Police halt mob of Protestant youths at Belfast station
In East Belfast police fired two shots into a Willowfield station ceiling to disperse about 80 youths from the Protestant Tartan Gang. The attack followed the arrest of an Ulster Defense Association inner council member, with bottles and stones used against officers and two hijacked buses blocking roads. A car bomb near the SDLP offices caused shattered windows but no casualties.
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Willowfield
Belfast
Social Democratic and Labor Party
SDLP
Northern Ireland
Nationwide school strikes loom as openings near
The nation faces potential widespread disruptions with Philadelphia facing a prolonged summer for 285 000 public school students amid a teachers union strike while eight western Pennsylvania districts see action and Rhode Island districts plan strike votes. In New York City teachers threaten action if a complete offer is not presented within 24 hours.
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Rhode Island
New York City
Board of Education
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UFT
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Lesser
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Carpentersville
Rockford
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
PFT
Newport
Providence
New York
Albert Shanker
Cab Driver Used as Go-Between in Bomb Threat
FBI disclosed that a San Diego taxicab driver acted as an intermediary in a weekend bomb threat against Delta Air Lines. He was forced at gunpoint to call Delta demanding 100000 dollars or two planes would be bombed. The suspects, armed, fled and were not heard from again, raising speculation the extortion may have been a hoax.
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San Diego
UPI
Delta Air Lines
FBI
San Diego International
Lindbergh Field
Delta
South Vietnamese recapture Quan Loi airfield
About 8000 South Vietnamese troops recaptured Quan Loi airfield 60 miles north of Saigon after three days of heavy fighting. They also retook Phu Mieng and positions near Artillery Base Ross and advanced toward An Loc as casualties for the day reached 7 government dead and 30 wounded while 46 North Vietnamese were killed. Typhoon Elsie lingered offshore, hampering air support.
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Quan Loi
Phu Mieng
Ross
Que Son
18Th Infantry Division
An Loc
Pleiku
U.S
Elsie
Quang Tri City
California Denver Zephyr jumps tracks in Nebraska derailment
The Amtrak California Denover Zephyr with 224 passengers derailed in southern Nebraska after striking a broken track. About 12 hours after a late departure from Chicago, 16 cars jackknifed off the rails near Hastings. 30 treated at Hastings Hospital. three sustained injuries.
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UPI
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West Coast
Nebraska
Amtrak
Chicago
Escae
Burlington-Northern Railroad
California
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Fred Wilson
Fort Wayne
Ind
Mary Lanning
Marian Ryan
Denver
Agnew Receives Warm Reception at Southern Governors Meet
Vice President Spiro Agnew, praised by mostly Democratic governors at Hilton Head, addressed the Dixie and border state chiefs amid McGovern’s bleak outlook. Maryland’s Mandel conceded no chance to carry the 17-state bloc, while South Carolina’s West predicted a very warm reception for Agnew. Alabama’s George Wallace arrived en route to the conference.
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UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
George McGovern
Agnew
Dixie
Border State
McGovern
United Press International
John West
South Carolina
Prisoners Remain in Cells After Nevada State Prison Protest
Warden Carl Hocker keeps about 300 inmates locked in their cells at Nevada State Prison after a weekend protest and firebombing. Two convicts are in solitary, others fed sandwiches as the warden demands inmates first restore normalcy and offer conciliatory moves. The inmate council says most want release, but fear being first. A nonviolent boycott occurred in sympathy with 28 inmates in maximum security cellblock who filed complaints to Gov. O Connaghan.
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Nev
UPI
Carl Hocker
Nevada State Prison
Hocker
Elvis to perform in first world satellite concert
Elvis Presley announces a 60 minute satellite concert beamed to audiences in about 50 countries including Australia Japan Korea New Zealand and Thailand with a Eurovision simulcast in 28 European nations. NBC will air the show in the United States later. The Honolulu venue will originate the program and negotiations aim to reach the Soviet Union and China.
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UPI
Elvis Presley
Russia
China
Presley
Las Vegas Hilton
Australia
Japan
Korea
New Zealand
The
Phillipines
Thailand
Soviet Union
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United States
Freeway takeoff and beach landing crown Labor Day aviation scare
Three small planes made emergency landings in Los Angeles area on Labor Day. David R. Summers, 31, Perris, landed on the Santa Monica Freeway after fuel run low and later took off with CHP approval to Santa Monica Airport. Two others landed in a housing project clearing near Compton Airport injuring two men, while Douglas E. Getting of Canoga Park safely landed a plane on Malibu Beach after engine trouble.
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UPI
David R. Summers
Perris
Santa Monica Freeway
Summers
California Highway Patrol
Federal Aviation Administration
Santa Monica
FAA
Compton
Las Campana Hospital
Malibu
Douglas E. Getting
Canoga Park
Getting
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