Hijacked Dutch airliner lands safely in Libya
Dutch DC9 with 264 aboard hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas after leaving Beirut. President Orlandini and KLM officials on board. plane forced to Damascus and Nicosia before landing. Hijackers demand unsealed, PLO condemns tactics as Geneva peace summit looms. Libyan authorities hold suspect.
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Iraq
Arab Youth Organization For the Liberation of Palestine
Tokyo
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Israel
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Yasir Arafat
Algiers
Japan Air Lines
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Bank as a Place to Borrow Money You Don’t Need
Weather brief notes cloudy with occasional snow or rain through Tuesday. Highs near 35, lows around 22 to 28, with a 60 percent chance of precipitation today, 50 percent tonight, and 20 percent Tuesday. Lake Bemidji water level 1339.55, normal 1340. surface water 34.8.
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Kennedy Leads Democratic Pack in Gallup Poll for 1976 Nomination
The Gallup poll shows Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts ahead with 41 percent among 627 self-identified Democrats in the Nov 25 survey. Alabama Gov George Wallace has 15 percent and Senator Edmund Muskie 9 percent.
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Massachusetts
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Alabama
George C. Wallace
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Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Nixon orders 15 percent cut in fuel deliveries nationwide
President Nixon announces 15 percent reductions in gasoline and home heating oil deliveries to curb fuel shortages, with Sunday sales bans, voluntary jet fuel cuts, and possible consumer rationing. Other measures include 50 mph highway limits and lighting restrictions to limit demand.
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Nixon
Congress
White House
Secretary says tape erased by mistake
Rose Mary Woods testified she listened to a tape the White House says misses an 18 minute portion. The court hears how the 18 minute segment allegedly vanished from the June 20 1972 Nixon Haldeman conversation and Woods possible involvement.
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Nixon
Rose Mary Woods
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Miss Woods
Watergate
U.S
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H. R. Haldeman
Sirica
Haldeman
Los Angeles Times
the Times
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Rhyne
Times
Camp David
Greece shifts to new rulers after Papadopoulos ouster
In Athens a military-led regime removes remaining Papadopoulos loyalists and orders relief for several officials. Lt Gen Gizikis becomes president and frees three ex-politicians while signaling the end of Papadopoulos era and a move away from parliamentary governance.
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Greece
George Papadopoulos
Phaedon Gizikis
Panayotis Canellopoulos
John Zighdis
George Mavros
Papadopoulos
Dismissals Sought in All Wounded Knee Charges
A federal judge heard a motion to dismiss charges linked to the Wounded Knee occupation. Attorneys from the Wounded Knee Legal Offense Defense Committee argued bad faith prosecution and statute unconstitutionality claiming political targeting and vague obstruction laws. The hearing before Judge Fred Nichol spanned much of the week as 117 indicted and up to 200 potential indictments loomed. Trials for Dennis Banks and Russell Means were planned to begin January 8 in Minneapolis after Nichol ordered a separate venue for a fair trial.
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S.D
Wounded Knee
Wounded
Minneapolis
Nichol
South Dakota
Dennis Banks
Russell Means
Toll of Thanksgiving weekend traffic rises in Minnesota
Sixteen people died in Minnesota traffic crashes over the Thanksgiving weekend, increasing the state toll to 892 for 1973. Victims include Harmon Haugen's wife Pearl and others in crashes near New Ulm, Minnetonka, Elk River, and St. Paul. Posthumous note: Susan Hempel, 18, died in New Ulm hospital after a two car crash.
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Susan Hempel
Mann
Pearl E. Haugen
Mankato
Harmon
Diane Zimmerman
Shakopee
Minn
Minneapolis
Minnetonka
Ardel Solheim
Crookston
Fertile
Minnesota
Frank Starr
Sauk Rapids
Benton County
St. Cloud
Karen L. Hoskins
St. Paul
St. Paul-Ramsey Hospital
U.S. 10
Elk River
Ronald J. Hull
Fridley
Skylab 3 to study sun for endless clean energy
NASA astronauts Gibson Carr and Pogue will aim Skylab 3 its $121.2 million eight telescopes at the sun to explore fusion power as a potential inexhaustible pollution free energy source. An earth Resources pass over the United States was cancelled due to cloud cover.
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Gibson
Earth
Polaris founder Allan Hetteen dies in snowmobile accident
Allan Hetteen, former president of Polaris, was killed when the tractor he was driving overturned on a county road near his farm southeast of Roseau Minnesota. He was in his late 50s and had led Polaris since 1960 after buying his brother Edgar’s share. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Allan Hetteen
Roseau
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Hetteen
Edgar
Polaris
International Snowmobile Industry Association
Textron, Inc
Edgar Hetteen
Arctic Enterprises, Inc
Thief River Falls
Minn
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