Sniper in Arkansas tower shoots self as police close in
Arkansas sniper Hunter D. Shirley, 26, a former Air Force captain, surrendered after shooting himself in the stomach inside a railroad drawbridge tower. Police used teargas and spotlights to reach him, then lowered him to the ground and rushed him to the University of Arkansas Medical Center where he was reported in decent condition.
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Little Rock, Ark
UPI
Gale Weeks
Weeks
Air Force
Hunter D. Shirley
University of Arkansas Medical Center
Police Department
Robert
Bo” Marshall
Playboy under probe by federal drug investigators
Federal grand jury probes alleged illicit drug use at Hefner Hefner owned Playboy mansions in Chicago and Beverly Hills. Subpoenas issued to at least 10 current and former Playboy employees. Hefner named a prime target though not subpoenaed. Investigators pursue cocaine barbiturates and marijuana use and concealment.
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Chicago
UPI
Playboy Enterprises
Playboy
Hugh Hefner
Hefner
Beverly Hills
Calif
The
Chicago Tribune
Cheap energy era ends advisers say
The Committee for Economic Development says the era of cheap energy has ended and calls for restructuring U S energy policy to emphasize conservation at slightly higher prices. It urges expanded fuel supply, new processes, and technology, with limited foreign oil imports to ten percent of consumption and short term gasoline rationing.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Committee For Economic Development
U.S
CED
San Jose sextuplets born one dies five survive
A California mother gave birth to sextuplets three months early. The sixth baby died within four hours. the remaining five, weighing two to 2 1/2 pounds each, were in fair condition on respirators. Doctors warned the week would be critical due to hyaline membrane disease.
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San Jose
Calif
UPI
Charlotte Lange
Carl Heintze
James Harrow
Newborn Services
Greeks vote to abolish monarchy and form republic
Thousands of Greeks celebrated in Constitution Square after a 68.8 to 31.2 percent referendum margin in favor of a republic. With 92 percent counted, 2,899,282 voted for the republic and 1,318,827 for monarchy, paving way for a new constitution and presidential elections. Constantine, in exile near London, was told the results as Greece moves to end a 142 year monarchy.
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Athens
UPI
Constitution Square
Greece
Constantine
London
Nicos Georgopoulos
Otto
Bavaria
Constantine Caramantis
Private 1937 US Government Art Prints Found For Public Sale
Rediscovered 1937 vintage art prints once stored in a Brooklyn warehouse. Auctioned as full color 11x14 reproductions valued at 7.00 each, offered to the public at 19.95 for 18 prints. Certificates of authenticity provided. payments via cash check money order and card accepted.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
National Committee For Art Appreciation
Matisse
van Gogh
Rubens
Picasso
Gauguin
Titian
Brooklyn
BankAmericard UK
U.S
Ventura BI
Tarzana
Miners and construction workers in labor standoff
Picket lines delay return to work for 6 000 construction workers. UMW members in Cambria Indiana and Armstrong counties pause operations as talks stall on a new contract. Pearl Harbor memorial notes 1941 attack with Air National Guard defense plans. The piece covers union leadership efforts to halt unauthorized picketing and ongoing contract disputes across multiple states.
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United Press International
United Mine Workers Union
Cambria
Indiana
Armstrong
Pennsylvania
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
UPI
Japan
Air National Guard
Maj
Eddie Anderson
Guard
United States
Pearl
Arthur Ishimoto
Ishimoto
National Guard
Navy
Army
Marines
Pacific
Tom O’brochta
UMW
Greene County
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Association of
Bituminous Contractors
Arnold Miller
Washington
District 4
John DiBiase
Uniontown
Miller
Western Kentucky
Ernest Moore
Moore
Illinois
Wyoming
Arizona
Kentucky
West Virginia
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Western Association of Independent Camps
Los Angeles City Schools Area Conference
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Boeing Employes Good Neighbor Fund
Non-Commissioned Officers’ Association
Mike Palmer
Bernice
Bernie) Frisby
Boeing Good Neighbor Fund
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Gregory and McPeek Mortuary
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Neil Gregory Frosty McPeek
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Stevan Dohanos
Stamps
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Bradbury Thompson
Metropolitan Museum
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Mission Federal
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Lompoc
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