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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1981
Page
12
Mostly sunny today with 80s highs and fair nights. Tuesday remains sunny with around 80. Wednesday to Friday stay fair with mild highs. In 24 hours no precipitation. total month 4.81 inches, year 26.93 inches. Delaware River at Chester shows highs 8:48 a.m. and 9:20 p.m. low 3:38 p.m.
UPI reports Lawrence Johnson, journalist for Mother Jones and Pacific News Service, returned to the United States after 17 days in captivity in Bogota. He said he suffered torture including 48 hours of beating with a mask over his head and faced execution threats before being flown to Los Angeles and then San Francisco. He plans seclusion in Half Moon Bay before resuming work.
Taiwanese officials listened to flight recorders from the domestic jetliner that exploded in flight, killing 110 people. The crash killed three Americans and a Canadian from California, along with two other unidentified Westerners and 18 Japanese.
The Far Eastern Air Transport Boeing 737 from Taipei to Kaohsiung exploded mid air Saturday morning, scattering bodies over a five mile area. Dennis W. Rippin of Laguna Niguel California is identified among victims. One more American may have died. Civil Aeronautics Administration reports witness accounts support midair blast.
Customs officials report the 61 foot yacht Conquest III carried about 550 pounds of hashish in bricks and an additional 3,300 pounds in hollow hull sections. Two West German suspects, both 45, were seized as the vessel ran into trouble off Ushant island. The drugs, marked as from Morocco, are valued at $5.5 million.
Three men with a gun forced nurses to the floor at Montgomery hospital. They then stabbed a patient, Robert Franklin, 24, who was recovering from a gunshot wound and under police guard. Spokesman said two masked assailants entered from the sixth floor, disrupted phones, and confronted the patient before a scuffle occurred. Franklin remained in satisfactory condition. Police investigated whether the attack related to a prior hospital shooting in Mississippi.
A fragmented OCR list includes multiple individuals and towns such as Swarthmore Ridley Township Philadelphia Yeadon Clifton Heights Wayne New York and others. The readable fragments present names paired with locations suggesting a community notice or roster.
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