Terrorists seize West German envoy in Stockholm
Five guerrillas stormed the West German Embassy in Stockholm taking Ambassador Dietrich Stoecher and 10 others hostage, killing the military attache. They demanded 520000 dollars for 26 inmates in Bonn and threatened more killings and an embassy blast unless met. The incident echoes prior German urban guerrilla crises.
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Stockholm
UPI
Dietrich Stoecher
Lufthansa 707
Frankfurt
Germany
Andreas Baader
Ulrike Meinhof
Baader-Meinhof
Bonn
Helmut Schmidt
Schmidt
West Berlin
Peter Lorenz
Yemen
DPA
Angela Luther
Andreas Vogel
Lorenz
South Pacific to be staged at CHS May 5 6
Columbus Senior High vocal and theater departments present South Pacific in the high school auditorium May 5 and 6 with doors at 7 p.m. and curtain at 7:30. Tickets on sale at Tooley Drug and Columbus Music, plus at the door. Cast includes Emile de Becque played by Jim Larsen and Ensign Nellie Forbush by Debra Hollmann.
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South Pacific
Columbus Senior High School
Tooley Drug Company
Columbus Music Company
Ruth Schlobohm
Robert Larsen
Ken Schreiber
Allen Aerni
Denise Augspurger
Jim Larsen
Emile de Bacque
Debra Hollmann
Ensign Nellie Forbush
de Becque
School closes as Boca Raton High seeks calm after clash
Boca Raton High School shut its doors for meetings between officials and students to ease racial tensions after a disturbance that began with a racial slur on a gym wall. About 200 students fought in the central patio for two hours, injuring three students and a police officer. Two juveniles were arrested for disorderly conduct and later released to their parents after a daylong briefing with faculty and student leaders.
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Boca Raton, Fla
UPI
Boca Raton High School
Boca Raton
Nebraska Legislature approves major rape law revision
The Nebraska Legislature voted 44 to 0 to overhaul rape laws since 1877. The bill renames rape to sexual assault with two degrees, uses actor and victim, raises the age of consent to 16, and limits use of a victim's past sexual history. Penalties range from 1 to 25 years for first degree and up to 15 years for second degree, with hearings on admissibility of past history.
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Lincoln, Neb
UPI
Nebraska
Wally Barnett
Lincoln
Vietnamese peace coalition talks stall amid cabinet bickering in Saigon
In Saigon President Tran Van Huong wrestles to form a peace coalition acceptable to the Viet Cong as Gen. Duong Van Minh and Senate President Tran Van Lam clash over leadership. Ground fighting has eased while thousands flee toward Guam and resettlement in the United States. Huong seeks a new left-of-center administration, but the path to a coalition remains blocked by internal rifts and a 48 hour deadline.
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Saigon
UPS
Tran van Huong
Duong van
U.S
Guam
United States
Huong
Minh
Viet Cong
Thieu
Ngo Dinh Diem
Senate
Tran van Lam
Foreign Affairs Ministry
Rain and Thunderstorm Outlook Across Nebraska and Kansas
A low pressure center near the Kansas-Oklahoma border tracked northeast toward Nebraska bringing chances of thunderstorms this evening. Severe storms with hail and strong winds swept central areas Wednesday night from North Platte to the Kansas border with lows 39 to 54 and highs 58 to 78. Skies expected to clear west Friday and east after precipitation moves out with 40s tonight and 70s Friday. a weekend shower chance precedes a partly cloudy Monday.
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United Press International
Kansas-Oklahoma
Nebraska
North Platte
Kansas
Arly
Sidney
Omaha
Beatrice
McCook
Norfolk
Water quality workshop in Columbus Nebraska
A public workshop on how erosion and agricultural chemicals affect Nebraska water quality will be held Monday April 28 at the Columbus Holiday Inn. The event, supported by the EPA and run by the Center for Rural Affairs, will outline local problems and citizen involvement options with speakers from state and federal agencies and conservation groups.
