Two Arab commandos sentenced to death in Athens murders
Shaken Black September operatives Shafik Al Arid, 22, and Talal Khantourah, 21, were sentenced to death by firing squad for the Aug 5 1973 Athens airport attack that killed five people, including four Americans. The trial in Athens ended with a surprise verdict amid top‑level security and potential appeals to the Supreme Court.
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Athens
UPI
Middle East
Shafik Al-Arid
Talal Khantourah
Supreme Court
Nicholas Ganosis
Hussein
Al-Arid
Khantourah
Trans World Airways
Tel Aviv
Israel begins staged withdrawal from Sinai after six years
United Press International reports Israeli forces start a 72 hour pullback from the Suez Canal area, dismantling a bridge and repositioning troops as Egypt prepares to assume canal control. UPI cites Lt. Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo praising the move as a step toward peace.
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Middle East
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Suez Canal
Ensio Siilasvuo
U.N
Egypt
Sinai
Cairo-Suez
Elazar
Gamassy
United States
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Canal
Cairo- Suez
Henry A. Kissinger
Desert
East Bank
European nations draft new Atlantic Charter amid Kissinger clash
European countries scrap the first draft of a new Atlantic Charter after Kissinger's decisive veto in a December meeting with nine Common Market foreign ministers. A shorter, stronger draft aims for broader principles while NATO works on a separate military document. The nine nations urge a narrow U S energy conference discussion, a move Paris favors but Washington questions, as they bolster intra regional oil cooperation and Middle East aid.
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Brussels
API
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Europe
United States
Washington
Nixon
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Common Market Commission
France
Middle East
Pure hate motive eyed in Florida murder of former actress
Police in St Augustine suspect Athalia Ponsell Lindsley was killed on her Marine Street porch in a brutal strike described as pure hate. Neighbors heard screams as a man about 40 to 60 walked away, the weapon possibly a machete or meat cleaver. The 56-year-old Powers model, ex Broadway actress and wife of ex mayor James S. Lindsley, had a public life as author inventor and political candidate.
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Augustine
Fla
UPI
Athalia Ponsell Lindsley
James S. Lindsley
Virgil Stuart
Marine Street
Lindsley
McCormick
Senate reverses itself on tax revision measure
Washington expects a tax reform showdown as the Senate briefly backed a broad cut in taxes before reversing after Sen. Russell Long and the administration pressured reconsideration. The chamber moved to send the bill back to committee after Kennedy Muskie backed across the board relief and a higher minimum tax, amid threats to oil company tax benefits.
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Senate
Washington
UPI
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate Finance Committee
Long
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Edward M. Kennedy
Mass
Kennedy
Muskie
Vietnam
Hughes considered million dollar payoff to president to stop nuclear tests
Former Hughes aide Maheu testified Hughes sought a one million dollar payoff to a U S president in 1967 to halt atomic testing in Nevada. Maheu refused, citing danger to Hughes empire and political influence plans. The deposition ties to Air West sale and ongoing Hughes lawsuits.
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Hughes
Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Howard Hughes
United States
Robert A. Maheu
Maheu
FBI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Charles G
Bebe
Rebozo
Senate
Watergate Committee
Watergate
Leon Jaworski
Air West Airlines
Johnson
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
Key Biscayne
Fla
Frank Gay
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