West German raid ends hijacking with hostage rescue
European reaction split as Germany reports a commando operation in Somalia freed 86 hostages and killed three hijackers. Officials describe Baader and Raspe's deaths by self inflicted or gunshot wounds amid questions of motive and timing.
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Rome
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Athens
London
Vienna
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Somalia
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Europe
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Gudrun Ensslin
Jan-Carl Raspe
Imgard Moeller
Stuttgart
Stannheimn
Heinz Funke
Baader
Raspe
West Berlin
Lufthansa
Irogue
Industralist
Martin Schlever
Schleyer
Cologne
U.S
John L. Loughran
Hostage Woman From Lufthansa Hijack In Frankfurt
Christine Santiago of San Tos California arrived at a U S Army hospital in Frankfurt in good spirits after a five day hostage ordeal on a hijacked Lufthansa Boeing 737. She was met by a consulate official and reunited with her five year old son Leo, also a hostage, who was being cared for by an uncle in the area. Her husband, an ITT employee on Majorca, was informed of her condition.
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West Germany
Christine Santiago
Santos
Calif
Lufthansa
U.S
Leo
Hostage Flight Hijacking Ends With German Rescue
Passengers and crew recount a dramatic hijack ending as hostages fled onto emergency exits amid a field hospital setup at Mogadishu airport. German authorities welcomed back 80 freed passengers while a commando team was celebrated for the operation and one hijacker wounded. A pilot’s widow attended the Frankfurt welcome.
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Diva Qallainen
Mogadishu
Loughran
West Germany
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Hong Kong
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Frankfurt
Cologne
Juergen Schuman
South Yemen
Carter to spend night on Iowa farm before Los Angeles visit
President Carter will overnight at the Indianola Iowa farm of Woodrow Wilson Diehl and meet local farmers there before heading to Offutt Neb and Denver for SAC briefing and western water policy talks. He plans a Los Angeles appearance after a Detroit urban policy forum and a Des Moines fundraiser.
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Carter
Ixnanola
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Los Angeles
Rex Granum
Washington
Detroit
Des Moines
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Indianola
Woodrow Wilson Diehl
Diehl
Offutt Air Force Base
Neb
Strategic Air Command
Denver
Arraignment of Hanna Set Friday in Korean Bribery Probe
Former Rep. Richard T. Hanna of Orange County is to be arraigned at 9:30 a.m. Friday before Chief Judge William B. Bryant in Washington on a 40 count federal indictment. He faces up to 220 years and a $110,000 fine if convicted on charges including conspiracy bribery and mail fraud related to Tong Sun Park and more than $100,000 in alleged payments. Hanna served in Congress from 1974, representing northern Orange County.
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Richard T. Hanna
Orange County
Tanna
Congress
William B. Bryant
Federal District Court
Washington
Federal Grand Jury
Hanna
Tong Sun Park
United States
Park
Concorde lands at New York amid noise protests and praise
Concorde 002, piloted by Pierre Dudal and Jean Franchi, touched down near hangar 7 at Kennedy amid mixed reaction. Police muffled noise complaints as about 30 people gathered while Newark hearings on jet noise continued and PTA protests echoed in Lawrence near JFK flightpaths.
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Carol Craft
British Airways
Newark
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New York
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Aerospatiale
British Aircraft Corp
London
Washington
Britain
France
U.S. Supreme Court
President's oil shipping bill wins major House support
The House passed the oil shipping measure backed by the administration, aiming to reserve 4.5 percent of oil imports for US flag tankers with a goal of 9.5 percent by 1942. Opponents led by Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Jr. argued administration testimony was limited to favorable views and would reveal counterfacts.
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House
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
Rcalif
Robert Blackwell
Senate approves gradual minimum wage hike to 3.95 by 1981
The Senate passed a bill raising the national minimum wage from 2.30 to 3.95 by 1981 in stages. It would boost pay for about five million workers, with phased increases 2.90 in 1979 3.10 in 1980 and 3.85 in 1981, while expanding small business exemptions and adjusting tipped worker rules.
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Senate
House
House-Senate
Carter Administration
Organized Labor
Labor Department
Meteor fireball lights up five states and vanishes
A large meteor lit the sky over Texas Louisiana Arkansas and Missouri at about 8 15 p m CDT causing hundreds of telephone calls as observers reported it blazing and breaking apart while officials debated whether it struck the ground An Air Force pilot described seeing it split into pieces and radar tracked it before it likely burned up The North American Aerospace Defense Command noted a meteor shower peak while weather officials warned of a weak Pacific storm bringing drizzle to the coast.
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William Latham
Gut
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Oklo
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Joe Patterson
McDonald Observatory
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Col
Gary Gosdin
Shepard Air Force Base
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