Landmark Hotel Fire Forces Evacuation On Two-alarm Blaze
A two alarm fire on the Landmark Hotel 22nd floor forced a two hour evacuation of the 27 story hotel casino Sunday. No injuries. five guests treated for smoke inhalation. Fire contained to room 2203. smoke filled the building with 45 firefighters involved.
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Convention Center Drive
Fred Lewis
Summa Corp
Landmark
Richard N. Drake
Fire Department
George Watts
Clark County Fire Department
Watts
Joe Lobb
Lewis
Garry Hunt
Clark County
Las Vegas
Francis Moore
Brent Singbeil
Vancouver
British Columbia
Summa
Howard Hughes
Humphrey Returns to Washington Amid Cancer Battle
Senator Hubert Humphrey, 66, returns to Washington aboard Air Force One after two months of cancer treatment in Minneapolis. He plans a Senate appearance Tuesday and will stay 10 days to two weeks before returning to Minnesota for further chemotherapy, with President Carter praising his steadfast spirit.
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UPI
Hubert Humphrey
Air Force One
Humphrey
Minneapolis
Capitol
Carter
Midwest
Los Angeles
Senate
Minnesota
Strom Thurmond
Peace Corps
Atlantic City
N.J
Lyndon Johnson
Seven Die in South Side Flophouse Blaze
A fire at the Hotel Toledo on Chicago's South Side killed seven people and injured 12. The blaze started on the first floor and spread rapidly, causing about $35,000 in damage to the transient hotel.
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Chicago
UPS
South Side
Toledo
Hotel Loses 5200 In Heist At Frontiers Change Booth
Metro Police report a bearded neatly dressed youth stole 5200 from a hotel change booth near the main slot area at 6 p.m. The Frontier Hotel later suffered a deadly fire trapping six people in a first floor four-room addition and forcing evacuations for about 30 residents.
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Frontier Hotel
Metro
John McCarten
McCarten
Paper Doll
James T. Durkin
CIA Pressure Blocked Sub Rescue Story in 1975
Washington Post details show CIA chief William Colby used persuasion on media leaders to suppress a report on Project Jennifer, the attempt to raise a sunken Soviet submarine with the Glomar Explorer off Hawaii. The effort spanned Feb 1975 contacts with Lloyd Shearer Katharine Graham Kissinger and others before Jack Anderson exposed the plot.
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Washington
UPI
CIA
William Colby
Washington Post
Henry Kissinger
New York Times
U.S
The
Post
Colby
Harriet Ann Phillipps
Atlanta
Parade Magazine
Lloyd Shearer
Howard Hughes
Hawaii
Shearer
Pacific Ocean
Jennifer
Jack Anderson
Los Angeles Times
William Thomas
L.A. Times
Katharine Graham
FBI Used Interpol to Track Jews Under Nazi Control
Newly released Interpol documents show FBI notices labeling Americans as Jews and Jewish by religion were shared with Interpol and published in the Internationale Kriminalpolizei journal into 1940. The papers suggest Nazi use of Interpol to pursue extermination, with later comments linking Jewish offenders to crime.
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Washington
UPI
FBI
Interpol
International Agency
Internationale Kriminalpolizei
National Commission On Law Enforcement
Church of Scientology
United States
J. Edgar Hoover
Pearl Harbor
Decem
Los Angeles
Europe
Paul Marabuto
Paris
Las Vegas Broker Wins 11th World Chili Championship
Jay Pennington a 45 year old real estate broker from Las Vegas won the 11th annual world championship chili cookoff near Rosamond California with a recipe built on onions peppers celery beef and tomato products. About 35000 spectators watched as 33 champions cooked three gallons each and judges included Evelle Younger Ernest Borgnine and Bobby Unser. Second place went to Joe Burgos of Phoenix and third to Don Goff of Illinois.
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Rosamond, Calif
UPI
Jay Pennington
Las Vegas
Sheriff's Department
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Evelle Younger
Ernest Borgnine
Robert Conrad
Car
Bobby Unser
Joe Burgos
Phoenix
Ariz
Don Goff
Illinois
Pennington
Kiwanis Club
Nevada
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Oeeenes
Thosteson
Editorial
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Eneneene
Otto Pritsch
Archdioces
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Pears
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Binge
Noua
Fremont
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