Part 2

by Chris Oakley

From the July 8^th, 1965 Saigon Post:

From the July 13^th, 1965 Irish Times:

In Ireland Approaches 70

From the July 22^nd, 1965 Las Vegas Review-Journal:

100,000 WITHOUT POWER IN PHOENIX

From the July 28^th, 1965 Indianapolis Star:

From the August 7^th, 1965 Daily Telegraph:

From the August 13^th, 1965 Jerusalem Post:

facilities will be re-opened to commercial traffic any time in the foreseeable

future....

From a UPI dispatch out of Beirut dated August 21^st, 1965:

armed forces in a desperate effort to keep out the swarms of RDS plague

refugees trying to enter the country from Egypt and Syria. In a related

story, the Israeli Defense Forces have confirmed today that Israeli naval

vessels fired on and sank a freighter attempting to disembark European RDS

refugees at Eilat...

From a CBS-TV newscast dated August 24^th, 1965:

just moments ago as he was signing off from his nightly broadcast.

Details at this moment are sketchy, but witnesses at the scene of

the collapse suggest it may have been a sign of the onset of acute

respiratory disintegration syndrome...

From the August 30^th, 1965 National Catholic Reporter(USA):

Archdiocesan Weekly Was Last Remaining Regularly Published

Newspaper In Boston

From the September 1^st, 1965 Sporting News:

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

’66 WORLD CUP CALLED OFF; ’68 WINTER & SUMMER OLYMPICS IN JEOPARDY

From the September 5^th, 1965 People’s Daily Worker:

who has respiratory disintegration syndrome...

From the September 10^th, 1965 Ha’aretz:

From the September 14^th, 1965 Sacramento Bee(USA):

Total Worldwide Death Count Nearly Eight Million

From a sign posted outside the harbor at St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada dated September 20^th, 1965:

MEDICAL RELIEF CARGO. ALL OTHER VESSELS MUST TURN BACK AT ONCE OR RISK BEING SUNK BY

PATROL CRAFT.

From the September 23^rd, 1965 Manila Chronicle(Philippines):

From the September 27^th, 1965 Helsingin Sanomat(Finland):

night that its ambassador in Sweden has died of complications from RDS...

From the October 1^st, 1965 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

organized crime figure James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa from his union’s Detroit headquarters

more than a year ago has finally been resolved. Examination of a skeleton found by

Michigan National Guard troops during a reconnaissance sweep of the Flint area four

days ago has confirmed it through dental records as belonging to the late Mr. Hoffa.

The controversial Teamster boss was discovered with a gunshot wound to the skull

and a rusted .44 pistol clutched in one hand, implying Hoffa’s death may have been a

suicide.

Hoffa, a frequent target of federal investigation during the late Robert Kennedy’s

tenure as US Attorney General, left Detroit under mysterious circumstances last fall

just as the RDS pandemic was beginning to make its presences felt in the Midwest....

From the October 7^th, 1965 Evening News(UK):

poised for international stardom before the RDS catastrophe began overtaking the world

last February. Liverpool police have found the bodies of Beatles founders John Lennon

and Paul McCartney, along with that of guitarist George Harrison, hanging from makeshift

nooses inside Lennon’s flat; in a two-page suicide note written by McCartney sometime

this afternoon, the group cited the collapse of their musical careers and the death of their

friend and drummer Richard Starkey(a.k.a. Ringo Starr) from RDS four days earlier as

the events which crystallized their decision to take their own lives...

From the October 12^th, 1965 San Francisco Examiner:

LOS ANGELES TIMES TO CEASE PUBLICATION PERMANENTLY

BASEBALL GREAT WILLIE MAYS KILLED DEFENDING HIS HOME FROM

LOOTERS

From the October 15^th, 1965 Excelsior(Mexico):

From the October 18^th, 1965 Daily Telegraph:

facility near Moscow. Star City, formerly home to dozens of cosmonaut

candidates and instructors, has been deserted since the Soviet Union

suspended its manned spaceflight program three months ago...

From the October 22^nd, 1965 Washington Post:

POST TO SUSPEND PUBLICATION EFFECTIVE TOMORROW

From the October 27^th, 1965 Toronto Globe & Mail:

Financial Troubles, Staggering Team RDS Casualties Force League

Out Of Business After 48 Years

From the November 1^st, 1965 Pravda:

In the year since he first assumed leadership of the USSR after

Comrade Brezhnev went missing, Comrade Kosygin provided strong

and effective leadership at a critical moment in the history of our

nation; the heart attack which finally killed him yesterday constitutes

a great tragedy for us all...

