West Side Oswego Fire Destroys Four Buildings
Flames swept through four West Second Street businesses and upper apartments in Oswego injuring one and leaving many homeless. Damage estimated at 100000 with insurance cancelled on key properties. Fire started in a rear apartment kitchen and drew a crowd of about a thousand as crews fought the blaze.
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Don McCann
Oswego
Oswego Fire Dept
West Second St
Nick's Kendig
Second St
Good Life Natural Food Store
West Second
Jim Radio
Oswego Fire
John Murrey
Jim's Radio and TV
Kendig
Nick's
Scriba
Dick's
artsCsiansalie
Francis Gorman
Jenske
Vietnam Vet Charged in Hijacking Shocks Reno Community
Reno residents react to the federal arrest of Vietnam veteran Robb D Heady on air piracy charges after Heady jumped from a United Airlines 727 and obtained 200000 in ransom. About 40000 was recovered on the plane and the rest found near Washoe Lake. Heady's family and church members express disbelief and question motive.
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Vietnam
Reno, Nev
Robb
Bill Walters
Reno
First Baptist Church
Walters
Robb D. Heady
Heady
FBI
United Air Lines
Sur
Washoe Lake
Here
Harold Heady
Washoe County
University of Nevada- Reno
School of Mines
Western Nevada Community College
Rick Elmore
UNR
Baptst Church
Donald
Delegates Meet in Sweden For UN Pollution Conference
In Stockholm the United Nations opened a conference on the environment led by U N Secretary General Kurt Waldheim who called armaments the ugliest pollution. Delegates from 112 countries attended as Waldheim urged cutting military spending to fight poverty population and pollution and warned of a widening development gap. A new UN agency to coordinate pollution combat may begin early next year as talks included Soviet participation amid boycotts by several Eastern bloc nations over observer status for East Germany.
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Stockholm
U.N
Genral Kurt Waldheim
Waldheim
Maurice Stong
Sunuay
General Assembly
Resoluon
Lake Placid Beach At Fault In Damages Ruling
The Appellate Division holds Lake Placid negligent for not posting warning signs about shallow water at Mirror Lake Beach. Donald Jacques, injured when he dived from an unlighted dock in 1968, was left quadriplegic. The ruling confirms damages awarded in 1970 on appeal.
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Albany
N.Y
Lake Placid
State Supreme Court
Donald Jacques
Mirror Lake
T. Paul Kane
Richard D. Simons
Supreme Court
Jacques
U.S. Deficit for 1972 Seen at 26 Billion
The 1972 federal deficit is estimated at 26 billion dollars the highest since World War II yet 12.8 billion below January forecasts. The Office of Management and Budget cites higher tax receipts from over withholding and Congress actions on tax tables as the main reasons for the improvement.
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U. S
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Office of Management and Budget
Treasury
Two Colombo Sons Targeted in Brooklyn Drive-By Shooting
In Brooklyn at 1 15 a m Anthony Colombo 26 and Joseph Colombo Jr 25 sons of reputed mob boss Joseph Colombo Sr escaped a gun attack as their car sat outside the Colombo home after a fund raising event at Madison Square Garden Police found a silver revolver in the gutter and bullet holes on a neighboring awning. The incident follows a spate of underworld violence including the slaying of rival Joseph Crazy Joe Gallo.
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New York
Joseph Colombo
Brooklyn
Anthony Colombo
Joseph Jr
Civi Rights League
Madison Square Garden
Joseph Colombo Sr
League
Columbus Circle
Joseph
Joe” Gallo
Colombos
Anthony
Philip Roseville
Vinnie Vingo
Hicksville
Jury acquits Angela in murder kidnaping conspiracy case
In San Jose California Angela Davis is cleared on murder kidnapping conspiracy charges. Forewoman says jury had little disagreement from start. Verdict follows a bloody 1970 Marin County courthouse escape tied to Davis. Davis thanked supporters and called the result a peon's victory.
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Angela
San Jose
Calif
Angela Davis
Miss Davis
Marin County
Connally to Lead Round the World Mission for Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally will depart Tuesday on a round the world mission to about 15 nations to discuss matters of common concern and current economic issues, the White House announced.
