Suspect in hijack was scholar
Everett Leary Holt, once a Greenfield Indiana high school honor student, a former Indiana University graduate, hijacked a Northwest flight on Christmas Eve. He released passengers at O’Hare after five hours, surrendered to FBI agents, and faces air piracy charges. Authorities recovered a revolver and a suspected detonator device. a Brinks truck delivered ransom to the plane.
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Queen Elizabeth's Sons Star On TV In Family Game
On Saturday the Queen and her two young sons Prince Andrew and Prince Edward appeared in a family photo album guessing game on television. The boys correctly identified Buckingham Palace, Sir Winston Churchill, and other images as the Queen prompted questions with innocent candor. Edward even recalled a wartime era photo of fashionably dressed women, calling one moment nasty.
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Vets picket Hatokish pastor at Collingswood church
About 20 former servicemen opposed to the war picketed the Bible Presbyterian Church in Collingswood as Carl McIntyre, a prominent antiwar preacher, conducted Christmas services. The veterans, dressed conservatively, blamed the war on leaders and planned to join an encampment at Valley Forge. McIntyre said Washington would be turning over in his grave at the antiwar stance.
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Wall collapse kills three New Orleans firemen
A brick front wall of a burning warehouse in New Orleans collapsed Saturday, killing three firemen and injuring 13 others. The deceased were George E. Forstail, Anton Puderer, and William Aymaml, with their bodies recovered from rubble hours later. Firefighters had responded to the 1300 block of Dryades Street when the wall toppled suddenly, unleashing a cloud of ash gray smoke.
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Jackson launches PUSH CHICAGO with aim to aid the poor
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, resigning from Operation Breadbasket, unveiled PUSH to a South Side audience. He outlined a focus on improving the economic status of the poor, boosting welfare assistance, aiding labor, and inviting all presidential candidates to appear before the new organization. He expected broad participation.
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GAO cites negligence in 47 million Peru highway project
The General Accounting Office charges contractors mismanaged a Turapato Rio Nieva Highway project in Peru. Investigators found diverted funds and equipment, meals diverted to a manager’s house, a stereo purchase, a wedding loan, no soil borings before work, and inadequate drainage aiding a massive earth slide. Senator Prowmitze released the report after ex engineer Pettis claimed he was blackballed by Brown & Root Overseas. Pettis has been unemployed since December 1968.
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Children’s Trish raid ends happily in Belfast
In Belfast a group of children wearing combat jackets staged a mock ambush of British patrols but no one was hurt as British forces held fire. A sniper fired and missed, a bomb hit a parked school bus causing windows to break, and hunger strikes continued in internment camps.
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Pope says modern man misses Christmas message
Pope Paul VI told tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square that secular, self sufficient man Often ignores Christmas hopes. He urged a renewed proclamation of Jesus birth and called love the ultimate Christmas message for intellectuals activists and the poor. He noted astronauts on the moon as examples of vast mysteries and emphasized charity amid a busy holiday scene.
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Nixon holiday calls mix business with Christmas cheer
President Nixon slipped from a White House family gathering on Christmas Day to prepare for a summit with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and to place holiday calls. He reached Heath at Chequers and Johnson at the LBJ Ranch, spoke with congressional leaders, Cabinet members, and figures like Chief Justice Burger and Billy Graham, and continued planning for talks ahead of trips to Peking and Moscow.
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Ancient remains found in Italian cave near Lacea
Three underground explorers reported discovering a large cavern near Lacea in Italy containing human remains from prehistoric to medieval times. They found bones and vases suggesting usage from the Iron and copper ages, with a series of underground chambers connected by a narrow passage.
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Penn Central freight trains collide in Mount Marion
Two loaded Penn Central freight trains collided head on near Mount Marion New York causing a fiery wreck. Two crewmen were badly injured and three had minor injuries with one in critical condition. The crash halted passenger service on the river route.
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Coast Guard searches for missing power boat
The U S Coast Guard combed the Florida coast for a 50 foot power cruiser missing on a voyage from Cozumel Mexico to the Florida Keys as gale winds and high seas lessened. An exchange ship reported the vessel Diligence riding in seven foot seas near New Castle John Denton. Rescue crews saved the Steadfast about 60 miles west of Tampa and escorted it to tarps harbor.
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