From the November 6^th, 1965 St. Petersburg Times(USA):

outside Florida still publishing on a regular basis, has announced that due

to severe financial losses it will permanently close as of November 8^th...

From the November 8^th, 1965 Montreal Star:

Will Ever Publish Again

From the November 17^th, 1965 Scotsman:

relocated its headquarters to Edinburgh in the aftermath of the June riots at

Downing Street, has formally requested bankruptcy protection...

From the November 26^th, 1965 Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

Northern Hemisphere Plague Zone Now Extends As Far As Panama

From the December 5^th, 1965 Kansas City Star:

From the December 13^th, 1965 Rand Daily Mail:

New PM General Idi Amin Threatens War With Kenya

From the December 19^th, 1965 Lowell Sun(USA):

passed, would essentially abolish the state as a political entity. The

controversial legislation, proposed by a Bristol senator whose district

has become what he calls "almost a ghost town" because of the RDS

bug, would revoke the state’s constitutional charter as of May 1^st, 1966...

From a UPI dispatch out of Memphis, Tennessee dated December 23^rd, 1965:

afternoon just 24 hours after being admitted for respiratory disintegration syndrome...

From the December 27^th, 1965 People’s Daily Worker:

citizens of the Peoples Republic being infected with RDS....

From the January 1^st, 1966 Sacramento Bee:

The words ‘Happy New Year’ ring tragically hollow in most parts of the

world these days; with 21 million people killed by the RDS plague itself and

3 million more victims of the unrest and chaos stemming from that plague,

happiness must now seem like a forgotten relic of ancient times...

From the January 7^th, 1966 Houston Post:

CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite has been placed on indefinite

From a coded dispatch by CIA director John McCone to the agency’s station chief in Vladivostok dated January 11^th, 1966:

immediately to avoid capture...

From the January 17^th, 1966 Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

From the January 24^th, 1966 Irish Times:

Worldwide Death Count Now Approaching 30 Million

From the January 28^th, 1966 Sydney Morning Herald:

the government of Red China finally admitted that there have been outbreaks of

RDS within its borders....

From the February 4^th, 1966 Cumhuriyet(Turkey):

7:00 AM tomorrow...

From the February 12^th, 1966 Al-Anwar(Lebanon):

if the current global RDS crisis is not resolved soon...

From the February 15^th, 1966 St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

From the February 20^th, 1966 Stars & Stripes:

From the February 24^th, 1966 Dallas Morning Herald:

staggering toll the virus has taken on humanity those years seem like a century.

Cities, peoples, entire nations have been wiped out by this scourge, and its

efficiency at killing its victims is increasingly outstripping the human race’s ability

to reproduce...

Someday our descendants, if we’re lucky enough to have any, will be astonished

to learn that there was actually a time when people worried about the earth becoming

too crowded, that the words "population implosion" weren’t always a part of the

average American’s vocabulary...

From the February 28^th, 1966 St. Petersburg Times:

New Hampshire Daily Was Last Regularly Publishing Newspaper Left In New England

From a UPI dispatch out of Lisbon dated March 5^th, 1966:

Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco has died in a Madrid hospital of complications from

respiratory disintegration syndrome...

From the March 12^th, 1966 International Herald-Tribune:

run out within 6 to 8 months if the country’s farms cannot be revived...

From an editorial in the March 18^th, 1966 St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

loss of most of our employees to RDS, we have no choice but to close this newspaper...

From the March 22^nd, 1966 Houston Chronicle:

From the March 31^st, 1966 Svenska Dagbladet:

and Malmo...

From an AP dispatch out of Jakarta, Indonesia dated April 4^th, 1966:

protest of both governments’ continuing refusal to let Indonesian refugees enter

the borders of Australia or New Zealand...

From the April 8^th, 1966 Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Dodger Stadium, LA City Hall, Griffith Observatory Among Landmarks

Lost In Catastrophic Blaze

Dozens of Abandoned Hollywood Backlots Also Destroyed

Loss of 3 Firemen Deals Further Grave Blow To Already Critically

Undermanned LA Fire Department

From the April 14^th, 1966 Denver Post:

From the April 20^th, 1966 Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

States is gaining support in the state legislature...

