Radio helicopter crashes into Quincy building killing two
A traffic helicopter from station WEE slammed through the roof of a two story red brick building in Quincy killing two people and injuring four others. The helicopter occupants were reporter Chip Whitmore and pilot Red Banks. Remaining victims include Julia Verga 62 Ronald Michelson 28 Lynn Michelson 26 and a 10 week old baby. The bodies burned beyond recognition were found near the wreckage. The four injured were taken to hospitals with conditions not yet known.
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Quincy
Mass
Chip Whitmore
WEE
Red Banks
Julia Verga
Ronald Michelson
Lynn
Egypt Israel divided over Palestinian future
The Ismailia summit left Sadat and Begin divided over Palestinian Arabs in West Bank and Gaza. Sadat urged an independent Palestinian state with full Israeli withdrawal, while Begin pressed for limited self-rule and continued Israeli military presence. Oslo? No. Cairo conference upgraded to ministerial level with committees to negotiate.
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Anwar Sadat
Israel
Menahem Begin
Middle East
Ismailia
Egypt
West Bank
Jordan River
Gaza Strip
Sadat
Begin
Jerusalem
U.S
Samuel Lewis
Cairo
PLO claims responsibility for attack on collaborator in Ramallah
Palestinian guerrillas say they struck a Palestinian education official in Ramallah eight kilometers north of Jerusalem. A PLO spokesman warned of harsher punishments for future collaborators as the group and Syria pledge escalated efforts against Sadat Begin peace talks.
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Syria
Sadat
Beirut
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Hamdi Khadi
Khadi
Ramallah
Jerusalem
Copycat Hillside Slayings Probe Spurs Two Arrests
Los Angeles police booked Stephen D orsey Devezin and Thomas Davis on murder charges in the Wilshire district case of Carolyn Williams 21 and Pasadena’s Paula Ward 18 tied to a possible copycat killing pattern. Authorities traced a motel crime scene after an employee reported a man carrying a woman out wrapped in a blanket.
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LOS Angeles
Hillside
Stephen D’orsey Devezin
Carolyn Williams
Don Foster
Thomas Davis
Devezin
Miss Williams
Wilshire
Paula Gwen Ward
Pasadena
Rose Bowl
Dan Cooke
Miss Ward
Cooke
Ward
Ben Hetherington
Davis
Cloud
Debra Husband
Cloud Motel
Three Shot During Holiday Violence in Rome
Police said a right wing gang shot three people in Rome during Christmas, wounding a teenage leftist, a leftist journalist, and later injuring the wife of a right wing journalist in what appeared to be reprisals. Roberto la Spade, 27, a leftist radio journalist, was among the wounded.
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Rome
Reuter
Franca Pucci
Mario
Italy
Social Movement
Pucci
Roberto la Spade
Red Adair battles wild Central Alberta gas well
The Texan blowout specialist towed a burning well rig to safety with a bulldozer near West Pembina on December 6, sparking plans to pump river water for cooling and to detonate a dynamite charge to starve the fire. A second blowout at Cessford, with Adair present Christmas Day, widened the effort as authorities warned it could take weeks to regain control.
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Alberta
Red Adair
Edmonton
Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd
West Pembina
Pembina
Adair
Cessford
Calgary
Gamma Resources Ltd
Houston
Richard Hatteburg
Hatteburg
Provincial
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd
Amoco
Dave McAsey
McAsey
Chaplin Buried In Swiss Lakeside Ceremony
Charlie Chaplin was laid to rest in CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland, beside Lake Geneva, with about 30 mourners including his widow Oona and eight of his nine children present. Rain and mist shrouded the burial as two British clergy read prayers, and a silver hearse carried the coffin on a short drive from his estate where he died on Christmas morning at age 88. Geraldine Chaplin was absent to film commitments.
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Sir Charles Chaplin
Chaplin
Geraldine
Spain
Charlie Chaplin
Lake Geneva
Switzerland
Corsier-sur-Vevey
Murder suspects tied to Calgary crime linked to Hatman assault
Calgary police connect two murder suspects to a Christmas Eve assault on a Medicine Hat resident and a black male suspect. brothers David and James Glauser, wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for a Calgary murder, may be involved. No address or identification yet. investigation ongoing.
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Calgary
Medicine Hat
Larry Brink
David
James Glauser
Calgary Rcmp
Glauser
Brink
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WEEI
THE
Associated Press
al Ahram
Sinai Peninsula
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Tel Aviv
Saleh Awad
Suez Canal Authority
Geneva
Zuhair Mohsen
Saiqa
Menachem Begin
Hafez Assad
Libya
Algeria
South Yemen
Lac la Biche
Hatman
CPR
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