Balloon protest over airport loud enough to raise jets
William Looney of Berkeley, Missouri tested a method by tying three gas balloons to a fishing line and letting them rise about 50 feet to argue that jetliners land at Lambert Airport too low. FAA considered the balloons a hazard and asked police to intervene. Looney may retry if winds permit.
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William Looney
St. Louis
Berkeley
Looney
Lambert-St. Louis
Federal Aviation Administration
Kosygin Seeks Better U S China Ties in Broad Speech
Premier Kosygin told a Moscow audience that the Soviet Union would strive to improve relations with both the United States and Communist China while criticizing their current policies. He urged Washington to withdraw troops from Indochina and accused U S policy of hindering a peaceful settlement in the Middle East. He also warned against aggressive U S actions and called for normalization of Soviet Chinese relations despite sharp differences with Beijing.
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Moscow
Alexei N. Kosygin
Soviet Union
United States
China
Kosygin
Washington
Indoschina
U.S
Israel
Middle East
Supreme Shavidt
Peking
Bolshoi Theater
Indochina
Vietnam
Nixon
Egypt
Syria
Kremlin
Blast injures seven boys in Italy field incident
Seven boys aged eleven to thirteen were injured when a World War I hand grenade found in a field exploded after they threw it into a fire. The blast occurred near Massalombarda in Italy.
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Massalombarda
Italy
UPL
Fragmentary Press-Telegram item from June 970
A severely damaged OCR piece shows partial headlined text and stray letters. The readable fragment offers no clear event, person, or location details to summarize into a complete news item.
Charge Favoritism Shown in $50 Million Space Pact
Washington: Congressional investigators and the GAO probe charges NASA favored General Electric in a $40 million satellite contract. A Fairchild Hiller bidder claims leaks and coincidences tied design features, while NASA cites procurement rules and an internal mis dating, with Sen. Proxmire pushing the wider issue of agency bias toward large firms.
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Washington
UPI
Congressional
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
General Telectric Co
Congress
Joint Economic Committee
General Accounting Office
Fairchild Hiller Corp
Germantown
Fairchild-Hiller
NASA
Fairchild-Hitler
United Press International
John F. Dealy
General Electric
Ventura high school editor barred from graduation rites
A Buena High School editor, 17, loses eligibility for graduation after the Ventura Unified School District board upheld the administration’s suspension of David McMillan over a controversial front page in Buena Vista. The image depicted a hand with a middle finger over the administration building, prompting protests from students and parents.
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Ventura i
Buena High School
Ventura Unified School District
David McMillan
McMillan
Buena Vista
Time Bomb Strikes New York Police Headquarters
A time bomb exploded in a men’s room at New York City Police Headquarters two minutes after a telephoned warning. Sixteen sticks of dynamite timed to detonate at 6 45 pm caused extensive debris but no major structural damage. The Weather Man claimed responsibility, while authorities searched for the perpetrators amid a wave of past blasts.
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New York
City Police
Associated Press
Weatherman
Manhattan
John Walsh
Howard Leary
West Germany
Greenwich Village
Lower East Side
New
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Mae” Mickrell
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