Hollywood hostage prank ends with police sweep
In Hollywood a prank call tied up 60 officers as a caller claimed to be from the Los Angeles Police Department and demanded that Gerri and others identify themselves The women were terrified as officers surrounded the house and ordered lights on then a cruiser approached Inside the house the echo of radio chatter confirmed no SLA presence only frightened civilians JSON
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Hollywood
Patricia Hearst
Gerri
Los Angeles
Joan
Miss Hearst
Australia
United States
SLA
Ed Davis
Oakland
Joseph M. Remiro
Christopher Thompson
FBI
Russell Little
Davis
Cleveland
Nelano DeFreeze
Catse
Symbionese Liberation Army
Cinque
Donald DeFreese
Bamner
Donald
Hearst Kidnapping Case Charges Probe Intensifies
Miss Hearst faces charges including kidnapping and armed robbery amid a nationwide manhunt. Authorities report witnesses, grand jury testimony, and a taped family appeal as FBI and police widen the search and link seized weapons to SLA members in the Foster murder case.
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Hearst
Busch
Poole
U.S
California
Miss Hearst
FBI
Rex I. Shroder
San Diego
SLA
Baja California
Salvador Hirales
Tijuaga
Los Angeles
Thomas Matthews
Vicki Hearst
Vicki
Anne
Hillsborough
John Lester
Lester
Hearsts
Patty
Weed
Marcus Foster
Oakland
Hostage Crisis at Kowloon Bank Ends with Standoff
In Kowloon Hong Kong police placed sharpshooters outside a small bank after a man seized 12 hostages during a failed robbery and threatened to kill them all unless offered two escape vehicles per authorities.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Kowloon Bank
Kissinger and Golda accord on Middle East cease fire
Kissinger and Golda Meir indicate progress on a possible American plan to ease fighting in the Middle East. A recent proposal helped break a deadlock on cease fire lines with Israel and Syria. Dispute remains over the size of a United Nations force along the Golan Heights demarcation line.
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Shimon Peres
Middle Road
United Nations
Golan Heights
Israel
Syria
Nixon Wins Rounds on Tapes in Watergate Battles
Washington UPI report details a series of court rulings and subpoenas in the Watergate era. Nixon wins a key round allowing reading edited transcripts, while impending appeals loom. House impeachment panel accuses transcripts of inaccuracies and distortion, prompting countercharges from Nixon aides and spokesmen.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
House
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
John W. Dean Jii
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Watergate Committee
Sam Cash
Gerhart
Gesell
John D. Ehrlichman
Charles W. Colson
Daniel Eisberg
John J. Sirica
Leon Jaworski
Watergate Complex
Peter WW. Rodino
John Conyers Jr
D-Mich
Rodine
John M. Dear
Albert E. Jenner Jr
James D. St. Clair
Ronald L. Ziegler
Dean
Ziegler
Committee
Duke Ellington: Cancer Ends Prolific Career Legend
Duke Ellington, famed American composer and bandleader born 1899 in Washington, DC, dies after cancer. He wrote over 1,000 works, earned the Legion of Honor in 1973, and was praised by Nixon and Gunther Schuller. Ellington kept touring into his seventies, valuing live connection with audiences.
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Ellington
Washington, D.C
Duke
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