Plane hijack ends in gunfight as two hijackers are killed
FBI agents stormed a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 787 after a six hour hijack from Sacramento to Los Angeles. Two hijackers died in the battle aboard the plane with passengers still on board. a passenger also died and two were wounded. Names listed include Dimitr Alexieff and Michael Armanoff. Passengers Leo A. Gormley and Victor Sen Yung were among the wounded. The incident marked the FBI's first armed boarding of a loaded passenger airliner.
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San Francisco
FBI
Robert Gebhardt
Gebhardt
Siberia
Manuel Alvarez
Sacramento
Calif
Alvarez
Los Angeles
San Francisco International
Dimitr Alexieff
Hayward
Michael Armanoff
Peninsula Hospital
Burlingame
E. H. Stanley Carter
Canadian National Railway
Longueuil
Que
Leo A. Gormley
van Nuys
Victor Sen Yung
Universal City
Dave Gardella
PSA
Ottawa Okays Pact With KCP&L Power Co
Ottawa city commissioners approved a five year contract with Kansas City Power and Light to ensure emergency power supply. They set bids for paying two blocks on Grant and one on North Sycamore by 4 p.m. July 19 and scheduled a Planning Commission meeting for July 11 with six zoning requests for discussion. One petition from Robert W. Pence seeks rezoning west Main between 13th and 15th from residential to commercial for a Pence supermarket and a discount department store.
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Ron Womble
Ottawa
Kansas City Power and Light Co
Fred Zook
Robert Mills
Water and Light
Russell Baker
Grant
Sycamore
City Planning Commission
Robert W. Pence
Main
13Th
15Th
Pence
Rural church bus buys midweek ride for seniors
A First Baptist Church charity bus-service from Ottawa ferries elderly residents from Rantoul Wellsville and other towns for free visits to Ottawa. The 10 500 Greyhound coach funds transport began in January mainly for choir trips but now serves shoppers doctors appointments and county business. The church plans expansion and stresses no daily schedule.
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Larry Christ
Ottawa
Rantoul
Wellsville
First Baptist Church
Los Angeles
Pomona
Williamsburg
Princeton
Homewood
Lane
LeLoup
Demos Seek Supreme Court Ruling On McGovern Delegates
Washington AP report says Democratic forces ask Chief Justice Burger to convene a special session to resolve whether McGovern should receive 151 California delegates and challenge Illinois seating. Daley faction seeks federal intervention to seat 58 Illinois delegates. Court had suspended ruling effect until 2 p.m. McGovern claimed over 1,509 delegate votes for nomination.
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Washington
Warren E. Burger
Supreme Court
George McGowin
Democratic Party
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
U.S
Burger
Party
McGovern
California
Daley
Illinois
Court of Appeals
Laird Attacks McGovern Defense Cut Plan
Secretary Laird called Senator McGovern's proposal to cut defense by 30 billion dollars a drastic signal of waning will and international stability. He tied the plan to a white flag of surrender while outlining Pentagon analyses and contrasting it with the Nixon administration's defense stance.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
George McGovern
America
Miami Beach
Laird
McGovern
Nixon
Pentagon
Area Weather County Forecast
Partly cloudy and warmer with southerly winds 10 to 26 mph this afternoon and tonight. Widely scattered thundershowers possible with low tonight in the upper 50s. Friday unsettled with scattered thundershowers, high in the upper 70s to low 80s, 20 percent tonight and 30 percent Friday. High Wednesday 77, today’s low 49, year ago high 69, year ago low 42, record high 107 in 1939, record low 49 in 1972. Hourly temperatures shown ending at 4 a.m. today.
Benefit Scheduled in Princeton for Burn Victims
A Saturday fundraiser in Princeton aims to defray medical costs for burn victims Phil Fredricks and Richard Foltz from a June 18 grease pit fire at Foltzs Champlin Service Station at US 59 and John Brown Highway. Foltz faces weeks more in KU Medical Center and Fredricks months. The Never Ending Fate drummer, Fredricks, plans to recover while band members. R W Snow Dusty Hubbard and Mike Clark plus Dean Medlin will perform a teen dance at 8:30 p.m. with an ice cream social at 6 p.m. and pony rides for kids at the firehouse on Main Street.
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Princeton
Phil Fredricks
Richard Foltz
Foltz
Champlin
US 59
John Brown Highway
Fredricks
KU Medical Center
Central Heights
R. W. Snow
Dusty Hubbard
Mike Clark
Dean Medlin
Main Street
Quang Tri Defenders Hang On Under Air Attack
U S Navy fighter-bombers hit North Vietnamese bunkers south of Quang Tri City as paratroopers advance on the provincial capital. About 180 NVA deaths reported. South Vietnamese losses 10 killed and 90 wounded. Hue shelled 100 shells with 1 wounded and church damaged. Saigon claims 208 NVA killed and 45 weapons captured along Cambodian border. 4 South Vietnamese dead and 31 wounded.
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Saigon
Quang Tri City
Associated Press
Dennis Neeld
Highway 1
Ngo Quang Truong
Hue
Protestants Seek More Concessions in NI Cease Fire
In Belfast the Ulster Defence Association threatened to barricade a Protestant section this weekend and then grant 14 days of peace for British forces to address the deteriorating security situation. William Whitelaw warned no more no go areas would be tolerated as UDA men pledge to stand in full strength for July 12 Orange Order parades.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ulster Defense Association
Britain
William Whitelaw
UDA
Orange Order
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Kcp&l
N. Cedar
Joe Towner
Jim McCrossen
Demos
High Court
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democratic National Committee
Joseph A. Califano
Appeals-Court
Quang Tri
Gail Farrow
Urbana
Ohio
Neeld
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