Modern Hired Gun Los Angeles Mercenary Scout
A Mexican-American mercenary named Rangel details his seven years of work across the Middle East and Africa, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia, teaching warfare and taking dangerous jobs for pay. He speaks of hate, battles, and a life driven by fighting to feel alive, despite personal losses and shattered stability.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Gel
Rangel
Wyoming
Jordan
el Fatah
Israel
Sinai
Vietnam
Former Greek dictators get long prison terms for 1973 revolt
A Greek special appeals court jailed former dictator George Papadopoulos for 25 years and Dimitrios Ioannides for life for crushing the 1973 student revolt. Other ex-officials received between five months and life. 12 defendants were acquitted.
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Athens
Greece
API
George Papadopoulos
Dimitrios Ioannides
Papadopoulos
Ioannides
Beirut in Flames as Gunmen Clash in Main Squares
In Beirut, Christian and Moslem gunmen fought in central squares driving residents from the streets. At least six killed nationwide as the cabinet fails to agree on a peace plan amid eight months of civil war. Police report deaths near Naame and three in Beirut along with a car bomb in a southwestern suburb.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
American University
Naame
Ford returns to work after New York bombing
President Ford flies from Vail to Washington to address January priorities while evaluating the LaGuardia Airport bombing aftermath. He plans meetings with top officials, outlines a restrained 1977 budget, and prepares a State of the Union message amid discussions of veto risks and a looming New Hampshire primary.
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Vail
Colo
UPI
Ford
Washington
New York
LaGuardia
Ron Nelsen
Transportation
William Coleman
John McLucas
Federal Aviation Administration
Harold Tyler
FBI
Oval Office
Humphrey settles 4 percent debt payments for 1972 campaign
David Gartner reports Humphrey cleared debts owed by 18 creditors from his 1972 bid with a 4 percent settlement funded by a campaign committee. The largest $66,500 claim from Irving J. Kahn’s estate awaits court approval. Other creditors include Joseph Cole, Meshulam Riklis, S. Harrison Dogole, and Walter Shorenstein receiving reduced sums.
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David Gartner
Eeead
Humphrey
Gartner
White House
Irving J. Kahn
San
Joseph E. Cole
Cleveland
Ohio
Meshulam Riklis
New York
S. Harrison Dogole
Philadelphia
Walter Shorenstein
San Francisco
British Surgeon Tortured in Chile House of Torture Claims
Dr. Sheila Cassidy, a British surgeon bound for the priesthood, says Chilean police stripped and tortured her with electric shocks during captivity after tending a wounded man accused of guerrilla leadership. She describes beatings, near-hypnotic attempts, and removal of clothes before her release.
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Chile
London
UPI
Sheila Cassidy
South America
United Nations Human Rights Commission
Cassidy
Rio de Janeiro
Lhe
County Employe Killed
Investigators feared the shooting may be linked to a new amateurish gang of armed robbers in the Las Vegas area. They tied the gang to a Dec. 14 residential holdup on Olive Street where Balzar Lowenstein 58 his wife and teenage daughter were terrorized, tied with tape and left on the floor as bandits fled. Rhonda Royal 20, the slain man’s girlfriend, heard the shotgun blast and the fall but did not see the slaying.
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Las Vegas
Hey
Balzar Lowens
Olive Street
Lowenstein
Downer
Rhonda Royal
PLO Denies Involvement in LaGuardia Bombing
The Palestine Liberation Organization denounces the LaGuardia Airport blast in New York and states it has no connection with the attack. A PLO spokesman says the incident was an attempt to embarrass the group before the U.N. Security Council Middle East debate on January 12.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Palestine Liberation Organization
New York
LaGuardia Airport
PLO
U.N. Security Council
Palestine Liberation Deletion
la Guardia
United Nations
Security Council
List of bombing victims at La Guardia Airport released
UPI reports a complete list of the dead from Monday night's La Guardia bombing. Names include Edythe Bull 72 Ronald Presslaff 32 Frank Musicaro 48 Bynum Patterson 37 Donald Kochersperger 57 Othlyn Elaine Little 25 Ollie Mae Cockerm 38 Marjorie Rice 70 Enoch L Stamey 38 Lawrence Nicholson 31 with addresses in New York Connecticut and New Jersey.
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New York
UPI
la Guardia
Frank Musicaro
New Jersey Ave
Bayshore
N.Y
Bynum Patterson
Sunset Road
Stamford
Conn
Donald Kochersperger
Byram Shore Rd
Greenwich
Edgar Cooper
Pondfield Rd
Bronxville
Othlyn Elaine Little
Central Ave
Yonkers
Ollie Mae Cockerm
Redfern
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Hughes
Col. Steiner
Central Africa
Ethiopia
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Supreme Court
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Nikolaos
Dertil
Athens Technical University
Varnavas
Ministry of Public Order
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Desert
San Diego
Raii
Pier
Linda Olier
Upifoto
Congress
Pentagon
Labor
John T. Dunlop
Dunlop
Ronald Reagan
New Hampshire
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reagan
Ted Rowlands
British Foreign Office
Dr. Cassidy
Britain
Reginald Seconde
Rowlands
Edythe Bull
Sherwood Forest
Brevard, N.C
Ronald Presslaff
Shore Road
Long Beach
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