LaGuardia Bombing Kills 11 at JFK Airport Terminal
A bomb in a coin operated locker at LaGuardia’s TWA baggage area killed 11 and injured about 75 during a busy holiday period. Flights were diverted to Kennedy and Newark as the airport closed. FBI and PLO ties disputed. several other airports received threats nationwide. Names of four victims identified.
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New York
UPI
TWA
LaGuardia Airport
UPS
FBI
Ford
Vail
Colo
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
United Nations
LaGuardia
Kennedy
Newark
Federal Aviation Administration
Washington
National Airport
Chicago
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Philadelphia
Baltimore-Washington International Airport
Glen Burnie
Norfolk
Presbyterian official vows to resist CIA infiltration of missionaries
In Denver the Rev. William F. Keesecker moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly warned against CIA attempts to influence or use Christian missionaries abroad. He said he would resist such infiltration "like the plague" and noted reports of possible agency activity among missionaries in foreign lands.
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Presbyterian Church
Denver
UPI
United Presbyterian Church
Central Intelligence Agency
William F. Keesecker
Church
General Assembly
CIA
William Colby
Nairobi
Dr. Keesecker
Keesecker
Grace Presbyterian Church
Wichita
Kan
Soviet backed Angolan factions plan new offensive
Diplomatic sources report a Soviet backed faction in Angola plans a major offensive to widen control using MIG21 fighters and T34 tanks. The three way civil war involves 20000 troops plus 5000 Cubans and 400 Soviet advisers facing anti communist rivals.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
UPD
Angola
Luanda
Marxist Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Atlantic
National Front For the Liberation of
National Union For the Total Independence of
Portugal
Organization of African Unity
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
William Schaufele
U.S
Abourezk presses compensation for Wounded Knee descendants
Senator James D. Abourezk proposes a bill to award 3000 dollars to each descendant of the 1890 Wounded Knee victims, despite Army opposition. He cites the 146 Sioux deaths and calls it a symbolic act costing under 600 thousand dollars. The Army argues the episode was spontaneous and not premeditated.
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Washington
UPI
James D. Abourezk
S.D
Wounded Knee
Abourezk
Norman Augustine
James Eastland
D-Miss
Higher postage rates take effect Wednesday
Washington reports new postal charges take effect on Wednesday. The notice urges sending Christmas cards and holiday parcels before cutoff to avoid delays and ensure receipt of New Year greetings from the Postal Service.
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Washington
UPI
Postal Service
Federal
John Sirica
U.S. Court of Appeals
Independent
Postal Rate Commission
Rate Commission
Easter Seal Society
Court of Appeals
Sirica
Congress
Trial defendants names remain on police record TOPEKA
A Shawnee County magistrate refused to strike seven former defendants from police records in the Kansas architectural contract case. Judge James Hope said he lacks legislative power to order removal and noted ongoing litigation. Defendants include Charles Campbell Edwin Korff Jack Lakey M Gene Norton Robert Jarvis Donald Sledd and Forrest Towner. The seven faced charges linked to a 30,000 campaign contribution for a 1972 KU Medical Center design contract.
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Kansas City
Marshall & Brown, Inc
Marshall & Brown of
Kansas
Charles Campbell
Edwin Korff
Jack Lakey
M. Gene Norton
Robert Jarvis
Donald Sledd
Forrest Towner
Robert Docking
University of Kansas Medical Center
Marshall & Brown
Grand
Hope
Shawnee County
Kay McFarland
Norbert Sidorowicz
Marshall & Brown-Sidorowicz
Sidorowicz
Marshall & Brown Group
Weather outlook with warmer trend and mild midweek
Area forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions tonight. Warmer today with highs in the mid 40s to near 50 and tonight's lows in the mid to upper 20s. Increasing cloudiness and mild Wednesday with highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s with southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
Kansans say state ignores substandard nursing homes
A consumer group, Kansans for the Improvement of Nursing Homes, accuses KDHE of focusing on six inspected substandard homes while failing to act on others, urging enforcement and publicity to protect residents. They cite repeated violations in a Douglas County facility and scarce department responses.
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Lawrence, Kan
UPI
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Petey Cerf
Lawrence
Health Department
Attorney General's Office
Douglas County
Cerf
KMNH
KDHE
Kansas
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U.N. Security Council
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Mitchelson
D.C
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Brevard
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Ronald Presslaff
Long Beach
N.Y
Frank Musicaro
Bayshore
Bynum Patterson
Stamford
Tommy Graham
Michelle
Rachael Haggard
Tommy
Tom Graham
N. Highland
Rachael
Debbie Haggard
S. Lafayette
World Council of Churches
Council
Soviet Union
Jackson
Henry Jackson
National Education Association
Nixon
Democratic Party
Massachussetts
Boston
Eastland
Senate Judiciary Committee
Augustine
Big Foot
Robert Utley
Little Rock
Ark
Cha
Yours
Consumer Group
Raps State Health Department
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