Beirut hijacker escapes after fatal jet attack
A Beirut airport guard hijacked a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 forcing a five hour route between Beirut and Cyprus. One elderly passenger, Tawfik Hamada, 65, died as the crew and guard pursued demands for promotions and pay raises. Seven others were injured during the chaos as emergency chutes deployed.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Middle East Airlines
Cyprus
Tawfik Hamada
Doraid Hassan
Jamil Naameh
Larnaca
Mediterranean
Hassan
Shweifat
Cyprus Airways
Paris
London
Man charged with murder in subway candy theft stabbing
A 24 year old man from Brooklyn was charged with second degree murder after fatally stabbing Felix McCord 28 during a scuffle on a downtown Manhattan subway platform. Frederick surrendered to police after the Thursday incident involving two would be thieves.
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NEW York
Andy Frederick
Brooklyn
Bernhard Goetz
Goetz
SES Resrt
Frederick
Felix McCord
McCord
Manhattan
Michael Loughery
Ali Peterkin Jr
John Clifford
Loughery
Russians Reach Trapped Whales In Bering Sea Strait
Soviet icebreaker reaches an iced strait in the Bering Sea where more than 1,000 white whales have been trapped for a month. Pravda reports the whales may not follow the ship to open water while Rural Life notes about 40 deaths since first sighting on January 29.
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Moscow
Bering Sea
Communist Party
Pravda
Local MATHCOUNTS regional finals crown top mathletes
Linn-Mar eighth grader Steve Bogart led the field at Kirkwood Community College as Prairie and Linn-Mar swept the team competition in the inaugural regional finals. Bogart won the main and Special Math Topics rounds, with Robinson Maxwell and Shimon close behind. Prairie and Linn-Mar advance to the state finals in Ames on April 20, with state winners heading to national finals in Washington, D.C. in May.
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Linn-Mar
Steve Bogart
Prairie
Linn
Benton
Tama
Kirkwood Community College
George Kant
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Engineering Society
Bogart
Mark Maxwell
Harding Junior High
Eric Robinson
Robb Shimon
Robinson
Maxwell
Shimon
Prairie and
Linn- Mar
Ames
Washington, D.C
Judy Slezak
Tim Kendall
Angie Zahradnik
Pat Flater
Holly Kellar
Shannon Moe
Eric Roling
Kellar
Megatrends Tops Library Shelf List Nationwide
The Online Computer Library Center reports Megatrends leads U S libraries' top 40 held titles, ahead of In Search of Excellence and The Chicago Manual of Style. The Bible and Shakespeare are underrepresented due to edition counts. Shakespeare entries total about 12 000 across plays poems and sonnets.
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America
Online Computer Library Center
Dublin
Ohio
Shakespeare
Phil Schieber
Center
Bartlett
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