Hijacking A Family Affair At Tampa Airport
A Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 with 11 PSA personnel and 134 passengers aboard landed in Tampa after a hijacking from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The armed man and woman with a baby seized control midflight and demanded aeronautical charts. The jet refueled and then resumed toward Florida with authorities securing the aircraft.
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Tampa
Fla
Pacific Southwest Airlines
PSA
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Paul MacAllister
Hillsborough County Aviation Authority
America
MacDill Air Force Base
Callifornia
Florida
Cuba
Black
John Heffernan
Bombs Found In New York and Chicago Banks
Police found bombs in safe deposit boxes at Marine Midland Trust and Manufacturers Hanover in New York and at First National Bank of Chicago. Handwritten letters postmarked in Chicago warned of future attacks to force political prisoner releases. The letters describe clock timers and explosive charges, threatening coordinated bank bombings across the three cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Marine Midland Trust Co
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co
Wall Street
First National Bank of Chicago
New York City
Kenneth O'Neill
O'Neill
Lower Manhattan
Charles Christopher Mohr
Robert Daley
Mohr
Wall Street Area
Howard Pierson
Amerika
Excc
Nixon administration Eyes Near Record Debt Ceiling Increase
Officials say Congress will be asked to raise the national debt limit by a near record amount as the 1972 deficit tops 28 billion dollars. Treasury notes the ceiling may be exceeded by March 1 and cites falling revenues, new programs, and tax relief as factors. President Nixon’s budget chief says no value added tax request for 1973 and the budget will aim for balance at full employment.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Shultz
Aerospace
Nixon and Sato set Okinawa transfer date and trade talks
President Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Eisakei Sato near final settlement on Okinawa return, with Washington expecting a transfer date. They discuss trade concessions and a path to normalization with China, while balancing Taiwan relations and U S economic aims.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Eisakei Sato
Japan
Okinawa
William P. Rogers
United States
Sato
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Weekend Weather Outlook From Local Forecast
Partly cloudy and colder tonight with a low near 20. Saturday should be fair with highs in the upper 30s to around 40. Yesterday’s high reached 29 and the overnight low dropped to 24.
Fire and explosions strike across cities in multi-site incidents
AP reports evacuations at the Indianapolis Hilton after a top floor dining fire trapped four in an elevator, with no injuries. Concurrently, Cincinnati sees a Rosen family tragedy as three children die in a suburban Amberly Village blaze.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Hilton
Cincinnati, Ohio
Marvin Rosen
Amberly Village
Jet Crashes Carrying 98 Near Ibiza
Officials traced the Caravelle wreckage near San Jose southwest of Ibiza after an Iberia Airlines airliner fell into the Mediterranean while approaching Ibiza airport. The aircraft was carrying 98 people and the cause of the crash was not immediately known.
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Ibiza
Balearic Islands
Madrid
Valencia
Balearic Island
Air Ministry
San Jose
Mediterranean
Iberia Airlines
Elevator Etiquette Witty Quip on Manners and Hair
A humorous musing notes that removing a hat in an elevator signals good manners and well-kept hair. It treats the act as a light social cue and reflects playful etiquette thinking.
India, North Vietnam Plan Diplomatic Ties
India announced full diplomatic relations with North Vietnam, shifting from equal status to an embassy in Hanoi and a lower rank consulate in Saigon. The move ends years of resistance tied to its role as ICC chairman overseeing the 1954 Vietnam cease fire.
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India
North Vietnam
New Delhi
Hanoi
Saigon
International Control Commission
Vietnam
Crooked thieves hit several area stores with firearms
Armed robbers struck the King Kwik Market on Tytus Avenue and the United Dairy Farmers on Breiel Boulevard. Myer Ltd. lost 10 suits worth about 1000 dollars to three shoplifters. A youth in a red ski mask robbed the King Kwik Market at 10:36 p.m. with a gun, while a warning call to another store preceded no incident. Police report similar descriptions across the incidents.
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Tytus Avenue
King Kwik
United Dairy Farmers
Breiel Boulevard
Myer Ltd
Middletown
United Dairy
S. Bretel Blvd
Tina Potter
Myers Ltd
King Kwik Market
Tytus Ave
Beverly Nanamaker
Nancy Blair
First Avenue
Crawford Street
Threatening call precedes dairy store robbery scare
A clerk at United Dairy Farmers on Vail Avenue reported a hoax ransom call claiming a raid and kidnapping. The caller backed off after learning of the clerk’s family hospital stay, while a separate robbery at 620 S. Breiel Blvd occurred three hours earlier. no crime reached the Vail Avenue store.
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N.Y
Debt Ltd
Ann Sanders
Heloise
Ees Valley News
White House
Connally
U.S
Rogers
China
Taiwan
Peking
Bangladesh
Dacca
United News of India
Bangladesh Observer
Dinajpur
Observer
Gallipolis
Ohio
Bernard Neihn
A.m. Niehn
Institute
Pauline Willis
Vail Avenue
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