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Russian men in Hanoi
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Russia has admitted for the first time that Soviet army rocket specialists have been sent to Hanoi to train North Vietnamese missile crews.
An article in the military newspaper Red Star also acknowledged that at least one team of Soviet advisers narrowly escaped death or injury during an American bombing raid.
The Red Star article confirmed two long-standing Western assumptions—that the Soviet technicians and rocket specialists were training Vietnamese missile crews and that these advisers have come under American fire.
Russia and allies approach break with maverick China
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Russia and its East European Allies appeared today nearing a final showdown with Communist China over Peking's self-imposed isolationism and maverick policies that have splintered the world Communist movement.
The increasing outspokenness in the Sino-Soviet split was indicated Sunday by an article in Pravda, the official Soviet party newspaper.
Sunday's article stated openly that "the socialist countries, the fraternal Communist and workers parties were seriously concerned over the latest events in China."
LeMay blasts Viet tactics.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Former Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay today denounced U.S. Viet Nam strategy as the "ultimate in military blindness" and called for stepped-up bombing of the North.
"The only way to win a war is to escalate it one way or another above what the enemy can take," the retired general said in a copyright article for U.S. News & World Report.
As to the "outside risk" that escalation would bring Communist China into the war, LeMay declared that South Korea and Nationalist China—with U.S. air, naval and logistical support— "should provide more than enough force to bring an unstable Red China to her knees."
Police hunt intensified for convicts
LANSING—(UPI)—Police today intensified a search for four fugitives from the Kansas Penitentiary who escaped Friday night.
The four, including a convicted killer serving life, were believed to be armed with knives and were regarded as dangerous.
The fugitives devised an intricate escape route by boring through the stone ceiling of a cell.
PORTLAND, Ore.—(UPI)—All 18 persons aboard were killed when a DC9, America's newest jetliner, slammed into the heav-
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ily-timbered Cascade Mountain range of northern Oregon Saturday night only days after it went into service.
The President's appeal, based on GE's importance as a leading supplier of Viet Nam war needs, came just six hours before the strike was to begin.
The threat of a nationwide strike of some 100,000 GE workers was lifted—at least for two weeks—yesterday evening when union leaders called off a walkout set for midnight and agreed to extend negotiations.
There were no survivors among its 13 passengers and crew of five.
KENILWORTH, England — (UPI)—The Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assissi here has a pub in the basement which opens immediately after services every Sunday morning.
It was the first crash of a DC9, a $3-million plane designed by Douglas to be a short range jet workhorse. It also was the first time West Coast Airlines recorded a passenger fatality in its nearly 20 years of operation.
G.E. strikers resume talks
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—General Electric Co. and the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE), responding to an urgent appeal from President Johnson, resume bargaining here today under the eyes of a special three-man cabinet team.
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New jet liner crashes; 13 passengers perish
Monday, October 3, 1966
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