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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1973
Page
2
Dozens of emergency crews responded after four hijackers seized a Lufthansa jetliner and bomb threats followed by a bomb attack on a Pan American jet at the same airport. Ten injured, including two Americans, as hostages and security officers were taken. The West German Foreign Ministry formed a crisis unit while Rome trials connected to Palestinian militants echoed the broader crisis.
Snow and ice snarled transportation in New York City delaying the stock market open. The Enterprise notes the emergency deadline to publish and describes weather as impacting daily market reporting.
Mrs Carmelia Meglino Robbins of South Philadelphia 27 was found mentally fit to stand trial for allegedly killing dismembering and burying her father. The case arose after she told an Asheboro sheriff she cut up the body and drove it to Florida. Judge Levy Anderson ruled she is fit for trial.
The Boston Tea Party 200th anniversary featured four demonstrations with no tea. Protesters included the People's Bicentennial Commission unfurling an Impeach Nixon banner, a Nixon mask display, and an effigy hangings. Disabled American Veterans dressed as Indians tossed maple leaf chests overboard on a replica Beaver. Genuine Indians complained about fakes while the Committee for Individual Liberty sailed nearby.
Boston observers described a 20 000 strong crowd at Faneuil Hall for a bicentennial town meeting and a later waterfront march. Meanwhile reports detail advances in telemedicine and thermography aiding diagnosis, plus legal and aviation crash notes from local residents and officials.
Secretary of State Kissinger ends seven nation mission with full agreement on Geneva conference opening. He meets Israeli leaders for over 10 hours and plans Suez Front disengagement talks with Arabs, hoping conference can start by Friday if other parties attend. Kissinger, after warm talks with Golda Meir, prays at a World War I memorial in Israel.
Laurinburg man Alexander McLaughlin, 28, is charged with first degree arson in the Sunday fire that killed five children and injuried six others. The blaze destroyed the Jones home in Robeson County and spread to two neighboring houses. McLaughlin, described as the boyfriend of Mrs. Lewbertha Jones, was arrested at the scene and held without bond as prosecutors consider the death penalty under state law.
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