From the April 25^th, 1966 Saigon Post:

Because of the present dire circumstances, we regret that we must

temporarily cease publication...

From an AP dispatch out of Santiago, Chile dated May 3^rd, 1966:

to evacuate New York City 18 months ago, has voted overwhelmingly to terminate the UN

membership of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia, which has been without an effective government

since the Easter Sunday assassination of Marshal Tito, is on the verge of breaking up into

separate ethnic states...

From the May 7^th, 1966 Ha’aretz:

From the May 15^th, 1966 Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

From the May 21^st, 1966 Seattle Times:

Supporters of Bill Promise to Re-file It At Next State Senate Session

From a UPI dispatch out of Vancouver dated May 27^th, 1966:

in total collapse...

From the June 1^st, 1966 Irish Times:

WORLDWIDE DEATH TOLL NEARING 110 MILLION

From the June 4^th, 1966 Asahi Shimbun:

From the June 11^th, 1966 Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal(USA):

Former Packers Coach Vince Lombardi Shot During Melee

From the June 15^th, 1966 St. Petersburg Times:

Was Last Remaining Regularly Published East Coast Paper Outside Fla.

From a UPI bulletin out of Glasgow dated June 23^rd, 1966:

II has been hospitalized with a serious heart condition following the news

that her husband, Prince Philip, was killed in a helicopter crash this evening

en route back to Balmoral after an emergency meeting with the prime minister’s

top health and police officials...

From the June 29^th, 1966 edition of The Age:

From a UPI bulletin out of Jakarta dated July 1^st, 1966:

governments’ decisions to withdraw their respective ambassadors from

Indonesia...

From a Korean Central News Agency dispatch dated July 3^rd, 1966:

disintegration syndrome...

From the July 7^th, 1966 Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Residents Fear RDS Refugees May Try To Enter City

From the July 11^th, 1966 Sydney Morning Herald:

INDONESIA ON BRINK OF CIVIL WAR

From the July 15^th, 1966 Scotsman:

From the July 23^rd, 1966 Izvestiya(USSR):

minor accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility, Kiev

must for the time being remain closed to human habitation...

From an AP dispatch out of Wellington, New Zealand dated July 27^th, 1966:

morning...

From the July 31^st, 1966 Sporting News:

SPORTING NEWS TO SUSPEND PUBLICATION AS OF AUGUST 2^ND

From the August 3^rd, 1966 El Mercurio(Chile):

From the August 5^th, 1966 Hindustan Times(India):

From the August 11^th, 1966 East African Standard(Kenya):

From an AP dispatch out of Shannon, Ireland dated August 17^th, 1966:

Radio Helsinki, severing one of continental Europe’s last remaining links with

the outside world...

From a conversation between two ham radio operators in Colorado dated August 23^rd, 1966:

OPERATOR 2(hereafter referred to as O2): Loud and clear. Over.

O1: How’s the weather on your end?

O2: A little damp, but otherwise fine. And you?

O1: OK. We had some rain on this end last night, but it’s cleared up now...

I was just reading in the paper this morning about how President Johnson’s

still holed up somewhere in the Dakotas...

O2: I thought he was at Camp David. Over.

O1: Nah, he split from there months ago. Besides, it got burned down during

the riots in Washington last week. They damn near torched everything-- the

White House, Capitol Hill, Pentagon, Library of Congress, you name it. They

even got the FBI...

O2: I’m surprised anyone’s left alive in DC to burn anything. That Morgan’s

bug’s killed, what, 170 million people?

O1: 175, not counting people who died from stuff like starvation and civil

wars. Say, you been able to raise anybody in Atlanta?

O2: Not a whisper. Atlanta, Miami, New York, Boston, Detroit, Little Rock....

nothing but dead air every station I try. It’s like the whole East has just up

and disappeared.

O1: Yeah, same thing’s happened to me with the West Coast. Tried raising

Portland around lunchtime yesterday and all I got was static...

