Train collision probes focus on car strength
Federal and state officials investigate the IC commuter wreck near Chicago that killed 44 and injured more than 300. The crash involved a rear collision as a lighter steel car set backed toward a South Side station, prompting questions about car construction and signal protection. Volpe and safety chief Wakeland oversee the federal probe while Gov Ogilvie orders a state inquiry.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
South Side
Transportation
John Volpe
Hendy Wakeland
Department’s
Bureau of Transportation Safety
Nixon
George McGovern
Pittsburgh
Volpe
Washington
Elizabethport
Richard B. Ogilvie
27Th Street
Robert W. Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
Michael Reese Hospital
Communist forces launch 100 plus incidents in Vietnam
Across South Vietnam, Communist forces conducted more than 100 attacks, including two assaults on Ba To Ranger Camp and Que Son district town, with heavy shelling near Da Nang. Casualties reported at Que Son and Ba To, while Viet Cong efforts to infiltrate hamlets continued and B52 strikes hit southern caches.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Sith
Ba T
Que Son
da Nang
Quang Tri
Thua Thien
Ba To
Que S00
Highway 1
Sai
Kontum
Pleiku
Highlands
Mekong
Rach Gia
U. S
North Vietnam
Indian mother protests by pitching teepee on federal land
Indian mother and her five children pitched a teepee on federal land in Phoenix vowing to stay until discrimination by white men ends. Parked near the Indian Medical Center she cites housing, jobs, education and medical discrimination. she has a welfare check and a history of protests in Chicago and eviction for nonpayment of rent. She links hardships to the Menominee relocation from federal control and Wisconsin county status, saying landlords and schools discriminate against her as an emancipated Indian with many children.
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Phoenix
Aziz
Carol Warrington
Wisconsin
Wrigley Field
Chicago
Indian Medical Center
Stephenson accepts new post with Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Bart Stephenson will become assistant district supervisor in the Odessa office on November 1. The district covers 22 counties. He has worked from Pecos with Reeves, Loving, Pecos and Terrell counties for 12 years, praising cooperation from the people and law enforcement. He previously served in Dallas, Big Spring, and Odessa before moving to Pecos.
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Bart Stephenson
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Odessa
Stephenson
Pecos
Reeves, Loving
Terrell
Enterprise
Commission
Dallas
Big Spring
Security lack blamed for hijack at Houston airport
A passenger recounts the Eastern Airlines hijack to Cuba in which a ticket agent was shot dead and four armed men loitered in Houston Intercontinental Airport for over an hour. Airport security officials defend measures, while FBI and local authorities pursue the hijackers, including leader Charles A. Tuller Jr. and his son Bryce. This marked Houston’s first ground hijacking.
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Houston
Eastern Airlines
Cuba
Here
Houston Aviation
Joe Foster
U. S
Houston Intercontinental Airport
Roy Shaw Jr
Foster
Tuller
Hubbard
New Orleans
San Antonio
George P. Franklin
Shaw
Franklin
Als Munday
Thomas J. Jordan
FBI
Bryce
Tullers
William Willie Graham
Virginia
China's women’s lib version guiding population control
Dr Lin Ch'ioa chih, a 71 year old gynecologist from China, says the Chinese version of women’s lib helps curb births for 800 million people. She notes 90 percent of Chinese women work or study, infant mortality fell, and contraception is free. rural brides marry younger while urban women delay marriage into their 20s or 30s.
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San Francisco
China
Lin Ch’ioachih
Lin
People’s Republic of China
United States
Syntex Research
Palo Alto
Calif
Liberation
People’s Republic
Phy
Dr. Lin
Million-dollar check joke ends in small balance
Rahmi Capan, a 26 year old Turkish student at the University of Tulsa, showed friends a $1,000,615.05 check from a Grand Junction bank intended as a joke. He had asked for $15.05 and calls to report the error, noting the bank told him to return the check at once.
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Tulsa
Okla
Rahmi Capan
Capan
University of Tulsa
Grand Junction
Colo
Canadians vote tight in 29th general election outcome
Canada’s voters faced a near dead heat as results from the 29th general election showed Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau leading with 108 seats and Conservative Robert Stanfield at 107 after counting, with neither party near a majority and weeks of possible uncertainty ahead.
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Toronto
Canada
House of Commons
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Liberals
Robert L. Stanfield
Conservatives
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