Man Launches Crime Spree At Airport
A bandit robbed the Holiday Inn at Municipal Airport exchanging shots with a guard and raping a woman employee before fleeing with three guests as hostages. The hostage, later freed five miles away, was left bound. police report two robbers as suspects. Three motel robberies in six weeks noted. victim accounts detail the confrontation and escape.
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Kansas City
Holiday Inn
Municipal Airport
Harold Stenson
Charles Moore
Stenson
Harvey Hodge
Pinkerton
Hodge
Stengen
20Th
Flora
Richard M. Olson
North Riverside
Robert Brandquist
West Chester
Ill
Don Sheehy
Omaha
Neb
Atlanta
Citizens & Southern National Bank
Susan Engle
Ray West
Washington Meet Prime Minister Wilson Says Talks Completely Successful
Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a Washington press conference that talks with President Johnson were completely successful in outlining objectives for a NATO nuclear force and for Allied consultation. He signaled readiness to advance all proposals including a jointly owned mixed manned nuclear surface fleet with Britain assigning bomber and submarine units. He hopes France will engage in the broadened approach and said he would expand on the proposals in a House of Commons speech next week.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Harold Wilson
Johnson
NATO
Wilson
U.S
West Germany
Charles de Gaulle
U. S
House of Commons
Britain
United States
France
MLI
Dennis Healey
Railroads Seek Ban On Walkout Before Christmas
The nation's railroads filed in U S District Court to block a 10 day before Christmas strike by three unions representing about 53 000 workers The unions planned a 6 am Dec 15 walkout after failed wage talks Judge Joseph Sam Perry set a hearing on the railroad petition The carriers seek a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction to stop the strike and any train interference The petition argues the demand violates the President's Emergency Board recommendations and accuses the unions of pressuring members to seek larger raises than allowed by the Railway Employes Department
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Chicago. Des
U.S. District Court
Washington
Joseph Sam Perry
Afl-Cio Railway
College Queen Shot On Platteville Campus Tragedy
Kathleen Moan a Belvidere Indiana senior and former Platteville State Homecoming Queen was killed by three gunshots while seated at a student union table. police held 19 year old John Andrew Treglown Benton Wisconsin, who said he spoke to no one before the shooting, drank beer beforehand and now faces no charges.
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Platteville
Wis
Kathleen Moan
Belvidere
Platteville State University
Grant County
Roy Graney
John Andrew Treglown
Benton, Wis
Treglown
Moan
Union
Soviets Outline Post Khrushchev Economic Policy
After Khrushchev’s ouster, new Soviet leaders issued a program emphasizing higher consumer goods output and better housing. The Supreme Soviet figures detail priorities: raise food rations, expand consumer goods, ease big chemistry investments, curb agriculture funding, and trim defense spending where feasible.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Alcoholism Center Needs Local Support in Southern Illinois
The Southern Illinois Alcoholic Information Center plans to actively seek clients and educate families. The committee, based in Murphysboro, has secured an $8,500 mental health grant, arranged professional services in exchange for health education, and aims to broaden its coverage from Jackson, Williamson, and Franklin counties to neighboring areas. It operates a hotline at 684-4040, has four secretaries, and seeks at least $100 monthly local funding to meet state allotment requirements.
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Marie Volkert
Southern Illnoisan
Southern Illinois Alcoholic Information Center
Southern Illinois Committee On
Tis
Southern Winds
Jack
Son
Williamson
Franklin
Alcoholic ‘Information Center
Murphysboro
Dept. of Mental Health
Division of Alcoholism
Southern Illinois Mental Health Clinic
Lhe
Gemini Test Scraps Cape Kennedy Attempt
Cape Kennedy Dec 9 AP The unmanned Gemini two man capsule test failed at engine ignition as flames burst from the Titan 2 base seconds before liftoff. The launch pad arms blocked the booster while an electronic shutdown halted the countdown. NASA postponed the flight planned as a rehearsal before the first manned two crew flight.
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Cape Kennedy
Space Agency
Virgil J. Grissom
John W. Young
Atlantic Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Hill Recaptured in Viet Nam Battle and Toll Rises
Government forces retook a key position in the Battle of An Lap as fighting spread across central Viet Nam. A US infantry officer was killed in a Viet Cong ambush in Phu Yen Province. American combat deaths in South Viet Nam over three years total 231, with 95 other war related deaths. Nearly 1,500 Americans have been wounded or killed. ten missing and nine detained.
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Hill
Viet Nam
Saigon
An Lap
Phu Yen
South Viet Nam
Train Wrecks In Mountains Near Emigrant Gap
Six cars of the westbound City of San Francisco derailed at Emigrant Gap in the High Sierra. One unconfirmed report says a woman died of a heart attack. One man reportedly suffered a leg injury as more weather details note chilly, cloudy conditions with possible rain and highs in the 40s.
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Truckee
Calif
City of San Francisco
High Sierra
Southern Pacific
Southern Finois
Goldwater Warns GOP Crackup at Summit Meeting
Sen. Barry Goldwater plans to tell a New York summit that leadership fights are tearing the Republican Party apart. He will meet with Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon as Dean Burch calls the conference informal with no agenda. Burch notes the GOP committee meets in Chicago Jan. 22 25 to decide his fate. Taft Jr. dismisses rumors of a bid for chairman and urges party machinery reorganization.
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New York
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Dean Burch
Burch
Johnson
Eisenhower
Nixon
Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Taft
Public Barred As U.N. Congo Debate Opens
United Nations Security Council meeting on Congo opens with public barred to prevent disturbances. Delegates aides and press admitted as African bloc tensions rise over U.S. Belgian relief mission to Stanleyville. Tshombe arrival expected to trigger protests and accusations amid warnings from Belgian and other state actors.
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United Nations
N.X
Congo
U.N
Security Council
Council
Liberia
Nigeria
United States
Belgium
Stanleyville
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Cairo
Paul-Henri Spaak
24Nation
Baker Case Leads Studied in Senate Hearing Delays
Washington reports the Senate Rules Committee delayed a public hearing to weigh pursuing new leads in the Bobby Baker case. Counsel Hugh Alexander said senators were reviewing all options as they consider the investigation's future. A bank records hearing was postponed to this afternoon, and Comptroller James Saxon was questioned about a federal bank charter granted to Redwood National Bank.
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Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Bobby Baker
Hugh Alexander
Tte
Baker
Alexander
James Saxon
Redwood National Bank of
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