Hijacker Seized After Chicago to New York Flight Incident
A gunman demanding to go to North Vietnam hijacked a TWA Boeing 727 at O'Hare. Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph Zito crawled into the cockpit and shot the hijacker as the plane took off for New York. One passenger was killed. the hijacker was wounded and captured at Kennedy Airport.
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New York
North Vietnam
Chicago
U.S
FBI
Trans World Airlines
Kennedy Intenational
Gregory White
O'Hare International
Albuquerque
N.M
Catherine Culver
Fond du Lac
Wis
Robert E. Elder
Stamford
O'Hare
Joseph Zito
Zito
Cary
Ill
TWA
Miss. Culver
Miss Culver
Elder
Dupuis
Rocking Chair Marathon Kicks Off in Alexander City
Mrs Mozelle Wallace mother of Gov George C Wallace starts the Rocking Chair marathon sponsored by local furniture merchants. Contestants aim to beat Linda Collins 103 hour record set in 1968. Top rocker wins 500 dollars cash and a 300 dollar bedroom suite.
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Alexander City
Ala
Mozelle Wallace
George C. Wallace
Linda Collins
Cambodian Stand Hits 16th Day near Phnom Penh
North Vietnamese forces opened new assaults near the Cambodian border as Cambodian troops held the outskirts of Phnom Penh for the 16th day. U S supplied helicopters were shot down while delivering aid. Khmer positions around the Krek area faced heavy shelling and ground clashes with reported Vietnamese casualties.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Saigon Command
Krek
South Vietnam
Snuol
Vihear Suor
Am Rong
Arshes
Italy Holds Elections in First Test of Colombo Coalition
Rome AP reports one-fifth of Italian voters cast ballots in local elections Sunday and Monday, a first strength test for Premier Emilio Colombo's center-left coalition. Communists and neo fascists predict gains. Colombo urges rejection of false shortcuts while defending his three party government. The vote also shapes Sicily regional assembly and local governments in Rome and Genoa among 150 plus cities.
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Rome
Italy
Emilio Colombo
Colombo
Communist Party
Italian Social Movement
Christian Democrats
Piazza Navone
MSI
Socialists
Enrico Berlinguier
Sicily
Genoa
Warmer Sunday Weather Outlook Across North Carolina
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Showers may appear in the afternoon and evening but mainly in western counties and the mountains. Fog covered mountain valleys at daybreak and some foothill sections. A high pressure ridge shifted west, then sank south, creating a west to southwest wind pattern.
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Carolinas
North Carolina
North Carolina South Carolina Weather Forecast Feature
The bulletin details a two state forecast with clear to partly cloudy skies forming warmer conditions today through Sunday. North Carolina expects mid to upper 80s today, upper 80s to mid 90s Sunday, and 20 percent rain chances in coming days. South Carolina shows 80s to 90s with isolated showers near coast and mountains and 70s to 90s overnight shifts.
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High Point
Friendship Weather Station
North Carolina
South Carolina
Study Links Marijuana Use to Higher Narcotics Risk in Girls
A three year study of teenage girls at a London reform school found that 20 percent of those who tried soft drugs like marijuana later used hard drugs such as heroin. Researchers Noble and Barnes of Maudsley Hospital noted the risk rises from experimentation and linked family disintegration and poor parental care to drug use, with no clear link to crime.
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London
British Medical Journal
Peter Nobles
Gill G. Barnes
Ma‘idsley Hospital
Britain
Noble
Barnes
Four Southern Cities Ordered to Expand Desegregation Plans
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Roanoke and Norfolk Virginia Orangeburg County South Carolina and Winston-Salem Forsyth County North Carolina to submit new desegregation plans by July 1 and hold hearings by July 16 to apply the Supreme Court desegregation mandate. The decision emphasizes greater use of busing and options like school pairing, rezoning, and cross-district attendance to achieve racial balance ahead of the 1971 fall term.
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George W. Wilbur
Associated Press
Richmond, Va
U.S. Supreme Court
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Roanoke
Norfolk
Orangeburg County
S.C
Winston-Salem-Forsythe County
N.C
Appeals Court
Supreme Court
Winston-Salem-Forsyth County
North Carolina Board of Education
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Forsyth County Board of Commissioners
Mitchell Seeks Power for Electronic Surveillance
Roanoke Virginia AP Attorney General John N Mitchell argues the Constitution grants the President's representative an inherent right to order electronic surveillance in domestic security cases without prior judicial approval. He cites rising subversion and a string of bombings as evidence and notes a 1,378 incidents of bombing from July 1970 to May this year.
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Roanoke
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Virginia State Bar Association
Supreme Court
U.S
University of Wisconsin
Martha
Washington
Mission Impossible and Mary Tyler Moore Lead Evening TV Lineup
TV guide lists Mission Impossible at 7 30 with Phelps and IMF aiding a member on a Caribbean trip as Barney faces arrest. Andy Williams Show features Flip Wilson Debbie Reynolds and the Edwin Hawkins Singers. The Ipcress File stars Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. My Three Sons Arnie and Mrs. Cunningham at home. State Fair on Family Theatre with Pat Boone and Ann Margret. Arnie campaigns to make Andrea feel special. At 9 30 Mary Tyler Moore nominated for a broadcasting award. At 10 Mannix involves a Las Vegas gambler case and a wife who hires and fires Mannix.
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Family Theatre
Arnie
Phelps
IMF
Barney
Andy Williams
Flip Wilson
Debbie Reynolds
Edwin Hawkins
Iepress
Ernie
Dodie
Pat Boone
Ann-Margret
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