Lebanese Jetliner Hijacked to Israel with 120 aboard
A Lebanese Boeing 707 carrying 120 people was hijacked en route from Libya to Lebanon and landed at Lod Airport Tel Aviv. Israeli troops stormed the jetliner freeing some passengers, with at least one wounded. Palestinians deny involvement. the hijacking follows another Beirut interception.
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Tel Aviv
Libya
Lebanon
Lod
Middle East Airlines
Rabesh Shiekh
Beirut
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Israel
George Habash
Oil price rules pending as Phase 4 ready Friday
Washington AP brief notes Cost of Living Council director John T. Dunlop says Phase 4 oil industry regulations will be ready Friday. Unclear when gasoline stations and other petroleum dealers may raise prices. Also Montgomery AP brief reports a legislative committee asks Alabama Education Department to study 12 month high school operation instead of summer closures.
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Washington (Ap
John T. Dunlop
The
Cost of Living Council
Montgomery
Ala
State Education Department
Alabama
Three area traffic deaths reported in separate crashes
Three persons died in separate area crashes Wednesday. Randy Higdon, 7, from Lacon died on a bicycle after swerving into a car on Lacon to Cold Springs Road near Falkville. Ronald Beasley, 20, of Cullman and Oliver McCrary, 40, of Athens died in crashes near the Cullman and Oneonta areas, with Beasley’s crash injuring four others and McCrary later dying at University Hospital in Birmingham.
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Morgan County
Randy Edward Higdon
Lacon
Ronald Joe Beasley
Cullman 9
Winston and Cullman
Higdon
Falkville
Ramey
Tommy Cobb
Anthony D. Patterson
Guy Hollaway
Lacon-to-Cold Springs
Randy
Cullman
Winston County
Howell
Beasley
Moss Funeral Home
Cullman Hospital
McCrary
Air Force
Robins Air Force Base
Georgia
Blount County Hospital
U. S. 278
Oneonta
University Hospital
Birmingham
University
Knox family watches Watergate amid quiet Weare scene
In the large Knox dairy house at Weare New Hampshire the Knox family gathers for a televised Watergate address. R Leslie Knox 53, Barbara 51, daughter Jean 9, son Paul 22 with fiancée Martha Griswold 19, and neighbor Dick Smith 55 drift in as the event fills the room. A casual bar audience elsewhere also follows the broadcast.
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Knox Dairy Farm
Weare
N.H
R. Leslie Knox
Barbara
Jean
Paul
Martha Griswold
Martha
Als “Wage Fie
Hed Ki
Fra’ Flis
Dick Smith
Contoocook
Nixon appeals for courts to decide Watergate guilt
President Nixon declares he was not involved in Watergate and urges letting the courts determine guilt or innocence. He accepts responsibility for aides' abuses, defends tape recordings stance, and appeals to move beyond Watergate while pledging to raise political integrity in America.
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Washington
Nixon
Watergate Prosecutor
SRR Committee
Sance
Senate ‘Watergate Committee
America
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
Goldwater
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Senate
Inouye
Rites Held For Ingalls Manager Hill Jr. Dies in Auto Crash
Funeral services for Ingalls Iron Works plant manager George Howard Hill Jr. were held in Birmingham after a two car crash south of Jasper. Hill 36, a Auburn University graduate, spent 12 years in management before becoming plant manager this year. He is survived by widow Patricia Scott Hill who remained hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
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Ingalls Iron Works
George Howard Hill Jr
Birmingham
Jasper
Reid Byers
Marine Division
Hill
Ingalls
Auburn University
Degatrty
Steplot Engineering
Forest Hill Cemetery
Ridout
Roebuck
Patricia Scott Hill
University Hospital
Second Blue Law Measure Awaited
Decatur officials delay strict Sunday blue law enforcement pending fate of a Morgan County measure allowing stores with four or fewer employees to open on Sunday. The Harris bill passed the Senate and awaits House action. statewide repeal bill was carried over indefinitely.
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Senate
Decatur
David Cauthen
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Bob Harris
Harris
Morgan County
Rutledge Thomas
Battle of Bennington Highlighted in Revolutionary War Note
The dated line recalls the 1777 Battle of Bennington in Vermont amid a weather note reporting highs near 90 and lows around the upper 60s with a 20 percent rain chance. The page teases Living, News Briefs, Obituaries, and a weather map on A3. It ends with a Tennessee Valley pride sign-off.
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Bennington
Vermont
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By David Lancashire
Agnew
New York Times News Service
Elliot L. Richardson
Spiro T. Agnew
Baltimore
New York Times
Edmond Ghosn
Dirty Fighters
Nancy Lotiot
Aldo
el Paso, Tex
J. Kim Vandiver
Yakima, Wash
MIT
Cambridge
Mass
Blount County
Oliver McCrary
Athens
Patterson
Hollaway
Larry Mark
Kenneth D. Beasley
David M. Abbott
Houston
R. L. Howell
Larry Mark Beasley
John C. Abbott
Abbott
Knoxes
New Hampshire
C. F. Penn Hamburgers
E. Moulton Street
George Bush
Republican Meteoner Commitee
Robert Strauss
Democratic National Committee
Robinson Furniture
Second Ave
Landers
Tennessee Valley
E ‘Tainment Financial
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