Jumbo jet crashes into Everglades
A Boeing 470 series jumbo jet crashed into the Everglades near the Tamiami Trail eight miles north, leaving bodies in swampy terrain. Rescue teams, Coast Guard, and Indians aided flows of survivors to Miami hospitals as investigators opened the first fatal case involving the era’s jumbo jets.
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Miami
Coast Guard
Hodges
Frank Borman
Don Taggerty
Dade County
Martin Siminerio
Long Island
Siminerio
Tamiami Trail
Everglades
Florida
Washington
Aviation Administration
Eastern
Flight 401
FAA
Don Byers
National Transportation Safety Board
Robert A. Loft
Bill Wooten
Mami
Palmetto
Mercy
Baptist
Mercy Hospital
Peace talks resume January 8 as war policy shifts
President announces resumption of Paris talks to start January 8 at a White House news conference delivered from Camp David. William Sullivan will join, as critics at home and abroad press for bedrock changes, including withdrawal or funding cuts for Indochina. North Vietnamese accusations of civilian bombings persist, Pentagon denies targeting civilians, and French ministers seek renewed sessions.
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William Sullivan
White House
Camp David
Maryland Mountains
William Saxbe
Ohio
Nixon
Wilbur D. Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Indochina
Carl Albert
D-Okia
United States
Pentagon
U.S
Hanoi
Paris
Maurice Shuman
Executive freed in Argentina by Montoneros
Argentine urban guerrillas released Italian executive Vicente Russo, 46, of Standard Electric Argentina, after collecting more than $500,000 in ransom. The group Montoneros claimed responsibility, saying the action targeted International Telosphere and Telegraph Corp. interests.
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Buenos Aires
U.S
Vicente Russo
Standard Electric Argentina
Internaional Telsphere & Teleraph Corp
Caine Gee Aden
Montoneros
Juan
Vietport minefields to remain after bombing halt
The Pentagon said minefields will stay in the approaches to North Viet Nam ports despite Nixon ordering an end to bombing and naval gunfire north of the 20th parallel. Defense officials declined to say if reseeding would occur or discuss diplomatic implications.
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Pentagon
Vietnam
Nixon
Defense
Jerry W. Friedham
U.S
Friedhelm
Robbers kill 4 at Pine Village Restaurant
Four people were shot dead and a fifth wounded during a Friday night robbery at Pine Village Restaurant in Yorkville Illinois. Police said they arrested a man and a woman in connection with the slayings and would release details later. The wounded victim was hospitalized.
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Pine Village
Yorkville
Chicago
Weather by Wirephoto Mostly cloudy and mild with showers
Weather by Wirephoto reports mostly cloudy and windy with occasional showers and a near 50 degree high tomorrow. Sunset 4 38 p m today sunrise 7 36 a m tomorrow. Previous day high 22 low 9. Record highs and lows noted with 53 in 1965 and 20 in 1947. Snowfall totals and seasonal records included.
Nationwide winter storm spurs heavy rain and snow
A major winter storm swept the central Plains and Mississippi Valley with heavy rain and snow from Kansas to the Canadian border. Blizzard warnings covered northern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, with over four inches of snow likely across multiple states. Thunderstorms and tornadoes touched down near Fort Worth and Paris, Texas, while wide rainfall totals and diverse temperatures marked the storm’s reach coast to coast.
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Canadian
National Weather Service
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North Dakota
Nebraska
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Iowa
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Missouri
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Oklo
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N.C
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Buffalo
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Detroit
Honolutu
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Kansas City
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Louisville
Miami
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Canadians Pay Tribute to Pearson in Parliament
Ottawa AP reports Canadians paid tribute to former Prime Minister Lester Pearson as his flag draped coffin lay under stone arches in Parliament. Pearson, 75, died Wednesday night after shortening a Florida vacation, and he is to be buried Sunday. He won the Nobel Prize for helping establish a Middle East peace keeping force in 1956 while external affairs minister.
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Ottawa
Lester Pearson
Pearson
Middle East
Managua Struggles as Quake Relief Delays Persist
Banks reopen in tents along highways outside Managua after a major earthquake strike. Fires rage in downtown areas as relief distribution falters. Officials report salvaged currency and bank documents while troops guard makeshift banking. In Leon, trucks with aid from neighboring countries are stopped, delaying supplies for a city of about 60 000. Red Cross and Guatemalan aid trucks arrive amid scarce transport. A doctor uses a shoelace to tie a newborn’s umbilical cord due to supply shortages.
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Leon
Managua
Roger Blandon
Red Cross
Scientists ponder orange soil origin from Apollo moon rocks
Houston AP scientists at the Manned Spacecraft Center remain unsure if the orange soil from Apollo 17 is volcanic. They note the material is 90 percent glass with droplets and spheres, brownish to burnt orange in color, while a MIT scientist reports a subsurface water horizon potential from surface electrical properties tests.
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Space. Center
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
William Phinney
MSC
Phinney
Eupena Simmons
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Gast
Planetary and Earth Sciences
Moon
Eugene Cernan
Harrison Schmitt
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