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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1970
Page
1
Tonight cloudy with a chance of showers and lows in the upper 60s. Thursday will reach the 90s with sunny skies and a little rain unlikely. Thursday evening will be muggy with highs in the upper 70s. Friday’s outlook is fair and cooler. Yesterday’s high was 89 and the morning low was 62 with only 0.05 inch of rain last night.
Guerrillas seize a BOAC VC10 after it departs Bahrain with 66 passengers and 10 crew. Beiru hosts negotiations as two Western airliners and 178 hostages on a Jordan desert airstrip loom. Britain, the US, West Germany, and Switzerland seek a Red Cross mediated release of Leila Khaled and other detainees amid a ticking deadline.
Federal investigators say a DC8 jetliner scraped its tail on the Kennedy runway during takeoff then rose vertically, tilted left, and exploded in flames killing all 11 crew members. The crew and seven stewardesses were from California.
Washington AP piece states Nixon administration seeks an hour wage settlement to head off a nationwide rail worker strike set to begin at midnight. Unions demand large wage hikes. government talks yield little progress as factions clash over 40 percent increases, with current wages around $3.50 per hour.
Heavy fighting between Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian forces raged for a second day near Irbid after a cease-fire collapsed. The Palestine Guerrilla Organization accused Jordanian troops of attacking outposts and mutilating corpses, while guerrillas besieged the Irbid army garrison and demonstrators stormed the police chief’s headquarters.
Three area levies failed but are expected to return to voters in November. Dayton, Beavercreek, and Xenia districts in Montgomery and Greene counties faced defeat on 10.5, 9.25 and 9.3 mill proposals. Dayton board members blamed SOS opponents and called for resignations. Beavercreek and Xenia warned of potential school closures or bankruptcy if levies fail again.
Police investigate a major Labor Day weekend burglary at Shreve Crump & Low opposite the Public Gardens in Boston. Thieves used power tools to breach a wall, entering vaults with diamonds, gold, and pearls, with losses projected around 3 million dollars.
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