Commando Force Returns After Mogadishu Rescue Raid
West German commandos freed 86 hostages on an Entebbe style raid in Mogadishu Somalia. Hijackers failed to detonate explosives as passengers escaped safely and eight hostages plus one commando were lightly injured. Three terrorists on the list committed suicide in their cells.
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Bonn
West Germany
Triumph
East Africa
Lufthansa
Mogadishu
Somalia
Senger
Radio
Andreas Baader
Gudrun Ensslin
Jan-Carl Raspe
Irmgard Moeller
Baader
Raspe
Miss Ensslin
September Pace Lifts U S Wages and Payrolls
U S personal income rose eight tenths of a percent in September with wages and salaries increasing by 7.4 billion as coal strikes ended and manufacturing payrolls grew. Service and distributive sectors also added payrolls, while government payrolls increased 1.5 billion.
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Washington
Commerce Rtment
Fair Skies Ahead For Several Days With Warm Days
Daily forecast calls for fair skies and dry weather through Wednesday with highs in the low 80s and nights in the 40s. Monday posting shows a high of 98.6 and overnight low 51. From Thursday to Saturday expect highs mostly in the 70s and lows around 40s.
Instapoll backs keeping federal workers pension plan
Respondents favored the current federal employee pension over Social Security. Twenty four callers or 69 percent voted no on shifting the workforce to Social Security, maintaining their own lucrative pension option.
Public phone poll on Social Security eligibility question
Ten of the participants vote yes and one had no opinion. The poll asks if benefits should target only the elderly to preserve solvency. Seventeen callers say yes and 13 say no, with 2 offering no opinion.
Army to transfer US units to Europe for early war readiness
Army Chief Gen. Bernard Rogers announces moving equipment and manpower from United States units to Western Europe to bolster defenses against a rapid Soviet assault. He notes sacrifices in continental readiness but aims to blunt a first 30 day attack as NATO planners face shorter warning times.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Bernard W. Rogers
Army
Rogers
Association of the United States Army
North German
Pentagon
Congress
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Mangoma Witch Doctor of Venda Shares Tribal Craft
Rae Graham, an English-born councilor in Johannesburg, lives among the Venda for study and practice as a Mangoma or witch doctor. She claims white Mangomas can tell past present and future by breathing on animal bones and warns whites cannot become Sangomas.
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Channesburg
Johannesburg
Rae Graham
Graham
Rae
Mashuda
Republic
Life term for dress shop robbery in Lawton case
District Judge Jack Brock sentenced Alicia Smith, 19, of Lawton to life in prison for her role in the March 5 Grace's Dress Shop robbery. A co defendant Anita Prince, 26, failed to appear and a warrant issued. Victim Mrs. W. A. Stephens was sprayed with mace and cut during the struggle at 1705 NW Sheridan.
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Jack Brock
Alicia Smith
Lawton
Anita Faye Prince
Grace
Sheridan
W. A. Stephens
Mace
Mrs. Stephens
Strug
Lawton Teachers Face Oklahoma Education Association Meeting
Lawton Public Schools close Thursday and Friday for the Oklahoma Education Association convention in Oklahoma City. Most teachers belong to the OEA and may attend or stay to catch up in their buildings.
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Lawton Public
Oklahoma Education Association
Oklahoma City
Lawton
OEA
Dick Neptune
Board of Education
Neptune
DEA
Donna Cobb
Moore
Fort Sill
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Ers
Weldon Davis
Tulsa
Tax Revisions Too Involved, President Told
Washington AP A key congressman says President Carter’s proposed tax revisions try to do too much at once. Rep. Al Ullman backs slowing the plan, dropping capital gains breaks and trimming deductions, and restructuring rates to spur long term investment. He warns Congress cannot digest all major reforms in one year.
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Carter
al Ullman
D-Orp
Congress
Ullman
House
Ways and Means
Treasury Department
Easement Vote Planned for Goodyear Tire Plant Sewer Line
Lawton City Council schedules a 11:30 a.m. session to approve a final easement on Goodyear property for a 12 inch sewer line to the new tire plant on Lee Boulevard. The project awaits easement closure plus condemnation items totaling about 31 561 dollars. The Goodyear plant aims to begin mid 1978 with 1400 workers and nationwide tire production.
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Lawton
Goodyear Tire
Lee Boulevard
Goodyear
Goodyear Boulevard
Amis Construction Co
Oklahoma City
Great Plains
Vo-Tech Center
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