Dutch commandos free most hostages in Assen train raid
Dutch commandos with jet support stormed a morning hijack site near Assen Netherlands freeing 53 of 55 hostages held 20 days by South Moluccan gunmen. Two hostages and six terrorists were killed. twelve were wounded as marines attacked the train and Bovensmilde school.
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Assen
Netherlands
Holland
Joop den Uy
den Uyl
Bovensmilde
J.M.0. Monsjou
Groningen
M. van Baarsel
Est
Hassan Tan
Escaped Ray and five others barricaded on Brushy Mountain woods
James Earl Ray and five companions fled from Brushy Mountain State Prison creating a major manhunt. Bloodhounds tracked scent across Big Brushy Mountain as helicopters searched, with officers saying the escapees were within miles of the prison and still at large.
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James Earl Ray
Brushy Mountain State Prison
Ray
East Tennessee
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
Briton in Uganda faces firing squad if convicted of spying
Robert Scanlon a former British businessman who helped Idi Amin in 1975 faces execution by firing squad if convicted of spying by Amin's military court. Radio Uganda said the time and place of the execution would be secret and warned Britons to stay in groups limited to three or fewer. Scanlon had taken Ugandan citizenship and stayed in Kampala with his wife Gloria as Britain broke diplomatic ties with Amin's regime.
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Nairobs
Kenya
Robert Scanlon
Idi Amin
Amin
Scanlon
Radio Uganda
Nairobi
Kampala
London
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Britain
Cooper Motor Corp
Gloria
England
Ray Earl Ray a loner and drifter linked to King killing
James Earl Ray described as a loner and drifter who finally killed Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4 1968 after a third escape bid from Brushy Mountain Prison. Born in Missouri he spent years in jail or on the run with a life of petty crime and failed attempts at stability.
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Flect
Memphis
Lorraine
Shelby County
Nashville
King
Raoul
House
Washington
Ray
James Earl Ray
Exthen
Martin Luther King Jr
Brushy Mountain State Prison
Tennessee
Sneak
Ewing
Los Angeles
Mississippi
Missouri State
Junior Klan Learns Truth in Kentucky Education Debate
Kentucky Ku Klux Klan leaders form the Junior Klan for white children ages 8 to 18 to study what they call true history. They accuse public schools of distortion and brainwashing while denying they are a hate group. Several Klansmen from Shepherdsville and Louisville await trial on charges from a February mobile home raid in Shepherdsville that injured a person and damaged property.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Sherman Adams
Adams
Klan
Shepherdsville
Bullitt County
Neal E. Horton
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Foxholes
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Andreas van Agt
State Corrections
C. Murray Henderson
Don Daugherty
Lorraine Motel
Ula
Atlant
Roxville
Germany
Hardin County
Cross
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