War at the Olympics sparks siege and calls for humane action
The Black September raid at Munich during the 1972 Olympiad left Israeli athletes slain and others wounded while hostage takers demanded the release of Arab prisoners. German officials and nations debated demands as armies guarded the village and protests grew outside.
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Seck
Babacar
Tuvia Sokolsky
Moshe Wienberg
Olympic Village
Moshe Stav
Mark Spitz
United States
Munich
U.S
David Berger
Zeev Friedman
Eliezer Halfin
Josef Romano
Mark Slavin
Andre Spitzer
Amitzur Shapira
Wasfi Tel
Cairo
Israel
Willy Brandt
Bonn
Amman
Beirut
Ifree
Moshe Weinberg
Seck Babacar
Tewhkr Helmi
Black September
Thieves Steal Toll Receipts From West Virginia Turnpike
City: Princeton West Virginia. A total of 4260 dollars in toll receipts were stolen from the West Virginia Turnpike office near Princeton. Thieves forced entry to the office near a toll booth and pried open a safe. The theft was found Monday morning after the safe was last checked just before midnight.
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Princeton
W.va
UPI
West Virginia Turnpike
Employes
Inmate Disturbance Concluded Peacefully
Sixteen inmates seized the first floor of the Trenton State Hospital Vroom Building around 8 30 Monday night but none held hostages. Three guards suffered minor injuries during the five hour uprising terminated after assurances they could speak to the press.
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Trenton
UPD
Trenton State Hospital
Five Men Hit Hefner Party Guarding Gate In Robbery Attempt
Five men tried to crash Hugh Hefner's West Los Angeles party at his mansion. They stabbed chauffeur Chuck Gray and guard Miguel Sosa Jr as guests fled. Both victims were hospitalized in critical condition at UCLA Medical Center. Police said suspects, described as Chicanos, escaped two.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Hugh Hefner
Early J Today
Hefner
Chuck Gray
Gray
Miguel Sosa Jr
Sosa
Ucla Medical Center
U.S. Jets Attack Hanoi Installations in Air Strike
U S jets hit Hanoi radar sites in a SAM destruction mission as South Vietnamese forces recaptured Quan Loi airfield after heavy fighting. The Saigon command reported air and artillery strikes near Pleiku and losses on both sides. Typhoon Elsie weakened, improving flying weather for support missions.
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UPD
Air
Hanoi
U.S
Quan Loi
Pleiku
Ciy
Phu Mieng
Pieiku
Elsie
Governor Arch Moore Vote Split on 1965 Medicare
Watson Nels Moore Charleston Democratic state chairman William E. Watson states that Gov Arch Moore, then in Congress, voted against Medicare by sending the bill back to committee. On the final vote, Moore joined the majority in a later reversal.
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Charleston
Wiliam E. Watson
Arch Moore
Congress
Watson
Moore
Growing coal with salt and other reader questions
A column features Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Mary Nell Godbey explaining a coal growth experiment using stones, water, salt, bluing, ammonia, and optional colorings with days of waiting and occasional solution replenishment. The piece also covers a halted Eastern Associated Coal Corp project Hunting Hills near Morgantown due to bankruptcy and water issues, plus bank naming trivia for Cardinal State Bank referencing West Virginia's state bird, the Cardinal.
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Mary Nell Godbey
County Home
Eastern Associated Coal Corp
Morgantown
Hunting Hills
A. B. P. Romero
Pittsburgh
Kelly Development Co
Oak Hill
Romero
Eastern
Wadestown
Cardinal State Bank
West Virginia
Alex George
Kinney Shoe to Build Glenville Plant in West Virginia
Gov Arch Moore said Kinney Shoe Corp will build its fourth WV plant at Glenville in Gilmer County. Construction starts in January and full production next summer will provide about 250 jobs.
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Charleston
W.va
UPD
Kinney Shoe Corp
West Virginia
Glenville
Gilmer County
Arch Moore
Charleston Strike Mediator urged to end five week walkout
A city advisory committee to Mayor John Hutchinson urged hiring a professional mediator to settle Charleston workers strike. The panel called for an end to harassment and violence, meeting between strikers and city representatives, and mediation to resolve the five week walkout by 150 workers started July 31.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
John Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Mitchell Testifies On Bugging Watergate Debacle
John N. Mitchell told reporters he does not believe the Watergate bugging will hurt Nixon’s reelection chances. He spoke as he entered Edward Williams law offices to offer what he might know about the affair. Attorneys Rothblatt and Williams foresee grand jury indictments and deposition efforts in the case.
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Washington
UPI
John N. Mitchell
Democratic Party
Nixon
Edward Bennett Williams
William’s
Mitchell
Henry B. Rothblatt
Maurice Stans
Rothblatt
Williams
Watergate Complex
Dole presses new charges of McGovern campaign violations
Republican National Chairman Robert Dole filed fresh allegations with the GAO accusing the McGovern campaign of failing to report a large donor sum and using dummy committees to evade tax rules. Dole cites Hefner contributions and unfiled reports ahead of Shriver’s selection. Mankiewicz calls the charges contemptible and baseless.
