Olympics Terror Seizes Munich as Israeli Team Isattacked
Arab gunmen seized parts of the Olympic Village in Munich killing Coach Moshe Weinberg and another Israeli, taking hostages. Israeli weightlifter Yosef Romano reportedly killed, several athletes held, and German police prepared to shoot it out. The Games were suspended as authorities negotiated with the militants and a memorial service was planned for the victims.
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Munich
Moshe Weinberg
Olympic Village
Jerusalem
Yosef Romano
Weinberg
International Olympic Committee
Olympic Committee
West Germany
Tims
Olympic Stadium
Mark Spitz
Spitz
United States
Willy Brandt
Bonn
Israel
Uruguay
Hong Kong
Manfred Schreiber
Schreiber
Precedence of Amendments At Issue in Contempt Suit
The Arkansas Supreme Court heard arguments over a contempt ruling against Texarkana editor Harry G. Wood for publishing a verdict. The case centers on whether delaying verdict publication breaches free speech rights and whether Sixth Amendment fair trial concerns outweigh First Amendment press freedoms.
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Little Book, Ark
Texarkana
Tex
Arkansas Supreme Court
G. William Lavender
Lavender
Harry G. Wood
Goodson
Wood
Supreme Court
Fred H. Harrison
Harrison
Cheap Flights Strand Tourists in Russia
About 100 travelers from the United States Britain Japan and West Germany were stranded in Moscow after Aeroflot overbooked flights and failed to provide seats. They were housed on four top floors of the transit hotel under guard with restricted calls and meals provided, while some reached London or notified their embassies. One passenger paid 475 dollars for a 1760 dollar round trip from New York to Tehran.
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Moscow
United States
Britain
Japan
West Germany
U.S
London
Aeroflot
IATA
International Air Transport Association
State Traffic Kills Seven in Labor Day Week End Crash
Kansas recorded seven traffic deaths over the Labor Day weekend with four in a two car crash 17 miles east of Eureka near Eureka. The wreck killed Mr and Mrs John R Riddle of Overland Park and their 6 year old son Jovannie and the other driver Mrs Nellie Mills 71 of Toronto. Surviving children Jason Riddle 3 and Jozette Riddle 4 were treated at Eureka Hospital and Wesley Medical Center Wichita.
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Kansas
Eureka
John R. Riddle
Overland Park
Jovannie
Nellie Mills
Toronto
Jason Riddle
Eureka Hospital
Jozette Riddle
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita
Juco Enrollment Down At Neo Sho County College
Dr. Erik Conard reports a 10.5 percent fall in attendance at Neo sho County Community Junior College for fall, with 460 students and an 11.7 percent drop in full time equivalents from 1971. He cites high school graduation peaking in 1971 and shifts to vocational tech training as causes, noting representation from 20 Kansas counties and seven out of state students from Thailand, South Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan and Venezuela.
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Neosho County Community Junior College
Erik Conard
Conard
Kansas
NCCJC
Thailand
South Vietnam
Hong Kong
Japan
Venezuela
Neosho County Community Junior College to discuss 1972 73 goals
The board will discuss a proposal for goals for 1972 73 for the Kansas Association of Public Community Junior Colleges in its regular meeting Tuesday. A bid call for tennis court lighting and bounce boards at the college will be issued. Advisory Committee appointments for Snyder Memorial Chapel will be made. A report on fall enrollment by Dr Erik Conrad is on the agenda.
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Neosho County
Campaign Push Underway As Nixon Travels West
President Nixon in San Clemente for Labor Day plans a San Francisco meeting with the Citizens Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality then a Washington flight. McGovern campaigns through Seattle Portland and Los Angeles with running mate Shriver in Boston Portland Maine Springfield and Albany. McGovern pushes jobs at Boeing and cleaner jet noise while rebutting AFL CIO chief Meany calling him an apologist for communists.
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Washington
Nixon
George
McGovern
San Clemente
Calif
San Francisco
Citizens Advisory Committee On Environmental Quality
Seattle
Portland
Ore
Los Angeles
Larcent Shriver
Boston
Maine
Springfield
Mass
Albany
N.Y
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
California
Boeing Co
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
Workers Laid Off At Kustom Electronics and ILC
Kustom Electronics laid off about 70 workers at 1010 W Chestnut due to part delays raising delivery times from 20 to 32 weeks. 24 were recalled today with more to come. ILC Products at Safari Industrial Park laid off about 60 workers after losing a national bid. about 10 recalled so far as new business comes in.
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Kustom
ILC
Kustom Electronics
1010 W. Chestnut
ILC Products
Safari Industrial Park
Don Haymaker
DeVries
Stark Day Attracts Raritan Club Event Sept 9
Stark Day will be held Sept 9 at the baseball park with 5 pm youth games 6 pm six mile bike race eight dollar entry and one hundred dollars prize money fifty to first. Bernard Hagen chairs the race and LeRoy Wilson of the Raritan Club sponsors the event. A free bean feed at 7 pm features The Cobb Family guitarists followed by bingo at 8 o'clock.
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STARK
LeRoy Wilson
Raritan Club
Bernard Hagen
Cobb
Philadelphia
Procrastiators’ Clubs of America
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha: Jewelry theft reported
Jewelry valued at 2000 to 3000 dollars was stolen from Dr Earl B Myers home over the weekend. The family was away visiting Elk City Reservoir when the crime occurred.
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Independence
Earl B. Myers
Elk City Reservoir
Dole cites seven more McGovern finance violations
Republican National Chairman Robert Dole says seven more violations of political finance laws are found in Sen. George McGovern's presidential campaign. He cites a $50,000 Hefner contribution split into multiple $2,500 gifts to avoid taxes.
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Washington
Robert J. Dole
George McGovern
Dole
Playboy Magazine
Hugh Hefner
Hefner
Senate to Vote on Cash Award for Families of Fallen Officers
Congress returns from recess for the Republican National Convention and Labor Day to consider a cash award for families of policemen and firemen killed on duty. The House will decide on antipoverty funding as leaders target adjournment by month end, with potential spillover into October due to unresolved issues.
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Washington
Senate
House
Philadelphia teachers strike over shortened high school day
Public school teachers in Philadelphia walk out refusing to accept the board’s plan to extend the secondary workday from five hours to five hours forty minutes. The dispute affects about 13 000 teachers 5 000 paraprofessional union members and 285 000 pupils who were to begin classes Thursday.
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Philadelphia
Labor Day Weekend Traffic Toll Tops Five Hundred
Traffic accidents across the nation killed 554 people over the Labor Day weekend. The National Safety Council had projected 580 to 680 deaths for the period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. The 1971 toll reached 618.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
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Bavarian
Interior Ministry
Luis Friedman
Friedman
Germany
The
Chanute Tribune
Tim
Russia
New York
Tehran
Juco
Juco Agenda
Haymaker
Karl DeVries
Stark Day
Cha
Yours
Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Vietnam
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