U S Navy Intervenes as Western Union Is Seized
The Western Union cable schooner was intercepted near Cuban waters by the U S destroyer John Weeks and jet aircraft. The ship was escorted toward Baracoa Harbor and released once the destroyer arrived, with the vessel later reported heading toward Key West. The Castro regime denounced the action as a violation of treaties, while U S authorities said the seizure occurred outside Cuban territorial limits.
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Havana
UPS
U.S. Navy
Western Union
U.S
Fidel Castro
Guantanamo
Washington
O’donnell
Cuban
Weoowua
Unaaye
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Naval
Baracoa
Cuba
John W. Weeks
Edward J. O’donnell
Baracoa Harbor
John Weeks
Key West
Weather and Cuba policy notes mixed in regional forecast
Northeastern Ohio sees cloudiness and snow flurries with a high around 44. A cool night low near 31 to 36. Wednesday turns mostly cloudy and warmer with light snow flurries accumulating about 0.03 inches. In Washington the State Department released a 36 page pamphlet urging Cubans toward democracy while warning Cuba is becoming a Soviet satellite under Fidel Castro with a purge of the judiciary and an expanded Communist influence. The document admits past errors and promises US support for a future Cuban government, aiming to speak to the Cuban people directly.
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Ohio
Washington
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
State Department
Castro
Department
U.S
Where To Turn Crossing Bill Opposed by Officials
Township and village spokesmen offer first opposition to proposed railroad crossing protection law. First page summary notes include local debate and initial critique of the measure. Also mentions the death of Frank J. Stack at 74, a noted attorney and businessman. A list of 20 indicted by grand jury appears for arraignment in Common Pleas Court.
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Ind
Common Pleas Court
McNamara's Warning on Missiles and McCann Prison Release
Defense secretary McNamara urged avoiding reliance on nuclear weapons for limited wars while noting a versatile nonnuclear option. The piece also covers the delayed return of dying American prisoner McCann from Red China, with his family awaiting plane arrival in Altadena and Red China announcing his release after years of espionage imprisonment.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Tientsin
Robert 5. McNamara
Redjli
China
Robert E. McCann
United States
Esprey
Cross
McCanny
McNamara
Hardj
Army
Ils
Red Cross
Kennedy
LestunUny Lee Leecent
Armed Services Committee
Swavol
Reiping
Fowash McCann
Altadena
Calif
McCann
Red China
New China News Agency
Sal
Bhantung Province
Five GIs Named In Beating Of Soviet Mission Chief
UPI reports five American soldiers were involved in a Sunday night incident in Frankfurt in which the Soviet military mission chief was allegedly beaten. The Army said investigators found the soldiers had been drinking but were not intoxicated and released them to their units pending completion of the inquiry.
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Tohn Downey
New Bre
Peiping
BOM
Germany
UPI
U. S. Army
Frankfurt
U.S. Army
Europe
Vladimir N. Chetverniko
Soviet Union
U.S
Soviet Paratroop Push Near Vang Vieng Threatens Laos Capital
VIENTIANE Laos reports Soviet transport planes dropped paratroops near Vang Vieng 65 miles north of Vientiane in a new offensive. Phoumi Nosavan says 360 troops in three flights did not strike Vang Vieng but operate behind rebel lines aiming at Muong Kassy. Laos urged a simultaneous US and Soviet aid halt to enable a cease fire supervised by ICC.
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Vientiane
Laos
UPL
Vang Vieng
Phoumi Nosavan
Tha
Phoumi
Vang Jeng
Luang Prabang
Muong Kassy
Viet Nam
Tha Thom
van Vieng
Highway 13
United States
Russia
Bouavan Norasing
Soviet Union
International Control Commission On
Indochina
Canada
India
Poland
Bonavan
Cubans To Free U S Pilot And Canadian Cubans
Washington reports Cuba will release American Linden Blue of Denver and Canadian Don Swenson, held incommunicado since March 24. A Swiss Embassy cable stated both men will be released April 4, with no aircraft or cargo available. Blue and Swenson were forced down by Cuban air force en route from Florida to Managua to inspect machinery for Blue’s Nicaragua banana plantation.
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State Department
Peter Dominick
R-Colo
Gordon Allottr Cole
Linden Blue
Denver
Don Swenson
Blue
Swenson
Allott l
Dominick
Havana
Florida
Managua
Nicaragua
Reptile fossil found by New Jersey teens astonishes scientists
Three West New York and Guttenberg high school students found a late Triassic reptile fossil in a Granton Quarry meadow slab. Paleontologist Dr. Edwin Colbert described the creature as the earliest known gliding backboned animal, dating about 175 million years old, with five inch wing extensions over 14 ribs.
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New York
New Jersey
New Jersey Meadows
Edwin H. Colbert
Department of Paleontology
American Museum of Natural History
Alfred Siefker
Joseph Geiler
West New York
N. J
Michael Bandowski
Guttenberg
Alfred
Granton
Colbert
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Fidel
Lis
Diane Johnson
St. Mary's Hospital
Saginaw, Mich
Disane
Darlene
Diane
Lorain
Frank J. Stack
Anc
Oberlin Council
Amherst
Avon Lake
Berlin Heights
Carlisle
Worth Ridgeville
Columbia
Oberlin
Contract Bridge
Abby
Hillfes
Wellington
Richard Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
Hugh F. Redmond Jr
Yonkers
N.Y
Ir. Shanghai
James E. Walsh
Cumberland
Pic
Raymond
Martin
Portsmouth
Joseph Kloepfer
Toledo Ohio
James Isaac
Cisto
Chester D. Barrow
Devine
Tex
Duane W. Cook
Ander
Bush
Moscow
North Viet Nam
Pathet Lao
Otto Lilienthal
Wright Brothers
Wrights
Lilienthal
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