Survival tale from Greece crash survivor captain
Air Force Captain Thomas D. Smith recounts 48 hours on a blizzard swept peak in Greece after a crash killed at least four aboard. He describes freezing conditions, improvised shelter from parachutes, a rescue signal spotted by a C130, and his harrowing trek back to the fuselage before evacuation to Libya and return to Wiesbaden.
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USS
Air Force
Thomas D. Smith
Greece
Smith
U.S
Forrestal
Athens
Wheelus Air Force Base
Libya
Lee Smith
Frankfurt
Germany
Bliz
Winds Sink Catalina Pleasure Boats. Ice Hits Panhandle Roads
Violent 65 mile per hour winds ripped a seawall and sank a dozen boats at Avalon Harbor Catalina Island, with damage estimated at 250000 dollars. One man missing presumed drowned. wife injured, son rescued. Blizzard conditions and heavy snows spread across the Midwest and Great Plains, while lower Michigan set temperature records as far west nations faced icy roads and near zero visibility in the Texas Panhandle.
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Associated Press
Catalina Island
Texas Panhandle
Upper
Midwest
Michigan
Minnesota
Great Plains
Appalachians
Rocky Mountains
Avalon Harbor
Los Angeles Harbor
Newport Beach
Robert G. Hussey
California
Santa Ana
International Falls
Minn
Dakotas
Weather Bureau
Bombing Lull Hopes Persists As Peace Talks Stay Elusive
Senators Mansfield and Aiken voiced belief that Johnson should maintain the bombing pause in North Vietnam while pursuing peace. They warned that without talks, fighting could widen into a broader Asia war, though the lull's impact on ground fighting in South Vietnam remains unclear. Stennis to hold early closed hearings on logistics for Vietnam war support, while Dirksen and Ford prepare a GOP program addressing foreign and domestic issues.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Johnson
Viet Nam
Mansfield
Senate
Aiken
GOP
United States
Asia
South
John Stennis
D-Miss
Armed Services Pr
South Viet Nam
Stennis
Defense Department
Administration
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
House
Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Dirksen
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Haiphong
Ford
Guam B52s Join Saigon Ground Offensive Against Viet Cong
U S bombers from Guam joined a South Vietnamese army operation on the central coast near Quang Ngai City, firing on Viet Cong camps as ground troops moved in. Navy and Air Force fighters conducted 18 sorties west of Saigon and near the capital.
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Thomas A. Reedy
Saigon
Guam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Quang Ngai City
Quang Ngai Province
U.S
Postal address set up for VC prisoners
The Viet Cong has established a postal address in Algiers to allow American families of Viet Cong prisoners to send mail and packages. Sanford Gottlieb of SANE announced the channel of communication and provided the Algerian address 18 Rue Langevin, Quarter la Redoute, Algiers. Mail will be processed through this address for prisoners in Vietnam and their families here.
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New York
Viet Cong
Algiers
National Committee For A Sane
SANE
Sanford Gottlieb
National Front For Liberation
U.S
Rue Langevin
la Redoute
Algeria
Gottlieb
Viet Nam
Weather outlook for Butte Anaconda area turns to snow flurries
Partly cloudy today rising to mostly cloudy with snow flurries on Tuesday. Warmer today with a high near 34 and a low around 20. One year ago highs were 37 and 11 lows. Montana weather page 1L.
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Butte - Anaconda
Montana
Kennedy family enjoys private ski day in Gstaad
Mrs Kennedy and her children spent a church visit in a Swiss village chapel before skiing with 50 photographers watching. John and Caroline tobogganed while Mrs Kennedy kept her side of the bargain by posing briefly. Galbraith urged photographers to back off for privacy during a three week stay.
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Gstaad
Switzerland
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Caroline
Kennedy
John
Mrs. Kennedy
India
John Kenneth Galbraith
Kennedys
French attendance could revive ailing Common Market
Paris seeks to resume ties with the European Common Market as Maurice Couve de Murville heads to Luxembourg for a key meeting. De Gaulle demands two hedges: retain veto power for each member and curb the Commission’s powers under Walter Hallstein, signaling a stalemate on constitutional changes.
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Luxembourg
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Kennedy
America
Maurice Couve de Murville
West Germany
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Common Market Commission
Walter Hallstein
France
Brus
Sels
Commission
Gavin warns China may react to Viet Nam buildup
Gen James M Gavin says expanding U.S. troops in South Viet Nam could provoke Red China to intervene and reopen Korea. He urges coastal bases and diplomacy, warns against intensified bombing of Hanoi, and notes risks of a nuclear-armed China.
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Gavin
China
New York
James M. Gavin
U.S
Viet Nam
Red China
U.S. Army Research and Development
France
America
Harper's Magazine
Hanoi
Peking
United Nations
Geneva
South
Kra Peninsula
Thailand
Philippines
Dien Bien Phu
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ho Chi Minh
Southeast Asia
WWII General Hodges Dies in Texas at 79
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, 79, who led the First U.S. Army in Europe in World War II, died in San Antonio after a heart stoppage. The commander who oversaw Normandy breakout and the Paris arrival retired to Governor's Island and later lived in San Antonio. He held multiple top decorations including the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star.
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San Antonio
Tex
Courtney H. Hodges
Europe
Brooke Army Hospital
Hodges
U.S
Normandy
Paris
Germany
First Army
Governor’s Island
N.Y
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Colorado
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North Carolina
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Sen
Aiken Hope
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Ski Run
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