Hostage girl rescued as police kill two terrorists
In Istanbul police stormed a third floor apartment freeing 14 year old Sibel Erkan after a three minute gun battle that left one kidnapper dead and the other critically wounded. The rescue followed a siege linked to the murder of Israeli official Ephraim Elrom.
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Istanbul
APP
Sibel Erkan
Huseyin Cevahis
Mauir Cayan
Eph
Raim Elrom
Elrom
Turkish People’s Liberation Army
Cevahir
Cayan
Ankara
Sibel
Adiyaman
Liberation Army
Syra
Sinan Cemgil
U.S
Muzaffer Caglar
U S Bombers Cover Snuol Retreat in Cambodia Action
U S B52 bombers and allied aircraft hit North Vietnamese troops on the edges of Snuol and inside a Cam bodian rubber town to cover a South Vietnamese retreat. Reports say about 200 Saigon soldiers were killed or wounded, while allies claim 700 enemy losses. Helicopters and fighter bombers conducted hundreds of missions as fleeing South Vietnamese abandoned vehicles and equipment.
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Saigon
Snuol
Loc Ninh
U.S
Sauol
Cambodia
Snuoi
le Trung Hien
Sheriff Believes Gravesites May Have Been Unfilled in Slayings
Sheriff Roy Whiteaker says some orchard graves probed in the mass slaying case may have been dug as graves and later filled with no bodies. He hopes to be near a final grave as deputies search remaining underwater and sunken sites. Juan Corona, 37, is held on 10 murder charges in the Beierman killings.
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Yuba City
Calif
Roy Whiteaker
Whiteaker
Roy Delong
Marysville
Sigurd E. Beierman
Delong
Belerman
Corona
Goro Kaghiro
Kaghiro
J. L.sullivan Ranch
Juan V. Corona
Yuba County
Wreckage Found Of Murphy Airplane Near Roanoke Mountaintop
Rescue teams located the chartered plane carrying World War II hero Audie Murphy and five others on Brushy Mountain near Roanoke Virginia. Three bodies had been identified by features, three were badly burned. Murphy’s business manager Lin coln Carle said indications point to Audie Murphy though confirmation awaited.
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Roanoke
Audie Murphy
Roanoke Community Hospital
Audie
Lincoln Carle
Murphy
Martinsville
Here
Atlanta
Claude Crosby
Modular Management
Modular Properties Inc
Jack Littleton
Fort Collins
Colo
Lenoir Corp
Raymond Prater
Chattanooga
Rogers Goes To Lisbon For NATO Force-Reduction Talks
Secretary of State William P. Rogers heads to Lisbon for NATO foreign ministers talks on a possible mutual European force cut with the Soviets. The 10 day trip includes visits to Paris for OECD talks and Brussels to meet European Community officials as US allies weigh proposals and formats for East West negotiations.
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Washington
Willian P. Rogers
Lisbon
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Moscow
Senate
U.S
Europe
Rogers
Paris
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
Brussels
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Kremlin
United States
Japan builds sea lab for undersea research
A boiler shaped sea lab designed for undersea living houses aquanauts in Japan's first undersea living experiment by the Science and Technology Agency. Built at Kawasaki shipyards, the craft measures 33 feet long 13 wide and 21 high with an air conditioned interior and compact living work facilities for a four man crew.
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Japan
Science and Technology Agency
Kawasaki
Western Union Strikes Nation Wide Over Wages and Jobs
Two unions representing 21 000 Western Union employees walked out at 12 01 a.m. shutting public offices and halting domestic telegrams and money orders. UTW and CWA rejected a 20 percent two year offer, seeking 31 percent, while the company proposed staged raises and tariffBased increments. Security provisions include forbidding contracting out and restricting transfers as bargaining collapsed after six weeks of talks.
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NEW York
Western Union
United Telegraph Work
Ers
Communications Workers of America
Afl-Cio
Earl D. Hilburn
UTW
CWA
New Jersey
Federal Communications Commission
United Steelworkers Reach New Aluminum Contracts
The United Steelworkers and four major aluminum companies end negotiations on three year deals covering about 61,000 workers with average pay increases around 30 percent over the period. Alcoa Kaiser Reynolds and Ormet sign similar settlements with the Aluminum Workers International Union.
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New York
United States 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
L W. Abel
Reynolds
Aluminum Workers International Union
Kaiser
Ormet
USW
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Cihan Alptekii
People’s Liberation Army
SNOUL
Phnom Penh
Carle
Terry
Mexico
Butler
Woodrum
Murphy Party
Federal Aviation Administration
Wanda Hendrix
Pamela
James
North Hollywood
James Bond
United Steelworkers
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