Braniff Bid For Las Vegas Dallas Nonstop Service Recommended
An administrative law judge for the Civil Aeronautics Board recommends Braniff Airlines receive non stop service between Las Vegas and Dallas Fort Worth. The CAB will review before final decision. American Continental and Texas International also sought the route. Senator Cannon praised competition benefits for Nevada tourism though did not pick a winner.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Braniff Airlines
Las Vegas
Dallas-Fort Worth
American
Continental
Texas International Airlines
Howard Cannon
D-Nev
Senate Aviation Subcommittee
Cannon
Delta Airlines
Nevada
FBI probes alleged wiretaps at Colorado defense complex
Denver Post reports FBI is investigating possible illegal wiretaps by the US Air Force to monitor 48 defense contractor employees after a drug probe led to security clearances being revoked. Mountain Bell and the Air Force deny taps. a private sweep found evidence of tapping, none were court authorized.
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UPI
Mountain Bell Telephone
US Air Force
FBI
Colorado
Denver Post
The
Post
Mountain Bell
Air Force
Parents press Congress to push Bolivia talks for detainees
Parents with children jailed in Bolivia appealed to Congress to send a high level diplomatic team to secure their release. If talks fail, they urged halting U.S. aid to Bolivia. Relatives told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing they fear Bolivian legal procedures and criticize U.S. diplomacy.
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Washington
UPI
Bolivia
Congress
U.S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Edwards denies knowledge of five thousand dollar check
Governor Edwin Edwards rejected any connection to a five thousand dollar check cashed at a Crowley bank by Korean businessman Tongsun Park. He said he does not know about the check or funds and accused media of discrediting him while noting many checks are cashed at the bank. In Santiago, Chile the government said a Cuban diplomat arrived from Paris and was granted political asylum. Leonardo Riera Hernandez his wife and daughter arrived by Air France asserting humanitarian asylum.
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UPI
Edwin Edwards
Tongsun Park
Edwards
New Orleans
First National Bnk
Crowley Bank
Santiago
Chile
Paris
Leonardo Riera Hernandez
Air France
Relieved mother hears son aboard yacht safe after sea attack
Eugenia Affel confirms her son Charles Affel and two other crew members survived a South China Sea gunboat assault. The family, aided by a ham radio operator, expresses relief and concern over the harrowing incident.
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Philadelphia
UPS
South China Sea
Eugenia Affel
Charles Affel
Las Vegas Invites Concorde Exhibit At McCarran
Chuck Ruthe of the Greater Las Vegas Chamber invites Air France and British Airways to exhibit the Concorde SST at McCarran International Airport. County officials have not taken a position. Experts question practicality due to supersonic limits over the U.S. and high fuel use. Ruthe proposes SST flights to Las Vegas with LA travelers ending their trip in southern Nevada.
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Chuck Ruthe
Greater Las Vegas
Chamber of Commerce
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Nevada
Metro Air 2 Grounded After Crash
Metro Air 2 Grounded After Crash near Frontier Hotel. Officers Steven Foster and John Dunlap were not injured. Hughes 500 helicopter lost power and electrical systems, forced rapid landing to avoid power lines. extensive damage and out of service for some time.
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Air 2
Frontier
Steven Foster
John Dunlap
Special Operations Bureau
Metro
Man Shot After Argument in Las Vegas Lounge Parking
A 20 year old North Las Vegas man was shot in the neck in the parking lot of the Moby Grape Lounge at Tropicana Avenue and Maryland Parkway after an argument. John Lucero from 9421 Webb Street was taken to Sunrise Hospital in satisfactory condition. Allen Earl Brown, 43, of 1081 Lulu Street was arrested on charges of attempted homicide. The weapon was a small caliber pistol.
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Las Vegas
Metro
John Lucero
Webb St
Moby Grape
Tropicana Avenue
Maryland Parkway
Sunrise Hospital
Allen Earl Brown
Lulu St
Arson damages Las Vegas apartment. a suspect is arrested
A fire at 1485 E Sombrero Drive Apt 1 in Las Vegas caused 20000 in damages. Clark County Fire Department reported five fire trucks and 15 firefighters quickly contained the blaze. John Robert Didier 46 of 93 E Reno Ave Las Vegas was arrested for first degree arson and DUI. Carol Grey was not at home during the fire.
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Clark County Fire Department
Carol Grey
E. Sombrero Drive
Apt. 1
Michael
Clark County
Metro
John Robert Didier
Reno Ave
Grey
Reynolds
Justice Mowbray Hospitalized in Sunrise Medical Care
Nevada Supreme Court Justice John Mowbray is treated for tonsillitis at Sunrise Hospital after entering on October 9. He is in satisfactory condition and the second justice hospitalized recently, following Justice Gordon Thompson’s open heart surgery in a Sacramento hospital with weeks of recovery ahead.
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Nevada
Supreme Court
John Mowbray
Sunrise Hospital
Mowbray
Gordon Thompson
Sacramento
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