Flag Day Parade Highlights Troy’s Grand Lash of Yesteryear
Thousands lined the downtown route for Troy’s Flag Day parade the largest ever staged with more than 50,000 spectators under warm skies. Camp Fire Girls won best junior division float earning a $50 award from the Troy Kiwanis Club. their handmade display featured a flying bluebird. The Italian Community Center won best fraternal organization with a wine-wagon float. Best senior went to Iwo Jima by the Lansingburgh Brothers of the Brush Chapter 1. Miss Wisconsin Jane Marro attended as surprise guest.
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Camp Fire Girls
Troy
Troy Kiwanis Club
Monroe
Fourth
Iwo Jima
Lansingburgh Brothers of the Brush
Burgh
Troy Area
Lansingburgh
Lansingburgh Brothers
Diamond Rock
Hudson Valley Community College
Dept. of Public Utilities
Albany Talks Fail To Avert CSEA Strike
Dr. Theodore Wenzl president of the Civil Service Employes Association said after a meeting with state officials that the strike is still on. He spoke following a session with T Norman Hurd director of state operations and other officials.
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Albany, N.Y
Theodore Wenzl
Civil Service Employes Association
Wenzl
T. Norman Hurd
Abe Lavine
State Office of Employe Relations
CSEA
Local Unit Walks Out At School
A CSEA official says a strike has begun at Otisville State Training School for Boys and will be full force by morning. The action follows budget cuts and crowded conditions after the nearby New Hampton School closed, with union leaders urging other unions to honor picket lines. Governor Rockefeller warns absences during the strike may lead to penalties under the Taylor Law as layoffs affect about 6,300 workers.
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Middletown
N.Y
Civil Service Employes Association
Otisville State Training School
Bob Radiford
CSEA
Otisville Training School
Otisville
New Hampton State Training School
Gov. Rockefeller
Unon
Allied Truck Convoy Ambushed And Saigon Says Fierce Battle
Allied actions described weekend fighting in South Vietnam include a major ground clash near Firebase 5 where South Vietnamese paratroopers reported 24 enemy dead. Casualties totaled 1 MVN and 21 wounded, with broader losses and 77 NVA and Viet Cong killed in various engagements.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
Highlands
Trymen
U.S
Two-alarm blaze at 1330 Broadway in Rensselaer under investigation
Police and fire crews quickly contained a Sunday night fire at 1330 Broadway gutting second and third floors of a brick three story building. Officers pursued a suspect, Joseph George, after reports of a dispute and gun presence. no serious injuries reported.
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Rensselaer
Broadway
Maureen Rue
Joseph George
Glen Street
George Bristoll
Bristol
Explosions devastate Olympic Village in Phnom Penh
Huge blasts ripped through ammunition stored beneath apartment blocks in Phnom Penh's Olympic Village. One building was torn apart and another set ablaze as rockets and mortars erupted. Casualty figures were unclear, with wounded evacuated to two city hospitals. Local police cordons surrounded the area while a TV journalist described the scene.
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Phnom Penh
Olympic Village
PFLP claims credit for oil tanker attack in Red Sea
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says its unit fired five rockets at the Coral Sea tanker as it passed the Bab al Mandab Strait. Israeli officials say the damage was minor with no casualties. Israel calls for action to protect free navigation and warns of further measures. An Egyptian overflight near the Suez Canal prompted Israeli air retaliation.
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Suez Canal
Middle East
Bab al Mandab Strait
Gulf of Aden
Red Sea
French Somaliland
Arabian Peninsula
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
PFLP
Beirut
Israel
Golda Meir
Cairo
Jerusalem
Eleven Shot in Albuquerque Park Disturbance
Eleven people were shot during a clash between police and several hundred at Roosevelt Park in Albuquerque New Mexico. Afterward a large crowd moved to downtown stoning police headquarters overturning and burning cars and starting fires. City hospitals treated eleven gunshot victims with many others reported injured.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Roosevelt Park
Suspects in Assassination Cornered by Chilean Police
In Santiago two brothers died after a four hour gun battle with police while cornered in a grange. Six other leftist militants were captured. two officers were seriously wounded. The incident followed the Tuesday assassination of Edmundo Perez Zujovic, a former Christian Democrat VP and staunch anti leftist, heightening tensions with Allende's government.
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Santiago
Chile
Edmundo Perez Zujovic
Salvador Allende
Zujovic
Christian Democratic
Ronald Rivera Calderon
Arturo Rivera Caldeon
Calderon Brothers
Organized ‘Vanguard of the People
Arturo
Allende
Christian Democrat
Four of Australian Nonuplets Still Alive
Sydney hospital officials announced three of the nine Australian nonuplets born to Geral dine Brodrick died overnight leaving four surviving. The four babies remain in incubators with two boys and a girl among the living and their conditions described as concerning but not critical.
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Sydney
Australia
Geraldine Brodrick
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Patroon Island
Dunn Memorial
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Third Street
Russell White
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Neil Davis
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Associated Press
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Geraldine
Len Brodrick
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