U S Consul Among Hostages As Malaysian Crisis Unfolds
In Kuala Lumpur terrorists linked to the Red Army seized U S Consul Robert Stebbins and several other hostages including Australians Malaysians a Japanese and a Singaporean. Japan pledged to meet demands while police surrounded the embassy and a potential release plan for prisoners was discussed.
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Malaysia
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Red Army
Rok
Pot Kaw
Earley
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Tel Aviv
Lod
Amsterdam
Shell
Singapore
Hague
Hoffa Case Expands as FBI Coordinates Hunt
FBI shifts to coordinate a multiagency team to locate Jimmy Hoffa after extortion threats. Detroit sources link Hoffa's disappearance to a bid to regain union power amid tensions with Frank Fitzsimmons and organized crime. Authorities note no solid evidence of kidnapping or murder, but threats to Hoffa and his family are being investigated.
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FBI
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Teamsters
Detroit News
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Clarence Kelley
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Halfa
Barbra Crancer
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Frank Fitzsimmons
FRE
St. Louis
Phonse
Kunstler Barred from Little Murder Defense in Raleigh
Activist lawyer William Kunstler was jailed briefly after Judge Hamilton Hobgood refused to let him join the defense of Joan Little, a 21 year old black woman charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death of Clarence Allgood. Kunstler was later released and ordered out of the courtroom.
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N.C
William Kunstler
Joan Little
Hamilton Hobgood
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Miss Little
Hobgood
North Carolina
Aft
Eagretoe
Wake County
Beaufort County
Chicago Seven
H. Rap Brown
Jerry Paul
Morris Dees
Paul
Dees
No Problem Too Small to Baffle Our Experts Says Sign
A sign in the research room of a factory proclaims that no problem is too small to baffle the experts, attributed to Copyright SOR RAY SORTS.
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Sor Ray
Indira Moves To Wipe Out Conviction by Changing Laws
India’s prime minister seeks retroactive amendments to erase electoral law violations cited in her 1971 campaign. Law Minister Gokhale says amendments will pass, aimed at overturning the Allahabad High Court conviction and lifting the six year ban on office. The move faces opposition and a tight debate in parliament.
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New del
India
Indira Gandhi
Supreme Court
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H. R. Gokhale
Mrs. Gandhi
Allahabad
Balan
Calpain
Third-Worst Air Crash Kills 188 in Atlas Mountains
Rescue teams searched the Atlas mountains near Agadir Morocco for bodies after a chartered Boeing 707 carrying Moroccan workers home from France crashed in heavy fog. The jet owned by Jordanian airline and chartered by Royal Air Maroc came from Paris, killing 188 aboard. Four passengers had non-Arabic names. most crew were likely Jordanian. This disaster ranks as the third deadliest in civil aviation history behind the 1974 Paris area crash and a Sri Lanka crash last December.
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Morocca
LBB
France
Atlas Mountains
Jordan
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Inve
Royal Air Morocco
Paris
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Alia
Atlas Peaks
Sri Lanka
Medical Spiral Tied to Blue Cross Policy
Washington AP outlines how rising medical costs outpace living costs as Blue Cross Blue Shield avoid cost controls. The AP finds plans across states raise rates sharply and cover elective surgery without second opinions, contributing to inflation in health care costs.
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Blue Cross
Washington
America
Blue Shield
Associated Press
Fay
New York City
Ford Discusses U.S. Arms Sales with Tito
President Ford told Yugoslav leader Tito he will personally consider a Yugoslav request to buy second line and spare arms. Talks followed Ford’s European tour and touched on economic relations and a Middle East settlement. U.S. arms contacts with Yugoslavia date to a Kissinger visit last year and a prior arms program ended in 1937.
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Belgrane
Yugoslavia
Ford
Tito
Washington
Midate East
Henry Kissinger
U.S
Ware
White House
Ron Nessen
Nessen
Middle East
Colby Presses Secrecy On CIA Budget
CIA Director William Colby told the House intelligence committee that revealing the CIA budget would weaken intelligence and asked for closed sessions on costs. President Ford aide James Lynn refused public disclosure citing potential criminal penalties for revealing even one cost figure.
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CIA
William Colby
House Intelligence Committee
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James Lynn
U.S
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