Bourassa offers final deal to free FLQ prisoners in Montreal
Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa proposes to release five prisoners in exchange for two officials held by FLQ. Troops guard Montreal public buildings as the crisis escalates. The offer sets a 3 pm deadline, while FLQ negotiator Robert Lemieux calls it a mockery and James Cross and Pierre LaPorte remain missing.
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Montreal
UPI
Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Bourassa
FLQ
Robert Lemieux
Lemieux
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Soviet Union
James BR. Cross
Pierre LaPorte
Thousands Jeer UAW Leaders at Long Beach Meeting
About 12,000 Local 148 workers at the Long Beach McDonnell Douglas plant packed Lakewood union headquarters and outside areas for a three hour rally opposing any financial support or dues increases for the nationwide GM strike. The vote, after 10 p.m., denied support to GM strikers by 228 to 17, reflecting a split with Detroit and the upcoming convention.
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Lakewood
UAW
General Motors
United Auto Workers
Long Beach
McDonnell Douglas
Walk Against Hunger Sponsors Funds From Local and National Groups
The Oct 24 Long Beach Lakewood Walk Against Hunger is sponsored by the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation, a private nonprofit started in 1961. Students collect pledges for miles walked, with 42.5 percent to Carmelites Food Co op and $2.4 million to a children’s hospital in Santo Domingo, the rest to the national foundation for research and education. Volunteers with radios are needed to monitor the event.
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Long Beach
Lakewood
Mike Johnson
Carmelites Food Co-op
Children's Hospital
Santo Domingo
National Foundation For Research
Reds Rally to Free Angela Davis in New York
Gus Hall of the Communist Party called for a national movement to free Angela Davis, labeling California murder-kidnap charges against her a fraud. Davis, 26, held without bail in New York awaiting extradition to California, where she faces charges linked to a San Rafael courthouse shootout that killed a judge and three others. hall urged Rockefeller to refuse Reagan's extradition request and help fund her defense chaired by party attorney John Abt.
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New York
Ronald Reagan
California
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Reagan
Communist Party
Angela Davis
Hall
Miss Davis
University of California At
Los Angeles
John Abt
Abt
Turkeys Jail Dad and Son After Soviet Plane Hijack
Lithuanian truck driver Brazinskas Korejevo and his son Algerdas Korejevo hijacked a Soviet Aeroflot AN24 in Russia, killing a stewardess and wounding three others. They landed at Trabzon Turkey after arming themselves with rifles pistols and grenades. Forty six passengers and five crew were aboard. Both suspects were arrested. Turkish authorities plan homicide and weapon charges.
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Istanbul
UPI
Aerotral
Turkey
Russia
Trabzon
Black Sea
Brazinskas Korejevo
Algerdas
Uzbekistan
Korejevo
Politi
Nixon Signs Tough New Crime Law Amid Tight Security
President Nixon signed a sweeping anticrime bill praised as a tool against organized crime and terrorism. The ceremony at the Justice Department occurred with heavy Secret Service presence and restricted access. The measure imposes the death penalty for fatal bombings, expands FBI and federal prosecutorial powers, and adds sentences up to 25 years for dangerous offenders while targeting money from crime and conspiracies to evade state laws.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Justice Department
Precedent Setting Harbor Case Fines Ship for Oil Spill
A Liberian freighter, the SS Bournemouth, was found guilty of spilling oil in Long Beach Harbor. It was fined 7,902 and ordered to cover cleanup costs and court expenses. Judge Warren A Ferguson ruled the spill caused by negligence as the ship was seized and later released after surety posting.
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Long Beach Harbor
Warren A Ferguson
Ferguson
Bearded security lax found in capital buildings
A report notes lax security in capital buildings as a bearded box-toting visitor highlights gaps in surveillance and access controls. The item underscores vulnerabilities in public facilities and prompts calls for tighter measures and inspections.
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Atty
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Adeyev
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Bournemouth Shipping Co
Monrovia
Liberia
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Walter Putman
United States Marshals
Agnew
Tamphrey “Teneant
My Lai
Mram
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Zumsgatt
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