Suez Canal battle could decide war
Egyptian and Israeli tanks clashed furiously in a large, potentially decisive fight near the Suez Canal. Syria reported its tanks repelled an Israeli assault on the Golan Heights front while Egypt centered the action around the Bitter Lakes area and urged Israeli forces to surrender or face destruction. Battles had raged since Wednesday in the central sector.
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Wierig formation sighted east of Rochester sky
A strange long narrow condensation trail was seen east of Rochester just after sunrise by a National Weather Service meteorologist at the Rochester Airport. A fast moving silver object appeared then vanished after about five minutes while observers doubted a balloon and noted high altitude winds.
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Beirut bank siege holds 60 hostages in city crisis
Gunmen stormed a six story bank building in Beirut's financial district taking up to 60 hostages after a two hour gunbattle. The captors, calling themselves the Lebanese Socialist Revolutionary Movement, delivered three demands including Palestinian guerrilla releases, a $10 million ransom, and an aircraft to Algeria or South Yemen with a 6 p.m. deadline.
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AIM Leader Shot and Killed on Pine Ridge Reservation
Pedro Bissonette, 29, an American Indian Movement leader from Pine Ridge, was shot dead Tuesday night four miles east of Pine Ridge. AIM says a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer fired the fatal shot during an encounter after Bissonette had been sought on a fugitive warrant tied to the Wounded Knee takeover. He died on arrival at the Public Health Service Hospital in Pine Ridge at 9:50 p.m. MDT, after a chest wound.
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County seeks tips on new industry creation in Mower
County officials request information or tips on establishing a new industry in Mower County. Target is start up to employ at least 50 workers within one year of receiving the tip. Community contact avenues provided for submissions.
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Austin Industrial Development Corp new method stated
Willard J. discusses a new approach used by the Development Corporation of Austin to attract industry to the city and county. The notice lists 300 N Main Street Austin Minnesota and provides a contact phone 507 437 4563 for inquiries.
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Austin Industrial Development Corp
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Reward proposed for tips on city industry seekers
Vondrashek director of the Industrial Development Office proposed a reward method to a corporation for tips about industries locating in the city or county and received approval to pursue the plan.
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Industrial Development Office
Arab oil cutback pressures U S over Israel policy
Arab oil ministers meeting in Kuwait announced a production cut of at least 5 percent monthly until Israel yields territory from the 1967 war and Palestinian refugee rights. Western Europe and Japan, major Arab customers, are expected to pressure the United States to reduce support for Israel as a tactic to influence Washington.
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Harvard economist Leontief wins Nobel Prize in 1973
Harvard economist Wassily Leontief receives the Nobel Prize in Economic Science for the input-output method and its applications. Australian novelist Patrick White wins the literature prize for epic and psychological narrative art, introducing a new continent to literature.
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Stockholm
Wassily Leontief
Patrick White
Royal Academy of Science
Leontief
Cambridge
Mass
Weather balloons spark UFO reports across the South
Weather balloons launched by the National Weather Service triggered waves of unidentified flying object sightings. A 150 foot diameter balloon rose from Palestine Texas reaching 50 000 feet over Mississippi while another from Montgomery Alabama hit about 85 000 feet. Officials warned sky color and light reflections can create misperceptions.
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Ala
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Eglin
Austin schools face potential shutdowns over fuel oil shortage
Austin School Supt. Erwin Mickelson warned the Board that fuel oil may not cover full operations this year. He cited Nov. 1 federal allotments and an Oct. 23 meeting with Minnesota officials, urging exploration of split shifts and other options. He acknowledged the possibility of temporary closures and did not rule them out.
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Erwin Mickelson
Mickelson
Minnesota
William Vondrashek
Vondrashek
Donald Lucas
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Odean Sola
Lyle Area
Israel-North Korea dogfight over Egypt prompts Pentagon briefing
Washington reports Israeli fighter planes clashed with Soviet MIGs flown by North Korean pilots allied with Egypt. Pentagon spokesman William Beecher said the brief aerial engagement south of Cairo produced no downed planes and no definitive outcome.
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Egypt
Pentagon
William Beecher
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Beecher
Woman hijacks Air France jet to Marseille
An armed woman hijacked an Air France plane from Paris to Marseille and released 110 passengers while detaining the pilot and chief steward. Motive unclear. One released passenger said the woman seemed extremely nervous and spoke incoherently.
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