with reports of one or more snipers on the roof and conflicting death tallies. Police praised a possible second sniper escape while witnesses described shouted demands and gunfire from multiple angles before the shooter on the roof was killed and authorities hunted possibly remaining snipers.
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UPI
Howard Johnson
pSix
Clarence Giarrussoig
UPE
Joseph P. Mangano Jr
Langmno
Maneguna
Omar
Palles
Tenny Patton
Charity Hospital Nurses Quarters
Een
Jung
Warwick Hotel
Glarrussa
Ealn
Giarrussa
Ray Oustalet
Frederick
Silky O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan
Halicopter
Services Set For Retired Brig General I. Rhea Jr
Services will be held at 10 20 a m Wednesday at Porter Loring Mortuary for Brig Gen I Robert Lee Rhea Jr ret former commander of Brooke General Hospital The 64 year old San Antonio resident died Monday He retired from the Army in 1968 after 34 years service He commended Fort Sam Houston Hospital from 1966 until retirement He graduated from Main Avenue High School Texas A and M University University of Texas and Harvard Medical School He is survived by his widow Elizabeth Rhea a son Robert Lee Rhea III daughters Lucy Lea Rhea Gwen Taylor and Margaret Salem and four grandchildren Interment will be in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
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Robert Lee Rhea Jr
Broolie General Hospital
Belknap
San Antonio
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Ft. San Houston
Main Avenue High School
Texas A&m University
University of Texas
Harvard University Medical School
Eizabeth Rhea
Robert Lee Rhea Ili
Lucy Lea Rhea
Gwen Taylor
Houston
Margaret Salem
Denver
Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery
Pentagon to brief Congress on December bombing report
Washington AP reports top military strategist Adm. Moorer will testify in closed sessions on the December bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. Secretary Laird says full details will come in executive session, as debates over Paris peace talks and POW issues continue.
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Capitol Hill
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
House Appropriations and
Allied Services Committees
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Moorer
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Haiphong
Nixon
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Paris
White House
Henry Kissinger
le Duc Tho
St. Moorer
Laird
Armed Services Committee
South Vietnam
Gil G. Pike
D-N.y
Kissinger
Pike
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Soviet Union
Skylab Test Rocket Move Advances Space Station Plan
The Saturn 1B rocket on a 127 foot pedestal heads to the oceanside pad for ground checks aboard the dummy Apollo spacecraft, as the real command ship is prepared in a separate building. Astronauts Peter Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz are slated for multi phase Skylab occupancy and launch sequence through mid year.
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Joseph P. Kerwin
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Donald Eisele
Walter Cunningham i
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Space Station
Obituary: Rupert N. Gresham Dies at 80 in San Antonio
Rupert N. Gresham, 80, San Antonio attorney and former State Bar of Texas president, died Monday. Services set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Survived by widow Gertrude Negley Gresham, daughter Mrs. James W. Crudgington of Washington DC, son Rupert N. Gresham Sr., three granddaughters, and two sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Crenshaw and Miss Carrie Lee Gresham, both of San Antonio.
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Rupert N. Gresham
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Gresham
Gresham, Davis, Gregory, Worthy and Moore
Luling
Howard
American Bar
Gertrude Negley Gresham
James W. Crudgington
Washington, D.C
Rupert N. Gresham Sr
Benjamin Crenshaw
Carrie Lee Gresham
Rites Due Hermann Sons Vet Windlinger 80
Rosary will be recited at 730 pm Tuesday at Zizik-Kearmas Downing-McClaugherty Chapel for Herman J. Windlinger 80 of 201 Delaware retired grand trustee of the Order of Hermann Sons in Texas Requiem Mass will be said at 730 am Wednesday at St Josephs Catholic Church with interment in St Josephs Cemetery He survived by his widow two daughters three sons two sisters 21 grandchildren and four great grandchildren ESTABLISH RELATIONS SAN JOSE Costa Rica East Germany established diplomatic relations today in a joint government announcement
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Zizik-Kearmas Downing-McClaugherty
Herman J. Windlinger
Delaware
Order of Hermann Sons
Watergate Seven Trial Quiet intrigues Washington
Washington watchers describe the Watergate trial opening as quiet yet tense with seven midlife defendants awaiting jury selection under Judge John J. Sirica. Liddy, Hunt, Barker, Parker and others face questions about motives, aims and possible financial ties to the Democratic headquarters break‑in.
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Thobight
Washington
CIA
B. Howard Hunt
FBI
James Bond
U.S
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G. Gordon Liddy
PAT
Mwardsman
Liddy
Congress
Gordon
C Liddy
Miling
Howard Hunt Jr
Hunt
Cuba
U.S. Army
Mr Corps
Europe
Batista
Barker
Perry Mason
Siren
Justice Department
Watergate Seven
Four Year Old Shot Accidentally at Home
Randy Garza, four, and his brother Alfred found a pellet in a closet at their home on Play Street. Randy was shot and remained in poor condition at Green Hospital Tuesday after the Monday accident. The boys are sons of Mary Garza.
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Randy Garza
the Green Hospital
Randy
Alfred
Mary Garza
Rhodesia to Close Border With Zambia Over Guerrilla Support
Rhodesia will close its border with neighboring Zambia to protest Zambian support for nationalist guerrillas, a Rhodesian spokesman said.
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Rhodesia
Salisbury
Zambia
Lodey
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