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RAF Britannia with seven passengers and seven crew overshot the runway at Khomaskar base recently. ploughing through security lights at the perimeter fence before coming to rest on the shallow salt flats.The pilot and the co-pilot were slightly hu...
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Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia: Armed with a submachine gun, a policeman (right) chases after rioting Africans who constructed this roadblock during the rioting in the African township of high field here last night. The Africans were shot dead and ...
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Malawi Premier Dr. Hastings Banda is pictured here being sworn in as the country's first President, by the Chief Justice, when Malawi became a Republic within the Commonwealth. The cutting of the direct link with the British Crown --a link now re...
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President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika Welcoming Haile Selassie
Dar es Salaam: Tanganyika President Julius Nyerere welcomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as the latter arrived in Dar es Salaam, June 12th., to begin a seven-day visit to Tanganyika.
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Prime Minister Siaka Stevens Meets the Muslims of Sierra Leone
Watched by Prime Minsiter Siaka (centre) and other dignitaries Stevens from a balcony of the Law Court Building in Freetown, colourfully-dressed women march through the street during recent celebrations marking the birthday of the Prophet Mohamed....
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Prince Ahmet El Hussein and Prince Mohammed Bin Ismail
Prince Ahmet El Hussein (right) and Prince Mohammed Bin Ismail (left), two of the dashing young princes leading the revolt against United Arab Republic forces in Yemen, pictured near Ketaf, Northern Yemen recently. The Egyptians maintain a 60,000 ...
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Princess Margaretha of Sweden and Mr. John Ambler Leaving on Their Honeymoon
Princess Margaretha of Sweden and her husband, Mr. John Ambler, a London businessman, were recently married in a small Swedish village in the Oeland Island. They are seen leaving on their honeymoon, Peasants decorated their car with hay as traditi...
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Reported Ethiopian Coup D'etat
Washington, D.C.: The United States State Department said today it has received a report from the U.S. ambassador in Ethiopia that "The Imperial Household Guard has engineered a coup" against the Government of Emperor Haile Selassie. The Departmen...
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Rescuers testing the rescue capsule which was used to bring to the surface which was used to bring to the surface last week three of the miners trapped 262-feet underground in a flooded iron mine at Peine, West Germany.
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"The Man in the Middle" Bonn, West Germany: The man in civilian clothes in centre here is West German Defence Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel with the resigned German Luftwaffe Chief Lieut. Gen. Werner Panitzki on left, and the newly-appointed West Ge...
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