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Week's News In Review
Military coup in Greece ousts President Papadopoulous and installs a general. Arab hijackers release 11 hostages after 68 hours aboard a Dutch jet. they are detained in Dubai. Japan endures its worst department store fire with 99 dead and 86 wounded as search resumes. President Nixon delivers national energy crisis address urging voluntary gasoline cuts and oil rationing. Rose Mary Woods testifies she erased 18 minutes of a Watergate tape. Senate confirms Gerald Ford as vice president 92 to 3. Lubbock residents back Nixon energy plan. Briscoe proposes 60 day energy saving program. Court orders 25 percent water rate increase for Lubbock, halves Amarillo rate. appeal expected. Crimson Tide loses ranking. Gary Matthews named NL Rookie of the Year. Laurence Harvey dies of cancer at 45. Joseph Verner Rees dies at 74. Charles Evan Whittaker dies at 72. Albert DeSalve found stabbed in prison.