Sniper Battle Rages as Hotel Siege Claims Seven
A gunfight and hostage fire raged around a hotel as snipers held positions on the roof and in a concrete end structure. Police, fire crews, and helicopter gunships battled the scene while officials warned of a possible national terror plot.
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Green Beret's turn to oppose war as hotel sniper attack unfolds
Ernest R. Pounder, a 28 year old Green Beret and former Kennedy detail member, renounces uniforms after Jan 1, cites the Vietnam War as insane. He returns 24 medals and seeks conscientious objector status amid a New Orleans hotel sniper siege that wounds and kills police and firemen.
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U S diplomat dies in Nicaragua from bullet wound
UPI reports James P. Hargrove, 44, U S consul in Matagua Nicaragua died of a head wound likely accidental from a small caliber pistol late Friday. He was flown to Gorgas Hospital in the Canal Zone and died Saturday. Hargrove had served in Managua since 1970 after five years as consul in Dusseldorf and a 1957 Foreign Service entry.
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Kissinger Will Try One More Major Vietnam Peace Move
Paris UPI Henry Kissinger arrived for one more major effort to end the Vietnam war and meet with Le Duc Tho at an undisclosed location possibly Garches. North Vietnam denounced Nixon as a tyrant worse than Hitler as talks set to resume with Porter and Lem presiding. The U S hopes for seriousness though no side signals willingness to compromise.
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Skyjackers Hijack Model Planes With Radio Signals
Police hunt air craft hijackers who steal radio control model planes by beaming their own signals to divert the aircraft off course in Cannock England. The incident marks a new type of hobbyist theft targeting model aviation.
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Bombing run over Da Nang veers off course says officials
Initial reports describe five U S bombers flying in a radar guided mission over South Vietnam near Da Nang. The planes were said to be cruising at around 2500 feet when they veered off course according to command accounts.
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Plane crash claims pilot in street aftermath
In Norwalk a single engine Starduster SA 100 lightning-struck crash killed the pilot as the craft screamed off the runway. Witnesses from a nearby hangar recalled engine failure and the plane colliding with an open area, with Renfroe a WWII ferry pilot and Co owner of a communications center among the victims.
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Nixon names Johnson to lead SALT talks and arms agency
President Nixon selected U Alexis Johnson to be chief U S negotiator at the SALT talks with the Soviet Union and to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency full time. Johnson, 64, will replace Gerard C Smith who resigned, with a new State Department replacement and a full time arms chief to follow.
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Antiwar leaders urge cut in Viet funding at rally
Joan Baez Darel Elisberg and Rev Philip Berrigan urged about 1500 protesters in Los Angeles to pressure Congress to vote to cut off funds for the Vietnam War. Berrigan, released from prison for breaking into a draft board, said the Nixon administration holds the public in utter contempt and called for action to stop murders and barbarities in Southeast Asia.
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