From the September 4^th, 1966 Rand Daily Mail:

NATIONAL BANK OF MEXICO COLLAPSES

From a press release by International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage dated September 7^th, 1966:

engendered by the respiratory disintegration syndrome pandemic, I regret to

announce that the 1968 Winter Olympics that were to have been held in

Grenoble, France have been cancelled. A final decision regarding the Summer

Games in Mexico City will be made within 72 hours...

From the September 11^th, 1966 Denver Post:

MAY BECOME EXTINCT IN 10 TO 15 YEARS

From the journal of a research scientist at MacMurdo Sound, Antarctica, entry dated September 13^th, 1966:

nearby....The tension over there’s almost unbearable. They can’t seem to

get a straight answer on when they might be evacuated back to the States...

From an AP dispatch out of Jakarta dated September 16^th, 1966:

Indonesian capital for a second straight day. General Suharto, commander-in-

chief of Indonesia’s armed forces, has declared himself the country’s new

president and imposed martial law in Jakarta; in a televised address to his

people at 5:30 PM local time this evening, Suharto accused Australia and New

Zealand of instigating the riots....

From the September 18^th, 1966 Orlando Sentinel(USA):

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND DENY ROLE IN JAKARTA RIOTS

ST. PETERSBURG TIMES ON INDEFINITE HIATUS

From the September 21^st, 1966 Sydney Morning Herald:

From the September 24^th, 1966 East African Standard:

LIBYAS KING IDRIS I DIES OF RDS

From the September 30^th, 1966 Al-Anwar:

the foreseeable future. Present circumstances both here and abroad have made

it impossible for us to fulfill our responsibilities...

From the October 2^nd, 1966 Las Vegas Review-Journal:

SUSPENDS PUBLICATION

From an AP dispatch out of Addis Ababa dated October 4^th, 1966:

committed suicide....

From the October 8^th, 1966 Kansas City Star:

BRITISH DOCTORS SAY QUEEN ELIZABETH LIKELY TO REMAIN IN COMA

NBA FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

From the October 14^th, 1966 Ma’ariv(Israel):

From the October 18^th, 1966 El Mercurio:

From a UPI bulletin out of Sydney dated October 24^th, 1966:

naval vessels off Papua New Guinea late last night. No casualties were reported, but

one of the Australian ships suffered slight damage to its forward hull. An Australian

Navy spokesman said that the Indonesian vessels were violating Australian territorial

waters, a charge vehemently denied by Indonesia’s foreign minister...

From an AP dispatch out of Dar es Salaam dated October 30^th, 1966:

Idi Amin is making good on his threats to go to war against Kenya. At noon

local time today, five Ugandan army divisions crossed the Kenyan border while

Ugandan air force jets simultaneously bombed Nairobi; Kenyan president Jomo

Kenyatta made a radio address to his fellow countrymen a short time ago calling

Uganda’s invasion "a criminal act" and urging Kenyans to defend their country

to the death...

From the November 2^nd, 1966 Irish Times:

WORLDWIDE CASUALTIES AT 340 MILLION

From the November 4^th, 1966 Rand Daily Mail:

200,000 DEAD IN BANGALORE MASS SUICIDE

From the November 7^th, 1966 Sydney Morning Herald:

Nation’s Top Muslim Clerics Protest Quarantine Decision

From the November 10^th, 1966 Times of Zambia:

KENYAN ARMY FIGHTING UGANDANS SOUTH OF NAIROBI

SHAH OF IRAN HOSPITALIZED WITH POSSIBLE CASE OF RDS

From a UPI dispatch out of Baghdad dated November 14^th, 1966:

disease pandemic, a military junta has declared itself the new government of Iraq. The leader

of the junta, an army officer named Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, has ordered a dusk-to-dawn

curfew for Baghdad, Fallujah, Nasiriyah, Mosul, and Basra...

From a UN World Health Organization report to acting Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dated November 20^th, 1966:

Despite the world medical community’s most diligent efforts, a cure or vaccine for the

disease remains elusive after more than two and a half years; furthermore, mass suicides

are now an alarmingly common event in all regions affected by the plague. If things continue

on their current course or deteriorate further, we calculate that the earth’s total human population

will decline to less than 1 billion in the next five years...

