Middletown Honors Bicentennial With Parade and Cornerstone
Middletown marked its Bicentennial with a 5:30 p.m. parade featuring 25 floats bands and dignitaries. The day culminated at Smith Park with a 20 minute fireworks display after the laying of a granite cornerstone and copper time capsule at the new $9 million city building.
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Smith Park
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Armco
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Carol Ernst
Middletown Bicentennial Committee
Central Avenue
Libyan hijacker surrenders in Palma de Majorca
An 86 passengers Libyan airliner hijacked on a Tripoli to Benghazi flight landed at Palma de Majorca where the hijacker surrendered to airport police. He handed over two toy pistols and two knives. no one injured. The Boeing 727 had earlier stopped at Boufarik air base near Algiers after being refused landings in Tunis and Algiers.
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Muammar Khadafy
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Boufarik
Tripoli
Benghazi
Queen Elizabeth II visits Philadelphia for Bicentennial tour
The Queen arrives with Prince Philip to dedicate a 10-ton Bicentennial bell at Penn's Landing 200 years after the Liberty Bell rang out from England. She will meet Mayor Rizzo and tour Independence Hall, Carpenter's Hall, and the Liberty Bell pavilion while a protest by Carl McIntire targets the bell inscription.
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Philadelphia
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United States
England
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Delaware River
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Whitechapel
London
New Visitors
Carl McIntire
Frank Rizzo
Independence Hall
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
George III
Phillip
Carpenter's Hall
Continental Congress
Liberty Bell
Weather Outlook Partly Cloudy With Warm Wednesday
Partly cloudy skies expected tonight and Wednesday. Lows near 60 tonight. Wednesday afternoon near 85 with a small chance of rain 10 percent and tonight a 30 percent rain risk.
Radar checks confirm flat Viking landing site on Mars
Arecibo radar data provide no reversal to Viking 1 landing plan as Jet Propulsion Laboratory teams probe a Northwest flat plain likely an ancient basin. If findings hold, Viking 1 may adjust orbit for a July 17 touchdown, while Viking 2 potential sites show moonlike plains and windblown sand dunes.
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Calif
Arecibo
Puerto Rico
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jim Martin
Viking
Viking 1
Viking 2
Mercenary's lawyer eyes clemency from Angolan president
Daniel Gearhart's attorney Robert Cesner said he is encouraged by the Angolan atmosphere and believes President Agostinho Neto may grant clemency. Gearhart, 34, and three British mercenaries were sentenced June 28 to face firing squad, with others given prison terms.
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Daniel Gearhart
Angola
Gearhart
Robert Cesner
Columbus
Ohio
Dulles International
Paris
Sheila
Cesner
People’s Revolutionary Tribunal
Agostinho Neto
Diogenes Boavida
Kensington
Gary Acker
Sacramento
Calif
Gustavo Grillo
Jersey City
N.J
Grillo
United States
Samoa Holds Late Fourth of July Celebration in Port
Strict Samoan religious tradition delayed independence day festivities but a large crowd joined a parade of natives in traditional dress carrying American and Samoan flags. Rica Layman of San Diego praised Samoa’s celebration as the best, while floats depicted colonial figures and chiefs conducted long orations. Events included copra cutting, fire making, greased pole, pig catching, basket weaving, and a 90 foot boat race with 44 rowers scheduled for today.
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Diego
South Pacific
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