Hijackers Free Some Passengers At Entebbe Airport
Palestinian extremists seized an Air France jet at Uganda’s Entebbe airport and began negotiations with Idi Amin and the French ambassador. Some passengers were allowed to disembark while crew and many others remained aboard. about 256 people were aboard the aircraft.
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Kampala
Uganda
Air France
Paris
Entebbe
Ers
Idi Amin
Pierre Renard
Airbus
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
France
United States
Israel
Egypt
Syria
Kenya
Radio Israel
Amin
U.S
Tel Aviv
Yitzhak Rabin
Lake Victoria
Renard
Athens
Benghazi
Viking 1 shifts Mars landing to Chryse Phoenicia site
Scientists abandon the July 4 plan and study Viking 1 data to set a new landing target 300 miles northwest in Chryse Phoenicia. The basin may offer a smooth, hazard light surface ideal for a July 8 touchdown if checks confirm feasibility. alternative sites include Tritonis Lacus.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mars
Chryse Phoenicia
Earth
Harold Masursky
Viking
James Martin
Phoenicia
Martin
Aery
Reali
Chryse
Land of
Portugal elects Gen. Antonio de Eanes president
Gen. Antonio de Eanes, commander who helped overthrow the leftist coup, wins Portugal’s first free presidential election in half a century by about 61 percent. He vows that conditions exist for Portugal to construct a democracy in a televised victory message.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Antonio Aldo Eanes
Guard's shopping trip nets escaped murderer
Canadian Oklahoma AP report describes a rotund man in a dirty T shirt who bought a soda and chips at Jones' Grocery, drawing the attention of guard C A Pearce of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary as authorities pursue an escaped murderer after a prison escape incident.
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Okla
Jones’ Grocery
C.A. Pearce
Pearce
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Brinlee Surrenders After Oklahoma Manhunt End
Rex Brinlee Jr., a convicted bomb slayer who had escaped eight days earlier, turns himself in after a chance meeting with prison official Pearce in a resort town on Lake Eufaula. Brinlee, tired and bitten by chiggers, is hospitalized for insect bites. two killers, Edwin Jones and William Franklin, remain at large as National Guard helicopters search the rugged Stigler area.
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Rex Brinlee Jr
Brinlee
Richard Crisp
Pearce
Rex
Mr. Pearce
Oklahoma
Stigler
David Boren
National Guard
Edwin Jones
William Franklin
Jones
Lake Eufaula
Robert Jones
Bristow
Okla
Fern Bolding
Franklin
San Bois
Weather Outlook With Scattered Rain Likely
Skies were mostly cloudy tonight with a 50 percent chance of rain and a near 60 degree low. Tuesday looks to be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent rain chance and a high near 80. Yesterday reached 88 with a 66 overnight low. Rainfall measured 0.06 inches Saturday morning. The extended outlook calls for fair, cool weather through Friday with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s.
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Caily
POW conduct code under review by Pentagon panel
A Pentagon committee reexamines the military code of conduct for Vietnam era POWs amid split views on whether captives should limit responses to name, rank, service number and birth date. Some insist on a rigid standard, others argue for allowances citing Article 5 language. The panel, including four former POWs, weighs enduring torture and past accusations of collaboration, while deciding not to press charges against returned POWs.
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Washington
Pentagon
Rare white Bengal tiger cubs born at Cincinnati Zoo
Four rare white Bengal tiger cubs were born at the Cincinnati Zoo just after midnight with a fifth orange cub also born. The litter marks a rare success in breeding white tigers, about 40 remain globally, from a mating between Kesari and Tony. Zoo officials caution intensive daily care for the cubs.
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Cincinnati Zoo
Natonal Zoological Park
Washington
Kesari
Tony
P Wilson
Publicis Med
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