Turkish Police Rescue Girl Held by Two Terrorists
In Istanbul police freed 14 year old Sibel Erkan from two terrorists after a three minute gun battle that left one attacker dead and another critically wounded. The girl was wounded but not seriously. The hostage crisis followed the kidnapping and murder of Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom. The siege drew large crowds as police breached the apartment from balcony roof and door.
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Istanbul
Sibel Erkan
Huseyin Cevahir
Mahir Cayan
Ephraim Elrom
Elrom
Turkish People’s Liberation Army
Cevahir
Cayan
Cavan
Ankara
Sibel
Cihan Allender
People’s Liberation Army
Adiyaman
Pup Finds Home After Frightful Letterbox Discovery
Bob King discovered a frightened 7 8 week old partly golden retriever in his mailbox at E Fourth and Oneida Streets Friday morning. The pup likely spent the night in the box. it now has a home with Angelo Pascuzzi, a postal worker for 22 years.
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Bob King
E. Fourth and
Oneida Sts
Bob
Oswego Post
Fice
Angelo Pascuz
Rogers Doubts Any Counterproposal By Reds on European Troop Cutback
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said the NATO Lisbon meeting June 3-5 will be very important though no counterproposal from Moscow on a mutual European force cut is expected. He noted Berlin talks and that Senate debate over Mansfield’s plan to curb U.S. forces should prompt allies to share more defense burden. Rogers spoke at Andrews Air Force Base before a 10 day European trip, hoping progress on Berlin and allied unity.
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Washington
William P. Boers
NATO
Lisbon
Moscow
Rogers
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
U.S
Europe
Nixon Takes To Air Waves This Evening
President Nixon will appear live on four networks in a news conference at 8 30 p m eastern time. Press secretary Ziegler said there will be no preliminary announcements and the program will move directly into a question and answer session. This will be Nixon's first news conference since May 1 in San Clemente California.
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Washington
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
San Clemente
Calif
Vietnamese anti-government figure charged with attempted murder
A leading antigovernment National Assembly member Ngo Cong Duc editor of Tin Sang was arrested and charged after an attack at a dinner party on the provincial council chairman in the Mekong Delta. A relative said Duc was forced to attend and provoked into a fight.
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Tack
Mekong Delta
Saigon Post
Duc
NEA staff strike over wages vacations and job security
Washington AP staff workers strike the 1.1 million member National Education Association over pay time off and job security after the chief negotiator called the offer take it or leave it. Hyde Park AP Eleanor Roosevelt papers to be opened Oct 12 at the Roosevelt Library with public display announced by Frank D Roosevelt Jr during Memorial Day services.
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Washington
National Edication Association
NEA
David Graham
Hyde Park
N. Y
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Rooseevelt
Frank D. Roosevelt Jr
Roosevelt
Hijacked Jet Detained in Cuba as Havana Silent
Pan American says a hijacked jet with 69 aboard may be held in Havana while four Cuban fishing boat captains face charges of illegal fishing in U.S. waters. Havana radio reports another fleet of boats heading to the spot off the Florida Keys where arrests were made.
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Miami
Fla
Pan American World Airways
Havana
Key West
Havana Radio
Florida Keys
Police Deck Badges In Memory Of Fallen Officers
Auburn New York police officers 65 strong wore black tape across badge centers and added black streamers to patrol car antennas in memory of deceased lawmen. Signs reading honor police appeared on vehicles and the headquarters flag flew at half staff.
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Auburn
N.Y
B52s Attack As Saigon Forces Retreat From Snuol
U S B52 bombers struck near Snuol and across Cambodia to cover a battered Saigon task force as they pulled out of the town besieged by North Vietnamese forces. South Vietnamese claim 700 NVA killed while 200 Saigon troops were hurt or killed. 80 destroyed vehicles left behind. Air support continued along Highway 13 with heavy helicopter and fighter-bomber activity.
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Saigon
U. S
South
U.S
Loc Ninh
Sauol
Highway 13
Snuol
le Trung Hien
Cambodia
Hien
Nguyen van Minh
Sheriff cites possible graves as mass slaying probe widens
YUBA CITY Calif AP Sheriff Roy Whiteaker says some orchard search sites may have been dug as graves and later filled with no bodies. He reports 23 bodies recovered at stabling yard and other sites while searchers probe for more burial locations. Roy Delong 52 of Marysville is in protective custody as deputies seek who last saw Sigurd Beier.
