Terrorist Seeks Surrender in Irish Hostage Siege
In Monasterevin Ireland Eddie Gallagher and Marian Coyle held Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema on the second floor. Gallagher offered to surrender but Coyle refused and the siege continued on its third day with police and soldiers surrounding the house.
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Monasterevin
Ireland
Eddie Gallagher
Tiede Herrema
Marian Coyle
Herrema
Gallagher
Supt
Lawrence Wren
Dublin
Wren
Miss Coyle
Coyle
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Marian
Marlene
England
Scotland Yard
Britain
Reds Capture First World Series Title Since 1940
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox 4 3 in Game seven to win the World Series ending a 35 year championship drought. Joe Morgan delivered the decisive two out single in the ninth after Ken Griffey and Cesar Geronimo advanced him, with Sparky Anderson praising his club. The Reds had trailed 3 3 until late scoring, with Tony Perez homering in the sixth and Pete Rose driving in the tying run in the seventh.
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Boston
Cincinnati Reds
Boston Red Sox
Joe Morgan
Cincinnati
Detroit
Jim Burton
Ken Griffey
Cesar Geronimo
Dan Driessen
Clay Carroll
Griffey
Burton
Pete Rose
Morgan
Reds
Bill Lee
Tony Perez
Rose
Caroline Kennedy Survives London Bombing Incident
A car bomb outside Hugh Fraser's home in Campden Hill Square London injures seven and kills Prof Gordon Hamilton Fairley. Caroline Kennedy, staying there, escapes harm with Fraser and Kennedy noting they were kept indoors by a phone call.
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Caroline Kennedy
London
Britain
Miss Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Hugh Fraser
Gordon Hamilton Fairley
Fraser
Campden Hill Square
West Kensington
Old Bailey Criminal Court
Roy Jenkins
Senate Ends Controls on Natural Gas
The Senate voted 58 to 32 to end federal price controls on natural gas, a move the House is unlikely to take up this year. The plan phase outs controls over 10 to 12 years and includes emergency provisions to avert a predicted winter shortage, with concerns over jobs and high prices for long term gas supplies.
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Washington
Senate
House
Harley Staggers
D-W.va
John B. Dingell
D-Mich
Ford Administration
U.S
Transfer of Funds Clears Path for New High School Site
Frederick County supervisors approved a 308000 transfer to allow the county school board to buy a 68 acre site off Rt 522 behind Apple Pie Ridge Elementary School for a new high school. The 3-2 vote followed tense debate as opponents urged homework and cost questions while supporters pressed for timely action.
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Jim Ackley
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Dennis Cole
J. Robert Russell
Richard Madigan
Cole
Donald Hodgson
Madigan
C.L. Robinson Corp
Rt. 522
Apple Pie Ridge
Hodgson
Raymond C. Sandy
Britain’s Basil Burwood-Taylor Kidnapped in Asmara
Gunmen in plain clothes abduct Basil Burwood-Taylor 58 a British honorary consul in Asmara Eritrea while at his office at 9 45 am Ethiopian authorities search for the captors. The Eritrean Liberation Front is blamed by sources amid a broader wave of foreign detentions linked to regional unrest.
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London
Asmara
Ethiopia
Foreign Office
Basil Burwood-Taylor
Addis Ababa
Burwood-Taylor
Seccessionist Movement
Britain
Navy divers join search for body at Lake Holiday
The Star reports Navy divers have been called to Frederick County’s Lake Holiday to assist in locating the body of John Kane. The page brief notes ongoing search operations and related updates as authorities coordinate the effort.
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Navy
John Kane
Lake Holiday
Frederick County
Reds
Cincinnati Reds
Boston
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