Khmer Rouge Attack Cuts Phnom Penh Route to Seaport
Khmer Rouge insurgents shelled a Mekong convoy and attacked near Phnom Penh closing Highway 4 to Kompong Som, the city’s seaport. The assault followed a recent reopening of the highway after a three week closure with 150 to 200 trucks resuming deliveries.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Khmer Rouge
Mekong
Assee
Kompong Som
Trapeang Krabeung
South Vietnam
Am Rong
Chak Angre
OU Group Predicts Coal To Top Other State Fuels
Oklahoma researchers forecast coal becoming the leading energy source by 1979 as shortages of natural gas gasoline and electricity persist. The report notes coal use by electric plants and coal gasification plans could lift demand by 1990 with industry and transportation remaining major fuel sectors.
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OU Group
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Neil Dikeman
Bureau
Dikeman
Dale Waymire
Israel Doubles Immigrant Quota
Israel accelerates Soviet immigration by about tenfold with 1,000 immigrants flown in over four days to observe the Jewish high holidays. Immigrants ferried from Vienna transit camp, part of a typical 100 daily rate.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Radio Israel
Vienna
Austria
Parole Recommended for Two City Death Inmates
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended parole Monday for Gerald Cameron a former Fort Sill lieutenant sentenced to life for the 1964 stabbing death of James Anthony Gibbs and for Ronald G Lockwood serving life for the 1961 murder of a Lawton golf professional.
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Gerald Cameron
Fort Sill
Ronald G. Lockwood
Lawton
Cameron
James Anthony Gibbs
James M. Gibbs
Gibbs
State ‘Pardon and Parole Board
Parole Board Delays Hinder Psychological Report for Lifelong Convict
Funny Business failed on his sixth parole attempt in 15 months as board members sought a psychological report unavailable for months. He drew praise from prison officials for 17 hour days after July riots to weld cell doors and return inmates to cells. Lockwood is serving life for the 1961 murder of Lawton resident Jimmy Lanman. Leon Doggett was executed in 1962. He began serving April 18, 1961 for the same year’s murder.
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Lockwood
Pris
Comanche County
Lawton
Leon Doggett
Jimmy Lanman
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Shell
Tonle Sap
Thmat Pong
Kodia
Battambang
Quang Ngai
Binh Dinh
Mekong Dela
Kontum City
Central Highlands
Saigon
Hue
Friedrich
Friedrich Room
Board
By Roger Bollen
Pero Eatelarol Bank
D. Cache RD
Sheridan Mall
Levi
Chambray
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