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” THE NEWS, 1973

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LATE CITY EDITION Weather: sunny cold today; fair tonight and tomorrow VOL. I NO. 1 PRATTONIA 1973 1 No News Is Good News Crime Rider Skyjacking had never looked easi- er. A few hours after daybreak. Frank Markoe Sibley Jr., 43, of State- line, Nevada, pulled a ski mask over his face, slung an M-1 rifle across the handlebars of his bicycle, and ped- aled through a gap in the fence sur rounding the Reno Municipal Airport. Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of pas- sengers boarding a United Air Lines Boeing 727 bound for San Francisco and took command of the aircraft. Sibley’s demands were as unusual as his methods. Besides $2,000,000 in $20 and $50 bills and $8,000 worth of gold bars—the highest ransom demanded in the U.S.—he insisted upon items ranging from three Thompson submachine guns and 300 feet of nylon rope to ammonia inhalers, smelling salts, pep pills and sleeping pills. Once the passengers were off the plane; it flew to Vancou- ver, B.C. Told that that much U.S. currency was not on hand in Vancouver, Sibley ordered the ¢ : plane to Seattle. En route, he handed the crewa four- page statement explaining his motives, and ordered the cap- tain to have it read over radio stations in Vancouver and Seattle. “We are a well-disciplined, para- military organization fed up with Nixon's broken promises and deceit, which is clearly expressed by his secret buildup of forces in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia,” began Sibley’s statement. He went on to say that United Air Lines was a “major con- tributor to the war effort,” and he threatened to destroy not only the plane he had hijacked but the entire United fleet.“ It is those who support and encourage this war who should be prosecuted, not us,” the hijacker wrote, By sunset, 40 FBI agents had coor- dinated an attack on the plane, which was parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Two agents, posing as relief pilots, boarded through the side door from a forklift truck, while others stormed up the rear gangway. Sibley, wounded in the shoulder and leg, was taken to a the hospital. When it was an- nounced that no one else if had been injured in the shoot-out, the crowd of observers broke into applause.” LBI Dies in Texas Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President, died Jan, 22 after he had been stricken with a heart attack at his ranch in Johnson City, Tex. Johnson, 64, had been resting when he summoned Secret Service agents who administered aid and notified a doctor. Johnson was then flown to Brooke Army Medical Cen- ter in San Antonio and was pro- nounced dead at 4:33 p.m. (CST) at the San Antonio Interna- tional Airport. Death was 68 attributed to a coro- oe nary thrombosis after an autopsy 2e had been per- or formed at a Brooke o Center Jan aye ah Mrs. Johnson, who had been noti- fied at her office at the LBJ Library in Austin, Tex., flew to San Antonio, A national day of mourning, Jan. 25, was proclaimed by President Nixon, who said Johnson was “‘a great patriot.” In a statement Jan. 22, Nixon praised him as “a dynamic leader, a unique personality and a man of great ability and unshakable courage.” “We are grateful for his life,” he said, because “he believed in America, in what America could mean to all its citizens and what America could mean to the world. In the service of that faith, he gave himself completely.” Other tributes came from world and national leaders. Yankees Stay Home The New York Yankees signed a lease with New York City August 16 to play at Yankee Stadium for the next 30 years. Under the terms of the lease the city would begin renovation of the 49-year- old stadium by the end of the 1973 base- ballseasonand complete the modernization for the 1976 season,

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THE NEWS, 1973 Cease-fire Takes Effect in North and South Vietnam A cease-fire agreement aimed at ending the war in North and South Vietnam was signed in Paris Jan. 27. The battlefield truce officially went into effect at 8 AM January 28 Saigon time. The pact was signed by representatives of the four parties directly involved in the conflict: US. Secretary of State William P. Rogers and the foreign ministers of North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong’s Provisional Revolution- ary Government. The truce accord is eventually to be extended to Laos and Cambodia. In addition to a halt in combat other military aspects of the agree- ment provide for withdrawal of all American troops from South Viet- nam, release of U.S. prisoners and other captives and a four-nation international Commission of Con- trol and Supervision that is to police the truce. The political section of the agreement establishes a frame- work to enable the rival factions of North and South Vietnam to work toward reconciliation and eventual reunification of the country. The cease-fire pact was worked out by Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho after months of intensive discussions and was initialed by the two U.S. and North Vietnamese ne- gotiators in Paris January 23. The agreement was announced in a nationwide address by President Nixon. In a simultaneous speech, South Vietnamese President Ngu- yen Van Thieu expressed doubt about the permanence of the agree- ment. Meanwhile, the fighting in South Vietnam continued at an acceler- ated pace up to the time the cease- fire went into effect. Gates to China Opened An injunction against travel to China by U.S. ships and planes, es- tablished during the Korean War, was lifted November 22 by President Nixon. In announcing the move, White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler emphasized that such travel would continue to be subject to Chi- nese authorization in each instance and that there were no plans at pres- ent to establish regular commercial service to China. Commerce De- partment officials were reported as saying, however, that World Airways and Trans International Airlines, both charter firms, had been given permission by the department to fly to China. Zeigler