Hijackers surrender plane after 18 hour hostage drama
Three Palestinian hijackers backed from a Dutch DC9 flight after an 18 hour ordeal that held 81 captives, including three Americans. The plane, hijacked after Nice, refueled in Tunis, then circled off Israel before surrendering in Larnaca under promise of safe passage to Libya.
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Larnaca
Cyprus
UPI
Nice
France
Tunisia
Israel
Mediterranean
Holland
Otto Horsting
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
Horsting
Selma
Ala
Palestine Liberation Organization
Steve Schmidt
Waterford
Calif
Ng Company
Spain
Malaga
Amsterdam
Tunis
Ben Gurion
Libya
Nicosia
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
PLO
Marsquake Watch as Viking 2 Delivers Seismometer Readings
In Pasadena, Viking 2 deploys a seismometer to detect marsquakes, aiming to gauge Mars’s geologic activity. If tremors persist, Mars may be active but quieter than Earth. a quiet result would imply ceased volcanism and crustal stress.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
America
Viking 2 Robot Observatory
Mars
Earth
Moon
Nafi Toksoz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gary Latham
University of Texas
Toksoz
Space Agency
Viking 1
Alan Binder
Viking
Labor Day traffic deaths climb past three hundred
The Labor Day weekend toll rose to 301 deaths by Sunday morning as travel neared 13.1 billion miles. The National Safety Council projected 360 to 460 fatalities for the holiday, with Texas 27 and California 25 deaths, amid a nationwide homeward rush.
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National Safety Council
Council
Vincent Tofany
United Press International
Texas
California
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Royal City
Wash
Kansas
New York
Fire Fatal at Keokuk Alcoholic Women’s Halfway House
A Keokuk Iowa fire at a two story halfway house for alcoholic women killed one resident trapped in a second floor bedroom. Five others escaped. two fled via a fire escape and two were rescued from a second floor porch. Jenny Krie assistant manager woke to popping noises and screams and escaped through a downstairs window. The home run by the Southeast Iowa Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse was gutted.
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Keokuk
Iowa
UPI
Jenny Krie
The
Southeast Iowa Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Soviet Mig 25 Lands in Japan Asylum Request Raised
A Soviet Mig 25 landed at Hakodate Airport in northern Japan just before 1 a.m. EST. The pilot surrendered after firing a pistol in the air and asked for asylum in the United States, while police and Self Defense Forces secured the site. The incident, unprecedented for a Soviet defect to the West via Japan, prompted a likely return to the USSR per the Japanese foreign ministry.
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Japan
Tokyo
UPI
Russia
United States
Kyodo
Takeo Miki
Hakodate City
Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Hakodate
Japan Air Self Defense Force
Chitose
Hokkaido
Japan Self-Defense Agency
Europe
Middle East
Soviet Union
Carter opens campaign with call for change
Jimmy Carter spoke at Warm Springs Georgia near Franklin D Roosevelt's summer retreat calling for a Carter presidency. He compared 1976 to 1932 and 1960 about division and inaction, pledging to restore trust in government and mobilize the country. Mondale and Carter outlined campaign travel while Ford prepared a later start.
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United Press International
Jimmy Carter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Georgia
America
Carter
Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Warm Springs
Ford
White House
GOP
Robert Dole
Darlington
S.C
Walter Mondale
Akron
Ohio
St. Louis
San Jose
Calif
Los Angeles
Kennedy
Norfolk
Newark
N.J
New York City
University of Michigan
U.S. News & World Report
Kissinger eyes Africa talks on Rhodesia Namibia
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said conditions exist for negotiations on black majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia. After 13 hours with South African Premier Vorster he outlined plans to inform front line states and continue discussions, while returning to Washington. A separate note announces an instrument display and starting band program in Washington schools with dates in September.
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Zurich
Switzerland
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Rhodesia
Namibia
South-West Africa
Kissinger
John Vorster
Africa
Vorster
Washington
Weather outlook clear to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions tonight and Tuesday. Lows will be in the upper 50s with highs Tuesday reaching the upper 80s. Southeast to south winds will be around 10 mph tonight.
Woman charged after park car attack leaves two injured
Lola Marie Hanson, 54, of Marshalltown, is jailed after allegedly running over her husband Donald and Mona Heltsley three times with a car in Riverview Park on the city’s north side. Donald Hanson is in serious condition. Heltsley is in guarded condition.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
UPI
Marshall County
Lola Marie Hanson
Toledo
Riverview Park
Donald
Marshalltown Community Hospital
Mona Heltsley
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Hanson
Ms. Heltsley
Wild ride as man clings to speeding semi truck
Harold D. Horton of Rock Island, 20, clung to the front of a fast moving silver cab through downtown Rock Island and into Iowa, chased by a motorcyclist who said the truck reached 100 mph. Horton was hospitalized in Davenport at Mercy Hospital with the driver fleeing after an altercation.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
Harold D. Horton
Rock Island
Ill
Mercy Hospital
Horton
Quad City Times
California
Fresno
Calif
Wisconsin
Thomas Clark
Clark
Mississippi River
Iowa 22
Five die on Iowa highways in Labor Day weekend crashes
Five people died in Iowa traffic accidents through Sunday including Jolene Dyer 19 of Maxwell and her 22 month old daughter Michelle after a car train collision near Mitchellville. Randy Dyer 20 and Connie Harrison 16 were injured. Paul Miller 38 of Lake City died in a car bicycle wreck near Calhoun County. Del Ray Greenslade 22 of Clinton and Ronald Rezac 20 of Dolliver died in separate Saturday morning crashes.
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Iowa
Mitchellville
Lake City
Jolene Dyer
Maxwell
Des Moines
Michelle
Doug Bacon
Lake Rathbun
Randy Dyer
Connie Harrison
Calhoun County
Paul Miller
Miller
Larry Koos
Rockwell City
del Ray Greenslade
Clinton
Ronald Rezac
Dolliver
Rural Iowa church organist shot. funeral pending
Arlene Gehrke 58, rural Iowa Falls farmwife and church organist, was found dead in Cottage Community Church after Saturday activity. Hardin County Sheriff and seven BCI agents investigated a single gunshot wound with theft of her son’s car and radio noted but possibly unrelated. Funeral services awaited as authorities pursue leads.
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Iowa Falls
Iowa
UPI
Arlene Gehrke
Michale
Cottage Community Church
Hardin County
Robert Callaway
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Thomas Hopewell
Michael Gehrke
Citizens Band
Hopewell
Hampton Iowa Surls
Surls
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Washington Instrumental Music Department
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