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U.S. Would Join Baghdad Pact Military Committee, Ike Reveals; Earthquake Jolts San Francisco

By The ASSOCIATED Press

TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda, March 22--President Eisenhower has told Prime Minister Macmillan the United States is willing to join the Baghdad Pact's Military Committee in a move to check the spread of communism in the Middle East.

The action--disclosed today and hailed by the British--is sure to elate all the Middle East members of the five-nation pact.

It came as Eisenhower and Macmillan turned next to talks on plans to bolster Britain's atomic striking power to compensate coming reductions of military manpower dictated by economic necessity.

Quake Rocks San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22--A series of earthquakes--two so violent that the earth groaned audibly and tall buildings swayed for a half-minute in San Francisco--dealt injury and property damage over a 150-mile area today.

Five shocks were spread over a period of 4 1/2 hours. The latest rumbling quake shook the city at 3:15 p.m.

70 Planes Join in Search

TOKYO, Saturday, March 23--Seventy planes and a dozen ships were thrown into the search today for a U.S. military transport plane that vanished over the choppy Pacific with 67 Americans aboard.

It was believed the plane, trying to ditch at night in wind-tossed 30-foot seas, cracked up and sank quickly before life rafts could be launched.

$709,000 'Lost' by Teamsters

WASHINGTON, March 22--Senate racket probers today listed $709,420.14 of Teamsters Union funds as lost, misappropriated, unaccounted for, or questionably used--in operations on the West Coast alone.

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