Pilots Call for Action on Hijackings After Nebraska Flight
Frontier pilots Capt. E.J. Curtis and Capt. Gerald Jones recount a October hijack in Grand Island Nebraska that ended in Atlanta with the hijacker's suicide. They back ground security tightening and a potential pilots strike to pressure protocols. They praise UN censure talks and urge stronger handgun bans in terminals.
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SUN
Nebraska
E.J. Curtis
Frontier Airlines
Grand Island
Neb
Atlanta
Thomas Hannan
Curtis
Gerald Jones
Jones
United Nations
Frontier
Federal Aviation Administration
Hanks Given Life For 1973 Murder
Clinton Lee Hanks, 20, received life with parole possibility for the 1973 rifle slaying of Richard Paul Hegwood, 17, in a desert off Henderson Cutoff. His brother Douglas Hanks, 18, was found guilty in a juvenile proceeding and committed to Nevada youth facilities.
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SUN
Clinton Lee Hanks
Carl Christensen
Hanks
Clark County
Richard Paul Hegwood
Nancy Ave
Douglas Hanks
State Youth Training Center
Elko
California Youth Authority
Stockton
Tamalpais Ave
Heywood
Henderson
Etre
Greenspun Surprises Mormon Will Jurors in Hughes Case
The trial recounts Greenspun memos and doubts about a 1968 Mormon will. Witnesses discuss forgery signs, Hughes’s health and handwriting, and Dummar’s claim of helping a bedraggled man in the desert who later identified as Howard Hughes.
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H.” Etman
Elmar
Hughes
Desert Inn
Las Vegas
Melvin Dummar
Gables
Tonopah
Howard Hughes
Dummar
New York Bid Fails For Las Vegas Bookie License
Nevada Gaming Commission rejects a bid by George Grant and Daniel Kramer to buy the Santa Anita Turf and Sports Book in Las Vegas. Grant faces past ties to New York bookmaker Sol Margolis, while commissioner Swarts opposes the deal citing Margolis’s gambling ring links. Kramer says he helped jail bookmakers in New York and cooperated with federal agents.
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Carson City
UPI
New York
Las Vegas
Nevada Gaming Commission
George Grant
Long Island
Daniel P. Kramer
New York City
Santa Anita
Sammy Cohen
State Gaming Control Board
Commission
Grant
Sol Margolis
Margolis
George Swarts
Nevada
Igolis
Kramer
Harry Reid
Cohen
Swarts
Six Aboard Overdue Boat Found Safe
Six people aboard an overdue sailboat on Lake Mead were found safe in a cove after a night search. The group includes Roberta Sabbath and her two year old son Adam, Don and Sherrill Gould, and their children Billy and Michael. They were reported missing by the boat’s owner Dennis Sabbath, linked to labor lawyer Renny Ashleman. Don Gould is a former national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal leadership program, and the family is on a final cross country trip before moving to Israel. The boat was located with sails down shortly after the first search boat began.
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Lake Mead
Roberta Sabbath
Adam
Don
Sherrill Gould
Billy
Michael
National Park Service
Dennis Sabbath
Sabbath
Renny Ashleman
Culinary Workers Union
Don Gould
United Jewish Appeal
Israel
Park Service
Judge convicts three in Chowchilla kidnapping case
Alameda County Superior Court found Frederick Woods Richard Schoenfeld and James Schoenfeld guilty of injuring three children during the 1976 Chowchilla bus abduction. The trio faces life terms without parole after a 16 hour underground imprisonment that victims survived.
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Oakland
Calif
UPI
Chowchilla
Alameda County
James
San Francisco
Deegan
Judy Effington
Rebecca Reynolds
Jennifer Brown
Ed Ray
Woods
Schoenfelds
Livermore
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Mr. Hanks
Greenspun
TV News
Humphries
Bob
Hank
A.E.C
St. Louis
AEC
Weill
Govt
Lone Vote
Richard Haugner
Ray
Haugner
Lester Gendron
California
Portola Valley
Vancouver
B.C
Schoenfeld
Menlo Park
San Francisco Peninsula
Wall New
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