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Yuba City
Calif
Roy Whiteaker
Whiteaker
Vic
Tim
Roy Delong
Marysville
Sigurd E. Beier
Steelworkers Union and Four Aluminum Firms Reach Pact
The United Steelworkers and four major aluminum producers announced three year contracts lifting about 32,400 workers’ pay by roughly 30 percent overall. Alcoa and Reynolds Metals also struck wage deals with the Aluminum Workers International Union.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
Olin Aluminum Co
Hannibal
Ohio
Aluminum Co. of America
Alcoa
Nixon
White House
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Reynolds Metals Co
Ormet Aluminum
I. W. Abel
House
Reynolds
Aluminum Workers International Union
Steelworkers
Medina man dies in Route 98 crash near Batavia
Walter Dombrowski aged 57 of Medina died when his automobile collided with a tractor trailer on Route 98 three miles north of Batavia New York. Police and emergency crews responded to the scene. The crash remained under investigation by local authorities.
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Batavia, N. Y
Walter Dombrowski
Medina
Route
Here
Drought Fires In Everglades Plague Florida
Miami reports a thick smoke over the city as thousands of acres of dry Everglades grasslands burn under a severe drought. The National Weather Service warns of renewed fires with little rain expected and only six inches of rainfall since January, 10 inches below normal.
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Miami
Everglades
National Weather Service
South Florida
Gilbert Clark
Clark
You Pay More State Sales Tax Today
New Yorkers face a state sales tax rise from three to four percent, with local taxes up to three percent. Combined rates can reach seven percent on purchases. The increase funds a seven point six nine billion dollar budget, yielding about three hundred twenty million annually. Tax Commissioner Norman Gallman notes applicability to monthly utility and telephone bills from June 1 forward.
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Albany
N.Y
Norman Gallman
Tragic drowning of Newfane girl at grandparents’ pool
In Newfane New York Sheila Cross two year old daughter of Mrs Lucille Cross drowned Monday in a swimming pool at her grandparents home The five year old brother found her floating and she died on arrival at Intercommunity Memorial Hospital The family lives at 3550 Murphy Road in the Niagara County hamlet
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Newfane
N.Y
Sheila Cross
Lucille Cross
Intercommunity Memorial Hospital
Niagara County
Cross
Murphy Road
British air ace Sheila Scott aims for world record flight
British aviator Sheila Scott, 43, launches a 34,000 mile around the world voyage to set multiple records as a NASA research subject. She plans 144 circumnavigations in a Piper Aztec, with data relayed from Nairobi and Benhazi to Fairbanks and Maryland.
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London
Sheila Scott
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Tropics
Miss Scott
Equator
North Pole
NASA
Benghazi
Nairobi
Nimbus
Fairbanks
Alaska
Maryland
Scott
Sheila
Mythre
Tromsoe
Norway
Jamestown Cop Wounded in Western New York Shootout
Jamestown Patrolman Robert Rader was shot in the stomach as he questioned a man, later identified as Harry D. Rossman, 23, a known burglar. Rossman was killed. Rader was hospitalized in good condition with three stomach wounds after the exchange with his partner Gary Johnson.
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Jamestown
N.Y
New York City
John Paladino
Robert Rader
Rader
Gary Johnson
Johnson
Ter
Harry D. Rossman
Paladino
Rossman
WCA
FiveYearOld Girl Killed Crossing Route 26A in New York
Rebecca Bush a 5 year old from Lewis County was fatally injured when struck by an automobile while crossing Route 26A in front of her rural home. She died at Lewis County Hospital about 1144 hours after the accident, according to sheriff's deputies.
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Lowville
N. Y
Rebecca Bush
Lewis County
Rebecca
Clinton Bush
Sheriff's Deputies
Navy May Cut Back Buying New F14 Fighter Planes
Washington AP report says Deputy Secretary David Packard ordered a re examination of the F14 program to curb rising costs. Navy plans 710 Tomcats starting 1973, price per plane up about 1 million to roughly 12.5 million, lifting program cost toward 9 billion. Grumman cautions higher unit costs could affect future orders.
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Washington
Navy
Pentagon
David Packard
Secretary of the Navy
John Chafee
Chafee
Packard
Defense Department
Grumman Aerospace Corp
Bethpage
L.I
Nixon
Devel
Grumman
Memorial Day weekend traffic toll tops 532 deaths
Traffic accidents across the nation claimed 532 lives during the three day Memorial Day weekend. The National Safety Council had estimated that between 450 and 550 persons would die on streets and highways from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. The highest toll during a three day observance was 597 in 1969.
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National Safety Council
Audie Murphy Dies In Virginia Plane Crash
Wreckage of a twin engine Aero Commander found on Brushy Mountain near Roanoke Va confirming the crash that killed World War II hero Audie Murphy and five others. Rescue teams reach the site and identify the victims as pathologists work to confirm identities amid burned remains.
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Recipien
Audie Murphy
Hin
Mountain Top
Roanoke
Murphy
Martinsville
Here
Atlanta
Brushy
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