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Washington
UPI
Robert J. Dole
George S. McGovern
Dole
General Accounting Office
GAO
McGovern
Nixon
National Labor Committee
McGovern-Shriver
New York Times
Washington Post
Senate
Frank Mankiewicz
Pa. Strikes Threaten Opening Of Schools In Several Districts
United Press International reports about 285000 Philadelphia students facing possible long summer break as the local teachers union strikes. Western Pennsylvania districts including Pittsburgh suburbs also strike threatened. Rhode Island, New York and Illinois schools face potential strikes as talks stall and deadlines loom.
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United Press International
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Rhode Ieland
New York City
Board of Education
United Federation of Teachers
UFT
Illinois
Lesser
Champaign
Carpentersville
Rockford
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
PFT
Rhode Island
Newport
Providence
New York
Albert Shanker
Deaths and Funerals
Funeral services for RA Foley 93 of 128 Bere Ave will be at 10 am Wednesday at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home. Burial in Woodmere Cemetery Huntington. Foley died Monday after a long illness born April 22 1879 at Egeria son of Barnet and Mary Jane Foley. Surviving brother and two sisters listed. Edna C Nierman 60 formerly of Pemberton to be laid to rest in Sunset Memorial Park. She died Sunday at home after a long illness born March 12 1822 in Lincoln Neb daughter of Emmitt Wilson and May Lyons Wilson.
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Bere Ave
Keyser-Bryant
A. G. Nichols
Woodmere
Huntington
Foley
Egeria
Barnet
Mary Jane Dodd Foley
Lilly Young Foley
Primitive Baptist Church
Edna C. Nierman
Gettysburg
Pemberton
Williams Funeral Home
Sophia
Merrill Kopp
Sunset Memorial Park
Lincoln
Neb
Emmitt Wilson
May Lyons -Wilson
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Harlan Nierman
James Ford
Neil Burge
Elmer
Carl Lester
Paul Flanagan
Rodger Coleman
Final rites for Connie Ray Fortner in Baileysville
Funeral services for Connie Ray Fortner 20 of Baileysville will be at 2 pm Wednesday at the Wesleyan Church Baileysville with Rev Doyle Riff presiding. Burial follows in Fortner Cemetery Baileysville. Fortner died in a one car crash on Secondary 9 near Brenton about 8 15 pm Sunday. He was born April 29 1951 in Baileysville a son of Wonnie and Ilene Boothe Fortner. Survived by five brothers Jerry James Ronnie Joe Larry Durham NC Charles Cincinnati OH and a sister Pamela Sue Fortner at home. Friends may call at Robertson Foglesong Funeral Home Pineville after 5 pm today and the body will be taken to the church one hour before service.
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Baileysville
Wesleyan Church of
Doyle Riff
Fortner
Brenton
Wonnie and
Ilene Boothe Fortner
Funeral plans for Mrs Lillian Monroe Beckley resident
Mrs Lillian Beatrice Monroe 60 of Johns town Road Beckley died at 8 40 am today. Survived by husband James P Monroe. Body at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home.
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Lillian Beatrice Monroe
Johnstown Road
Beckley
James P. Monroe
Keyser-Bryant Funeral Home
Miller pledges miner vote on all UMW contracts
Logan West Virginia United Mine Workers reform candidate Arnold Miller told a Labor Day rally that rank and file members will vote on all contract settlements. He contrasted with W. A. Boyle’s leadership and urged democracy over dictatorship, citing past wage claims and soap in the bath-house incident.
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Miller
Holiday Road Toll Nears 600
The Labor Day weekend traffic toll nears six hundred with estimates from the National Safety Council ranging 580 to 680 deaths over 78 hours. An UPI count at 9 am EDT lists at least 575 fatalities, with highway deaths dominating the toll.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
West Virginia
Douglas H. Nesmith
Hardy
Boyle seeks re election as UMW president after fraud claims
Boyle denies misusing 22 million during his term and forecasts a large win over Arnold Miller in the union presidency race. He notes 830 locals backed him to Miller's 395 for December ballot. Boyle, president since 1966 after defeating Jock Yablon ski, faces fallout from indictments tied to the Yablon ski murder.
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UMW
Boyle
Arnold Miller
Miller
Jock Yablonski
Funeral held for Robert L. Stump 17 in Hanover
The funeral for Robert Lee Stump 17 of Hanover will be at 11 am Thursday at the Pines Church of the Living God in Johnny Cake with Rev. Oliver Roberts. He was killed Sunday in a single car crash on Secondary 9 a mile west of Brenton.
Cranberry property owners sue over tipple debris flooding
Cranberry property owners Violet Koontz Alvin Reed and William E Ewing file a new suit claiming debris from a tipple operation by The New River Co and water released by Pavex Inc caused Cranberry Creek to overflow before February 26 1971. They seek a $10000 judgment and a restraining order to prevent future flooding. A separate Raleigh County suit names Dewey A Hooper over a February 16 1971 car collision, seeking $5000 for injuries. Appalachian Power Co. also has a plaintiff in a suit referenced.
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New River Co
Pavex Inc
Violet Koontz
Alvin Reed
William E. Ewing
Cranberry Creek
Pavex
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