Approach To Runway Foggy 88 Die In Boston Air Crash
A Delta Airlines DC9 clipped a seawall and crashed at Logan Airport in heavy fog killing 88 of 89 aboard. Two survivors died later. two others were hospitalized in critical condition. The crash occurred during an instrument approach from Bermuda with visibility one quarter to one half mile as two planes behind reportedly aborted. Authorities described a mangled scene and noted papers on NATO nuclear plans found among wreckage.
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Boston
Nelta Airlines
Logan International Airpot
Delta
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ferris J. Howland
Federal Aviation Administration
Howland
FAA
Struments
Burliman
Manchester
Fox
Maurice Worth
Logan
Asa Chrisly
Boston Globe
NATO
Frank Mahoney
United States
Heny
Logan Fire Station
Boston City Hospital
Vqava
Delta jet crashes near Boston Logan Airport in dense fog
A Delta Airlines PCO jet airliner clipped a seawall and crashed during approach to Logan International Airport in heavy fog Tuesday morning. State police report 88 of the 89 aboard were killed with 87 dying at the crash site and one dying later in hospital.
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Boston
Delta Airlines
Logan International Airport
Virginia utility seeks bath county pumped storage license
Richmond Virginia Electric and Power Co asked the Federal Power Commission on Tuesday for a license to build a pumped storage hydroelectric facility in Bath County. A separate note mentions a state crime study assessing a Virginia State Bureau of Criminal Investigation feasibility.
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Richmond — Virginia Electric & Power Co
Federal Power Commission
Bath County
Page
Richmond
Virginia Electric & Power Co
Vepcco
T. Justin Moore Jr
Back Creek
Little Back Creek
Bluefield considers interim rate rise for sewage project
The Bluefield Board of Directors heard the first reading of an ordinance to start an interim rate increase for a multi million dollar sewage improvements project. Field work for soil tests at Bluefield’s 142 unit public housing project by Bluefield State College is complete and test results should be ready by late August. In Mercer County, REAP workers have collected about 65 abandoned cars in the first day and a half of operations.
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Bluefield
Bluefield Board of Directors
Bluefield State College
Mercer County
West Virginia
REAP
Stock market slides as profit takers cash in
The stock market dropped sharply on Tuesday following Monday’s mild decline as profit takers cashed in on recent gains.
Witness ties Robertson to Graziani shooting in court
Government witness James Wilbur Carr testified in Charleston that Claude Truslow and Bernard Brumfield offered him $1,000 to “do a job on an assistant attorney general” and that Davidson later admitted shooting Philip J. Graziani. Graziani, once an assistant attorney general, was seriously wounded in April 1972.
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Charleston
W.va
U.S. District Court
Philip J. Graziani
C. Donald Robertson
James Wilbur Carr
Claude Weldon Truslow
Graziani
Robertson
Dana
James F. Haught
Federal Housing Administration
Robertsons
Haught
Carr
Truslow
Bernard Lee Brumfield
George Thomas Davidson Jr
Ohio
Donald Toney
Davidson
Trustan
Virginia weighs special criminal investigative body
In Richmond the State Crime Commission unanimously approved studying a State Bureau of Criminal Investigation for Virginia. The project would probe serious crimes and corruption cases, with options for a separate police division and expanded attorney general powers. The study group will include judiciary, prosecutors, police, sheriffs, and other state officials.
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Richmond
State Crime Commission
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Virginia
State Capitol
Department of State Police
Stanley C. Walker
Norfolk
Norfolk Savings and Loan
Portsmouth
Tidewater
Crime Commission
State Bar
Executive Branch
Division of Justice and Crime Prevention
Senate Appropriations Panel Approves Coal Research Increase
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday backed a proposal to raise the FY 1974 coal research appropriation by 42 million dollars. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D West Virginia, was advanced to the full Senate.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Robert C. Byrd
D-W
Senate
Liz Burton File Papers For Divorce
New York AP report says Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor asked their attorney to file divorce papers. Spokesman John Springer said there is no third party and the couple will legally conclude their nine year marriage in Switzerland where they reside. The announcement follows Taylor's July 3 separation remark.
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New York
Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor
John Springer
Springer
Burton
New York City
Rome
Switzerland
Miss Taylor
Vepco plans 500 million pumped hydro at Bath County
Vepco proposes a 500 million pumped storage hydroelectric project on Back Creek and Little Back Creek in Bath County Virginia. The facility would generate about 2.1 million kilowatts with four 450000 kilowatt pumping units by 1979 and two more by 1980 pending FPC license. Two dams would form upper and lower reservoirs, creating a 1 5 0 acre tower reservoir and a 500 acre reservoir near Sunrise and Mountain Grove.
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Vepco
Bath County
FPC
Moore
Vepen
Bath County Supervisors
Virginia
Little Back Creek
Mountain Grove
Back Creek
Sunrise
Beef supplies shrink as profits under investigation
Beef supplies dwindle to critical levels with processors facing bankruptcy and shelves sparse for shoppers. The Cost of Living Council maintains the Sept 12 deadline to lift ceilings on beef prices while launching a probe into industry profits.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Cost of Living Council
New York
Nixon
The
American Meat Institute
Teaderoup
Agriculture
Bark L. Bala
Washington
Mesherhlle
Haldeman Denies Ordering Tape Revelations
Senate Watergate hearings feature Haldeman denying pressure to reveal tape interpretations. Ervin accuses White House of counterfeiting evidence as Nixon claims sole tape control. Haldeman says he listened to March 21 1973 and Sept 15 1972 recordings and would present them to the committee if allowed.
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Washington
Senate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
White House
H. R. Haldeman
Nixon
Haldeman
Ervin
John W. Dean III
Presi
Hii
Sweetings
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Coltime
Barry Rush
Barry
Woodstock
Silver Springs
Massachusetts
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Special
Liz
Hone
Waters Vate
Howard H. Baker Jr
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