Murphy seeks death penalty and federal force to curb skyjackings
Rep. John M. Murphy proposes a new law to execute declared skyjackers or sentence them to at least 25 years in prison. The bill would create a $50 million annual FAA security force to police airports, require mandatory passenger screening, and authorize travel suspensions and secondary boycotts against nations harboring hijackers. John J. O'Donnell of ALPA backed the plan amid criticism of current administration measures.
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Washington
Congress
John M. Murphy
Dn.y
John J. O'Donnell
Air Line Pilots Association
Murphy
O'Donnell
Nixon
Federal Aviation Administration
United
U.S
Charge Youths With Extortion in Rabbit Ransom
Three teenagers were charged with petit larceny by extortion after arriving at Mrs. Shirley Falconio’s Colonie home with her stolen rabbits and demanding $20 to release them. She paid the ransom and alerted police. Two youths, aged 15 and 14, were arrested Friday as part of the payoff operation.
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Albany
N. Y
Shirley Falconio
Colonie
Girl Watchers Name 1972 Most Watchable Women
Gloria Steinem leads a 1972 list by the International Society of Girl Watchers of ten women chosen for attractiveness and notable achievements. Also named are Joan Kennedy Mary Tyler Moore Julie Andrews Cybill Shepherd Imelda Marcos Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Cassie Mackin Joanne Berger and Candice Patrick.
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San Diego
Calif
Gloria Steinem
International Society of Girl Watcher
Joe Reagin
Joan Kennedy
Julie Andrews
Cybill Sheperd
Mary Tyler Moore
Imelda Marcos
Phillipine
Ferdinand Marcos
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
D-Calif
Cassie Mackin
NBC News
Joanne Berger
del Amo Fashion Square
Torrance
Candice _Partrick
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Body of Missing 15-Year-Old Found in Yard
Jamestown police probe the death of Patricia Gail Fairpinks, 15, whose body was found in a yard across from her home after she had been missing for a month. County Coroner Thomas J. Constanzo says the skull fracture and brain damage may indicate homicide. The mother, Delores Van Damme, reported the disappearance November 28 after she did not return from a drugstore errand.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Patricia Gail Fairpinks
Sica County
Thomas J. Constanzo
Delores van Damme
Snowmobile Driver Dies After Collision In Fort Covington
James Arquette, 60, was driving a snowmobile on Drum Street Friday when he hit a parked car and was thrown into the street, where he was struck by another vehicle and killed, state police said.
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Fort Covington
N. Y
James Arquette
Drum Street
Nixon orders halt to bombing as peace talks resume
President Nixon orders suspension of bombing above the 20th parallel while Kissinger resumes secret negotiations in Paris January 8 with Le Duc Tho and Xuan Thuy. The move ends the heaviest bombing since December 18 and follows North Vietnam claims of civilian casualties.
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Washington
Nixon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Henry Kissinger
Paris
White House
United States
North Vietna
Gerald L. Warren
Warren
Kissingers
Survivors Reach 93 in Everglades Plane Crash
An Eastern Air Lines TriStar with 171 aboard crashed into the Everglades near Miami. Coast Guard rescuers pulled 93 survivors from water and muck as dawn broke. The cause remains undetermined. no fire or explosion found.
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Miami
Eastern Air Lines
Everglades
Coast Guard
Reede
New York
Miami International Airport
Robert K. Bingham
East
Arrests After Seizure Of Heroin Worth 4.5 Million
In New York a Danish seaman John Staffan Thomson and a Chinese American restaurant owner Cheung Lam of Philadelphia face high bail on charges tied to the seizure of 18.5 pounds of heroin from Southeast Asia. The NBDD says they were principals in a Far East operation with heroin processed in Hong Kong and shipped to the United States. The case follows a Christmas Eve seizure and the arrest of Lam.
