Fatal Flight 114 Saga Over Sinai Described
A Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 94 passengers and a 9 member crew, including five French nationals, is shot down by Israeli Phantoms after entering Sinai airspace. Captain Jacques Bourges attempts to land near Cairo but veers toward Israel. missiles and cannon fire bring the plane down, killing most on board and leaving only a handful alive.
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Sinai Desert
Tel Aviv
Israel
Libyan Arab Airlines
Tripoli
Benghazi
Libya
Cairo
Jacques Bourges
Bourges
Wladyslaw Borysoglebski
Chicago
London
Air France
Jean-Pierre Burdiat
Paris
Fayoum
Suez
Burchat
Egypt
Burciat
Feisel Mohammed Sharaya
Boeing
Sinai
Hod
Bir Gafgafa
Suez Canal
A-Sharaya
Great Bitter Lake
Flight 114
Burdiat
Dollar plunges on Europe exchanges amid gold surge
In London and other markets the US dollar tumbled to new lows as Europe’s exchange rates moved toward a joint float. State banks stepped in to buy dollars, easing a chaotic session while gold prices hit fresh peaks and Swiss and British currencies fluctuated.
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London
West Europe
Switzerland
Swiss Exchange
U.S
Britain
Anthony Barber
House of Commons
House Passes Juco Funds Hike
Kansas House approved a bill to boost state funding for public community junior colleges by more than 10 million dollars, doubling aid per credit hour from 8 to 16 and shifting full out of district tuition funding to the state. Some members praised it as tax relief, others warned of possible tax increases. a set of amendments to reduce the aid was rejected. The measure moves to the Senate for consideration.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
House
Senate
Jim Maag
Dodge City
Chevron expands mineral rights in Franklin County area
Chevron Oil Company based in Denver has purchased mineral rights on eight properties in extreme northwestern Franklin County. Leases cover parts in Appanoose Township and some land in Douglas County, with ties to four recent Coffey County wildcat oil strikes drilling at 2,000 to 3,000 feet. Owners include C K Rich Quenemo W D Worthington Pomona John W Snyder Overbrook Clyde Wiscombe Pomona Wilbur Wright Lawrence Kenneth Callicott and Arthur Keefer.
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Chevron Oil Company
Denver, Colo
Franklin County
Register of Deeds Office
Chevron
Appanoose Township
Douglas County
Coffey County
John W. Snyder
Overbrook
ICCS probes downing of US helicopter in Vietnam
The International Commission of Control and Supervision opened its first inquiry into the February 16 helicopter shoot down near Saigon. Five crewmen burned, one died today of his injuries in Okinawa. The incident prompts disputes over investigation access and peacekeeping aircraft markings.
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Saigon
International Commission of Control and Supervision
U.S
Commission
Bien Hoa
Joint Military Commission
International Commission
United States
James L. Scroggins
Mulberry Grove
Ill
Okinawa
Vietnam
Death Penalty and Abortion Bills Backed by SJC
Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill to impose a mandatory death penalty for four murder classes including officer, firefighter, prison employee, and inmate murders, while rejecting a broader 14-case plan. It also approved an abortion bill allowing most procedures within 24 weeks with health of mother as a condition after.
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Vern Miller
Kansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Miller
Suez Crash Remains Return to Egypt Amid Tensions
Israeli ferries carried victims across the Suez Canal to Egypt as coffins were transferred at Al Quantara under Red Cross supervision. Libyan Boeing 727 crash victims numbered 113 aboard. 104 remain reportedly sent to the canal with seven survivors in hospital. Arab states threaten reprisals as Israel asserts no political meaning to the crash.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Suez Canal
Egypt
al Quantara
International Red Cross
Canal
Israel Hospital
Libya
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Steward Burchat
Lebanon
The
Suez City
Air Force
Mordechai Hod
Tokyo
Brussels
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
Belgium
Netherlands
West Germany
Zurich
Europe
Roger Turner
Wichita
Turner
Roger Robertson
D-Hutchinson
Kansas House
Chevron Hot
C. K. Rich
Quenemo
W. D. Worthington
Pomona
Clyde I. Wiscombe
RFD
James Wiscombe
Wilbur L. Wright
Lawrence
Kenneth. Callicott and
Arthur W. Keefer
ICCS
Sa Huynh
Duc Co
Highlands
SJC
Moshe Dayan
Golda Meir
Washington
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