Proxmire Charges Defense Contractors Misuse Government Equipment
Senator William Proxmire said defense contractors divert government owned equipment to private use, costing taxpayers billions and undermining bidding rules. He announced forthcoming disclosures and a Pentagon crackdown under the Truth in Negotiations Act, which covers about 85 percent of Defense Department procurement.
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Washington
UPI
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
Vietnam
General Accounting Office
Pentagon
Defense Department
Death of Washington youth in Iowa crash with high speed
Dave Tindal an 18 year old Washington student and athlete died from injuries after a car left highway 218 near Crawfordsville. He was a University of Iowa freshman and a long time Interact Rotary YMCA member. Funeral planned Thursday at the Methodist Church in Washington. Burial Elm Grove Cemetery. He is survived by parents Leonard and Dorothy, three brothers and a sister.
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Dorothy Tindal
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Washington County Sheriff's
Iowa Highway Patrol
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University Hospitals
Iowa City
Versity
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Richard Peterson
Warren McFate
Sherman - Eden Funeral Home
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National Bank of Washington
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Minn
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Steven
Mark
Phyllis
Snohomish River Flood Surges High Near Everett
Snohomish River crested at a record 30.17 feet and was expected to reach 31 feet as dike workers battled to avert wide flooding. Nine families evacuated, 600 acres flooded after a dike burst on Eby Island. one death reported when a rancher, Burt Baker, died of a heart attack while moving a house trailer.
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Here
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Tion
Bean
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Snohomish County
Snohomish City
Greek king Constantine may return before year end
Diplomats report optimism that King Constantine could reclaim the throne within days after his failed coup. Retired Gen Haralambos Potamianos, ally to the royal family, says the monarch may return to Athens in time for New Year ceremonies, avoiding diplomatic awkwardness over regent George Zoitakis.
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Rome
George Zoitakis
Zoitakis
Moscow Gas Blast Tears Through Six-Story Block
Rescue teams braved sleet as they searched for victims after a gas explosion ripped a six floor section of a Moscow apartment building killing at least nine people. Police sealed the area near the Kremlin as officials cited a ruptured gas main and noted an unknown number of injuries. A separate blast damaged a car owned by Henry Bradsher AP Moscow bureau manager, reportedly caused by a bomb, with no injuries.
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Iowa Weather: Cloudy With Light Snow Tonight
United Press International reports Iowa remains cloudy with a chance of light snow and milder overnight lows near zero in the north to 10 in the south. Wednesday clears slightly but stays cold with decreasing snow and highs from 15 to 25.
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United Press International
Iowa
Evacuated Floridians Spend Christmas in Gym
About 600 residents of Jacksonville fled their homes during the pre dawn hours after chlorine gas leaked from the Apperson Chemical Co plant. Fire crews sealed the leak and refugees gathered in a high school gym three miles away where an elderly man sang Silent Night and Red Cross volunteers distributed coffee and gifts as Christmas morning dawned.
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UPI
Florida
Christmay
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Red Cross
Planes bomb the North resumes after Christmas truce
U S forces bombed and strafed northbound supply convoys minutes after the 24 hour ceasefire ended. More than 300 trucks were targeted, with 91 destroyed and 41 damaged in six hours of renewed air action. Casualties reported include 5 American and allied soldiers killed and 30 wounded during the ceasefire, plus 33 Communist deaths. Viet Cong pledged a three day truce beginning Sunday. Guerrilla attacks hit six new life hamlets.
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North Vietnam
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South Vietnam
Boy Found Safe After Night Stray In Cold Near Ottumwa
A three year old boy wearing only pajamas was found walking along U S Route 63 south of Ottumwa in 20 degree weather. He was picked up by Lawrence Ward and transported to Ottumwa hospital for exposure. He said his name was Gary Irwin, son of Bud Irwin of several miles south of Ottumwa. Authorities say he woke up, left his home and believed everyone had left him.
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Here
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Inmates Riot Ruins Christmas Night at Hamilton County Jail
In Cincinnati 186 inmates in the north cell block of Hamilton County jail staged a three hour Christmas night rampage, smashing windows and burning mattresses. Police and sheriff's deputies used tear gas pellets to force the crowd back into their sixth floor cells just before midnight.
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UPI
Hamilton County
Christmas Weekend Iowa Fires Claim No Deaths
Six fires over the Christmas weekend in Iowa damaged homes and property, injuring three men but causing no deaths. Families lost three houses, including the Stanley Blanchard home in Wright and the Byrnes home near Charles City. One store in Boone suffered heavy smoke damage, with two men treated. Other blazes damaged a machine shed near New Albany and a Hedrick brick garage and oil storage warehouse.
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Blanchard
James Byrnes
Charles City
John Emerson
Byrnes
Floyd
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Salix
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Boone
Leroy A. Behling
Roscoe Fleming
Garfield
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Fleming
John Smerad
New Albia
Hedrick
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Cecil Rugles
Mao is 74 amid secret tests and fallout fears
Mao Tse-tung turned 74 as China kept silent on its reported Christmas Eve nuclear test. Japan reported record fallout reaching dangerous levels only for animals and humans to be unaffected, while Shanghai sees clashes between Red Guards and anti-Maoists and Beijing braces for internal upheaval. Ming Pao cites instructions to curb attacks on Hong Kong.
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