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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1974
Page
1
In Maalot Israel faced a 90 student hostage crisis after three armed extremists seized a vacationing group inside a school. A French diplomat negotiated inside the building while Israel offered to exchange 20 jailed guerrillas for the pupils before a 6 p.m. deadline.
Secretary of State Kissinger postpones a Damascus flight as Arab terrorists seize 90 teenagers at Maalot high school. Israel agrees to swap 20 jailed militants to Syria to save hostages while it debates a Golan disengagement. Debate centers on line locations and hill control.
The House Judiciary Committee plans to issue another subpoena for 11 presidential conversation tapes as part of its impeachment inquiry. The vote will address material Nixon has refused to release, with staff led by John Doar urging tapes from April 4, June 20, and June 23, 1972.
Kenneth A. Gibson won Newark’s nonpartisan mayoral race with 42,313 votes to 33,652 for Anthony Imperiale. Imperiale led white street patrols after the 1967 riots. three minor candidates totaled 1,548. Gibson framed victory as rejection of race as a campaign issue.
Sen. Edward W. Brooke, the only Black senator, denounces the Gurney proposal to curb desegregation busing as returning racial separatism. He warns it would undo 20 years of Court-ordered progress and calls on Nixon to stop pandering to fears. The measure would limit busing to the nearest school and reopen prior cases, with a close vote expected.
In Las Vegas the fifth annual World Series of Poker features pros like W. C. Pearson Amarillo Slim Preston and a mystery Smith in a high stakes hold em game. Winners take 10 000 from each of about a dozen players while former champions Pearson and Preston have earned large past sums. The game is 7 card stud with a communal deck and no breaks except meals and sleep. Pearson notes a long career, recent rough run and inner self management as key to success.
Washington AP Democrats urge House Rules vote on amendments by Reps Green and Vanik to push oil industry tax hikes. Ways and Means panel backs a bill raising taxes by about 13 to 14 billion dollars over six years, ending the oil depletion allowance by 1979 and adding a windfall profits tax.
The White House hides the names of the Nixon Watergate tape typists to avoid subpoenas. An official says lawyers decided to shield the workers from questioning over transcripts with many inaudible passages.
Divers resumed search for a twin engine Beechcraft Baron that plunged into Lake Erie after takeoff from Burke Lakefront Airport. Police said at least four people were aboard and no survivors were found. The Army Corps of Engineers had a tug on the scene as strong winds complicated recovery efforts.
In Bonn, Volkswagen chairman Rudolf Leiding reported a backlog of 472000 unsold vehicles and a 35 million dollar loss in the first quarter of 1974. US sales fell 27.7 percent to 120960 cars from the prior year, reversing 1973 profits of 88 million.
The forecast calls for showers ending tonight with partly cloudy skies. Lows will be in the upper 40s to low 50s. Thursday returns to partial cloudiness with highs in the 70s. Details on Page 2.
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