Cuba to Free Hijacked Pan Am Jet Thursday
Washington says Cuba informed via Swiss and Czechoslovak embassies that the hijacked Pan Am jet with 69 aboard will be released in Havana on Wednesday. The plane, seized Saturday on a Caracas to Miami route, may be linked to the Florida fishing-boat captains case but officials say the matters are separate.
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White House
Cuba
Pan American Airways
Havana
Ronald Ziegler
U.S
Pan Am
Florida
State Department
Caracas
Miami
Florida Keys
Robert Bohne
Key West
U.S. Coast Guard
Keys
Havana Radio
Najeeb Halaby
Fidel Castro
Court strikes down old Cincinnati anti loitering law
The U S Supreme Court ruled the Cincinnati loitering ordinance unconstitutional as overbroad and vague. Justice Potter Stewart said it punished constitutionally protected assembly and conduct, citing a protest against the Vietnam War outside the federal building on December 7, 1967, led by Dennis Coates and others.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Potter Stewart
Potter
Dennis Coates
Coates
Federal
State Asked To Prosecute 7 Indictments
Johnson County Atty Carlett asked the attorney general to assume full responsibility for prosecuting seven indictments returned by the 1970 grand jury in Johnson County. He cited fairness and avoidance of possible doubt given his official ties to charged individuals. The indictments arose from alleged gratuity barring actions. Several defendants were expected to appear in district court the following days. The article notes dissents and related Rail way Labor Act ruling on enforceable obligations.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Carlett
the Gazette
Johnson County Attorney’s Office
Attorney General's Office
Attorney General’s Office
Grand Jury
Grand J Jury
Gener
Exile of Mafia Leaders Upheld by Italian Court
Palermo AP reports a court of appeals upheld the exile of suspected Mafia leaders to two small islands despite local residents fears that the move will harm tourism. The decision reinforces Italy's use of banishment to remote outposts to suppress organized crime.
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Isles
Palermo
Sicily
Italy
Elevator Gaffe In A Little Room Joke
A young girl recalls her first elevator ride describing it as a small room with the upstairs coming down. The line captures a playful misunderstanding of vertical travel and height. The anecdote showcases childlike humor about everyday technology.
Western Union Strike Begins Across Nation
Two AFL CIO unions representing about 20 100 Western Union employees walk out at 12 01 a m. closing public offices nationwide and halting domestic telegrams money orders and overseas cables. They demand 31 percent wage hike over two years rejecting 20 percent offer.
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Nation
New York
Western Union
United Telegraph Workers
The
Communications Workers of America
Afl-Cio
CWA
Turkish hostage drama ends with girl freed in Kartal
Turkish security forces fought a gun battle with two gunmen in a Kartal house, freeing 14 year old hostage Sibel Erkan. One gunman was killed, the other gravely wounded, as crowds demanded justice outside. The girl was unharmed aside from tears and facial bruising.
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Kartal
Turkey
UPI
Huseyin Cevahir
Munir Cayan
Ephraim Elrom
Istanbul
Elrom
Sibel Erkan
Dincer Erkan
Cyprus
Russia
Jordan
Nixon to Hold TV Radio News Conference Tonight
President Nixon will hold a radio and television news conference tonight at 7 30 Iowa time from the East Room of the White House.
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Washington
Nixon
Radiotelevision
Iowa
White House
Wreckage Yields 6 Bodies In Murphy Plane Crash
Roanoke Virginia reports six bodies recovered from a charred plane on Brushy mountain after a flight from Atlanta to Martinsville. Audie Murphy identified by dental records and X rays. his wife Pamela notified of presumed death. Also aboard were Claude Crosby Raymond Prater Jack Littleton Herman Butler and Kim Cody. Two friends from Los Angeles traveled to identify Murphy's body for memorial services.
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Roanoke
UPI
Audie Murphy
U.S
Virginia
Europe
Atlanta
Martinsville
Brushy Mountain
John Josko
Murphy
Modular Management
Claude Crosby
Modular
Raymond Prater
Chattanooga
Jack Littleton
Fort Collins
Colo
Lenoir Corp
Herman Butler
Crossville
Ten
Plan Seeks Board Approval For Collins NR Investment
Collins Radio and North American Rockwell announce a management agreement involving a $35 million convertible preferred issue and warrants valued at $30 million. NR would gain board control potential, while Collins reports a quarterly loss of $2.7 million on $64.9 million in sales.
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Collins Radio Co
North American Rockwell Corp
Collins
Collins’ Board
W. F. Rockwell, Jr
Ci Irman
al. Collins
Cucer
Afrliavien
Rockwell
TRW, Inc
Cleveland
NRC
Cedar Rapids
Goss
Bowling Street
el Segundo
Calif
Aerospace
Graphic Systems
Collins Radio
New York Stock Exchange
Sheriff close to last grave in mass slaying case
Sheriff Roy Whiteaker says probes of orchard sites suggest some were dug as graves and filled without bodies. He cites 23 stabbed and hacked victims and two more nonproductive dig sites while Roy Delong remains in custody. Juan Corona, a farm labor contractor, faces charges in 10 murders. Beierman’s body was found in a 19th grave after Goro Kaghiro’s May 20 discovery.
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Yuba City
Calif
Roy Whiteaker
Whiteaker
Roy Delong
Marysville
Sigurd Beierman
Delong
Beierman
Juan Corona
Goro Kaghiro
Hail Fells Across Iowa Damaging Crops Buildings
Hail the size of duck eggs and golf balls struck most of Iowa during Memorial Day weekend, shredding crops in 10 to 15 minute storms. Torrential rain and wind damaged roofs and awnings while a light twin plane was reported missing near Fairbank. Authorities searched overnight with a National Guard helicopter joining ground crews as damage spread to Lone Tree Iowa City Coralville Mechanicsville and Cedar County areas. Driscoll farm near Cedar had extensive losses with 90 percent of hay and beans affected.
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Iowa
National Guard
Fairbank
Fayette County
Iowa City
Coralville
Mechanicsville
Cedar County
Don Driscoll
Executive Dies at 67 in Houston
Gardiner Symonds longtime Tenneco Inc. chairman and former executive officer died Tuesday from a heart ailment in Houston.
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Houston
Gardiner Symonds
Tenneco, Inc
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