Hawaii’s first hydrofoil passenger service starts
Honolulu launches the nations first commercial hydrofoil line linking Honolulu Maui and Kauai with a 43 knot two hour dash aboard a Boeing built Jetfoil. The $21 million venture by Dallas Kansas LTV and Pacific Sea Transportation vows rapid transit revival after 25 years without surface water travel, despite early concerns over rough channel conditions and winds up to 60 mph.
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Honolulu
UPL
Stule
Karehamuhe
Maui
Kauai
Dallas-Kanxi Ltv Corp
Hawaiian
Paethe Sea Transportation, Md
Kontron Hawaii
Seattle
Puget Sound
Hawaii
Idha
Boeing Aerospace Ca
Naval
Europe
Asia
Hijack suspect nabbed at airport in New York
Raman accused of hijacking a jetliner to Cuba in 1972 to protest U S bombing of North Vietnam was arrested at Kennedy Airport after a Barbados flight. Michael Hansen, 24, Fargo North Dakota, held in custody awaiting Brooklyn Federal Court hearing. He had been detained in Cuba and faces air piracy charges with potential 20 years to life.
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New York
Raman
Cuba
North Vietnam
FBI
Michael Lynn Hansen
Fargo
Nld
Kennedy Airport
Bridgetown
Barbados
Pat American
Hansen
Fidel Castro
VBI
Western Airlines
East Lake City
San Francisco
North Vietna
U.S
Richard M. Nixon
FBE
Hensel
Ife
Federal House of Detention
Manhattan
Brooklyn
M Hansen
Salt Lake Gilly
Los Angeles
Armed Services
United States
Richard Nixon
Tn Hann
Havana
Dallas
Atlanta
Tampa
Fla
State Department
Gregory Alexander Graves
Kansas City
Carl White
Norma
Detroit
CIA links to Viet deaths probed by Senate committee
Senate Intelligence Committee hearings focus on CIA involvement in assassinations during Vietnam era. Testimony from former CIA chief William Colby covers operations Phoenix and possible roles in Diem era killings. Panel seeks details on chain of command and responsibility across Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Dame
Willian KE
Calby
Central Intelligence Agency
Saigon
Ngo Pinh Dien
Ack
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Johana
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Colby
CIA
Vietnam
Spy Agency
CLA
United States
Rockefeller Commission
Ford
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Far East
Diem
Diem F
Neo Dinh Nhu
Senate Committee
Robert I. Marasco
U.S
Marasco
Realistic metamorphosis Doll blossoms into teen before your eyes
Los Angeles reports a Mattel marketing push for Growing Up Skipper a fashion doll that morphs from younger girl to a post puberty teen with a turning motion. Mattel executives cite Harvard research suggesting a positive influence while acknowledging parental alarm over maturity. Manufacturing aims to sell over a million by year end after its May 20 introduction.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Aeentiger
Skipper
Ae Barbie
Mattel Tays
Rubenstein
Harvard University
Harvard
Dell
Brezhnev Heads Moscow Ballot In One-Candidate Soviet Vote
Moscow reports Brezhnev as the sole candidate for the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet from Bauman district. Tass notes most seats have a single nominee produced in party meetings, with the outcome effectively decided. Brezhnev urged United States to ban weapons and mass destruction, calling for limits on arms development.
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Tass
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Russian Federation
Supreme Soviet
Bauman
Moscow
Brezhnev
United States
Soviet Union
Breahner
Boy Still Missing One Year Later in Brockton
Brockton Massachusetts marks a year without progress in the David Louison case. Detective Frank Gentile leads the effort as police and FBI trace leads across the nation with no new clues since June 18, 1974. The boy, described as adventurous, vanished from West Elm Street after wandering off with only a tape message for callers.
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Brockton
Mass
David Louison
Frank Gentile
Gentile
West Elm Street
Amnounn
Melvin S. Loulsin
Roberta Shaffer
Louison
David
Victor Martelli
Sory
Ares
Water safe after acid leak in Connecticut town
Union Connecticut residents resumed using drinking water after health officials detected contamination in one well from a ruptured tank leaking 390 gallons of cirbatic acid. A National Guard tanker supplied water, another tanker was used to transfer the remaining acid, and a volunteer firefighter was hospitalized after inhaling fumes during containment efforts.
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Pioneer’ Phastics Corp
Auburn
Maine
Dow Chemical Co
Bayonne
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Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Sea Transportation
Kamehameha
David Gordon
Topeka
Kan
Joel K. Rubenstein
Mattel
Crassiere
Gartile
Southbridge
Jas
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