Dutch commandos free most hostages in Moluccan siege
At dawn Dutch commandos stormed a train and a school near Assen freeing 53 of 55 hostages in a 20 day seizure by South Moluccan gunmen. Two hostages and six militants were killed. twelve wounded, and the government defended the action as a necessity to end the crisis.
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Assen
The
Netherlands
Holland
Joop den Uyl
Justice Ministry
Bavensmilde
J.M.O. Monsjou
Groningen
M. van Baarsel
Elst
Pacific Islands
Indonesia
Cruowd Cheeks
Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
London
Britain
Uganda
Robert Scanlon
Amin
Scanlon
Uganda Radio
Escape at Brushy Mountain Prison Shrugs Off Walls
James Earl Ray and six other convicts fled Brushy Mountain State Prison by scaling a 10 foot wall using a ladder of metal pipe. Police, FBI, and guards blocked routes near Petros and Oak Ridge while bloodhounds and a helicopter searched the East Tennessee mountains. Ray and five others remain at large as authorities pursue the fugitives.
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East Tennessee
Martin Luther King Jr
James Earl Ray
FBI
Brushy Mountain State Prison
Ray
Carter
Griffin Bell
Clarence Kelley
C. Murray Henderson
Knoxville
Stoney Lane
Petros
King
Oak Ridge
Donald Ray Caylor
Douglas R. Shelton
Kingsport
Tenn
Earl Hill Jr
Washington County
Larry E. Hacker
Hamilton County
Ohio
David L. Powell
Chicago
Memphis
Ward
Dallas
Tex
Jerry W. Ward
Education study analysis series begins Sunday
An extensive series by Art Toalston starts in tomorrow's Journal covering results from over a year of work by more than 200 Middletown and Monroe residents in the Community Education Study. It analyzes six areas of the Middletown Area Chamber of Commerce project including facilities administration personnel students instruction and services.
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Tomorrow’s Journal
Art Toalston
Middletown and
Monroe
Middletown Area
Chamber
Middletown Board of Education
ITT Sues AT&T Over Antitrust in Federal Case
ITT files a 150 million antitrust suit in federal court alleging AT&T and its units Western Electric and Bell Laboratories block non AT&T equipment. ITT says Bell Labs evaluates outside gear while Bell Telephone buys most equipment from Western Electric. AT&T says it has not seen the suit.
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NEW York
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
American Telephone and Telegraph
ITT
At&t
Western Electric Co
Bell Laboratories, Inc
Bell System
Bell Operating
Western Electric
Bell Labs
U.S
Bell Telephone
Bell Laboratories
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Robert Drinan
D-Mass
Ronald Dellums
D-Calif
Kentucky
Louisville
Sherman Adams
Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Food and Drug Administration
Henderson
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