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Nixon
White House
Postal Rate Commission Backs $78.3 Million Reduction
The Postal Rate Commission urged a $78.3 million cut in proposed U S Postal Service rates. It called for reductions affecting parcel post air mail letters ordinary postcards and second class mail items used by magazine and newspaper publishers.
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Washington
Postal Rate Commission
U.S
Post Office Department
Postal Service
Laird Urges New Submarine and Bomber Systems
Secretary Melvin R. Laird said the United States must develop new submarine and bomber systems to maintain bargaining power in SALT talks with the Soviet Union. He urged Congress not to abandon the U S ability to add the Trident submarine the B-1 bomber and other weapons to the arsenal.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
United States
Soviet Union
Laird
Congress
Colgate-Palmolive to Launch Nonphosphate Detergent
Colgate-Palmolive Co. plans to introduce a nonphosphate powdered laundry detergent on July 1 in Chicago, Miami, and Buffalo areas where phosphate bans are in effect. The company has avoided selling detergents there since the ordinances began January 1 and says the move aligns with its policy of offering only effective and safe products.
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New York
Colgate-Palmolive Co
Chicago
Miami
Buffalo
N.Y
Colgate-Palmolive
German Marshall Plan Memorial Fund Created in U S
West Germany Chancellor Willy Brandt announced a 47 million dollar German Marshall Plan Memorial Fund in the United States. The fund supports joint American European studies and research as part of a Harvard convocation marking the historic plan. The German Marshall Fund of the United States is organized as an independent foundation in Washington DC.
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Cambridge, Mass
Willy Brandt
West Germany
United States
Harvard University
Brandt
District of Columbia
German Marshall Fund
China Greece to establish diplomatic ties
The New China News Agency announced that China and Greece have agreed to recognize each other and establish diplomatic relations starting today. Both governments will honor sovereignty and territorial integrity, noninterference, and equality and mutual benefit.
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Tokyo
China
Greece
Peking
New China
Protesters Plan Symbolic Blockade of Carrier America
In Norfolk, protesters calling the aircraft carrier America a monstrous death ship plan a symbolic blockade by canoes and sailboats as the vessel departs for Vietnam. Spokesman Bob Levering of the Ad Hoc Committee to Stop the America announced the action.
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Norfolk, Va
America
Norfolk
Nam
Bob Levering
The
Aged Woman Drowns in Son’s Pool in Appalachi n
In Appalachi n New York an 87 year old woman, Saran Wood, drowned in her son T W Woods backyard pool. Deputies said she slipped and fell into the pool and was recovered by a local emergency squad after her son could not locate her.
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Appalachin
N.Y
Tioga County
Saran Wood
T. W. Wood
Quie predicts House approval of $21.3B education bill
Rep Albert Quie states the House will pass the Senate backed 21.3 billion education measure this week despite close votes. The bill includes strict busing limits tied to desegregation and delays federal court orders until appeals are exhausted or January 1, 1974, with related funding restrictions debated by supporters and opponents.
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Rep
Quie
Washington
Senate
House
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
Nixon
Congress
White House
Gerald R. Ford
Circus Rigger Charged in Kirkwood Woman’s Strangulation
Theodore W. Hixon Jr., 25, a circus rigger, is held on murder charges in the strangulation death of Teresa Mary Tator in Kirkwood New York. The body was found in Stanley Hollow Creek. A coroner ruled death by strangulation. Hixon was arrested at Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus and remanded to jail with bail set.
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Kirkwood
N.Y
Theodore W. Hixon, Jr
Binghamton
Teresa Mary Tator
Stanley Hollow Creek
Red Drive Struggles in An Loc and Kontum Yet Advances in Que Son
AP reports the North Vietnamese offensive slowed at An Loc Kontum and Hue while pressing forward in the Que Son Valley south of Da Nang. Que Son district chief Maj. Nguyen Cong Chinh says the 50 day push has captured a neighboring district and threatens another as U S advisers stay in a deep command bunker.
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An Loc
Komtum
Hue
Que Son Valley
Que Son
Vietnam
Kontum
da Nang
Nguyen Cong Chinh
Chinh
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