First Jumbo Jet Crash Leaves 93 Survivors In Everglades
A Eastern Air Lines TriStar carrying 171 people crashed into the Everglades near Miami. Coast guards say 93 survivors were rescued as rescuers battled darkness through swamp muck. The crash site lay eight miles north of the Tamiami Trail and prompted a large, multiagency search.
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Eastern Air Lines
Everglades
Coast Guard
New York
Miami International Airport
Tamiami Trail
Florida
Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
Eastern
End of REA Tax Funded Loans Spark Rural Outcry
Washington AP reports the Rural Electrification Administration will end direct loans from federal funds and shift to private investment for REA and the telephone loan program. Interest rises to 5 percent, with private sources funding the principal while the government covers the gap. Officials project up to 279 million in annual savings, but rural cooperatives vow to fight in Congress and seek presidential reversal.
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Washington
America
Congress
Agriculture Department
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Robert Partridge
National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn
Partridge
Nixon
Utah Patrol Clarifies Snow Day Warning in Salt Lake City
AP reports Salt Lake City received over 18 inches of snow prompting a patrol warning motorists to stay off roads unless necessary. Dispatcher Ruel Anderson later said the message was misconstrued and workers should still report to work with caution.
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Salt Lake City
Utah Highway Patrol
Ruel Anderson
Highway Patrol
Chuckle About Dress Shopping From a Husband
A lighthearted quip about a husband granting permission for his wife to buy a new dress. The joke hinges on a playful faux misquote and a celebratory tone about a middle aged couple enjoying a shopping moment.
Kidnap Victim Is Ransomed, Freed
Argentine urban guerrillas released Italian executive Vicente Russo, 46, from Standard Electric Argentina, a subsidiary of ITT. The ransom exceeded 500000 dollars. Russo was freed on a suburban road by kidnapers identified as Montoneros backing Juan Peron, the former dictator.
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Buenos Aires
U. S
Vicente Russo
Standard Electric Argentina
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Montoneros
Juan Peron
Keep Envoy Home Sweden Told Not to Send Ambassador
The United States, angered by Sweden's criticism of renewed bombing in North Vietnam, told Sweden not to send its ambassador designate to Washington for the moment. Sweden planned to name Yngve Moeller, editor of Arbe tarbladet and a member of parliament, as ambassador. The U.S. protest followed Prime Minister Olof Palme's remarks comparing U.S. bombing to Nazi massacres.
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U.S
North Vietnam
Sweden
State Department
Vietnam
Yngve Moeller
Arbetarbladet
Palme
U. Alexis Johnson
Hubert de Besche
Jerome Holland
John Guthrie
Arthur Olson
Stockholm
Expressen
Kissinger Talks Resuming Jan 8
President Nixon ordered a halt to bombing above the 20th parallel in North Vietnam as serious Paris peace talks resume January 8 with Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Technical talks restart January 2, while leaders head to Paris for new sessions after a month long pause.
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Nixon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Henry Kissinger
Paris
White House
Gerald L. Warren
le Duc Tho
Zuan Thuy
Warren
Kissinger
Palme Collects 1100 Signatures In Sweden Drive
Prime Minister Olof Palme and his wife canvassed shoppers in a department store gathering 1100 signatures in under an hour for a nationwide appeal to President Nixon to halt the bombing of North Vietnam. The campaign had backing from all parties with Palme noting Sweden’s tolerance of U.S. diplomatic pressure methods.
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Flen
Sweden
Olof Palme
Nixon
North Vietnam
Palme
Phoenix Zoo Welcomes New Orangutan Bim Born
Phoenix zoo reports the birth of Bim a four pound male orangutan increasing the U S orangutan population by one The infant appears healthy and is under observation with expectations of nurturing by its mother in the primate enclosure All data reflect AP dispatch from Phoenix Arizona.
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Phoenix
U.S
Bim
Phoenix Zoo
Stewardess Leads Survivors in Carols After Jet Crash
Survivors in the Everglades sang carols led by stewardess Pat Georgia as rescue helicopters finally arrived to evacuate those drenched and mudded. Martin Simmerio and J C Walker, both survivors, described crawling through swamp water and the harrowing moments after the Eastern Air Lines jet crash near Miami.
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Bill Hodges
Miami
Coast Guard
Frank Borman
Eastern
Ile
Eastern Air Lines
Everglades
Martin Simmerio
Long Island
N.Y
Pat Georgia
Mike Collis dies at 29 in Des Moines garage
Mike Collis, 29, former Cedar Rapids Kennedy basketball coach who led Kennedy to the 1972 state class AA title, died after carbon monoxide fumes from a running car in his garage. Deputy Wooters ruled it self-inflicted. He coached Kennedy since 1966 and previously played at Nevada and Coe. Funeral plans pending. He is survived by his parents, brother Steve, and his son Chris, 5.
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Des Moines
Mike Collis
Cedar Rapids
Kennedy
Collis
Polk County
R. C. Wooters
Steve
Broadlawns
Cougars
Marshalltown
Nevada
Coe College
Maren#0
Cedar Rapids Washington
Bond Department
State Auto Insurance Co
Dean Collis
Chris
Minefields Stay in Place Near North Vietnamese Ports
Pentagon on Saturday said minefields will stay in the approaches to North Vietnam's main ports. Spokesman Jerry Friedham refused to say if they would be reseeded to replace mines that have become inactive.
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Washington
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Jerry Friedham
Final Day of Air Attacks in Hanoi Haiphong Reported
The U S military command gave no details on the final day of bombing and shelling around Hanoi and Haiphong. A communique offered only that more pages continued the report.
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Saigon
APS
U.S
Hanoi
Haiphong
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