said the easing of restrictions was designed to “facili- tate development of trade and con- tacts between the American and Chinese people in the spirit of the joint communique” issued after President Nixon's visit to China in February. Termpaper Market Sells Suspensions The University of Wisconsin noti- fied 600 students that it was holding up their grades, transcripts and (in the case of graduating students) de- grees on suspicion of submitting term papers bought on the commer- cial market, it was reported June 17. Wisconsin Attorney General Robert W. Warren had subpoenaed the records of three firms engaged in the sale of academic papers and take-home exam answers, and the 600 names were uncovered as cus- tomers of one of the firms. The sub- poenas were based on charges of defrauding the university and its supporting taxpayers. Undergradu- ate papers reportedly sold for. be- tween $2.25 per page for used material and $6.45 per page for orig- inal work. Individual instructors were given discretion in handling each case, with failures, lowered grades or makeup work as possible sanctions. Paul Ginsberg, Wisconsin dean of students, said the growing market in academic papers, which involved in- terstate connections, would force the university either to require closer supervision of academic work or to abandon the use of term papers entirely. Women Unite at Conference The Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW), a specialized agency of the Organization of Amer- ican States, held its 16th assembly in Washington from September 20-29, passing a long list of resolutions de- signed to achieve a more equitable role for women throughout the hem- isphere. Otilia Arosemona de Tejeira, a Panamanian writer and teacher, was elected chairman of the executive committee September 29. Other items included analysis of [ACW activities over the past two years and study of the results of the Inter- American Specialized Conference on the Integral Education of Wom- en, held in Buenos Aires in August. 118 Killed in Plane Crash Minutes after takeoff from Lon- don’s Heathrow Airport June 18, a British European Airways Trident airliner plunged into a nearby field killing all 118 aboard. It was Britain’s worst air disaster. Data recovered from a flight re- corder June 19 indicated that prema- ture retraction of the wing-flaps caused the plane to stall and crash. Among the dead were several prom- inent Irish businessmen on their way to European Economic Community meetings in Brussels. African Neptune Collides into Bridge An 11,500 ton freighter, the Afri- can Neptune, November 7 rammed the mile-long Sidney Lanier Bridge near Brunswick, Ga. killing at least 10 motorists waiting for the ship to pass. A 450-foot section of the bridge was destroyed. The ship's captain, Frank Stanej- ko, testified at a Coast Guard hear- ing November 13 that his orders to the helmsman, Darling C. Woodall, had been misunderstood. But Wood- all said November 14 that he had been given incorrect steering direc- tions. Acupuncture Used on George Wallace Governor George Wallace of Ala- bama, a contender for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination who was shot at a Laurel Md. rally, has been a patient undergoing acupunc- ture therapy at a Chinese doctor in New York City. He was anesthetized February 12, 1973 by acupuncture, a centuries-old Chinese technique of deadening or easing pain by needle therapy. Acupuncture therapy is most common in hospitals in China, where it is used more often than Western-style drugs to anesthetize patients. Hospital officials did not reveal details of the acupuncture tech- nique, however Governor Wallace's personal press secretary told the news that it was his second treat- ment with acupuncture in New York City and his condition is better than before. He will be back for more acupuncture therapy in the near future. 3 Japs in a Jungle World War II ended for Shoichi Yokoi, 57, only last year when the former Japanese imperial army cor- poral was found hiding out in the jungles of Guam. Now a prosperous tailor in Nagoya, Yokoi brought his new bride Mihoko, 45, back to the island for their honeymoon. Visiting his cave hideout, a favor- ite spot with tourists these days, Yokoi asked: “How could I have wasted all those years in this dirty hole?” Trapped in the jungle for a couple of steamy hours because of helicopter trouble, Yokoi muttered that he simply “hated the-looks of the jungle” and couldn't wait to get back to Japan. Two other former Japanese sol- diers are reported still in hiding on Guam. TV Emmy Awards “All in the Family,” the comedy series about a middle-class bigot, won a major share of awards at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. | Let’s Make a Deal The three Apollo 15 astronauts were disciplined for carrying 400 unauthorized first day postal covers to the moon last July and giving 100 to an acquaint- ance who alledgedly sold them to a German stamp dealer. P The three astronauts of Apollo 14 were reported also to have taken 200 silver medals struck by a private mint on their moon flight in January 1971. 69 per cent water, salt, spices, corn syrup, cereal Goat meat, pigs ears, eyes, stomachs, snouts, udders, bladders and esophagus Surprise Party A Korean vintage F-86 Super- sabre jet skidded on takeoff from the Executive Airport in Sacramen- to, California September 24 and plowed into an ice-cream parlor filled with some 100 birthday cele- brants. Twenty-two were killed. The pilot, Richard Bingham, 37, said at a hearing of the National Transportation Board October 17 that he felt his plane vibrating on takeoff but did not abort the flight because he felt the plane would fly. Toadstools Bugged The FDA said February 25 that the United Canning Corp. of East Palestine, Ohio was recalling 50,000 institutional-sized cans of mush- rooms that might have been contaminated with botulism toxin. The firm had recalled 30,000 cans earlier, it had been announced February 17. The Stouffer's Food Co. com- pleted a recall of 14,000 cases of frozen foods February 21 that might have contained mushrooms from the contaminated batch. Illustrations by: Maria de Oro George Moy