Downed Jet Search Malfunctions as Guardsmen Die
A Texas International airliner with 11 aboard vanished in a southwest Arkansas storm. Three National Guardsmen were killed when a helicopter assisting the search crashed. Grounded planes and dense fog hindered efforts. bodies recovered and pilots identified.
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EL Dorado, Ark
Texas International
Arkansas
el Dorado
Texarkana
The
Texarkana Gazette
Little Rock
Prescott
Blast at ITT Offices Shakes Manhattan Skyscraper
A blast on the ninth floor of the ITT American Building in Manhattan damaged two doors and ceiling panels with no reports of lost records. Police noted no proven link to explosions in Rome or San Francisco and cited a prior surge of crank calls.
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Manhattan
EW York AP
International Telephone & Telederground
ITT
Rome
ITT Standard S.A
New York
David Kiernan
San Francisco
Madison Avenue
50Th Street
Chile
Salvador Allende
Allende
Weatherman
Students For A Democratic Society
Hall Targets TV Ban on OU Football
Oklahoma Governor David Hall announced a three-pronged effort against the NCAA and Big Eight ban on televising Oklahoma Sooners football in 1974 75. He will file a class action suit, solicit 230000 signatures with the University of Oklahoma Student Association, and seek early talks with the two athletic bodies.
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Oklahoma City
David Hall
NCAA
Big Eight Conference
University of Oklahoma
Los Angeles
Oklahoma Sooners
California
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma Student Association
Big Eight
Hall
Kerry Jackson
Sooners
Texas
Nebraska
Joe Bill Strealy
Student Association
Strealy
Oklahoma University
Miami
Florida
India to loan two million tons of grain from USSR
AP reports Indira Gandhi's government announces the Soviet Union will lend India two million tons of grain amid prior shortages. Other items note U S military bomber redeployments, a Senate vote on federal pay raises, a London bomb blast injuring eight, and Nixon-Gromyko talks on tariff concessions.
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New Delhi
Soviet Union
India
Indira Gandhi
Washington
Senate
Nixon
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
New Course Charted In Quest For Mail Developer
Lawton Urban Renewal Authority aims to restart talks with prospective developers for an early purchase proposal. The plan would give a potential winner time to prepare a definite bid while allowing LURA to negotiate on a land package and parking needs for an 800000 square foot mall and adjacent retail expansion.
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Skip Gibson
Lawton Urban Renewal Authority
Don Whitaker
Lura
Mark Real Estate Enterprises, Inc
C Avenue
Second Street
Readings To Stay On Cool Side
Unsettled Southwest Oklahoma forecast with fair to partly cloudy skies and cool temperatures through Saturday. Daytime highs near 70 today, overnight low around 50, and Saturday high in the mid 70s. Record shows a high of 68 and a low of 50 on Thursday.
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Oklahoma
Poor City Street Drainage Traced to Past Apathy Officials Say
City officials blame history of neglect for Venice like streets after rain. Assistant city engineer Joe Scheller cites paving and expanded streets as overwhelming natural drainage. Police log seven accidents within 2.5 hours after a downpour as curbs flood and lanes narrow. Officials plan a multi million correction, with a 15 million rough tab. Crews begin storm sewer work downtown and drainage upgrades on Squaw Creek.
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Mick Taylor
Lawton
Venice
Joe Scheller
Jerry Butler
Police Department Uniform Division
M. D. Woodall
Oklahoma Highway Department
Woodall
Cache Road
Lee Boulevard
Squaw Creek
SEATO Council Opens 18th Meeting on Defense Overhaul
The SEATO Council of Ministers begins its 18th session with plans to discuss phasing out military planning in favor of a low key alliance focused on social and economic ties. Philippines Australia and New Zealand call the pact obsolete and arcane. The session is closed to newsmen and no public statements were issued.
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New York
Seato Council of Ministers
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Kenneth Rush
Philippines
Australia
New Zealand
SEATO
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Arab gunmen seize hostages in Austria
Two Arabs armed with submachine guns and grenades seized a train with 37 Soviet Jews at the Austrian border and drove to Vienna Airport. They took three Jews and an Austrian customs official hostage and demanded a plane to an unnamed Arab country in exchange for releasing the Austrian. A police account said a man was killed and two injured during the train seizure, while another police report disputed that death.
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Vienna
Suspects seize train near Vienna to target Jewish travelers
Susie killed and one injured as Arab attackers seized a state railway car near an airport in Vienna. Hostages included a woman and child of unknown nationality who escaped amid confusion. The train, from the Soviet Union, was bound for Vienna with plans to move Jews to a Schoena processing center for emigration to Israel. The assault disrupted Rosh Hashana holiday as officials debated whether to release further details.
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Soviet Union
Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Vienna
Schoena
Israel
Agnew Attorneys Close In On Blockade Bid
Lawyers for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew worked on a motion for a temporary injunction to block further evidence in the grand jury probe into his ties. Agnew left Washington for Palm Springs with his family as the panel heard witnesses in Baltimore.
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Federal Grand Jury
Baltimore
United States
Agnew
Judah Best
Carl Albert
House of Representatives
Albert
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