Copter crash kills ex-pilot of spy plane
Ex U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and cameraman George Spears die when KNBC helicopter crashes into a Santa Barbara baseball field. Authorities say Powers may have run out of fuel and nosed into the ground to avoid hitting boys at play. tape of the incident was blank.
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Ruegsegger
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FAA
George Spears
Bell
Santa Barbara
Soviet Union
CIA
Lecompton council clash over emergency pipeline move
Lecompton council sparred over the water treatment pipeline installed after an emergency declaration by Mayor C C Mathews. Members questioned legal authority and funding while Mathews offered to cover costs. Budget details included a mill levy reduction and added sewer revenue. dog control and sewer completion dates were also discussed.
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Mathews
Bill Shores
Bob Woods
Woods
Bell urged to prove Nixon Teamsters pay-off link
Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell faces calls to confirm Time magazine allegations that former President Nixon received a Teamsters payoff to block Hoffa from returning to union office. Teamsters president Fitzsimmons denies any payment and questions the source of the claim. Nixon had commuted Hoffa’s sentence and barred Hoffa from union activity until 1980.
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Washington
Griffin Bell
Richard M. Nixon
Teamsters
Jimmy Hoffa
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Time Magazine
Bell
Fitzsimmons
Nixon
Hoffa
Justice Department
Mislabelled gas pipes linked to patient deaths at hospital
In Norristown Pennsylvania investigators probe a six month mislabeling of oxygen and nitrous oxide lines at Suburban General Hospital. Officials say up to 35 deaths could be connected though hospital staff dispute that high figure. State health officials dispatch a team to verify and correct the gas system.
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Norristown
Suburban General Hospital
Philadelphia
Richard B. Anderson
Pennsylvania Health Department
William K. Myrtetus
Myrtetus
Anderson
State Health Departments
Cambodian Raid on Thai Villages Escalates Border Tensions
Cambodian troops reportedly crossed into Thailand, attacking Chalor Changan and Sangae villages. At least 28 civilians and 12 Thais were injured, with homes burned and casualties among women and children. Cambodian force sizes estimated around 350, later retreating toward Cambodia. Thai air assets supported operations.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Cambodia
Chalor Changan
Sangae
Mother of sixth Son of Sam victim pleads for end to rampage
Stacy Moskowitz’s mother asks the killer known as Son of Sam to stop the killings. Moskowitz died after a gunman shot her and Robert Violante in Brooklyn. The shooting marks the sixth fatality in the serial spree. Police intensify the hunt and ATF seeks Bulldog .44 caliber pistols linked to the case.
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New York
Stacy Moskowitz
Sam
Brooklyn
Nyesa Moskowitz
Robert Violante
Miss Moskowitz
John Keenan
Treasury Department
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Son of Sam
Kings County Hospital
William Shuchart
Bell ruling tightens Hyde Amendment Limiting Abortion Funds
The House faces a renewed abortion debate after Atty. Gen. Bell issued an opinion that tightens the Hyde Amendment to bar federally funded abortions even in rape or incest cases. Supporters see slim chances to add liberal provisions as House rules allow Rep. Flood to push his version first. Senate language would allow funding in rape incest and medical-necessity cases, but the House could keep current restrictions.
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House
Bell
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Supreme Court
Senate
Daniel Flood
D-Penn
Flood
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