DC9 Crashes Into Sea Killing 102 Near Dominican Republic
A DC9 operated by Dominican Airways plunged into the sea after losing power and entering a right turn. Among 102 aboard were 97 passengers and five crew, including boxing champion Carlos Teo Cruz and relatives. Also aboard were a 12 member Puerto Rican women's volleyball team and the wife and daughter of a former president involved in a 1961 plot. Carmine Rosa Sabater, later spared, had traveled to San Juan for an dinner with Olympic officials.
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Dominican Airways
George Paine
John Paine
Sandusa
Nelida Simonelli
Carlos Teo” Cruz
Antonia Imbert Barreras
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina
Carmine Rosa Sabater
San Juan
Puerto Rica
Prisoner Calls for Prisons Reform and Rehab
Former inmate Ryan urges reforms after seven days in a maximum security cell. He argues longer sentences don’t deter crime, cites California’s high recidivism, stresses rehabilitation, and calls for transparency on sentence lengths while planning talks with prison officials.
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Ryan
California
Lis
Riot Trial Attorneys Given Jail Sentences
Contempt sentences imposed on seven defense lawyers in the riot trial sparked appeals plans. Kunstler received the stiffest term, while Dellinger got the longest among defendants. Judge Hoffman criticized courtroom conduct as defense lawyers push for bond and potential Supreme Court review.
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Weinglass
Hoffman
Kunstler
Americas
Bobby G. Seale
Black Panther Party
Huffman
Seale
David
Dellinger
Tee Weiner
Kunsler
Cima
Marion Stavis
Aw Center For Contitutional Studies
New York
Stavis
Supreme Court
Students in India halt train amid student strike
About 100 students halted a train by lying on the tracks, then stoned a car during a general student strike in Rajasthan. Police intervened, driving them off before a dining car and several passenger cars were damaged.
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Kew
Delhi
India
Rajasthn
United News of India
Cluba
Fear 15 Dead in Fire at Apartment House
In Brockton Massachusetts a four story wooden apartment building burned early today. Firemen recovered one body and searched for 14 missing residents, with police reporting up to 22 missing at one point. Six hospitalized for smoke inhalation or minor injuries. The front section collapsed as flames spread, and cranes were used to clear wreckage for rescues.
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Brockton
Mass
Lai
Edward Burrell
Tames
Willliam Loring
Public Help Delivers Missing Child Support Check
Action Line covers a county misrouting of a December child support payment, resolves the issue after multiple calls, and confirms the check will be sent promptly. Includes a literary query about a 1948 Jordan High School graduate and a Harper’s Magazine article. Also notes Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor’s Night Walker as the last film they made together and pension rules for widows of wartime servicemen.
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Compton
Action Line
Q. Malcolm Epley
Jordan High School
Harper's Magazine
North Long Beach
A. S
Long Beach
Ocean Boulevard
Pacific Avenue
Harper’s
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
L. M
Lakewood
Walker
Universal Studios
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
Taylor
Miss Stanwyck
Manson Loses Motions in Speedy Trial Dispute
Manson fails two motions challenging the speedy trial rule as judges deny his requests for transcripts and claim the 60 day clock starts from the plea. He complains of restricted communications while awaiting court actions and blames publicity for delays. Two judges rule on indigment timing and access to transcripts.
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Manson
Johnson
Kennedy
Cone
William Keene
Lucas
Flood and Snow Displace West Virginia Families
Snow and sleet glazed the Northeast while rivers rose across West Virginia forcing about 100 families from Logan along the Tug River and 31 more from Island Creek and near Matewan. Temperatures plunged to minus 23 in International Falls, Minnesota as heavy snow reached the Great Lakes and Sierra Nevada regions issued travel warnings.
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West Virginia
Midwest
Logan
Tug River
Island Creek
Kentucky
Matewan
Canadian
Dakotas
Michigan
Internatonal Falls
Minn
Great Lakes
Cabin Cruiser Explosion Kills One in Harbor Area
An Anaheim man was killed when his 36 foot cabin cruiser Argosy exploded five miles from Los Angeles Harbor on Sunday. Kenneth Ferguson, 33, of Placentia, survived with facial injuries after a long lifeboat ordeal and was treated at Harbor General Hospital. The cause remains unknown as Coast Guard searched the area for hours with cutters and helicopters.
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Lakewood
Veterans Administration
Los Angeles
Veterans Hospital
Seventh Street
Bellflower Boulevard
Long Keach
Anaheim
Los Angeles Harbor
Coast Guard
Debeis
Argosy
Murray B MacFarlane
Lemon St
Kenneth Perguson
Placentia
Perguson
Harbor General Hospital
J.g. W. A. Schott
Newport Beach
Long Beach
Schott
Ferguson
Coast Card
Bollard
Maclfarlane
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