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Nebraska
Columbus Holiday Inn
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Center For Rural Affairs of
Walthill
Bob Steffen
Boys ‘Town
John Houlihan
Kansas City
Constance Bowen
Nebraska Wildlife Federation
Carroll Hamnon
Warren White
State Office of Planning and Programming
George Kleen
Nebraska Association of Resources Districts
Jack Sukovaty
Department of Environmental Control
Ralph Lubeck
Nebraska Association of Farmer
Unemployment Roles Rise as Benefits Grow in Early April
The Labor Department reported over 5.6 million people received unemployment insurance in the first week of April, up 120000 from the prior week. About 90000 exhausted regular benefits and qualified for federal supplemental benefits. Initial claims in the second week fell by 22000 to 135100, signaling a mixed picture.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
First Priority on Water Use Goes to Agriculture
The Interior Department announced that agriculture will receive the first claim on the nation's water supply, not energy. Assistant Interior Secretary Jack O Horton testified the agency will require the energy sector to meet its needs using surplus water not currently needed for food production.
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Washington
UPL
Interior Department
United States
Interior
Jack O. Horton
Soviet push to include PLO in Geneva talks
Diplomatic sources in Cairo said the Soviet Union promised immediate talks with the United States to gain U S agreement to invite the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the Geneva peace talks. Fahmi told Soviet readers Egypt will accept a June reconvening only if the PLO attends, with hopes the conference resumes in June and the PLO full participant status. Lisbon election urged to avoid violence as first free polls in 49 years go ahead.
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United Press International
Cairo
Soviet Union
United States
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Middle East
Geneva
Ismail Wahmi
Moscow
U.S
PLO
Egypt
Fahmi
Lisbon
UPI
Francisco da Costa Gomes
Parents Reminded to Immunize School Children
Parents of children entering school in September should verify immunization against serious diseases. Local officials emphasize protection from polio diphtheria tetanus measles and rubella, noting vaccines prevent death and lifelong affliction.
Marks 60th Jubilee year celebrates Sister M Bronisla Staskiewicz
Sister Bronisla Staskiewicz marks sixty years in the Sisters of St. Francis of Colorado Springs and will be honored at a jubilee Mass at St. Francis Parish in Humphrey followed by a clergy and family dinner and a 2 to 5 pm reception. She taught in Indiana Colorado New Mexico and Nebraska including Duncan Tampa Omaha Columbus and at St. Bonaventure Scotus High and St. Francis High where she currently teaches biology and general science. Health immunization push urges full child vaccines to prevent outbreaks with measles mumps rubella diphtheria tetanus pertussis and polio. Columbus PTA Health Fund Committee to fund preschool immunizations through state and PTA resources with forms via school nurses Kathleen Christensen Mertlee Yster and Marlene Van Lent handling applications.
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M. Bronisla Staskiewicz
Order of Sisters of St. Francis of
Colorado Springs
St. Francis Parish
Paris
Bronissa
Indiana
Colorado
New Mexico
Nebraska
Duncan
Tampa
Omaha
Columbus
St. Bonaventure and
Scotus High
St. Francis High
Fremont
Albion
Columbus Pta Health Fund Committee
United Fund
State Department of Immunization
PTA Committee
PTA Council
Welfare Office
PTA
Kathleen Christensen
Mertlee <Yster
Columbus High School
Marlene van Lent
Aducational Service Unit
Health Fund
Ford seeks congressional aid for South Vietnam
President Ford, while saying the Vietnam War is finished for Americans, urged Congress to approve additional military aid to South Vietnam. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the aid would stabilize the situation and aid a negotiated ceasefire, despite Ford's New Orleans statement.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Congress
South Vietnam
Ron Nessen
New Orleans
Vietnam
America
Americans oppose troops for Vietnam evacuation
A Louis Harris poll reports 68 percent of Americans against sending U S troops to Vietnam to aid Vietnamese evacuations. Twenty two percent favor such action and ten percent are undecided. The poll also shows 81 percent oppose President Ford requesting 722 million dollars for Vietnam military aid with 12 percent in support.
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New York
UPI
Louis Harris
U.S
Vietnam
Ford
Congress
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