Crusading Ex Con Charged in Two Murders
Allen Pruitt 35 of Spartanburg, once a prison reformer, is jailed on a double murder charge. Victims Douglas Chesney 27 and William H. Gault 42 were found shot in a car that crashed, Gault a Spartanburg newspaper employee and former prizefighter. A 4.38 caliber pistol was recovered.
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Spartanburg
D.C
Virginia State Penitentiary
Allen Pruitt
Douglas Chesney
William H. “Pappy” Gault
Inman
Gault
Jimmy Carruthers
Sydney
Australia
William
Pruitt
Chesney
Pruitt Gault
State Law Enforcement Division
Columbia
Norfolk, Va
Virginia
Richmond
Atlanta
F. Lee Bailey
Virginia Supreme Court
Norfolk
World Greets 1972 From Across The Globe
The new year brings mixed hopes and warnings. Leaders from U Thant to Papadopoulos urge peace and caution. Nations like China and Japan call for shifts, while celebrations surge in New York, London, Tokyo, and Las Vegas as crowds ring in 1972.
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Associated Press
Oie
Cone Mount Neave
San Francisco Zoo
Europe
Naples
Tokyo
Mount Fuji
Ceylon
Michigan
Beth Israel Hospital
Boston
New York
Central Park
Guy Lombardo
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Nited Nations
U Thant
George Papadopoulos
Urho Kekkonen
Finland
China
United States
Taiwan
Southeast Asia
India orders refugees back to Bangladesh as mass withdrawal begins
Calcutta reports a government backed plan to move nearly 10 million Bangladeshi refugees home by road and rail. authorities expect about 80 percent to resettle in their villages within two months, with PM Indira Gandhi predicting completion by late February. Col. Sen oversaw 150,000 refugees at Salt Lake Camp and urged orderly departure.
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Calcutta
India
Bangladesh
East Pakistan
Indira Gandhi
Riten Sen
Salt Lake
Bengal
A.H.M. Kamaruzzaman
Col. Sen
Rain and cool snap head into Permian Basin
A light shower grazed Odessa overnight as Texas ends 1971 with rain and floods. Forecasters predict a cool front returning brisk weather, with a 30 percent chance of light rain today and a low near 23 degrees. Damp conditions cover much of south central Texas, with flash flood warnings in Kerr Edwards and Real Counties and rising Guadalupe and Sabinal Rivers.
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Permian Basin
Odessa
Basin
California
National Weather Service
Texas
Longview-Tyler
del Rio
Rio Grande
Kerr, Edwards
Real
Guadalupe
Sabinal
Kerrville
Abilene
Amarillo
Chicaco
Denver
el Paso
Fort Worth
Galveston
Marta
New York
Oklahoma City
San Antonio
St. Louis
Israel Likely To Receive Phantom Jets
Washington reports indicate the United States may ship additional F4 Phantom jets to Israel with talks on delivery terms under way. Officials avoided tying arms support to broader Middle East peace moves while reviving hopes for an interim Suez Canal reopening and broader negotiations led by Gunnar Jarring.
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Washington
United States
Israel
U.S
Mideast
State Department
Howver
White House
Nixon
Golda Meir
Ronald L. Ziegler
Sincoo
Pat Israel
Suez Canal
United Nations
Gunnar Jarring
Viet Cong Raids Shatter South Vietnam New Year Cease-fire
Viet Cong attacks shattered the New Year truce in South Vietnam, killing nine and wounding 20 per South Vietnamese headquarters. The U S command noted one attack on American forces and mortars hit a Da Nang Hue convoy without casualties.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
da Nang
Hue
Cusing
Cambodia
Laos
Nguyen van Thieu
North Vietnam
Traffic fatalities rise during New Year holiday
The first 24 hours of the three day New Year holiday saw 63 deaths as traffic fatalities rose across the region. A northeast snowstorm caused hazardous travel with up to seven inches of snow while the Gulf Coast saw scattered showers and Colorado and the Rockies saw light snow flurries. The period began at 6 p.m. Thursday and ends at midnight Sunday.
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Associated Press
Gulf Coast
Rockies
Police shootout kills two troopers in Michigan town
In New Buffalo Michigan a routine check on a car led to a gun battle that killed state troopers Charles Stark and Gary Rampy. A gunman and a female companion died in a pursuit ending with a crash and exchange of fire. A Detroit woman, Dorothy Broz, faces murder charges.
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New Buffalo
Mich
Michigan
Charles Stark
Three Oaks
Gary Rampy
Dorothy Pearl Broz
Detroit
William Schmedding Jr
The
Force
Richard Novacek
Novacek
Stark
Rampy
Robert Dehouten
David Hettunga
Dehouten
Hettunga
Michigan State Police Crime Laboratory
East Lansing
FBI Center
Washington
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Tulip Lane
Sherrill Sweeden
Red China
Jacoby
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