Passengers recall terror on hijacked jet
San Francisco passengers describe a six hour ordeal aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines flight taken over by two hijackers. They recount gunfire, fear, and the moment a passenger died with others wounded as they waited to land and later be released.
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Pacific Southwest Airlines
Mae Miller
Applegate
Calif
San Diego
Federal Aviation Administration
Washington
Pacific Southwest
FBI
San Francisco
Democrats seek Supreme Court ruling over McGovern delegation
Washington AP reports Democrats faced a legal delay as the Supreme Court was asked to convene a rare term to decide if 151 California delegates should be seated for George McGovern. The case involves the Daley-led Illinois delegation and a party credentials dispute affecting the nomination process.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Warren E. Burger
George McGovern
California
Burger
District of Columbia Appeals Court
Credentials Committee
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Illinois
Appeals Court
High Court
Democratic Party
Daley
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
McGovern
Hijacker Seizes PSA Jet With 58 Aboard In California
A masked hijacker armed with a pistol seized control of a PSA Boeing 727 near Oakland as it prepared to land in Sacramento, forced it toward San Diego, and demanded 450000 and a single parachute. After negotiations, 31 passengers, mostly women and children, were allowed to disembark.
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San Diego
Calif
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Air Pirate
Sacramento
Oakland
California
Lindbergh Field
FBI
PSA
Laird Attacks McGovern Plan On Defense Spending
Secretary Melvin Laird blasts Senator McGovern for a proposed thirty billion dollar defense cut arguing it risks national security and world peace. McGovern retorts he will keep the United States strong while avoiding wasteful spending, criticizing Nixon era arms deals and urging prudent budgets.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
George McGovern
Laird
McGovern
United States
Nixon
Democratic Platform Committee
Hawkish
Dovich
Hanoi
Proxmire
John J. Rhodes
R-Ariz
Muncie Sheriff Pleads Innocent
Delaware County Sheriff James P. Carey pleaded innocent to two bribery charges. Judge Ralph Rector set a Sept. 6 trial in Delaware Superior Court 2. The sheriff, former Muncie police chief, was arrested June 22 for accepting 3600 in bribes from three professional gamblers in a state police and county prosecutor investigation.
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Muncie (Ap
Delaware County
James P. Carey
Ralph Rector
Delaware Superior Court
Muncie
Anderson OKs Civil Defense police reserve program
Anderson safety board approves use of Civil Defense police as reserves to monitor parks and check vacant homes during vacation periods. Officers will have no firearms or arrest powers and will be unpaid, with sworn officers handling any necessary action. Also reinstates Hobart Chandler after a decade with the force and approves bills totaling 16 401 32 amid talks on junked vehicles at 17th and Chase.
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Anderson's Safety Board
Paddy Jamerson
Jamerson
I cD
Ism
Anderson
Hobart
Skip” Chandler
Chandler
Fratern
Order of Police
Harold ‘Whitey’ Snow
Pete Burnett
Robert Phillips
Fred Spencer
17Th
Chase Streets
Satellite ERTA Aims to Aid Farming and Resource Management
GREENBELT MD AP A new satellite ERTA will be launched July 21 to aid farmers with insect control through remote sensing, improve mine safety and pollution source spotting, and guide timber harvesting. The 1965-pound two stage Delta booster will place it in a near polar orbit 564 miles high, covering the globe every 18 days, at an estimated cost of 176 million dollars.
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Greenbelt
Vandenberg Air Force Base
California
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
League nods to tax district for Anderson storm sewers
LWV hears City report on drainage as Anderson fights floods and faulty farm tiles. Mayor Rock says a sanitary district tax is the practical route with an estimated $36 million needed, far above a 1967 figure. City Engineer Byrne notes annexed areas bear the worst water. funding questions loom.
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Anderson
Robert L. Rock
League of Women Voters
Anderson Public Library
Jack Campbell
John Byrne
Robert Como
Henry B. Steeg and Associates
Rock
League
Old City
Byrne
District notes delay in ecology stance and sewer plan
Hodson laments delayed ecological acceptance in 1969 while Jon C. Shafer, Herald staff writer, as a layman backs Steeg’s storm sewer recommendations yet calls the vehicle questionable. He cites the Sanitary District Law structure and a supplemental section on refuse.
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Jon C. Shafer
Herald
Steeg
Fischer Apology Prompts First World Chess Championship Meet
Bobby Fischer apologizes in writing to Boris Spassky and they are set to open the world chess championship in Reykjavik with the first game scheduled for Tuesday.
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Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Reykjavik
Iceland
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