Tiger confronts Marine in Vietnam ambush tale
In Dong Ha a U S Marine Lance Cpl. Jim Shepherd recalls a night ambush near the DMZ when a tiger latched onto his arm and dragged him as he fought back with neck and face blows. The Idaho native recounts the event from a Dong Ha clinic amid rabies precautions.
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John Lengel
Associated Press
Dong HA
Vietnam
U. S
Lance Cpl
Jim Shepherd
Shepherd
Montpelier
Idaho
Demilitarized Zone
9Th Marine Regiment
High Court Rejects Texas Claim to Tidelands Oil
The Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that Texas coastal submerged lands extend nine miles from its 1845 boundary, not from artificial harbor edges. The decision blocks private drilling beyond that belt, denying Texas millions in potential royalties and leasing plans.
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Washington
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Supreme Court
Nine Mile
Sabine Pass
Port Arthur
Galveston
Gulf States
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Congress
Gulf
John Harlan
Cyprus Chief Delays Reply to U Thant Peace Proposals
Cyprus President Makarios delays response to U Thant while Thant trims two contentious provisions on UN peacekeeping and minority rights. Vance ends talks in Nicosia noting no full agreement. Greece and Turkey push to implement Thant’s appeal and withdraw troops, amid earlier warnings of regional tension.
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Associated Press
United Nations, N.Y
Makarios
Cyprus
U.N
U Thant
Thant
Greece
Turkey
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Nicosia
Vance
Athens
Washington
Johnson
Zenon Rassides
Constantine Kollias
Suleyman Dmirel
December 4 in History 1967 Highlights
On this date in history events span 1783 Washington farewell at Fraunces Tavern to 1816 Monroe elected fifth president 1851 Paris workers' revolt 1942 Allied bombers hit Italy 1943 Cairo meeting Roosevelt Churchill 1944 Athens clashes reflect Greek leftist activity 1957 Eisenhower administration request on presidential disability.
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Paris
Louis Napoleon
George Washington
Fraunces Tavern
New York
James Monroe
U.S
Britain
Queensland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Cairo
Elas Party
Athens
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Ecumenical
Weather outlook for Texas regions nationwide same day
The forecast covers Snyder and regions across Texas. Temperatures range from lows around 20 degrees in the northwest to highs in the 60s in the east and south. Expect partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered light rain possible in parts of the west and north.
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Snyder
Texas
Northwest
South
Cable Car Rampage on San Francisco Hills Terrifies Riders
A Hyde Street cable car ran wild down a rain slick hill in San Francisco collapsing into a car and erupting in flames. Twenty seven people were taken to hospitals with burns and injuries, including James Van Baalen 30 critically burned. Passengers reported loss of brakes and cable grip, with bystanders recalling screams and chaos as autos were damaged and a gas tank ruptured.
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Associated Press
SAN Francisco
James van Baalen
Hyde Street
Powell and
Market Streets
Hyde
Bay Street
Jim Kosek
Clarendon Hills
Ill
Kosek
Lorena Matson
North Point Street
Frank Coombs
South African performs first successful human heart transplant
Louis Washkansky, 55, in satisfactory condition after receiving the heart of Denise Ann Darvall, 25, in a landmark operation at Groote Schuur Hospital. Surgeons led by Jan H. Louw and Chris Barnard performed the five hour transplant with a mechanical pump maintaining the donor heart before implantation. Doctors caution about possible rejection years ahead while noting the procedure’s scientific merit.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Louis Washkansky
Groote Schuur Hospital
Washkansky
Denise Ann Darvall
Jackus G. Bulger
Berger
Jan. H. Louw
Chris Barnard
Miss Darvall
Dr. Louw
United States
Norman E. Shumway
Stanford Medical Center
Man Dies From Auto Fumes Near Snyder
Glen O. Mitcham 42 of Buckholtz was found unconscious with car engine running on U S 180 fifteen miles west of Snyder early Sunday. An autopsy showed carbon monoxide poisoning. He was en route from Seminole. survived by wife, daughter, and mother. Funeral plans pending in Cameron.
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Glen O. Mitcham
Buckholtz
Snyder
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Justice of the Peace
Jimmie Billingsley
Mitcham
Seminole
U.S. 180
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Cameron
Thousands Mourn Cardinal Spellman In New York Cathedral
Francis Cardinal Spellman lay in state at St Patrick's Cathedral as mourners filed by the catafalque after a requiem said by Archbishop John F Maguire. Spellman died at 78 from a stroke, with funeral set for Thursday and Cardinal Brennan possibly returning from Rome.
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New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
St. Patrick’s Cathe
Catafalque
John F. Maguire
Maguire
Paul VI
New York City
United States
Francis Cardinal Brennan
Vatican
Rome
Heirarchy
Diamond ring fuels talk of romance in Messler tale
Candace Messler, widow of Jacques Messler, flaunts a large diamond calling it her wedding ring for all time. She denies plans to marry Melvin Lane Powers, with whom she and Powers were acquitted of murdering her wealthy husband. Messler, 41, says Powers, 30, remains central amid lingering questions about their bond. Her birth certificate shows 1920 as her birth year. Powers watched with a grin.
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Miami
Candace Messler
Melvin Lane Powers
Mr. Power
Mrs. Messler
Powers
Haralson County
Jacques Mossler
Decades silliness strikes cripple British rails
A go slow by engine drivers paralyzed Britain’s rail system and snarled roads. The pace, called the silliest dispute of the decade by Labour minister Ray Gunter, halted freight and passenger trains as guards from a rival union objected to riding in rear cabs. Prime Minister Harold Wilson prepared emergency measures including possible mobilization of transport and use of Army trucks and RAF planes.
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Michael Codes
London
Ray Gunter
Nationalized Rail Board
State
Harold Wilson
Royal Air Force
National Union of Railwaymen
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Tidelands
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Thurgood Marshall
Hugo Black
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Sparkle
Dral
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Candace
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