American professor aids to foil Addis Ababa hijack
Professor Roderick Hilsinger of Temple University hurled a live grenade toward an empty seat after hijackers seized a flight out of Addis Ababa. Seven hijackers were killed, three arrested, and 94 aboard. Hilsinger was wounded and in serious condition.
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Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
U.S
Roderick Hilsinger
Temple University
Philadelphia
Hissinger
Eritrea
Asmara
Richard Wylie
Hilsinger
Roderick Helsinger
Doctor Worried About Stress On HST's Heart
Kans as City AP report notes Truman's doctor expresses concern over his heart stress and irritability while he remains on the critical list at Research Hospital and Medical Center. The 88 year old former president was admitted after lung congestion and a weak heart from Independence Missouri.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital
Waillace Graham
Truman
Graham
Independence
John Dmreves
John Dreves
Cities Around Space Center Declared Bird Sanctuaries
Nassau Bay Webster and Clear Lake City neighbors of Texas Manned Spacecraft Center are designated official bird sanctuaries.
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Nassau Bay
Webster
Clear Lake City
Texas
Manned Spacecraft Center
Jobless Rate Falls to 27 Month Low in November
The Labor Department reported the unemployment rate dropped from 5.5 to 5.2 percent, the lowest in 27 months. About 4.2 million people were unemployed, down more than 200,000, while total employment held near 82.7 million. Weekly earnings slipped to 138.01 dollars as hours worked declined.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Secret Vietnam Peace Talks Continue in Paris Villa
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho met for the fifth time this week in secret Vietnam peace negotiations in a Paris suburb villa. Nixon adviser Kissinger also met with President Pompidou, who plays a backstage intermediary role, as talks stay under a news blackout.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Nixon
Kissinger
Georges Pompidou
Pompidou
Elysee Palace
North Vietnam
Basket Fund total reaches 1052 for community Christmas support
Cash donations to the Tribune Star Basket Fund will aid needy families in Vigo County. Contributions are to be delivered to the Tribune Star office at 721 Wabash Ave and will be published. Applicants for baskets must visit designated agencies between December 4 and 15 with hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 4.
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Tribune Star
Wabash Ave
Tribune Star Fund
Vigo County
VFW Post
Lawton Byrum
W. C. Hargis & Son, Inc
Nellie
Salvation Army
19Th
Locust Streets
Light House Mission
Eagle
Planned Parenthood
S. 6Th St
Lockport Housing Project
Lockport Rd
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
S. 3Th. St
Hyte Community [Center
13Th and
College Ave
Judge McCrory Discusses Reorganization of Courts
Judge Charles K. McCrory and Tom Kuntz outlined a proposed Indiana county court Act to replace many minor courts with 82 fulltime county judges eight districts would allocate judges by population and caseload Vigo County would gain two judges replacing the city court and six JPs The plan aims to ease circuit and superior court caseloads and address traffic violations under a unified system.
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Indiana
Charles K. McCrory
Vigo Superior Court No. 2
Tom Kuntz
Indiana Judicial Study Commission
Terre Haute League of Women Voters
Royal Inn
Judicial Study Commission
General Assembly
Justice of the Peace
Vigo County
McCrory
Harrison Township
Lee Easton
Nixon Sends Surgeon to Imelda's Aid
President Marcos said President Nixon would send Dr. Robert T. Chase from Stanford Medical Center to treat Imelda Marcos after a bolo knife attack. Doctors expect to reconstruct tendons in her right hand. The assailant was shot dead by guards and the first lady is likely to regain use of her arm.
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Manila
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Nixon
California
Imelda
Marcos
Robert T. Chase
Stanford Medical Center
Weather Map Forecast Terre Haute Indiana Snow Turn
National Weather Service map notes rain turning to snow late tonight with colder Saturday. Terre Haute and vicinity expect lows 20 to 25 and highs 25 to 30. Illinois sees freezing rain to snow flurries then colder. River stage 12.2 feet, rising. No precipitation probabilities listed. Sunrise 7 59 a.m. Sunset 5 26 p.m. Temperature street readings 6 a.m. 30, 2 p.m. 33.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Ice storm cripples Indiana causing deaths and crashes
An ice storm in Indiana left roads slick with many fender benders and at least one fatality. Roy L. Pratt, 29, died after being thrown from a truck on State Road 234 near Lodi in Parke County around 11 15 p m. Pratt’s body was found between the vehicle and a tree. Hospitals treated dozens for injuries as passengers and pedestrians suffered harms amid widespread road closures and school cancellations.
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Hoosier
Indiana
Roy L. Pratt
Kingman
Lodi
Parke County
Pratt
Watson Funeral Home
Cayuga
Thomas Cemetery
Newport
Pedestrian Peril On Ice Shaped Morning Streets
A reader laments icy sidewalks and the lack of pedestrian warnings as a slippery morning forces a cautious walk to work. The narrator details slips, detours, and near falls from 6:45 am, urging more attention to sidewalk safety and maintenance.
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Visiting Nurses Association
Apollo 17 off course but on track for lunar orbit
Apollo 17 remains in smooth progress midway to the moon after an off course drift caused by excessive thrust. Astronauts Cernan Evans and Schmitt were asleep as mission control adjusted trajectory with a planned burn to place the craft in lunar orbit.
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Moon
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