IRA Uses Bazookas in Belfast Street Fighting Reported
British troops exchange shots with a gunman on New Lodge Road Belfast as IRA security forces reportedly possess at least two bazooka type rockets. A rocket attack on a police station in An derstown District failed to explode. In Londonderry a soldier dies after machinegun fire and a Claymore mine injure five, as Britain pledges defense secretary Carrington visits Northern Ireland to review 12 000 troops.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
New Lodge Road
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Anderstown
Londonderry
Ulster
Roger Wilkins
Britain
Irish Republic
London
Ulster Defense Regiment
Newry
Wilkins
Bogside
New Lodge
Defense Regiment
Lord Carrington
Fire kills 10 at Eindhoven hotel
A five story Silver Seahorse Hotel in Eindhoven, southern Holland, was gutted by a fire that police said likely started from a gas leak. At least ten people died and nineteen were hospitalized with twenty guests reported missing.
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Eindhoven
Netherlands
UPI
Holland
Silver Seahorse
Fire Brigade
Oklahoma student pilot admits hijack tale was hoax
Oklahoma City FBI and police said 27 year old Leroy Savage of Greenwood Arkansas confessed his kidnapping and Mexico flight story was invented while detained. He claimed intoxication and lack of training led to the deception after a night of interrogation. He had flown a red and white Cessna 150 from Fort Smith with four hours of fuel.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
FBI
Mexico
Leroy Savage
Greenwood
Ark
Fort Smith
Savage
John W. Burns
Burns
Department of Justice
U.S
Edmond
Okla
Dale Wright
The
Highway Patrol
Fort Smith, Ark
Foe Bombards Allied Bases Guarding Infiltration Routes
Allied positions along the Cambodian border faced heavy rocket and mortar bombardment in a three day pre election Communist campaign. More than 200 rounds fired overnight, with at least five American wounded and 230 Communist troops reported killed in three days. Heavy action centered around Fire Base Pace and the Krek area near Cambodia, as air and artillery blasts continued.
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Saigon
API
Cambodia
Krek
Nguyen Xuan Tinh
South Vietnam
U Minh Forest
Cambodian
U.S
Boy in Tokyo flies 12500 miles for Brahms concert
Hiroyuki Ohno, a 16 year old cello student, spent 1358 dollars to fly half the world to London for Otto Klemperer conducting Brahms Third. He met the concert manager, sat front row, and slept through the performance, later receiving a baton from the conductor.
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Otto Klemperer
London
Royal Festival Hall
Tokyo
Hiroyuki
Klemperer
David Richardson
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Festival Hall
Richardson
Japan
Brahms
Beethoven
Prison riots offer caution on causes and scope
A 1960s analysis notes riots arise from prison environment and inmate antisocial traits. It highlights Attica and Angola contrasts, cites Menninger on who commits crimes, and provides jail population figures plus a four day holdout at Jackson with 171 inmates and 7 hostages, vs Attica where 1200 inmates were involved and 10 of 39 hostages died.
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American Correctional Association
Louisiana
Angola
Attica
Karl Menninger
United States
Jackson
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Tulsa
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Donald Sutherland
Williamstown College
Sweden
Manchester Cinema Theatre
Michael Crichton
Harte
Manchester
Williamstown
Harterican Main St. Bennington
Sun
Fonda
Donald
Lute Lassie
Nichols
Blue Flame Gas Service
Hoosick Falls
Bennington Banner
Main St
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times News Service
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
A&p
United Counseling Service
Dodge Boys
DART
Dodge
Williams & Bugbee
East Main St
Chrysler
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