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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1969
Page
11
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 707 arrived in Addis Ababa after a hijack attempt left two men dead and security guards and crew taking statements. The government vowed to continue measures to protect aircraft and passengers until piracy is outlawed internationally.
Security guards fought two armed men who tried to force a Madrid to Aden hijack on a Racing 707. The winged assailants, carrying passports described as Senegalese Yemeni or Ethiopian, were killed in the struggle after the aircraft landed in Athens. Passengers described the gun battle and guards firing with nonlethal pistols. authorities said the incident did not occur in Greek air space.
In Seoul more than 100,000 demonstrators braved freezing temperatures to condemn the alleged Communist hijacking of a Korean Airlines flight with 47 passengers and four crew. The rally at Changchung Park, led by the Korean Anti-Communist League, called the act a North Korean piracy.
Ten people were executed by firing squad in Tehran for narcotics smuggling. The group included three army and gendarmerie officers and seven civilians. The executions followed military court convictions under a July anti drug law imposing death for opium derivatives and major narco offenses.
Eighteen top Bulgarian government and Communist Party officials are reportedly to be tried after an investigation led by Prime Minister Zhivkov. The probe named ministers of trade, transport, and finance and implicated Pirin and the Bulgarian merchant fleet in vast irregularities damaging the economy. Transport Minister Varchkev was dismissed, along with Pirin leaders and several other senior figures.
A nationwide wave of bombings and arrests followed a deadly explosion at the National Ambushment Bank in Milan killing 14 and injuring about 9. Police questioned hundreds of agitators as shops and cinemas closed and national mourning began.
The fourth week of US Soviet strategic arms limit talks ended with indications of a forthcoming preliminary phase conclusion. Helsinki remains the preferred venue for continued discussions, with the Kremlin wary of anti Soviet demonstrations in Prague and the United States citing Helsinki facilities as adequate for talks in Vienna.
Fast Berets reports Mr Cibright announces willingness to begin negotiations for friendlier relations with West Germany, on equal terms and without discrimination. Str Ulbright welcomes West German Chancellor Hroedt recognizing the existence of the German states, while refusing to recognize East Germany under international law.
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, 84, mastermind of the Midway victory and a premier U.S. naval tactician, died of arteriosclerosis in Pebble Beach. His leadership in 1942 is seen as a turning point in the Pacific war, and he later served as ambassador to the Philippines after naval retirement.
A Boeing 747 jumbo jet being delivered to Pan American Airways crash landed at Renton Washington last night. No one was injured though the 350 seater airliner was badly damaged and gouged most of the runway after its wheels struck an embankment at the end of the airstrip.
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