Viet Cong delays release of 32 POWs to Friday
Viet Cong delivers a list of 32 American prisoners including 27 service members and 5 civilians but postpones turnover to U.S. authorities until Friday. North Vietnam planned to release 108 Americans on Wednesday and transfer by three C141s to Clark Philippines, with first arrival around 4:15 p.m. local. Maj Theodore William Gosta of Sheridan Wyoming listed with a nervous illness, captured Feb 1 1968.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Clark
South Vietnam
Washington
Theodore William Gosta
Sheridan
Wyo
Gosta
Tran van Tra
Gia Lam
Laos
Loc Ninh
le Trung Hien
Col. Hien
Bell to appoint three to Winchester panel at March session
Winchester mayor Stewart Bell Jr. is set to appoint three persons to the Mayor's Committee on Community Relations during the regular March meeting at 7 30 tonight in Rouss City Hall. A Fairmont Avenue delegation led by George W. Jones will press for a restudy of the Butler Drive project. The meeting also includes a DeMolay chapter presence and plans for a second reading on a petroleum storage ban in M 1 zones and a planning commission rezoning recommendation for 255 Millwood Avenue from B 4 to B 1.
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Winchester
Stewart Bell Jr
Rouss City Hall
George W. Jones
Fairmont Ave
State Department of Highways
Butler Drive
Rts
C. Vernon Eddy
DeMolay
City Planning Commission
Marcus
Millwood Ave
Blockade Repeats to Starve Wounded Knee Militant Occupation
Federal authorities renew roadblocks around Wounded Knee South Dakota to cut off supplies to about 300 Indians, aiming to starve the siege of the village. FBI and marshal units report tightened security as negotiators offer no new talks. Russell Means cites 1868 treaty as the core demand, seeking land west of the Missouri.
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Wounded Knee
S.D
Justice Department
FBI
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Wayne Colburn
U.S
Pine Ridge Reservation
Curtis Fitzgerald
Chicago
Colburn
Justice and Interior Departments
Russell Means
Means
Missouri River
Dakota Territory
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Montana
Water Sewer Project To Begin Near Kernstown
Frederick County Sanitation Authority plans a water and sewer project to serve a General Electric plant at Kernstown and surrounding area. Construction will start after state approvals.
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General Electric
Kernstown
James L. Bowman
Frederick County Sanitation Authority
Bowman
Don Krueger
Hogue Run
Winchester
Stephens City
Train passenger collision near Hortense kills truck driver
An auto passenger train bound for Florida from Washington derailed after colliding with a lumber truck near Hortense Georgia. Authorities said the truck driver was killed and about 10 people were injured among the 325 passengers aboard the train headed to Sanford, Florida.
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Hortense, Ga
Florida
Washington, D.C
Sanford
Fla
Freed POW Weds in Valley Forge After Six Year Wait
Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Rose III, fresh from a Vietnam prison camp, married his high school sweetheart Donna Steele in a Valley Forge General Hospital chapel. The 15 minute Roman Catholic ceremony followed a rapid process with a judge waiving waiting periods and secluded quarters arranged for the couple. The couple had been engaged since before his capture on February 8 1968.
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Valley Forge
Joseph Rose III
Army Hospital
Army’s
Valley Forge General Hospital
Rose
Donna Steele
South Vietnam
da Nang
Valley Forge Hospital
Donna
Pennsylvania
Mother’s reunion with Downey after 20 years in Chinese prison
John T. Downey, freed from Grass Basket Prison after two decades, rushed to his ill mother Mary V. Downey in New Britain Connecticut. The CIA operative, greeted by many, said he endured interrogation not torture and hoped his release would not go to his head.
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New Britain
Conn
Mary V. Downey
John T. Downey
CIA
Hong Kong
Lu Wo Bridge
Downey
William
Philippines
John
William Downey
New York City
John Downey
Richard Fecteau
Lynn
Mass
Manchuria
Fecteau
GE Building Permit Before Supervisors
Frederick County Board of Supervisors plans a heavy agenda including a General Electric building permit for a Kernstown projected plant. The panel must approve any extension of water and sewer services and review a previously approved sewerage system extension per county ordinance. Also on the docket are Clearbrook Park funding, reassessment timing, Unisil sand mine water pollution, four county posts, five rezonings, and four subdivision plats.
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General Electric
Kernstown
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Court Square
Blair Webber
Winchester
Frederick County
Webber
County Parks and Recreation Commission
Clearbrook Park
Unisil
Gore
Boy tests security at Washington National Airport counter
An 8-year-old boy carrying a holster two toy pistols and a large hat approached the United Airlines counter at Washington National Airport with his 13-year-old sister. Guards calmly inspected each toy weapon and collected a full roll of caps as ammunition.
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Washington
United Airlines
Washington National Airport
Autopsy Planned in Death of 3-Year-Old Child
Warren County sheriff said a three-year-old child brought by his mother to Warren Memorial Hospital died on arrival and was sent to Fairfax for an autopsy. Medical Examiner Easthman noted the autopsy would determine next steps. Christopher W. Wilson of Linden was the patient, pronounced dead at the hospital around midnight. The sheriff kept the mother's name private and scheduled a press conference after autopsy results are available.
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Front Royal
Warren Memorial Hospital
Fairfax
Warren
Gary Keyser
Edwin Easthman
Christopher W. Wilson
Linden
Keyser
Three charged in shooting of Sen John Stennis
Three young men Tyrone Marshall John S Marshall and Derick Holloway all of Northeast Washington were charged with armed robbery and violating a federal law after the January shooting of Senator John C Stennis. They appeared for arraignment with bond set at 100000 each as investigators said a large manhunt led to arrests. Stennis chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee was shot outside his home and remains hospitalized in serious but improving condition.
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Washington
John C. Stennis
Tyrone Marshall
John S. Marshall
Derick Holloway
District of Columbia
FBI
Congress
U.S
Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
L. Patrick Gray II
D.C
Marshalls
Mahlon R. Pitts
Nixon
Capitol Hill
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Walter Reed
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Morgantown
W. Va
Col
Hugh J. McKenna
James Wood High School
Wendell Dick
Edward Davis
Jacob Harrold
Rosella Pingley
Thomas Racey
Ellie
Shen College
Bliss B. Clark
Pizza Hut
Sen
John Stennis
Richmond
Virginia
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