Music Teacher Leads Pupils to Freedom After Kidnapping
A 20 year old music teacher in Farady Victoria led six pupils aged 5 to 11 to freedom after being abducted by two gunmen who held them for a 1.2 million dollar ransom. The van was abandoned 40 miles north of Melbourne at dawn after a 15 hour ordeal. Police and Education Minister Linday Thompson waited with the ransom in suitcases in a police car. The teachers and children escaped as Miss Gibbs kicked free and the group fled the van. Descriptions of the suspects were circulated statewide.
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Australia
Mary Gibbs
Here
Victoria
Lindsay Thompson
Miss Gibbs
Farady
Thompson
Portland Football Game Postponed
The Thornton Academy football game was postponed to 4 p.m. Monday due to rain and gale winds forecasted for this afternoon. Also moved to Monday were Old Orchard at Marshwood Kennebunk at Massabesic and Sanford at South Portland with Seagull Hawks and Ram Mustang at 2:30 and Redskins Red Riot at 2.
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Bard Leach
Thornton Academy
Leach
Old Orchard
Marshwood
Kennebunk
Massabesh
Sanford
South Portland
Floating Rice Is Snagged In Da Nang Harbor
Chinese freighters floated seventy five tons of rice ashore at Da Nang using plastic floats and waterproof bags marked People s Republic of China. Much of the rice washed ashore near Hue and was seized by coastal villagers, with authorities allowing them to keep it.
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Hue
da Nang
North Vietnam
Philippines
U.S
Biddeford Parents Push Walking Route Questions
Biddeford parents circulate petitions asking the school district for clarification on walking routes for elementary students. They seek details on crossing guards, storm provisions, sidewalk maintenance, detours, snow bank removal, and student safety from the next school board meeting.
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Board of Education
Biddeford
Superintendent of ‘Schools
Board of ‘Education
Tragic Train Wreck Near Saltillo Kills 149
In Saltillo Mexico authorities confirmed 149 dead after a 24 car train derailed and caught fire during a pilgrimage trip. About 471 hospitalized and 345 treated for minor injuries, with many bodies and belongings identified at the morgue.
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Saltillo
Mexico
Coahuila
Eulalio Gutierrez Trevino
Genaro I Gutierrez Davila
Queretaro
Rai
Saltillo Morgue
Cambodian Capital Attacked Amid Holiday Fighting
Communist sappers struck Phnom Penh on a major holiday, seizing armored carriers and firing on residential areas. At least 19 people were killed and over 60 wounded as government troops battled near the center and the French Embassy compound. Brig. Gen. Ronald J. Fairfield Jr was wounded in a mortar attack in South Vietnam, with several staff injured.
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South Vietnam
Saigon
Highway 13
Fairfield
U.S
Cambodia
Capiital
Loverhead
Marcos expands martial law to schools and expropriation
President Marcos warns that schools will close and leaders punished if subversives remain. Education Secretary Tatad says colleges and city schools stay suspended while provinces resume, and a housing estate in Tatalon is expropriated for redistribution. The estate, worth about 1.5 million dollars, houses 4000 low income families.
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Manila
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Franciso S. Tatad
Marcos
Juan L. Manuel
Tatad
The
Philippines Daily Express
Presi
Dent
Quezon City
McGovern Eagleton campaign clash amid national interest claim
George McGovern campaigns with former running mate Thomas Eagleton denouncing votes against the ticket as betraying the national interest. Nixon plans a nationwide radio broadcast outlining tax reform.
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Kansas City, Mo
George McGovern
Thomas Eagleton
Nixon
Prosperity Range Defines Modern Man’s Quip
A humorous quip contrasts past and present economics by noting 1912 taxes 1928 dividends 1932 prices and 1972 salaries as benchmarks. The line reflects changing value perceptions and prosperity rhetoric from historical eras.
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