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New York
Philadelphia
Southeast Asia
U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Cheung Lam
Jerry N. Jenson
NBDD
Far East
Hong Kong
United States
John Staffan Thomson
Banks Open In Tents Outside Stricken City
Banks reopen in tents along highways near Managua after the earthquake. Troops guard makeshift banks as relief distribution remains troubled. Fires burn in central areas as Leon reports blocked aid trucks and a growing refugee population.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Leon
Roger Blandon
Guatemalan Red Cross
New Year Holiday Traffic Toll Rises Across Nation
Twelve people died in traffic accidents during the New Years holiday weekend as a winter storm raged across the midcontinent. By 1 p.m. the toll stood at 81, with fatalities accumulating from Friday at 6 p.m. through Monday midnight in standard time zones. Meanwhile thick fog disrupted London operations at Atwick and Heathrow airports, scattering international flights to Frankfurt and remaining fog-free British airfields.
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Associated Press
London
England
Londons
Atwick
Heathrow
Frankfurt
Ilion Teen Arrested in Mother's Death by Phone Hit
Francis O Rourke, 16, was charged with first degree manslaughter after police say he struck his mother, 51 year old Josephine O Rourke, on the head with a telephone. The Friday morning death followed Thursday night incident, investigators reported.
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Ilion
N.Y
Francis O'Rourke
Josephine Orourke
Volcano Experts Probe Karakatau After Threatening Rumbles
A team of volcanologists was dispatched to Mt Karakatau west of Java to study reports of threatening rumbles and smoke rising 492 feet. Officials warned the situation could become critical if smoke reaches nine miles high. The volcano, 2667 feet tall, last erupted in 1953 after a catastrophic 1883 blast that destroyed part of the island and caused waves.
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Jakarta
Mt. Karakatau
Java
Volcano Control Agency
Karakatau
Karakatau Island
Fetoscope Aids Fetal Health Monitors Development
Dr Michel M Kaback of UC predicts a fetoscope will be usable within two years. The device will let doctors monitor fetal development detect defects and take blood samples. He announced the finding Friday at AAAS convention in Washington.
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Washington
Michel M. Kaback
University of California
American Association For the Advancement of Science
British Troops Arrest Suspected Terrorists in Belfast Clash
In Belfast British troops arrested 11 suspected IRA figures after a raid that end with a car gunfire killing of Hugh Martin, the 681st sectarian death in Northern Ireland over three years. A tunnel toward Crumlin Road prison was found as Rory O Brady of Sinn Fein was arrested in Dublin.
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Belfast
Toops
Hugh Martin
Martin
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Londonderry
Irish Republican Army
Andersonstown
James Brown
Brownn
Crumlin Road
Dublin
Rory O'Brady
Sinn Fein
IRA Provisional Branch
Smithsonian must pay 212305 in Tecumseh salvage dispute
The Smithsonian Institution was ordered in U.S. District Court to pay Expeditions Unlimited Inc. 212305 for breach of contract over exclusive media rights to the Tecumseh Civil War ironclad salvage project. The vessel lies at Mobile Bay and was located in 1967. Smithsonian aims to recover and display it as part of a planned armed forces museum near the Potomac.
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E Washinton
Smithsonian Institution
Mobile Bey
Alabama
Smithsonian
U.S
Expeditions Unlimited Inc
Pompano Beach
Fla
John J
David Glasgow Farragh
Mobile Bay
Potomac River
Pyne
Search suspended for Adirondacks plane crash
The hunt for a light Beechcraft Beach Bonanza missing since December 20 in the Adirondacks is halted after a large five county sweep. Forty crew members from Civil Air Patrol, State Police, and Environmental Conservation crews searched with 23 planes and helicopters. Pilot Charles L. Anstey, 43, of West Norton, and passenger David Aiken, 35, of Plymouth Township, were en route from Montreal to Albany when the crash occurred.
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Saranac Lake
N.Y
Adirondacks
Civil Air Patrol
Robert S. van Keurn
Environmental Conservation Department
Here
Charles L. Anstey
West Norton
David Aiken
Plymouth Township
Montreal
Albany
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Mese
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National Transportation Safety Board
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Smithsonian Institute
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