Ransom Demand Sought for Missing U.S. Diplomat Patterson
U.S. Consulate in Hermosillo ran notices in two newspapers seeking the name and whereabouts of the person who delivered a ransom note to the consulate. Patterson, a commercial attache, disappeared after leaving his office with an unidentified man on March 2. The note, signed by the People’s Revolutionary Army of Mexico, demanded $500,000 for his release.
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Hermosillo
Mexico
U.S
John Patterson
Washington
People’s Revolutionary Army of Mexico
White House to hand over subpoenaed Watergate evidence package
The White House delivered a package of subpoenaed material to prosecutors, with officials saying no tape recordings were included. The contents appeared to be documents from presidential files rather than tapes.
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Washington
White House
Leon Jaworski
Denenberg leaves post to run for Senate in holiday jab
Herbert Denenberg resigns as Insurance Commissioner declaring a national holiday for doctors lawyers and insurers as he criticizes his adversaries. In Harrisburg Gov Shapp seeks federal court action to halt the Northeast Regional Rail Reorganization Act arguing it would devastate the East economy more than Penn Central collapse.
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Harrisburg
Herbert Denenberg
U.S. Senate
Denenberg
Shapp
Northeast
East
Penn Central
Mercury Like Moon Shows Mariner 10
Pasadena AP report describes Mariner 10 close‑up of Mercury showing a cratered, moonlike, desolate world with a thin poisonous atmosphere. The craft relayed 92 million miles of images, with scientists calling the pictures spectacular.
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Mercury
Pasadena
Calif
Mariner 10
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mariner
Bruce Murray
Moon
Solar System
Fear 1000 Dead In Brazil Floods Amid Turmoil And Loss
Soldiers patrolled for looting as Tubarao counts losses from floods that have swept nine Brazilian states. Mayor Irmoto Feuerschuelte warned as many as 1,000 may be dead in Tubarao alone. Mass typhoid inoculations launched while river water remains contaminated. Civil defense set a curfew to curb crime, and crops and cattle losses topped $400 million nationwide.
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Rubarao
Brazil
Tubarao
Santa Catarina
Rio de Janeiro
Boqueirao
Ceara
Irmoto Feuerschuelte
Feuerschuette
Dario Antonio da Rocha
We re Lucky We Didn t Get Snow Statewide Storm Strikes NE Pa
An unexpected spring storm dumped up to 18 inches of snow on parts of northeastern Pennsylvania while coating roads in ice. A light private plane forced to land on U S Route 6 near Towanda carried two New York men who were not injured. Police did not grant takeoff permission due to hazardous weather. Snow amounts ranged from 1 to 18 inches with Dushore the heaviest at 15 to 18 inches. Scranton Wilkes-Barre reported about eight inches, Williamsport four, Phillipsburg about one. The system brought sleet and freezing rain, but no state fatalities were reported.
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New York
Towanda
Richard D Appel
Tully
N.Y
Richard J. McMullin
Homer
California
Cortland
Lock Haven
Dushore
Sullivan County
Scranton-Wilkes- Barre
Philadelphia
Williamsport
Phillipsburg
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