Bronfman heir Samuel Bronfman II found safe after kidnapping
Samuel Bronfman II was in safe seclusion at his mother's New York mansion as FBI and police discounted two other suspects. A detained man, Dominic Byrne, claimed two other kidnapers were at large while investigators said no further arrests were planned. Cash ransom details and family reunion at the Yorktown Heights estate followed the rescue, with celebrations at the Bronfman home.
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J. Wallace LaPrade
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Prem
Lynch
New York City
Michael Codd
U.S. State Department
Irish Republican Army
LaPrade
Samuel Bronfman
Fifth Avenue
Seagrams
Edgar Bronfman
Yorktown Heights
Westchester County
Ann Margaret Loeb Bronfman
Purchase
Jonathan Rinehart
Samuel
Peter Kaufman
Jose Louis
Three Missing Crewmembers Sought On Burned Oil Tanker
In New Orleans AP reports three crewmen still missing after the Globtik Sun tanker burst into flames Friday following a collision with an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. A prior search found three bodies. 40 of 46 crew were rescued. Coast Guard planes scouted an 800 square mile area as dawn search resumed. The vessel, carrying 350 000 barrels of crude from the West Indies to Baytown, Texas, was towed 25 miles south of Galveston where a search party boarded it. the spill was minor.
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Detroit Sees Imports Still a Foreign Invader
A regional look at U S import car sales shows Detroit buyers favor domestic brands, with imports accounting for about 7 percent of new car sales in the Detroit metro area and 11 percent across the Great Lakes market. Pacific Coast regions lead with 40 percent imports.
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Michigan
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
Flames Consume Gulf Oil Refinery in Philadelphia Fire
A massive Gulf Oil refinery blaze in South Philadelphia turned three firemen into human torches and killed them. At least three more firefighters were missing and thirteen were injured as flames and explosions spread from an 80000 barrel storage tank through 11 alarms, forcing shutdown of the Penrose Avenue Bridge and power outages in the area.
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Gulf Oil Co
Philadelphia Fire Board
Joseph Rizzo
Jack Burk
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Schuylkill River
Philadelphia International Airport
Rizzo
Gulf Refinery
Schuylkill Expressway
Philadelphia Naval Base
Delaware River
Threat suspect held over Ford assassination threat
Sacramento Secret Service says Thomas D. Elbert, 34, with prior Nixon threat convictions, was arrested after telephoning a threat to the Secret Service office. Elbert had just been released in May from Terminal Island prison after five years for threatening Nixon.
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Calif
Richard Nixon
Ford
Secret Service
Doug Duncan
Thomas D. Elbert
Elbert
Terminal Island
San Pedro
Nixon
Duncan
Hoffa Wife Josephine Stable After Collapse at Home
Mrs Josephine Hoffa wife of missing Teamsters leader James Hoffa is reported in stable condition at a Detroit hospital after collapsing at her home Sunday. Authorities say she is suffering from stress and is receiving medical care.
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Teamsters
James Hoffa
Detroit
Middletown Area Forecast Limited to Clear Night
Middletown area forecast calls for mostly clear conditions tonight with a low in the 60s. Tuesday will be partly cloudy with highs in the lower 80s. Sundays high in Middletown reached 85 with an overnight low of 63.
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Middletown
Ford's multi state tour starts with Colorado visit
President Ford begins a two day tour to six cities in four states visiting an experimental shale oil mine at Rifle Colorado. He will make seven speeches including stops in Colorado and Iowa. The trip aims to bolster domestic energy production reducing reliance on foreign oil and features two pilot waste projects for road building and soil improvement.
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Ford
Rifle, Colo
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Iowa
Minneapolis
Illinois
Rifle Mine
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Midwest
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Des Moines
Lawsuit Claims Howard Hughes Dead In NY Court
Two Manhattan stockholders sue alleging Howard Hughes is dead and seek $100 million in damages from Air Liquidation Co. They seek court appointment of an administrator if Hughes does not respond. The suit says Hughes may be alive for personal profit and cites hotel Xanadu in the Grand Bahamas.
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Howard R. Hughes
State Supreme Court
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Xanadu
Grand Bahamas
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Ellen Kurtz
Air Liquidation Co
Air West Inc
Air West
David Cox
Los Angeles
Richard Hanna
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