From the November 25^th, 1966 Anchorage Star:

SEATTLE TIMES BANKRUPT

From the November 28^th, 1966 Korea Morning Post:

Global RDS Deaths Now Stand At Nearly 400 Million

Morning Post To Close As Of Tomorrow

From the December 1^st, 1966 Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

BOTCHED HIJACK ATTEMPT

From an AP dispatch out of Mogadishu dated December 8^th, 1966:

From the December 11^th, 1966 Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Football Hero Succumbs To RDS

From the December 15^th, 1966 Rand Daily Mail:

JOMO KENYATTA KILLED IN UGANDAN BOMBING RAID

Idi Amin Demands Kenya’s Surrender

From the December 17^th, 1966 East African Standard:

HOLLAND ABANDONS UN MEMBERSHIP

From the December 20^th, 1966 La Nacion(Mexico):

housing facilities and venues which were to have been used for the now-cancelled

Summer Olympics in Mexico City...

From the logbook of a cargo ship captain, entry dated December 27^th, 1966:

we’ll be able to leave...With medical ships getting half the available fuel in port and

the Chilean navy using most of the rest, there’s not a lot to spare for a 25-year-old

freighter. Then again, even if we can get fuel, who knows where we can go once we

leave? Half our old ports of call are closed anyway, and gunboats blow you up if you

try to enter the Panama Canal...

From a Pentecostal evangelist’s sermon to his followers in southern New Mexico dated New Year’s Day, 1967:

their defiance of His will! We alone, the holy, the God-fearing, will survive this

tribulation, and when every fornicator, every heathen idol-worshipper, every sodomite,

every blasphemer, every atheist has been cleansed and purged from the earth, is it we

who will rebuild the human race in His glorious name, free from all wickedness and

vanity!...

From the January 8^th, 1967 Times of Zambia:

LIBYAN REFUGEES POURING INTO CHAD

From the January 12^th, 1967 Sioux Falls Argus-Leader(USA):

South Dakota state police found an abandoned Ford station wagon with Maine

license plates on a deserted highway east of Pierre late last night while on a

routine patrol enforcing the statewide 8PM-6AM curfew. A search of the car

revealed a tape recorder, a road map of the United States marked with notes

about areas affected by the RDS plague, and several reels of tape along with

three boxes of notebooks; the Ford’s owner has not yet been found...

From the January 14^th, 1967 Calgary Albertan:

RCAF RECON FLIGHTS INDICATE MONTREAL DESERTED

From the January 18^th, 1967 Kansas City Star:

From the January 22^nd, 1967 El Mercurio:

From the January 26^th, 1967 Denver Post:

House Speaker McCormick Is New VP

From a UPI bulletin out of Dublin dated February 3^rd, 1967:

major documentary to be commissioned by the BBC before the Morgan’s pandemic reached

Great Britain, is in critical condition after being injured when he intervened to defend a woman

from being robbed during yesterday’s food riots...

From the February 5^th, 1967 Tulsa Herald:

From the February 10^th, 1967 Ha’aretz:

From a UPI bulletin out of Kuwait City dated Februay 15^th, 1967:

to the Lebanese government’s refusal to hand over Syrian Baathist leader Hafez el-Assad

for trial...

From an AP dispatch out of Ankara dated February 18^th, 1967:

The Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet has indefinitely suspended

From the February 23^rd, 1967 Sydney Morning Herald:

were diagnosed by Italian doctors, hopes for a cure-- or even the survival of the human

race beyond 1970 --are fading into memory. Many of the world’s great religious and

cultural shrines have fallen silent, and the number of empty seats in the UN General

Assembly is growing at an alarming rate....

From an AP dispatch out of Christchurch, New Zealand dated March 1^st, 1967:

This city is under martial law tonight after food riots killed more than 200 people and

caused thousands of dollars’ worth of damage...

From the March 3^rd, 1967 Manila Chronicle:

ANTI-GOVERNMENT RIOTS STRIKE INDONESIA

JAKARTA IN FLAMES

From the March 8^th, 1967 Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

Was Last Surviving Regular West Coast Daily Paper Outside Seattle

From a Radio Hanoi broadcast dated March 12^th, 1967:

From the March 16^th, 1967 Cincinnati Enquirer:

CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER CLOSING ITS DOORS AS OF NEXT WEEK

From the March 21^st, 1967 People’s Daily Worker:

disintegration syndrome....

From the March 25^th, 1967 El Dia(Uruguay):

From the March 30^th, 1967 Anchorage Star:

From a UPI bulletin out of Caracas dated April 1^st, 1967:

being obliged to work for eight straight months without pay...

