Oil tanker strikes Gulf drilling platform near Louisiana
The Globuk Sun, a 734 foot tanker carrying 46 crew and 14.7 million gallons of Arabian light crude, hit an unmanned platform 100 miles south of Lake Charles. Five crewmen are missing after a fire sparked in the hull and a heavy slick spread two miles long. Coast Guard rescued 41 others, with ten hospitalized in Galveston. The platform was not yet drilling and wells were not in use.
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Bahamas
Houston
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Chevron
Fanne Foxe says she divorced Mills for love and new career
Westport AP Fanne Foxe whose real name is Annabel Battistella says she divorced Rep Wilbur Mills a year ago because she was in love with him. She moved to Connecticut at 39 and begun a new career as writer actor and nightclub entertainer. She hopes to see Mills again but not publicly. She recalls the Washington incident last October when Mills and she were stopped for driving with headlights off and she claims publicity harmed him.
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Arkansas
Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Washington
Ford vows veto on price controls and tariff lift
President Ford calls energy a giant puzzle and says he will veto an extension of domestic oil price controls while removing the $2-a-barrel tariff on imported oil if Congress sustains the veto. He argues higher domestic prices will spur conservation and increase production, with only a small rise in gasoline costs.
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Vail
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U.S
White House
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Jury acquits Joan Little in jailhouse icepick slaying
A Beaufort County jury acquitted Joan Little, a 21 year old black woman, of all charges in the August stabbing death of jailer Clarence Alligood at the Washington North Carolina jail. The trial centered on whether she acted in self defense during a sexual assault or part of a jail escape plot.
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Joan Little
Raleigh
N.C
Hamilton Hobgood
Miss Little
Clarence Alligood
Beaufort County
Wake County
William Griffin
Griffin
Alligood
Washington, N.C
Jerry Paul
Paul
John Wilkinson
Five hurt in Little Rock rooming house fire
A two story wood framed Little Rock rooming house fire left five injured with one unidentified child in critical condition. University Hospital reported five victims admitted to the emergency room with two likely to be admitted further and the rest to be treated and released. Fire occurred around 3:30 a.m. many injuries from residents jumping from the second story to escape flames. Police initially said eight hurt but hospital confirmed five.
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Little Rock
University Hospital
Bangladesh coup leaders in power
Bangladesh President Mujibur Rahman was killed in a military coup and Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed named president. The new regime declared the nation the Islamic Republic of Bangladesh and stressed its Islamic identity. Tanks patrolled Dhaka as martial law was proclaimed and international reaction began to form.
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India
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Mujibur Rahman
Radio Bangladesh
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Sheik Mujib
Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed
Mujibur
Dacca
United News of India News Agency
Ahmed
Indira Gandhi
Four gunmen kill two policemen in Mexico City ambush
In Mexico City four armed men pulled alongside a patrol car at an intersection and fatally shot two officers. The attack occurred about a mile from the market area where three police and three government price inspectors were slain during breakfast Tuesday, an event linked to the 23rd of September Communist League, a feared urban guerrilla group. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for today's shooting.
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Red Cross
Communist League
Mexico
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