IRA Gunmen Give Up Free Captive Couple in London Siege
Four IRA gunmen surrendered after releasing Sheila Matthews, 53, and held hostage a British postal inspector and his wife in Dorset Square London for six days. Police portrayed the end of a tense standoff with the attackers who had linked to recent bomb and shooting attacks.
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London
Irish Republican Army
Sheila Matthews
Dorset Square
Yard
Ross
Ireland
Monasterevin
Tiede Herrema
Dublin
Herrema
Holland
Warm Front Ends Cold Snap Across Oklahoma
A northern cold front dropped near freezing in Lawton and snow in parts of Oklahoma Thursday night. A warm front moving northward promises partial warming for Saturday and Sunday as low clouds fog and light drizzle lessen. Temperatures ranged from 33 at Gage to 42 at McAlester with a 38 in downtown Lawton.
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Oklahoma
Lawton
Gage
McAlester
One Of Three Suspects In Knight Slaying Jailed
Philadelphia AP report says Steven Malono 25 surrendered to police after becoming a prime suspect in the stabbing death of John S. Knight III. Camden County investigators later found a body near a Pine Hill lake suspected to be Isias Melendez 20, while Salvatore Soli 38 remained named as the third suspect. Knight, 30, editor at Philadelphia Daily News, was killed in his center city apartment.
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Philadelphia
John S. Knight
New Jersey
Steven Malono
Malono
Camden County
N.J
Delaware River
Isias
Felix’’ Melendez
Pine Hill
Melendez
Salvatore Soli
Knight
The
Philadelphia Daily News
Center City
Christmas Clothing Sewn By Peggy Simons For Needy Kids
Lynn Callison reports Mrs. Peggy Simons sews for Salvation Army Christmas Cheer, giving at least 100 garments annually since 1966. From eight dresses the first year to over a thousand garments by 1968, she remains anonymous to recipients while helping Lawton area families.
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Lawton
Peggy Simons
Fort Sill
Salvation Army
Fugitive Captured In Probe Of Deaths
Gracie Redelk 23, wanted on a Comanche County murder warrant from May 6, 1974, was taken into custody in Kansas on a first degree manslaughter related traffic death case. Extradition proceedings have begun after Sedgwick County authorities arrested her. she has not waived extradition. The incident involved a collision on old U.S. 62 near Lawton that killed an Indiana couple.
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Dennis Lang
Lawton
Kansas
Comanche County
D.A
Steve Lile
Gracie Redelk
Sedgwick County
Lile
Kissinger vows U S effort to curb Marxist move in Angola
Secretary of State Kissinger said the United States will try to prevent a Marxist faction aided by the Kremlin from gaining control in Angola. He declined to specify actions but warned against massive Soviet arms supplies and noted U.S. aid has reached about 50 million dollars, per Sen. Dick Clark. The report cites Tass accusing U.S. interference as Washington favors a settlement free of outside meddling.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
Kremlin
Angola
Henry A. Kissinger
America
Dick Clark
Iowa
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Kissinger
Clark
Tass Today
U.S
Popular Movement For the Liberation of
Turkey
Sari Chaglayang
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Eight Die In Blaze Fire Suspected Arson In San Francisco
Predawn blaze gutted the Gartland Hotel Apartments in the Mission District killing at least eight people and injuring fifteen others. Fire officials say arson is suspected with witnesses reporting gasoline odor and rapid spread. About 200 firefighters battled the flames, with seven bodies recovered from the building and one more at a hospital. Structural damage estimated at 400000 dollars.
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AN Francisco
Keith Calden
Gartland Hotel
Eigth
San Francisco General Hospital
Mission District
Calden
Lawton Farmer Guards Field in Guylines Dispute
Lawton farmer John Austin armed with a shotgun stood guard in his wheat field over a dispute with Public Service Company of Oklahoma about guylines for a new sewerage plant. He says he used a blow torch to sever anchors laid about 50 feet into his property while workers to the east continued on the pole. Deputy Ford observed as the farm family and dog watched from their pickup.
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John Austin
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
New City
Lawton
Guylines
Guylines Public Service Company
Public Service
Public Service Company
Austin
G. W. Ford
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