Four killed in New York City overnight
Police report four deaths across Queens Harlem Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn within a six to seven hour span. Everett Whaley 38 was found shot in Lefrak City garage Queens. Edward Thompson 51 died from head lacerations in Harlem. Robert McMillan 27 bludgeoned on Broadway Manhattan. James Bryant 41 stabbed at Fulton Street Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn.
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Lefrak City
Junction Boulevard
Everett Whaley
57Th Ave
Whaley
30Th Precinct
Manhattan
Edward Thompson
W. 144Th St
Harlem
Thomp
Thompson
Robert McMillan
Barrow St
Lower Manhattan
Broadway
McMillan
Brooklyn
James Bryant
Clinton Ave
Fulton Street
Nostrand Avenue
Bryant
St. Johns Hospital
Truckers Block Gas Pumps Across States In Protest
Convoys of angry truckers blocked pumps at several stations in at least two states to protest high diesel prices and the 55 mph speed limit. In Southington, Conn., about 100 trucks were involved at first, then around a dozen blocked pumps with 50 nearby. Diesel ran 88.9 cents per gallon while regular gasoline was 92.9 cents. A vigil continued near an Oklahoma City stop while another station operator agreed to curb sales.
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Washington
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Southington
Conn
Jack Rappard
Bob Jacks
Oklahoma City
Wreckage of 1954 plane found near Wanakena
Wreckage of a single engine plane missing since December 1954 was found south of Wanakena in the Adirondacks. Belongings of pilot Wilbur Weyland of Elizabeth New Jersey were recovered but his remains were not. Coins a pocket knife and a pen were found in the cockpit as searchers concluded Weyland likely died in the crash and fire.
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Adirondack Mountains
Wilbur Weyland
Elizabeth
N.J
Weyland
Massena
New Jersey
Tom Ward
Robinson River
Hooker Dumping Stir Up Anger In Long Island
Hooker Chemical executive Raymond Abramowitz admitted the firm dumped illegal chemical wastes into the Oyster Bay Town landfill in Old Bethpage. State DEC regional director Donald Middleton said he was shocked and outraged by the admission as hearings examine groundwater pollution on Long Island.
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Oyster Bay Town
Old Bethpage
Hooker
Raymond Abramowitz
Donald Middleton
Long Island
State Department of Environmental Conservation
New York May Be Pivotal In Presidential Delegates Fight
Democrats seek late primary for leverage while Kennedy weighing a run. NY Republicans may influence the nomination as party officials demand concrete promises before switching loyalties. The state committee backs a plan to show only presidential candidates on ballots and let uncommitted delegates be chosen, with post primary delegate parceling by district. The change requires legislative approval. national rules block similar shifts.
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Massachusetts
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Frank Fagan
State Committee For Action
National Republican Party
Weissmuller family defends Tarzan yell amid hospital dispute
Johnny Weissmuller at 75 celebrates a court victory preserving conservatorship and avoiding transfer to a mental health facility. His daughter Lisa defends him as sedated and healthy, while the battle over his care at Woodland Hills hospital continues. The piece also notes British actor Wilfred Hyde White addressing bankruptcy, Alf Landon meeting Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne’s cancer hospital stay, and the shah of Iran planning a Mexican holiday after exile.
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Lisa Weissmuller
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Wilfred Hyde White
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Savoy Hotel
Hyde White
Liz
Alf
Alf Landon
Elizabeth Taylor
John Warner
R-Va
GOP
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Warners
Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Topeka
Iran
Bahamas
Foreign Ministry
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Shah
Acapulco
Mexcco
Pacific
Farah
Paradise Island
Nassau
Lynden Pindling
Heavy rains flood plans in Plains and Northeast
Heavy rains spawned flash flood watches across the Plains, Texas and New Mexico. Fog returned to the Northeast as showers and thundershowers lingered in the Southern Plains, Central and Southern Rockies and the lower Mississippi Valley. Rain fell heavily at times with slow-moving storms near Dona Ana County, Las Cruces, N M.
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United Press International
Plains
Texas
New Mexico
Rockies
Mississippi Valley
Dona Ana
Las Cruces
N.M
Southeast Plains
Mountains
British malaise fuels call for new national purpose
Sir Nicholas Henderson, Britain's ambassador-designate to Washington, says Britain must reassert a sense of national purpose to halt its slide toward being a poor European power. In The Economist he calls for rebirth of civic courage and an economic revival modeled on Germany and France, criticizing the nation's current malaise and morale.
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Washington
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Occas
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Henderson
France
United States
Lord Carrington
Margaret Thatcher
Peter Jay
Europe
Thatcher
Germany
Earthquake Threat Warned for Alaska Coast
Geologists from Columbia University warned at the American Geophysical Union meeting that a major earthquake could strike a sparsely populated section of Alaska's southern coast within the next decade or so. The timing remains uncertain.
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Alaska
Columbia University
American Geophysical Union
Washington
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