Air Lingus airliner crashes into Irish Sea with 61 aboard
Bodies and wreckage were found near Rosslare as rescue vessels hunted for survivors. The Aer Lingus jet, in service about 12 years, vanished Sunday after reporting a spin at 1,000 feet over St George's Channel. Weather hindered search. debris and bodies were recovered, marking the carrier's worst crash in 37 years.
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Fisguard
Wales
British Air Sea Rescue Center
Rosslare Point
Wexford
Ireland
Kilmore
Hardy
Rosslare
Royal Air Force
Shackleton
Aer Lingussengers
St.George’s Channel
Irish Sea
Royal Navy
Metric
Bands join Apple Blossom Rally Day parade plan
Both Handley and James Wood High School bands will march in the Apple Blossom Rally Day parade tomorrow evening. Parade chair James Butcher announced the route from Sears lot down Loudoun Street to Cork Cameron and Cameron Fairfax Lane, ahead of the May 23 4 festival. The region expects springlike weather with highs in the 60s and warmer temperatures through the week.
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Handley and
James Wood High School
James Butcher
Sears
Loudoun St
Cork St
Cork
Cameron &I
Cameron
Fairfax Lane
Howard Johnsons Luncheon Special Clam Roll
Tomorrow’s luncheon item features a clam roll with tartar sauce priced at 75 cents. The listing notes a casual dining option from Howard Johnson’s with a simple seafood choice.
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Howard Johnson
Plan Omits Dam on Opequon in Potomac Basin
A 1963 Army Engineers plan for a dam on Opequon Creek in Frederick and Clarke Counties was dropped from the near term schedule. The short range plan presented at Handley School pins construction on 1971 design start with 1976 completion, totaling about 113.6 million dollars and triggering federal state cost shares.
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John O. Marsh, Jr
Virginia
Verona
Army Engineers
Augusta County
North Mountain
Back Creek
W. Va
Frederick County
Handley School
Frank W. Rhea
Baltimore
H. G. Woodbury, Jr
Engineer Corps
Mary Helen Massie
Opequon Creek
Frederick
Clarke Counties
Potomac River
Congress
Potomac
West Virginia
Maryland
District
of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Eheers
Washington
Bloomington
Berkeley County
Jones Spring
Shanghai
Warm Springs Ford
Virginia Line
Staunton
Middle River
Augusta
Little Cacapon
Hampshire County
Sideling Hill
Town Creek
Allegany County
Sixes Bridge
Carroll Counties
Coalition for a Republican Alternative forms around Rockefeller
GOP moderates launched a nationwide Coalition for a Republican Alternative to press for a Rockefeller draft. Sen. Javits said he would push a Rockefeller favorite son bid in New York to challenge Nixon. Stewart R. Mott and others pledged funds if Rockefeller runs, while Hatfield and Lindsay were noted as other potential favorite sons.
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National Guard
Supreme Court
National Union
Robles
Nicosia
Max Delvalle
Io Delvalle
Washington
GOP
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Jacob K. Javits
Rockefeller
New York State
Thurston B. Morton
R-Ky
Richard M. Nixon
Morton
Vietnam
Newark
Stewart R. Mott
Javits
Mark O. Hatfield
R-Ore
Nixon
New York
Republican State Committee
Albany
N.Y
Hatfield
John V. Lindsay
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
U N Security Council Condemns Israel as It Acts
The United Nations Security Council unanimously deplored violence linked to Israel and Arab guerrilla raids in Jordan while Israel says its actions were self defense. The vote followed U S backed negotiations between Ambassadors Goldberg and El-Farra and warned of further steps to prevent repetition.
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United Nations, TV
U.N. Security Council
Israel
Jordan
Jordan River
Council
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
United States
Muhammad H. El-Farra
India
Pakistan
Senegal
Goldberg
Soviet Union
Home Show Opens Thursday At Winchester Armory
The Winchester Frederick County Home Improvement Council hosts its annual Home Show from Thursday to Sunday at the Winchester Armory. Twenty area firms participate with hours 6 to 10 p.m. Thu Fri Sat and 1 to 6 p.m. Sun. Miss Home Show pageant Thursday at 8 p.m. prizes include a $25 savings bond and an AM FM transistor radio. grand prize is a color television set.
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Winchester-Frederick County
Night Chicken Fry at Howard Johnsons Ends Soon
Local notice advertises tonight only all you can eat chicken at Howard Johnsons for 1 49 while promoting new shipments of American made electric scissors priced at 7 50. Miller's Hardware at 112 North Loudoun Street Winchester highlights the latest stock arrival.
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Howard Johnson
Miller’s Hardware
Loudoun St
Winchester
Lowry to Lead Program for Rally Day
Henry A. Lowry, local civic leader, will be master of ceremonies for the Shenandoah Valley Area Apple Blossom Rally program tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the George Washington Hotel ballroom. Rally Day chairman James L. Hockman announced.
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Henry A. Lowry
Shenandoah Valley
George Washington Hotel
James L. Hockman
Lowry
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Staunton
Frederick County
Winchester Lions Club
Recreation Commission
Izaak Walton League
Shenandoah Area
Virginia Clear Skies From Moving High Pressure
A high pressure system over the Alabama Gulf Coast moving eastward was expected to bring clear skies and warm temperatures to Virginia today.
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Richmond
Alabama Gulf Coast
Virginia
Hunt Resumes for Missing Ballots in Dickenson
The search resumes for about 500 unused ballots and absentee ballot material missing from Grassy and Stratton precincts in Dickenson County. Circuit Court Clerk Teddy Bailey joins state police to process last year’s absentee materials, with 11,276 ballots printed and about 8,300 cast.
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Wytheville
Dickenson County
Teddy Bailey
Clintwood
Bailey
Grassy
Stratton
Iglyn Phillips
Raymond J. Boyd
Dickenson
Lee
U S Streams Fire on Sampans Supplying Viet Cong
American air units blasted 245 sampans in three days carrying weapons and food to Viet Cong forces in the Mekong Delta. Gunships destroyed 114 sampans and damaged 50 near a base camp near the Cambodian border. Two civilian irregulars wounded and 20 Viet Cong killed as air strikes hit sampan flotilla and a battalion-size force near Sa Dec.
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Saigon
Mekong
U.S
Sa Dec
Cambodia
Delta
South Vietnam
Richmond May Start Point For Dr King March
Richmond may serve as the marshalling and starting point for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People’s March on Washington with SCLC planning a Virginia speaking tour. King likely to announce Richmond as central Southern staging base for the April 22 march, as officials weigh transportation logistics and regional sites.
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Richmond
Jim Luther King
Washington
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Virginia
South
Herbert V. Coulton
Petersburg
Coulton
Atlanta
Andrew Young
Mississippi
U.S
Norfolk
Suffolk
Ivor
Waverly
Hopewell
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Gen. Woodbury
Governors’ Advisory Committee
Potomac River Basin
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Panama
Marco A. Robles
National Assembly
Arnulfo Arias
Assembly
Sens
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
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