Memorial Service for Evansville Victims Draws 4000
Evansville community gathered at Roberts Arena for a memorial service for the University of Evansville players and others killed in the DC-3 crash. Gov. Bowen Sen Bayh and NCAA officials attended as local leaders urged resilience, with Evansville cancelling the rest of the 1977 78 basketball schedule and pledging $19000 to aid crash expenses. Weather was ruled out as a major factor by federal investigators.
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Bireh Bayh
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Lewis J. Spry
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Helpevansville
Uniersity
Wallace E. Graves
Cypriots demand death to kidnappers after Kyprianou son release
In Nicosia 40,000 Greek Cypriots filled Freedom Square to back President Spyros Kyprianou after his son Achilleas was freed by right wing extremists. The president forgave the kidnappers and vowed not to prosecute, saying a civil war crisis was averted. The EOKA-B group, linked to the 1974 coup, was blamed for the kidnapping, which occurred near a Troodos mountain camp.
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Cyprus
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Sicasia
Spyros Kyprianou
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Prianou
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Greece
Makarias
Kyprianou
Nicosh
Makarios
Achilleas Kyprianou
Marcos
Achileas
Troodos
Eoka-B
Vasos Paviites
Enosis
Three Teens Held in Georgia Church Fires
Three white teenagers about 16 years old are jailed in Lincoln County Georgia on suspicion of starting fires that destroyed four black churches. The blazes occurred within minutes of each other Sunday night, all within 20 miles in Lincoln and Wilkes counties, with no injuries reported. Investigators suspect tampered gas heaters ignited the fires, and officials note no confirmed race motive. The Zora CME Church, Mulberry Baptist, Union MU Zion Baptist, and Antioch CME Church were damaged. the suspects are unnamed due to juvenile status.
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Georgia
Wilkes County
Cecil Moore
Lincoln County
Moore
MU. Zion Baptist Church
Mulberry Baptist Church
Zora Cme Church
Antioch Cme
Barner Gartrell
Zora
Captain Hook actor Cyril Ritchard dies at 79
Cyril Ritchard famed for Captain Hook in Peter Pan on television and on Broadway dies after a heart failure at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He will be buried beside his wife Madge Elliott in Ridgefield Connecticut. Born in Sydney, his career spanned six decades with works including Visit to a Small Planet and The Roar of the Greasepaint.
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United States
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Cyril Trimmed Ritchard
Sydney University
New York
London
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