Hijackers Free Hostages After Jet Bombing and Escape
Passengers and crew were freed after a three hour thirty five minute hijack on a Japan Airlines 747 from Amsterdam to Tokyo via Anchorage. The aircraft exploded as hijackers detonated grenades and Libyan soldiers and airport police assisted, leaving only the wings and gutted fuselage bearing Japan Air Lines. The hijackers claimed ties to the Palestinian guerrilla group Sons of the Occupied Territories and the Japanese Red Army. Several passengers were injured or treated, with two hospitalized.
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Sons of
Occupied Territories
Red Army
Amsterdam
Tokyo
Anchorage
Alaska
Ine
Transit plan outlines Southland light rail corridors
A regional plan details an Los Angeles area network with a Santa Monica corridor along Wilshire to La Brea and Crenshaw, a Santa Ana Freeway crossing, and a later conversion potential for busways into rapid transit. It describes routes through Boyle Heights, Maywood, Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, and Norwalk to Sepulveda, Norwalk, and El Segundo corridors.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Aviation Boulevard
Rosecrans Avenue
Hawthorne Boulevard
del Amo
Los Angeles Central Business District
Boyle Heights
Santa Ana Freeway
Los Angeles River
Maywood, Bell, Cudahy and
South Gate
Southern Pacific
Prairne. County
Fl Segundo-Norwalk
el Segundo-Norwalk
Los Angeles Basin
Imperial Highway
Sepulveda Boulevard
el Segundo
Norwalk
Painter pinned to frame with screwdriver in France
In St Etienne two men pinned Swiss painter Pierre Strapp to the frame of his painting with a screwdriver and gagged him. He was found unconscious on a country road and taken to a hospital in Fleurs. Strapp could not identify his attackers and said he was abducted while en route to visit a client.
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ST Etmenne
France
Pierre’ Strapp
Strapp
Fleurs
Ehrlichman claims Dean lied to White House panel
Ehrlichman asserts former aide John Dean lied to the panel about Watergate and the break in. He says Nixon believed the break in was a vital national security matter and that he did not authorize illegal actions. Ehrlichman recounts interactions on secrecy, surveillance, and attempts to manage disclosures.
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Alty
John N. Mitehall
Elisberg
White House
Nixon
George McGovert
Uhrlichman
Ehrlichman
Ellsberg
Ehrelichman
Pentagon
U.S
Soviet Union
Lam
Enrlichman
Frielichman
Joseph Kraft
Brookings Institution
Washington
Dean
Charles W. Colson
Colson
Whrlitchman
John Dean
Democratic Party
Ner
Nixon subpoenas widen Watergate probes clash
Subpoenas compel Nixon to reveal tapes and documents as Cox and the Senate committee press for access. White House argues presidential conversations must stay confidential, citing separation of powers and constitutional protections while Ervin and Baker caution against shielding the truth.
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White House
Cox
Senate Committee
Nixon
Warren
Richardson
Justus Department
Congress
Supreme Court
Committee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
N.C
Charles Alan Wright
Ervin
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Rufus L. Edmisten
Leonard
Edmisten
Pinte House
J. Fred Buzhardt
Samuel Cash
Dean
Secorai Committee
John D. Bhelichman
H.R. Haldeman
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Food prices rise as shoppers buy more pork and bacon
In Los Angeles area stores pork, chicken, eggs and deli meats cost more with Ralphs raising pork loin to 1.05 per pound and bacon to 1.49 per pound. An Alpha Beta official noted beef demand increased as pork rose, with overall pork product prices up about 30 cents per pound since the price ceiling ended last Wednesday.
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Los Angeles
Ralphs
Alpha Beta
Airliner Crashes in Storm Fireball Sighted by Rescuers
Howard Porter described leaping a fence to reach the wreckage after a plane collapsed in a storm. Joan Weber reported a flash of lightning and a high pitched howl as trees exploded. An FAA official said the craft vanished from radar about a mile from the airport while at roughly 600 feet. Eight survivors were reported, with Linke among the injured removed from the wreckage.
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Howard Porter
FAA
Linke
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PRESS
PAN
Damascus
Syria
L.B
Southland
Tierra Blanca
Mexico
Maria Luisa Rascon
Red Cross
of National Security Information
California
Lewis Fielding
Msberg
PROM
H. R. Haldeman
Mr. Dean
John W. Dean
Oval Office
Aaa
Carl
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