Pan American jet crashes off Tahiti after takeoff
A Pan American Boeing 707 carrying 69 passengers and 10 crew plunged into the sea two minutes after departing Papeete for Los Angeles. One survivor, 12 bodies found, rescue teams and French navy tugs search a 2 mile area while wreckage sinks 3,300 feet down. The plane had landed earlier for windshield repairs.
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Tahiti
Los Angeles
Papeete Military Hospital
Teva
Auckland
New Zealand
Pan American
Papeete Harbor
Pierre Angeli
French Polynesia
Aymar Achille Fould
Defense Ministry
Watergate Panel Prepares Subpoena Vote in Session
Senate Watergate Committee plans to vote on issuing a subpoena for White House documents and tapes as President Nixon refuses access. The panel will also continue televised questioning of Gordon Strachan and then Ehrlichman and Haldeman, amid a broader clash over executive privilege.
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Senate
Watergate Committee
Nixon
White House
Associated Press
Sevenman Committee
Committee
Gordon Strachan
John D. Ehrlichman
H. R. Haldeman
Watergate Panel
Sam J. Ervin Jr
North Carolina Democrat
Ervin
Dollar, pound slip in European markets as gold gains
The dollar and the pound weakened in European currency markets while gold rose. Dealers cited high rates boosting the West German mark and other floating currencies. The dollar opened in Frankfurt at 2.2930 marks, Zurich 2.7955 francs, and Paris at 4.0475 francs, all down from Friday.
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London
U.S
Frankfurt
Zurich
Paris
Hijackers Urge Kill Passengers or Let Them Go in JAL Event
Hijackers of a Japan Air Lines jumbo jet with 143 aboard told Dubai control to refer to them as Mt Carmel Martyrs and signaled a possible death by action or escape plan. A West German coded message demanded immediate passenger killings or release. The hijackers said they would keep passengers alive and seek a safe location.
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Dubai
Japan Air Lines
Mt. Carmel
West Germany
Peralta
Yoshihisa Miyashira
JAL
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
Holton Defends Revenue-Sharing Remarks at Urban League
Virginia Governor Linwood Holton defended the Revenue Sharing Act at the National Urban League conference in Washington. He urged progress as a New South and cited Virginia's $19 million in education funding from revenue sharing toward quality universal schooling, while rejecting critics as false prophets.
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Washington
Virginia
Linwood Holton
Holton
Poll Shows Nixon Popularity Lowest Since 1968 Election
Gallup poll from July 6–9 shows 49 percent disapprove and 40 percent approve of Nixon’s handling, a five point drop from two weeks earlier. The decline follows Watergate testimony and follows a 28 point drop from his January high, with disapproval leading in all major groups except Southerners and Republicans.
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Princeton
N. J
Nixon
Gallup
White House
John W. Dean III
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Lyndon B. Johnson
Republican Party
Meeting Tonight on Proposed Sewage Treatment Plant
The Concerned Citizens of Frederick County Committee plans an 8 p.m. public meeting at Stonewall School to discuss the interim sewage treatment plant on Red Bud Run. The event, called by acting chair Manuel Sempeles, aims to present facts about the Frederick County Sanitation Authority plans amid opposition and official skepticism.
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Citizens of
Frederick County Committee
Red Bud Run
Stonewall School
Manuel Sempeles
Frederick County Sanitation Authority
Raymond C. Sandy
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Sempeles
Sandy
James L. Bowman
Sanitation Authority
J.C. Ronalds
Tampa driver surrenders in two girl killings
Raymond McMahon, 31, surrendered in Baxley Georgia after police linked him to a fatal hit and run that killed Roxanne Caton 13 and Robyn Caton 5 in Tampa. He waived extradition to Florida and faces two counts of first degree murder.
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Tampa
Caton
Curtis Caton
Roxanne
Haldeman Order Relayed to Liddy for McGovern Intel
Former White House aide Gordon Strachan testified that Haldeman instructed him in spring 1972 to shift Liddys focus from Muskie to McGovern and to learn McGoverns ties to Kennedy. Strachan described meetings with Mitchell and Haldeman notes and said he feared firing after reviewing the break in.
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Washington
White House
H. R. Haldeman
G. Gordon Liddy
George McGovern
Gordon Strachan
Senate Watergate Committee
Liddy
Strachan
Haldeman
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
McGovern
Muskie
Sen. Kennedy
Edward S. Kennedy
John N. Mitchell
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Eastern Airlines
Switzerland
Mitchell
FBI
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