Hostage ordeal ends as mother escapes with children
In Youngstown Ohio a 22 year old mother and her two children escaped after nearly 26 hours in a hostage siege. Archi e Nelson, 29, the bank robber, released the boy for 2000 dollars and surrendered after FBI negotiation. The mother would not press charges.
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Carla Blair
Archie Reginald Nelson
Nelson
Miss Blair
Lincoln Knolls
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Dollar Savings and Trust Co
Danielle
FBI
Moore
Police moving away from deadly force study
The Police Foundation reports that major U.S. cities are curbing lethal policing, limiting firearm use to self defense, defense of others, or suspect apprehension in violent crimes. It urges written standards, safeguards, and bans warning shots, citing varied city policies across Birmingham Detroit Indianapolis Kansas City Oakland Portland and Washington.
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Washington
United States
Police Foundation
Ford Foundation
Patrick Murphy
Foundation
Birmingham
Ala
Detroit
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Nixon Defends Abuses as Wartime Necessities
Former President Nixon, in an interview quoted by Newsweek, says abuses of presidential power were needed to end the Vietnam War. He discusses plans involving Soviet influence, the White House enemies list, and the plumbers unit, arguing his actions aimed to hasten withdrawal and win abroad.
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New York
Nixon
Vietnam
Newsweek Magazine
Newsweek
Washington
David Frost
White House
Plumbers Unit
Frost
Israeli undecided voters edge toward pivotal election
Polls show about 20 percent of Israeli voters undecided as the campaign ends. The final televised debate centered on return of war won territories. Labor projected 36 to 40 seats, Likud 30 to 38, DMC 12 or 13 seats, shaping post election coalition prospects.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Labor Party
Likud
Labor
Democratic Movement For Change
DMC
Five Die In Biggin Hill Air Show Collision
Five people including a child were killed when a sightseeing helicopter collided with a Tiger Moth biplane during the Biggin Hill air show in England. The helicopter lifted off the runway into the path of the biplane as thousands watched.
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Biggin Hill
England
UAW Chief Leonard Woodcock Retires After 40 Years
Retiring ion President Leonard Woodcock steps down this week ending a 40 year labor career after succeeding Walter Reuther seven years ago following his death.
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Ion
Leonard Woodcock
UAW
Walter Reuther
Lee Guilty on Eight Counts in Espionage Case
In Los Angeles a federal jury found Andrew Daulton Lee guilty on eight espionage counts for selling top secret documents to the Soviet Union. Co defendant Christopher Boyce testified last month that Russians in Mexico City paid about 76000 dollars in 1975 and 1976 for microfilm copies from TRW.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Andrew Daulton Lee
Soviet Union
Lee
CIA
Christopher Boyce
Mexico City
Boyce
TRW, Inc
Concorde Opponents Seek Carter's Help in New York
In New York, opponents of the Concorde jet urge President Carter to intervene after a Sunday protest at Kennedy Airport. About 1,200 cars clogged airport roads in demonstrations by the Emergency Coalition to Stop the SST and SST Alert, with police issuing injunctions and recording license numbers.
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New York
Carter
Kennedy
Jerry Berman
Emergency Coalition
Bryan Levenson
Port Authority
New Jersey
Levenson
Canadian Bigfoot Sighting Receives Credibility Rating
A seven foot hairy figure crossed a road in Mission British Columbia near a Pacific Stage Line bus and left 14 inch footprints. RCMP found similar tracks while Peter Byrne of Hood River Oregon praised the sighting as credible based on interviews with the driver and RCMP.
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Mission
British Columbia
UPI
Here
Bigfoot
Oregon
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Peter Byrne
Bigfoot Information Center
Hood River
Ore
Pacific Stage Line
Byrne
RCMP
Alaska
Mexico
First Tourist Cruise to Cuba Sets Sail With Jazz Icons
Four hundred luxury liner passengers head to Cuba on the Daphne, the first American tourist cruise since 1961. Notables Dizzy Gillespie and Earl Hines are aboard. A dockside protest by Cuban exiles, including Juanita Castro, preceded the departure from New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Dizzy Gillespie
Earl “Fatha” Hines
Cuba
America
Daphne
Fidel Castro
Juanita
Miami
Should Have More Say at U.N.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff calls for a stronger U S role at the United Nations after a GAO study shows Americans make up only 13 percent of UN staff despite 25 percent of UN funding. The report warns U S influence could decline as developing nations urge more of their citizens be hired.
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Washington
Abraham Ribicoff
United States
United Nations
Ribicoff
Connecticut
U.N
Government Accounting Office
U.n.’S
GAO
Senate
U.S
Market Warning Echoed 1967 Fed Chief Sees Speculation Risk
On this date in 1967, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin warned that stock market speculation resembled the boom before the Great Depression, signaling a cautious mood for investors and the economy.
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William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
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