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...crimes but added two more. Police determined that the same weapons used in the Corbett and Hawtree killings were involved in the murders of Michael Gerchenson, 19, a sophomore at Southern Illinois University who was found shot to death in May on a stretch of highway near West Frankfort, Ill., and Specialist Five William Richter, 23, who was fatally shot in September while sleeping in a pickup truck parked next to an expressway in suburban Chicago...
Collaborating with Deutsch were John R. Platt of Michigan, a biophysicist, and Dieter Senghaas, a political scientist at Goethe University in Frankfort, Germany...
...mines have been killing miners at a rate that works out to an average of 100 per month for the past 100 years. Sometimes they die in explosions and fire like the Mannington disaster of 1968 that killed 78 (and Monongah, 1907. 307 dead: Centralia. 1947. 111 dead: West Frankfort, 1951, 119 dead: or Benwood, 1924, 119 dead: or Eccles, 1914. 183 dead...
...made it to the frozen surface; but 78 others still remained trapped, some as much as 600 ft. below the ground. As hope diminished for their rescue, the disaster looked to be the worst mining accident in the U.S. since 119 men died in a 1951 explosion in West Frankfort, Ill.* Muffled explosions shook Consol No. 9 for three days, preventing rescue workers from going in after possible survivors. No one could say what set off the first blast, but once the fire was under way, it spread rapidly, feeding on combustible coal dust and deadly methane. Though the mine...
TIRED OF WAR? VOTE NUNN. The campaign posters do not explain how Republican Louie Nunn will settle the Viet Nam conflict from Frankfort if he is elected Kentucky's Governor next week. For that matter, neither candidate has been notably informative about the issues. Nunn seems to be running against Lyndon Johnson, retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, and assorted other Democrats. However, Henry Ward, the Democratic candidate, happens to agree with Nunn on most questions affecting the state. The race is so lacking in substance that Ward, conceding that he has "no grand sort of scheme," tells voters: "Whether...