Pan Am jet hijacked to Cuba from New York
A Pan American jet with 103 aboard was forced to divert to Havana by three gunmen in the second hijacking within 18 hours. The Boeing 707 touched down at 2:18 p.m. EST after 18 hours in flight. a parallel hijacked Eastern Air Lines flight was held in Havana. Passengers were to be released, with negotiations underway.
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Miami
UPI
New York
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Atlantic
Carolinas
Pan American
Havana
Eastern Airlines
Kentucky
Chicago
Eastern Air Lines
Havaiia
U.S
State Department
Middletown Weather Review With Rainfall Totals
Partly cloudy today with highs near 50 and cooler tonight into Tuesday. Low temperatures in the 20s and a high around 45 on Tuesday. Winds west to southwest 10 to 20 mph. Sunrise 6 52 and sunset 4 34. Yesterday's Middletown rainfall to date 32.57 inches. last year 35.49 inches. High Middletown and low 34.
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Middletown
First Lady Lyndon Johnson Visits Denver on Farewell Tour
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson visited Denver on a 6,000 mile sentimental farewell tour to highlight education space arts health urban renewal and conservation programs backed by President Johnson. She flew in from Cape Kennedy to boost her pet projects.
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Denver
UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
Johnson
Cape Kennedy
Lawmakers to reexamine airliner hijackings next year
Rep. Harley Staggs, chairman of the House Commerce Committee, vowed to study airliner hijackings again next year to see if there is anything they can do to stop it. He said the situation is alarming as a person on a plane may not know where he is headed.
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Cuba
Rodriguez
Havna
Washington
Harley Co. Staggers
House Commerce Committee
The Times Herald Record November 25 1968 Middletown NY notice
The Times Herald Record details publication information for Orange County publication division of Offeway Newspapers Radio Inc. The paper lists pricing 10 cents single copy 60 cents five weeks and annual mail rates. It notes postmark and class postage in Middletown New York with regional mail areas including Orange Sullivan Eye Seer and Pike Counties. The October 1968 and October 1967 circulation figures are shown as 40 235 and 37 44 respectively.
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Orange County
Offeway Newspapers Radio, Inc
Mulberry St
Middletown
N.Y
Mad
Orange
Sullivan
Eye Seer
Pike
Johnson backs French crisis aid amid monetary tensions
President Johnson and President de Gaulle exchanged cablegrams on the French monetary crisis. Johnson expressed hope the course of action would succeed and offered cooperation. In New York, Rockefeller said Nixon has not yet offered him a post and would remain governor to tackle urban issues.
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Washington
Johnson
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Bronx
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Yugoslavia May Mobilize Within 24 Hours If Soviets Invade
Belgrade officials denied any weekend emergency alert though a London paper claimed Tito’s regime had activated a mobilization in response to Soviet moves in Romania and reported air reinforcements in Hungary and Bulgaria. Tito has long resisted Soviet bloc control and vowed Yugoslavia would resist any invasion with full force. Johnson to undergo routine diverticulosis check at Bethesda Naval Hospital after earlier tests at Brooks Army Medical Center. 60-year-old president, no discomfort reported.
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London
Marshal Tito
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Tito
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Washington
Johnson
Bethesda Naval Hospital
White House
Brooks Army Medical Center
San Antonio
Tex
Recon jet downed by Hanoi report over North Vietnam
Hanoi Radio said Communist gunners shot down an American RF4C reconnaissance jet and captured its pilot over Quang Binh Province just above the demilitarized zone. It marked the first such claim since the U.S. bombing halt began November 1.
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Saigon
Hanoi
North Vietnam
U.S
Quang Binh
Vietnams
Italy crisis deepens as center-left talks resume
President Saragat seeks Socialist help as Christian Democrat factions delay a new premier. Labor and student unrest spread while Sandro Pertini, head of the Chamber of Deputies, is tasked to begin talks to restore a center-left coalition after Giovanni Leone’s stopgap cabinet resigned.
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Rome
Giuseppe Saragat
Socialist Party
Italy
Christian Democrat
Saragat
Sandro Pertini
Chamber of Deputies
Pertini
Christian Democrats and
Socialists
Stopgap
Giovanni Leone
Egypt shuts all universities amid student unrest
Egypt closes all universities and higher learning institutes after protests spread from Mansour to Alexandria. Education Minister Hilmi Murad ordered closures until further notice to avoid clashes as police dispersed marchers in Alexandria with no reported violence.
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Alexandria
U.A.R
Hilmi Murad
Egypt
Murad
Nile Delta
Mansour
Mediterranean
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