Hijackers Held With Bail Set at $1 Million Each
In New York the Croatian born gang leader Zvonko Busic and his wife Julienne plus three comrades faced $1 million bail on charges tied to the Trans World Airlines 727 hijacking of 92 aboard. The flight ended in Paris after a 30 hour ordeal marked by a fatal police shooting and a bomb squad incident at Grand Central. authorities described the case as a deadly skyjacking with possible death penalty implications for the officer killed.
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Trans World Airlines
Richard Carey
TWA
U.S
Thomas Pattison
Brooklyn
Grand Central Station
Paris
Manhattan
Bronx
David Trager
Brian Murray
Rray
Murray
Ari
U S to Veto Vietnam Bid for UN Membership
U S plans to veto Vietnam’s bid to join the United Nations over Hanoi’s insufficient response to information requests on about 500 Americans missing in Southeast Asia. Ambassador William Scranton, at the United Nations, said President Ford ordered the veto as Vietnam’s Security Council vote nears. The other 14 members are expected to back admission.
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Washington
United’ States
Vietnam
United Nations
Hanoi
Indochina
William Scranton
Scranton
U.S
U.N
Ford
Security Council
White House
Southeast Asia
Ford Gets Bill Tripling Funds to Buy Park Land
The Senate approved a bill to triple funds for national parks and recreation land acquisitions. It would raise the annual ceiling to 600 million in 1978 and up to 900 million annually through 1988, with matching funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. President Ford could use impounded money to support Yellowstone rehabilitation and other park projects. The measure includes a five year 524.5 million authorization for historic site preservation funded by leasing revenues.
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Washington
Henry Jackson
Senate Interior Committee
Jackson
Ford
Interior Department
Nixon
Treasury
Sunny warm weather with highs near 85 Bridgeport area
Bridgeport and vicinity forecasts sunny and warm today with highs 80 to 85. Fair tonight in the 50s. Increasing cloudiness tomorrow with highs in the 70s and a near zero to 10 percent chance of rain. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Almanac notes mark today as the 258th day of the year, 86th of summer, sunrise 6:32 am, sunset 4:43 pm.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport Hospital prepared to sue over budget curb
Bridgeport Hospital plans legal action after the State Commission on Hospitals and Health Care approved a 1977 budget of 49.99 million, a figure hospital officials say ignores expenses. Park City and St. Vincent's may also pursue court action as they weigh the commission’s budgets, with St. Vincent's signaling a quick decision in two to three days.
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State Commission On Hospitals and Health Care
CHHC
Clarence Bushnell
Bridgeport
Park City Hospital
St. Vincent's Medical Center
William Riordan
St.Vincent's
Bridgeport Hospital
Park City
St. Vincent's
Bushnell
Bridgeport Hospit
Joseph C. Mike
Bridgeport ‘Hospital
Court of Common Pleas
George Booth
Court Overturns Ruling on State Marijuana Law
Connecticut Supreme Court reverses a New Haven Superior Court decision that the state marijuana law is unconstitutional. The case centered on Robert Rae of Hamden and his attorney John Williams who argued equal protection concerns in grouping marijuana with stronger drugs like barbiturates and amphetamines.
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Hartford
Connecticut’ Supreme’ Court
New Haven
Robert R. Rae
Hamden
John R. Williams
Superior Court
Robert I. Berdon
Willams
New Federal Program Could Modernize Marina Village
Bridgeport Housing Authority leader Don Heyward announced a federal initiative called the Comprehensive Modernization Program. It could provide about 3 million dollars to upgrade Marina Village, potentially allowing tenant residents to form a cooperative ownership. HUD officials indicated regulations may fund modernization within one to two years if no extra funds are sought in the next decade, while planning for roughly 1 million dollars in the coming year.
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Don Heyward
Bridgeport Housing Authority
Marina Village
BHA
Heyward
Bernard Cameron
HUD
Housing “Management
Pebble Jam Delays Viking 2 Mars Soil Test
In Pasadena, a tiny pebble jammed Viking 2's soil sampling arm, delaying the Mars mission's key life-detection experiment. Three other experiments received Martian soil normally, while engineers work to free the backhoe and deliver samples to chemical probes.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking 2
Viking
Mars
Hortory
James Martin
Martin
Strike looming as Ford plants brace for UAW walkout
Detroit AP report says United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock called a midnight strike settlement "absolutely impossible" with Ford Motor Co. Just 30 hours before the deadline, Ford offered a revised contract addressing reduced work time, but Woodcock called the move skimpy. About 170,000 workers in 22 states were poised to strike, signaling a nationwide shutdown unless talks produced a settlement.
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Detroit
Mich
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Ford Motor Co
Woodcock
Ford
Sidney F. McKenna
Woodcnck
UAW
West End blaze hits warehouse and vacant house
Two fires in Bridgeport last night damaged a former food warehouse at 2217 Fairfield Avenue and a vacant two and a half story house at State and Yale streets. Fire officials said the warehouse, once a First National store, was fully engulfed with roof flames and collapsing girders. Detectives search for two youths on bicycles seen fleeing the scene. witnesses warned. Fire Chief Gleason and Acting Chief Farrell ordered investigations as neighborhood residents urged demolition of the rubble to prevent hazards.
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West End
Bridgeport
Fairfield Avenue
River Street
State and
Yale Streets
Ohe
First National Chairn
Black Rock
P.T. Barnum
Walter
Ozzie Paolillo
Ashhey
John Gleason
George Farrell
First National
U.S. Post Office Department
Cecil Young
School Officials See Smooth Mixing Start
School officials reported a smooth start to the new term as the first phase of desegregation proceeded with little resistance. Superintendent Geraldine Johnson said few problems surfaced while Deputy Superintendent James Curiale noted ongoing transfers and program changes including phasing out Sixth grade at East Side Middle and moving special education classes to new sites. A data briefing for principals will begin today to feed population stats into a computer, and 27 new professionals were approved for hire, reflecting a pattern of affirmative action with 19 white, 16 Hispanic, 13 Black, and two Asian hires. In a related closed meeting Hallen school parents pressed over transfers that sent 10 children back to Hallen to free space at Blackham.
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Geraldine Johnson
Board of Education
Osday
James Curiale
East Side Middle School
Supt
James Connelly
Informa
Supt. Johnson
Hallen
Milk Price Up for Pupils Not in Special Programs
Rose F. W. Young reports that Bridgeport school milk prices rose for pupils not in free or reduced lunch programs from eight to sixteen cents per carton after the board ended a free milk phase. Director Thomas E. Carroll cites higher handling costs and lost federal reimbursements, with the BEA defending the hike as needed and plans to meet federal officers for remedies.
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Thomas E. Carroll
Board of Education
Carroll
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