Knife Takes Off To Cuba Hijack Shocks Miami Flight
An Eastern Airlines plane with 72 passengers and six crew members was hijacked to Cuba by a man who pressed a knife into a stewardess's side. He said he was from Indiana, a Communist, and fleeing the FBI. The craft returned to Miami about four hours later with the crew and two passengers. 70 others awaited onward transport.
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Miami
Eastern Airlines
Cuba
Joyce Jernigan
Ronnie
Indiana
United States
FBI
Miss Jernigan
Sky Pirate
Havana
Three Colleges in Turmoil Face Arrests and Sit-Ins
United Press International reports nearly 300 demonstrators were arrested at San Fernando Valley State College after defying a state of emergency. In San Francisco, clashes occurred at dyeing violence sites as police moved on students. In Waltham Brandeis University students joined 65 protesters occupying the campus communications complex to oppose racist policies. Dre. Delmar T. Oviatt, acting president at Northridge, urged an end to the demo and offered talks with leaders as police escorted participants.
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United Press International
San Fernando Valley State College
San Francisco State College
Waltham
Mass
Brandeis University
Northridge
Calif
Dre. Delmar T. Oviatt
Secret testimony at Sirhan trial edges forward
In Los Angeles radio newsmen testified in secret, as Sirhan Bishara Sirhan’s lawyers argued publicity harmed his case and sought to quash the indictment. The judge delayed jury selection to Monday and considered continuance requests. Defense and prosecution debated venue and mistrial motions while Sirhan, 24, sat with his lawyers in court before the chamber testimony.
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Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Sirhan
Robert F Kennedy
Herbert V. Walker
Emile Zola Berman
Berman
New York
California
Mary
Nude UT student Keitha Morris found dead at Inks Lake
Utah couple found the nude body of Keitha Morris 20 a University of Texas sophomore and a missing companion. Her boyfriend John Alfred White 21 was found badly beaten and shot in Bull Creek near Austin. Autopsy showed Morris died by drowning with a neck strangulation mark. The case involved a reported struggle and bloodstained rock near the scene as authorities searched with DPS Texas Rangers and a helicopter.
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Keitha Morris
White Deer
Inks Lake
Burnet County
Travis County
T. C. Lang
John Albert White
Corpus Christi
Austin
Miss Morris
White
Kuhn
John Alfred White
Bull Creek
Department of Public Safety
George Harvey
Fullmore
Utah
DPS
T. O. Lang
University of Texas
Travis County Sheriff's Deputies
Texas Rangers
David Bond
Dawn Horak
Weird Rite Linked to Harvard Coed Murder Powder
State police tested a mysterious red powder found on Harvard coed Jane S. Britton and her bloodstained mattress as investigators scrutinize a Persian funeral rite theory. The 23 year old archaeology student, daughter of Radcliffe College’s administrative vice president, was beaten with a missing large archaeological stone.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Harvard
Pretty Jane S. Britton
Peru
Miss Britton
Radcliffe
Hospital Expansion Planned At St Anthony’s
Bids for a $2 million addition at St Anthony’s Hospital will be sought in mid February with completion expected in fall 1970. The city may close one block of Tyler Street to permit the expansion. Architect J Ray Daniel outlined a surgical wing west of the hospital with basement and two floors, an X ray area and emergency entrance west of the north wing with basement and one floor, and an administrative wing at the north. Parking areas at the north and west would remain.
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St. Anthony's Hospital
Tyler Street
J. Ray Daniel
Apollo 11 Moon Crew Named by NASA
NASA named the first moon landing crew for Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong to command, Michael Collins in lunar orbit, and Edwin Aldrin to walk on the chalky surface. The July mission window spans July 11 to 22 with Armstrong and Aldrin as the surface explorers and Collins in orbit 69 miles above. Backup crew will include Apollo 8 veterans Jim Lovell, William Anders, Fred Haise, and rookie astronauts. Apollo 10, with Stafford, Young, and Cernan, will precede the mission, flying within 10 miles of the moon.
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Johnson
White House
Capitol
Congress
William Anders
Navy
James Lovell Jr
Frank Borman
Humphrey
Washington
UPS
The
Space Agency
U.S
Moon
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin “Buz” Aldrin
Armstrong
Aldrin
Collins
James Lovell
Fred Haise
Thomas Stafford
John Young
Eugene Cernan
Stafford
Cernan
Lunar
City Managers Taught Trash Fire Rule in Amarillo
Panhandle city managers gathered in Amarillo Thursday to hear about a state law banning open pit burning of garbage in cities with 5 000 or more population the rule effective January 3 last year was extended to July 1 by the Air Pollution Control Board. Cities under 5 000 in metropolitan areas are also covered. Officials discussed funding and possible extensions with Cecil Bradford environmental health specialist. Amarillo already operates a landfill and incinerator.
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Texas
Panhandle
Amarillo
Air Pollution Control Board
City of
San Antonio
Cecil Ls Bradford
Texas State Department of Health
Bradford
Macomber
Dumas
A. C. Spears
Borger
Enterprising Argentines offer home UFO detector
In Argentina, Vinicio and Segislvaldo Completa turn out a novelty UFO detector at La Filomena Pottery Works in Escobar. Priced at 10.60, each device resembles a plastic cap and is marketed amid a rising flying saucer craze sparked by local sightings and odd tales from Rosario.
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Pampa
Mexico
Vinicio Completa
Segislvaldo
la Filomena
Escobar
Argentina
Completa Brothers
Burglarized Navy pay vault at Jacksonville NAS
FBI says burglars broke into a wooden bank building at Jacksonville Naval Air Station and stole more than 300000 dollars in small bills kept for Navy pay day. No guard was on site and hundreds of sailors queued for pay. Barnett First National Bank was entered through a back window.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Jacksonville Naval Air Station
FBI
Barnett First National Bank
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Itv Radio and TV
Sylvia Porter
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