Ambassadors Kidnap Threat Tests Somalia Crisis
Gunmen holding French ambassador Jean Gueury threaten to execute him at 6 p.m. unless France frees two Issas prisoners and pays gold. Gueury, seized after Palm Sunday Mass in Mogadishu, remains alive according to his wife who spoke amid negotiations. France seeks envoy talks as captors demand ransom and a flight to South Yemen.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Somalia
France
East Africa
Jean Gueury
Gueury
Mogadishu
Front For the Liberation of
Afars
Issas
South Yemen
Paris
Mohammed Siad Barre
Osman Rabeh
Omar Elmi Kabeh
Ford Reassesses U S Foreign Policy Under Ford
President Ford orders a broad review of U S policy in the Middle East and Southeast Asia after setbacks. Kissinger will supervise the study with advisers while Ford asserts he will stamp his own approach, maintaining global involvement and detente with the Soviet Union.
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Helen Thomas Washington
UPI
Ford
US S
Middle East
Southeast Asia
White House
Ron Nessen
Henry Kissinger
Egypt
Israel
Nixon
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Thailand
U.S
Asia
Kissinger
Latin America
Nessen
United States
Los Angeles Times
Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev
Washington
Helsinki
Europe
Final radio error caused 16 deaths in Seattle crash
In Seattle, a nine second miscommunication led to a fatal Air Force C141 crash near the Olympic Mountains. The controller’s order to descend to five thousand feet was meant for a Navy plane, and the pilot complied. Six Navy passengers and ten crew members died. the controller was relieved of duty after the error was revealed.
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Seattle, Wash
Air Force
Seattle Air Traffic Control
Olympic Mountains
Japan
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Warrior Peak
Mt. Constance
Walk
Northwest
McChord
Here
O Neill tied to nursing home license in Attleboro
UPI reports House Majority Leader Thomas P. O Neill Jr was part owner of Bristol Nursing Home in Attleboro Massachusetts where pressure allegedly arose for a license and permits. He invested $5 000 in 1970 and divested two years later.
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O’neill
Boston
UPI
U.S. House
Thomas P. O’neill Jr
D-Mass
United Press International
O'Neill
Bristol
Attleboro
Mass
State Department of Public Health
Massachusetts
Leo Diehl
Mary Fifield
Thomas P. O’neill III
DPH
Bristol County
Pettigrew
Teachers critical Boston school plan heard
Hearings on a citywide school integration proposal open today as four court appointed masters present a plan to shift administration to area colleges and cut bused students from 18 000 to no more than 14 900. The BTU and School Committee criticize the plan while the NAACP backs it as a merit.
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Boston
UPI
U.S. District Court
W. Arthur Garrity
Garrity
BTU
John P. Doherty Jr
John J. McDonough
Stroud Wins Over Denny's Butter Dispute at Oregon Supreme Court
Malcolm Stroud refused a 25 cent tab at a Denny's after the toast arrived with frozen butter. A cook made a citizen's arrest and Stroud sued for malicious prosecution. The Oregon Supreme Court upheld a $10,000 plus award, affirming the lower court ruling.
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Salem, Ore
UPI
Denny’s
Malcolm Stroud
Stroud
Oregon Supreme Court
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