Middle East tensions follow Athens airliner attack
In London Lloyds estimates pay about 3.1 million as its share of a claim by Middle East Airlines after the Athens El Al raid. Israel says the attack was retaliation for the Athens incident in which one Israeli died and a plane was damaged. A Lebanese delegation heads to New York for the UN debate as Arab groups threaten retaliation.
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London
Lloyd’s
Insurnce
Middle East
Lebanon
Israel
el al
Athens
National Unity
Security Council
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Tekoah
New York
Council
U.N
New Zealand
Soviet Union
United Nations Security Council
Edward Ghorra
Foreground
Shabatai Rosenne
Beirut
Air West Directors Sued Over Hughes Bid Rejection
More than a dozen Air West directors and shareholders sue the 13 board members after they veto Howard Hughes bid to buy the airline. The suit seeks court orders to approve the sale and damages for stockholders, noting a Hughes offer valued above 150 million dollars amid San Francisco stockholder approval and a 11 13 board vote.
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Seattle
UPS
Air West
Howard Hughes
West Coast
Robert St. Louis
New Castle County
Del
Hughes
Delaware
St. Louis
Wilmington
Canada
Mexico
American Stock Exchange
San Francisco
Kennedy Aims To Upset Long For Senate Leadership
In the early 1960s Senate race, Kennedy challenges incumbent Long as party caucus selects leadership for the 91st Congress. Kennedy claims momentum with 39 or 40 of 57 Democrats potentially backing him. Long retains strong finance chair influence and votes among liberals. Hart backs Kennedy, while some Southerners support Long. responses vary among Geoge McGovern Pastore Pell Hughes and other senators.
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Senate
Kennedy
Long
Thomas J. Dodd
Connecticut
Senate Finance Committee
Muskie
Philip A. Hart
Michigan
Mike Mansfield
Congress
Geoge S. McGovern
S.D
John O. Pastore
Claiborne Pell
R.J
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Spessard L. Holland
Fla
Sam J. Ervin Jr
B. Everett Jordan
N.C
Albert Gore
Tenn
Walter Mondale
Minn
Abraham Ribicoff
Conn
Alan Cranston
Calif
Apollo 8 Astronauts Release Second Batch of Color Films
Space Center reports Apollo 8 crew members Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders releasing a second batch of color motion pictures and stills from their moon voyage. They describe liftoff lunar orbit and planned reentry details while remaining terse about public release.
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Space Center
Houston
UPI
U.S. Space Agency
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Moon
Glynn Lunney
Borman
Lovell
Anders
Apollo
Lunar
Earth
Bandit Robs Duarte Bank of America for $1304
An armed robber wearing a bright blue sweater entered a Duarte Bank of America and demanded cash from teller Marilyn Bigelow. The note warned of no trouble as the bandit displayed a small caliber gun and fled with $1304.
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Duarte
CNS
Duarte Bank of America
Marilyn Bigelow
She's Alive and Kicking After Death Report
Belle B McMahan 65 disputes a death notice filed in a government computer after a foot operation under Medicare. An estate letter to her doctor implied she was dead, prompting her to speak from Louisville about the mistaken death record while she remains alive and recovering.
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Louisville
Belle B. McMahan
Mrs. McMahan
Detroit Common Council approves model cities plan with prostitution proposal
The Detroit Common Council voted 6 to 2 to submit a Model Cities plan to HUD seeking a five year 100 million grant. The plan includes a controversial red light district proposal and must be sent as a whole by Tuesday with no time to delete that provision.
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Detroit
Detroit Common Council
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Jerome Cavanagh
Washington
Venice Lumber Yard Fire Quickly Halted
Firefighters contained a wood-storage yard blaze of undetermined origin in Venice on Monday. Injuries were reported as seven units under Division Commander Harold Inlow tackled the flames and had them out within 15 minutes.
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Venice
CNS
Div
Harold Inlow
Counselor Loses Custody of Daughters
Wanda Haynes 18 and Pau la 17 filed suit in superior court last July claiming their mother Jean D. Haynes 43 abused them for months and evicted the elder sister. In a stipulation before Court Commission er Huey P Shepard the girls' father Robert Haynes Jr 44 was granted custody and will support the teens. The couple married in 1949 and divorced in 1965.
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Los Angeles
CNL
Pasadena
Wanda Haynes
Paula
Jean D. Haynes
Huey P. Shepard
Robert Haynes Jr
Berserk Man Guns Down S F Lawyer
Unemployed man in San Francisco fired four rifle shots from his apartment door killing attorney Marvin W. Faanes while he sat in his car and then killed himself. He had stabbed hospital administrator prior to the gunfire, with a bystander narrowly spared.
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San Francisco
UPI
Monte Yee
Financial District
Marvin W. Faanes
Woodacre
Montgomery Street
Former Army sergeant found insane in wife’s murder
Manning Eugene Walters, 36, convicted of second degree murder for stabbing his wife Martha, 33, in their Cudahy home. Judge Richard F. C. Hayden ruled Walters insane and ordered commitment to a state mental institution. The trial was held without a jury.
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Los Angeles
CNIS
Superior Court
Richard F. C. Hayden
Manning Eugene Walters
Walters
Martha
Uly
Cudahy
Apollo 8 Heads to Downey After Moon Test Run
Apollo 8 crews return from lunar orbit and undergo Navy tests at Pearl Harbor before transport to North American Rockwell in Downey California for closer inspection. The capsule carried astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders to a Pacific splashdown Friday aboard the Yorktown.Recovery engineer Ron Simantel said the 12 foot high cone shaped capsule was in fine condition.
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Honolulu
Navy
Pearl Harbor
North American
Rockwell Co
Downey
Calif
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Pacific
Yorktown
Ron Simantel
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Erotic Sigh the Signal of Success in New Year Toasts
Dr Herbert Gould ophthalmologist and wine society leader advises corks on New Year Eve be eased out for safety producing an erotic sigh not a pop. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness reports serious eye injuries from flying corks with some injuries requiring eye removal.
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New York
UPI
Herbert Gould
Physicians’ Wine Appreciation Society
Gould
War Chest Boost Seen in Vietnam Aid Request
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird forecast a new supplemental appropriation for the Vietnam war totaling about 3.8 billion dollars as part of the defense budget. He said Congress would see the plan just before the Nixon era begins and noted Vietnam spending would approach 30 billion.
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Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Johnson Administration
Congress
Laird
Capitol Hill
Nixon
Vietnam
Secretary of
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
House Defense Appropriations
Johnson
Gunman Loots Torrance Service Station Attendant
Torrance police seek a bandit who robbed service station attendant Frank Miranda of 75 dollars, his credit cards, two batteries, a wristwatch and all his clothes. The armed robber entered the gas station at 3971 W Artesia Blvd and threatened Miranda before fleeing.
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Torrance
Frank Miranda
W. Artesia Blvd
Miranda
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