Libyan Leader Named as Hijack Plot Controller
Three Arab hijackers claim Muammar Khadafy ordered the Easter Monday attack on an Egyptair flight from Cairo to Luxor promising $250000. Disguised paratroopers overpowered the men and freed passengers and crew. one hijacker surrendered. No Americans aboard.
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Cairo
Egyptair
Libya
Muammar Khadafy
Egypt
Luxor
Khadafy
Salem
Interior Ministry
Mechan
Virginia proposes simple air quality index nationwide
Virginia officials unveil an EPA approved five category air quality index using 0 to 550 scale. Meteorologist Edward C. Jess notes the system grades health risk from good 0 49 to hazardous 300 500 based on particulates sulfur dioxide carbon monoxide ozone and nitrogen dioxide.
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Richmond
Virginia
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Edward C. Jess
State
Air Pollution Control Board
Jess
$100 Bounty Paid for Sheep-Killing Coyote
Tom Stowers on his Bland County farm killed a coyote after bells on sheep woke him. The Bland County Board of Supervisors approved a $100 bounty for him saying the act aided livestock farmers. Some thought the reward should have been higher as about 40 sheep were killed in three months.
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Bland
Tom Stowers
Bland County
Bland County Board of Supervisors
Stowers
Virginia
Transmission line overhaul in Berryville area by Potomac Edison
A 138,000 volt power line from Double Toll Gate to Millville is being rebuilt by Potomac Edison to improve service. Mount Awu volcano near the Philippines erupts sending ash 3,000 feet high. A WAC-WAF recruiter visits Winchester for the first time. Sister Kenny, 65, returns to the United States to retire after polio relief work.
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Berryville
Potomac Edison Company
Double Toll Gate
Millville
Philippines
Wac-Waf
Winchester
Kenny
United States
Virginia Senate Bans Access to Phone Records
Richmond AP The Virginia State Senate clerk was ordered to bar reporters from inspecting senators phone records. Sen Willard J Moody D Portsmouth told the clerk to halt the practice until the full rules committee reviews the issue. Moody cited questions about FOIA coverage and constituent privacy in making the request.
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Richmond
Virginia State Senate
Senate Rules Committee
Willard J. Moody
Portsmouth
Jay Shropshire
Shropshire
Moody
Senate
House of Delegates
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Mamdouh Salem
Anwar Sadat
Alexandria
Ics
Mohammed Abdel Ghany Gamal
Tazewell County
Spider
Weber’s
REVCO
Lepage
Aladdin
ARM & Hammer
Everglide
Little Gems
Sunbeam
Discount Drug Centers
Calfax
Suffrage
BIC
EVCO
Presto
N. Loudown St
Weems Lane
Bryarly & Louthan
Rouss Ave
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