Chile Quake Triggers Widespread Damage and Tsunami Watch
A strong quake shook a 900 mile Chilean stretch damaging at least 100 homes with intensity reaching 7 to 8. A Pacific tsunami watch was issued as officials reported no confirmed casualties and communications briefly interrupted with Puerto Montt and Concepcion.
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Saniago
UPS
Chile
Santiago
Puerto Montt
Interior Ministry
National Weather Service Office
Honolulu
Valparaiso
Concepcion
Malleco
Norte Chico
Southeast Asian ministers seek blueprint for a zone of peace
Foreign ministers from five Southeast Asian nations meet in Kuala Lumpur to push a draft plan for a 10 nation zone of peace neutrality and no foreign bases. ASEAN aims to secure recognition from superpowers and include Indochina's nations if possible.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
UPI
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASEAN
Indonesia
Alaysia
Philippines
Thailand
Singapore
Europe
Asia
Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Burma
Wilson to address nation on television and radio
Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced he would go on national television and radio to restore confidence as Britain faces a severe economic crisis and a divided Labour Party. The pound hit a record low amid 25 percent inflation and 32 percent wage growth, with Healey's budget failing to curb the downturn.
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London
UPI
Harold Wilson
Wilson
Jamaica
Britain
Dennis Healey
Bank of England
Gordon Richardson
Basil
Switzerland
Torday
Richardson
Princess Christina Targeted as Death Threat Sent to Expressen
Swedish police tightened security around Princess Christina and Minister Anna Greta Leijon after a May 8 letter from Hamburg threatened their lives and asked two million German marks. The note, signed by Commando Siegfried Hausner, also warned of attacks in Germany and menaced a Stockholm church.
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Stockholm
UPI
Princess Christina
West Germany
Hamburg
Expressen
Anna- Greta Leijon
Tord Magnuson
Sweden
Christina
Germany
Siegfried Hausner
Long Thanh Falls to Viet Cong in Brutal Advance
A UPI report describes Long Thanh and surrounding areas after a swift Viet Cong advance. Destruction blankets Bien Hoa and Highway 15 with ruined schools, collapsed buildings, and bodies of refugees amid a town now controlled by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. Civilians face rising food prices under new district leadership as debris and shell damage mark the landscape.
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Long Thanh
South Vietnam
UPI
Saigon
Bien Hoa
Iself
Highway 15
Paul Vogle
Nguyen Thi Nguyet
Capacity at Guam stretched as Vietnamese refugees surge
Guam faces capacity strain as 42,000 displaced Vietnamese crowd the island with a 50,000 cap. Refuges are shifted to Wake Island and flights to the U.S. are planned while ships voyage from Singapore to Subic Bay and Hong Kong to Guam. Sanitation and bedding shortages worsen, doubling children on beds and forcing adults to sleep on tent floors. Representatives cite refugee processing changes as the bottleneck driving the pressure.
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Agana
Guam
UPI
Wake Island
United States
U.S
George S. Morrison
U.S. Navy
Narianas
Singapore
Subic Bay
Philippines
Hong Kong
Clara Maersk
John F. Thomas
Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration
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