Greek hijacker forces flight to Cairo then returns to Athens
A Greek gunman aboard Olympic Airways DC6 hijacked the Crete Athens service, firing a warning shot through a cockpit window and diverting to Cairo. All 97 passengers were later brought back to Athens. The hijacker, George Flamourides, 30, was arrested in Cairo as the five crew and aircraft prepared to return to Athens after refueling and window repairs. The Onassis airline sent a special plane to carry the passengers, including seven Americans.
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Athens
Olympic Airways
Crete
Cairo
Aristotle Onassis
George Flamourides
Airliner Goes Down With 24 Aboard in Formosa
A Taiwan area airliner carrying 24 people is believed to have crashed in a southern Formosa mountains area on Thursday. Villagers report a DC3 twin engine propeller plane went down about 30 miles from the island’s southern tip, with 19 passengers and crew of five unaccounted for.
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Taipei
China Airlines
Formosa
Plane wreckage reported near Tampico in missing airliner case
State police said peasants reported sighting aircraft debris in a desolate northeast Mexico canyon that may be from a Mexican airliner missing since Tuesday with 26 aboard. A search force of mounted rural police rode through heavy rain to check the reports.
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Tampico
Mexico
Mexico Canyon
Castro marks decade in power with sugar rationing
Fidel Castro marked ten years in office by ordering sugar rations for Cuba's eight million people. The move underscores Cuba's harsh economic times as sugar supplies more than 80 percent of foreign exchange. On his ninth anniversary he had already ordered gasoline rationing.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Canada Still Open to NATO Exit, Trudeau Says
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau said Canada may consider leaving NATO after reviewing foreign policy. He noted Canada had planned to reduce its air contribution to NATO but abandoned that plan following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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London
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Canada
NATO
Trudeau
Czechoslovakia
Bombs Discovered in Ottawa Prompt Evacuations
Three time bombs were found in or near mailboxes in Ottawa before detonation. Two large buildings were evacuated amid threats to a department store and a government building. The incidents follow New Year’s Eve blast damaging a mailbox, a federal office, and windows, with RCMP and police not naming suspects in a four month wave linked to Montreal area bombings.
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Ottawa
Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Montreal
Warming Trend Eases Cold Spots Amid Snow Squalls
Rising temperatures softened the arctic air in the cold zones but snow squalls caused travel trouble in the eastern Great Lakes. Wind blown snow closed several roads in central and western New York during the night.
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Great Lakes
New York
Winter Storm Widespread With Record Snow Across Regions
A major blizzard disrupted travel from Amsterdam to Pennsylvania line as up to 14 inches piled up in northern New York. Pacific Northwest storm relief began amid six deaths in Washington and Oregon, with Portland buses returning to limited service and stores reopening downtown while streets remained treacherous. Temperatures plunged across 38 states to freezing or below, with readings at or below zero in Havre Montana Devils Lake North Carolina Duluth Minnesota and Watertown New York. Chicago reported an absolute zero as a hard freeze affected Georgia Alabama and early Thursday saw Jacksonville Florida at 32.
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Amsterdam
Pennsylvania
New York
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Oregon
Portland
Havre
Mont
Devils Lake
N.C
Duluth
Grand Teton winter climbs fail as Petzoldt and Lowe withdraw
In Wyoming two winter expeditions abandon attempts on Grand Teton with Petzoldt, 60, failing to top the 13 755 foot summit since 1936 and Lowe, 24, giving up a harder east face route amid subzero winds.
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Jackson
Wyo
Wyoming
Grand Teton Peak
Paul Petzoldt
Petzoldt
George Lowe
Peace crusader torch passes gate as Steinbeck aims for Thieu meeting
John Steinbeck Jr 22 and the Coconut Prophet Nguyen Thanh Nam lead five brown robed followers and an American girl Crystal Eastin to press a peace petition at the U S Embassy gate for a Thieu Ho Chi Minh DMZ meeting, coconuts declined while Steinbeck plays a flute. Ralph Nader is named a government auto safety adviser by Transportation Secretary Alan S Boyd for a three year term. Efren Angell and Elisa Sandoval wed at the Los Angeles County Courthouse the first marriage license of 1969. Dr Philip Blaiberg marks the first anniversary of his heart transplant with a party and a cake from Christiaan Barnard. Max Conrad, the Flying Grandfather, signals possible end to his pole to pole flight from an Antarctic outpost. David and Julie Eisenhower arrive in Northampton with three Secret Service agents as he begins spring semester at Amherst and she registers at Smith. A Maryknoll nun jailed for $500 fine after chaining herself to doors at Famous Barr in a Christmas protest. Gilbert Miller, 84, Broadway London producer, dies in New York. President Johnson announces Rob ert C Wood as secretary of Housing and Urban Development replacing Robert C Weaver. New York medical examiner cites enough arsenic to kill a mule in Louis Saperstein remains. Dr C Walton Lillehei proposes a donor transplant clearing house in New York City.
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U.S
John Steinbeck Jr
Ellsworth Bunker
Steinbeck
Saigon
Nguyen Thanh Nam
Crystal Eastin
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Ho Chi Minh
Classifieds and publication details for Long Beach paper
The Independent phone numbers HE 5 1161 and HE 2 5959 appear in a page header dated Friday January 3 1969. It lists the paper as Vol 32 No 3 published daily except weekends from Long Beach California with archival registration and court adjudication dates.
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Sixth St
Pine Ave
Long Beach 12
Calif
Long Beach 2
Superior Court
Los Angeles County
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Tay Ninh
Egypt
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National Safety Council
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Missouri
Space Center
Houston
Space Agency
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Moon
North American Rockwell
Downey
Jackson, Miss
Hinds County
FBI
Fred Thomas
John Mowdy
James Hartzog
W. Willard Wirtz
Detroit
Wirtz
General Accounting Office
Congress
Peace Crusaders
Ralph Nader
Transportation
Alan S. Boyd
Nader
National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council
Efren Angell
Elisa Sandoval
Philip Blaiberg
Phil
Chris
Christiaan Barnard
Blaiberg
Cape Town
Eileen
Jill
Max Conrad
British Antarctic
Pole
Conrad
Adelaide Island
Antarctic
Drake
Punta Arenas
Chile
David
Julie Eisenhower
Florida
Northhampton
Mass
Secret Service
Amherst College
Julie
Smith College
Maryknoll
St. Louis
Cecelia Goldman
Barr
Gilbert Miller
Miller
the White House
Helen Hayes
Johnson
Robert C. Wood
Housing and Urban Development
Wood
Robert C. Weaver
Bernard Baruch College
New York City
Louis Saperstein
Saperstein
Orange Memorial Hospital
C. Walton Lillehei
Lillehei
Clark Ave
Lakewood
Lakewood Center
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