110 Killed As Lightning Possibly Strikes Jet on Landing
Officials study a crash near Kennedy Airport after an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 from New Orleans erupts in flames. 110 aboard confirmed dead, 14 survivors hospitalized, with reports of lightning and eyewitness accounts cited in the investigation.
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New York
New Orleans
Kennedy International Airport
Eastern Airlines
United States
United Airlines
Abraham D. Beame
National Transportation Safety Board
George van Epps
John Kleven
Queens
van Epps
Washington
Federal Aviation Administration
Kennedy Airport
New York Nets
Edgar G. Bright
New
Laos Warns U S To Close Aid Mission By Monday
The Pathet Lao demanded the U S shut its aid mission by Monday or face consequences. Four AID officials will leave by the deadline, but asset transfers may not finish. U S officials say no projects have been signed over and Laotians delay awaiting orders from Pathet Lao leaders.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet Lao
United States
U.S
U.S. Agency For International Development
Crowds Gather at Scene of NYC Bus Crash Disaster
Report from New York describes a mid afternoon plane crash near Rockaway Boulevard in South Jamaica. Crowds formed along the boulevard as emergency crews moved bodies and debris, with police and priests administering last rites amid rain and acrid smells.
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New York
Rockaway Boulevard
Jamaica
Bruce Hardwick
Hardwick
Telephone Company
FBI Produced Flurry Of Anonymous Letters
The FBI released COINTELPRO New Left files showing agents sent anonymous letters to employers and parents to disrupt opponents of the Vietnam War. The documents detail 1968 to 1971 efforts aiming to force discharges and personal harm, with later notes claiming continued disruption beyond 1971.
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FBI
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Texas
Socialist Workers Party
Bureau
Cointelpro
The
Socialist Workerss Party
Justice
F.B.I. Files
New Left
F.B.I
American Communist Party
Ford weighs East European trip after Helsinki talks
President Ford may visit Poland Romania and Yugoslavia in late July after the Helsinki Security Conference ends. He would then go to West Germany on the return trip, with final plans awaiting security conference decisions on a potential summit and troop notifica tion rules.
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Washington
Ford
Helsinki
Poland
Rumania
Yugoslavia
West Germany
United States
Geneva
Europe
Canada
Berlin
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Global Grain Trade Probe Targets Major Firms in U S
Washington reports confirm a widening inquiry into the grain export trade naming Bunge Corporation Cook Industries Inc and Mississippi River Grain Elevator owned by Serafino Feruzzi. Investigators probe weights grades and possible corporate responsibility amid bribery and grading irregularities claims.
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Washington
United States
Bunge Corporation
Cook Industries, Inc
Mississippi River Grain Elevator, Inc
Mississippi River Grain Elevator
Serafino Feruzzi
Ravena
Italy
Feruzzi
North Carolina
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Ubon Air Base
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Winchester
Peyton J. Marshall
Frederick County
George Whitacre
Wilkins’ Shoe Center
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Louisiana
Iveson B. Noland
Nets
Wendell Ladner
Aaron Ladner
Necaise Crossing
Theodore Drapanas
Department of Surgery
Tulane Medical School
Ronald Derudder
Texaco, Inc
Peter Walmsley
Kalvar Corp
Saul Horowitz Jr
Scarsdale
N.Y
HRH Construction Corp
Los Angeles
San Juan
P.R
Michael Andre
Baton Rouge
Germany
Joe
Joseph
Sandy
Tina
Jacobi Hospital
Jamaica Hospital
East
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Grain-Export Trade Investigation
Bunge
New York City
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