From a top secret cable by an Australian counterintelligence operative in Indonesia to his superiors in Canberra dated Arpil 4^th, 1967:

normally be a perfect time for the KGB to do some mischief around here, but I

haven’t heard so much as a whisper about new ops from any of my contacts

inside the Soviet embassy...

From the April 8^th, 1967 East African Standard:

IDI AMIN REPORTED MISSING

From the April 11^th, 1967 Irish Times:

From a UPI bulletin out of Rio de Janeiro dated April 13^th, 1967:

danger of becoming permanently trapped in a condition of poverty as a result of the staggering

job losses brought about the collapse of most of the world’s major industrial and technological

companies...

From the April 18^th, 1967 Las Vegas Review-Journal:

From an AP dispatch out of Johannesburg dated April 21^st, 1967:

Idi Amin....

From the April 26^th, 1967 Rand Daily Mail:

IN ABIDJAN

From the April 29^th, 1967 Winnipeg Sun(Canada):

From the May 2^nd, 1967 edition of The Australian:

AUSTRALIA NATIONAL RUGBY TEAM TO FACE NEW ZEALAND ALL-BLACKS

IN CHARITY EXHIBITION MATCH

First Competition With Foreign Opponent In Almost A Year

From the May 5^th, 1967 Denver Post:

From the May 10^th, 1967 O Estado do Sao Paulo(Brazil):

From a UPI bulletin out of Balmoral, Scotland dated May 12^th, 1967:

Queen Elizabeth II went into a coma following the death of Prince Philip, is set to

be officially crowned today as King George VII....

From the May 18^th, 1967 Rand Daily Mail:

From the May 21^st, 1967 Times of India:

From the May 23^rd, 1967 Las Vegas Review-Journal:

From an AP bulletin out of Karachi, Pakistan dated May 28^th, 1967:

between India and Pakistan, today declared its independence from both countries...

From a UPI dispatch out of Hyderabad, India dated May 30^th, 1967:

independence movement...

From the May 31^st, 1967 Irish Times:

From the June 3^rd, 1967 Juneau Tribune(USA):

NEW VOTE ON HAWAII SECESSION BILL ENDS IN DEADLOCK

From the June 5^th, 1967 Tulsa Herald:

extinction of the human race by 1981 has issued a follow-up report which now warns

such extinction may happen even sooner than that. The new study, whose revised

calculations factor in new variables like the escalating guerrilla war in Kashmir and

the updated figures about radiation poisoning deaths from last July’s Chernobyl

nuclear disaster, suggests that the last remnants of humanity may die off by 1976...

From an AP dispatch out of Santiago dated June 8^th, 1967:

until further notice and grant UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim temporary

emergency powers to directly govern the 22-year-old world body. The suspension,

according to sources close to the Security Council, is prompted by the inability of

the five member nations to guarantee replacements for the representatives who

currently sit on the council....

From the June 10^th, 1967 El Dia:

Argentina Declares National Emergency

From the June 13^th, 1967 Juneau Tribune:

Offices of Anchorage Herald Burned To The Ground

From an AP dispatch out of Tyre, Lebanon dated June 20^th, 1967:

in the four-month-old border war between Syria and Lebanon...

From the June 25^th, 1967 Times of Zambia:

Deposed Ugandan Tyrant Dies In Firefight With Government Troops Near

Lake Victoria

From the June 29^th, 1967 Sydney Morning Herald:

with the death of a South Korean fisherman in Inchon. The pandemic, which has also

led to 40 million deaths from civil unrest, accidents, war, and suicide, has touched nearly

every corner of the globe with the exceptions of New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica...

From the July 1^st, 1967 Calgary Albertan:

From an Australia Broadcasting Corporation special news report dated July 3^rd, 1967:

We interrupt our regular programming to bring you the following urgent bulletin: New

Zealand naval vessels are moving to intercept an RDS refugee ship reported to be trying

to force entry into Wellington Harbor. RNZAF attack aircraft have been placed on alert

and are standing by for further orders...

From the July 4^th, 1967 Denver Post:

No Comment On Rumor A Passenger May Have Gotten Ashore

From the July 7^th, 1967 Irish Times:

NEW ZEALAND DECLARES NATIONWIDE HEALTH EMERGENCY