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7506 Newspaper Files
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June 1976
Might be copy of airplane ticket that Ted Owens was on that had serious weather issues (or something else?).
Just a heads up to see what airplane ticket copy is about. I am copying things so quickly now I don't have time to do more than glance at what I am copying but is worth looking in more depth if you are reading the articles.
June 1976
Might be copy of airplane ticket that Ted Owens was on that had serious weather issues (or something else?).
Just a heads up to see what airplane ticket copy is about. I am copying things so quickly now I don't have time to do more than glance at what I am copying but is worth looking in more depth if you are reading the articles.
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SPECIAL NOTE TO MY DISC PEOPLE..........
I have just returned from a long trip to Scotland and England. There I spent many, many nights on Loch Ness...communicating with the "Loch Ness Monster". It came up twice in front of me. Also I communicated, there in the dead of night...with UFO's...and they appeared all around me. One came down to where I was. One night on famous Cradle Hill, outside Warminster, about 1 AM in the morning...while I stood in the dark...the "Tin Bird" sound, made by UFO's (read Arthur Shuttlewood's great book, "Warnings From Flying Friends"...meaning UFO's...in which he describes this sound coming from UFO's...) anyway this weird sound came to me as the UFO came down to where I was...and I have it on my tape recorder.
Matter of fact...all those nights spent in haunted castles, on Loch Ness, on famous "UFO hills" like Cradle Hill, Elm Hill, etc...were taped by my tape recorder. And the tapes are priceless.
It takes me, under the conditions which I work...two days to make a duplicate set of tapes from my seven originals (I used hour tapes...try to get them onto 90's).
Very well. For those few people who would like a complete set of these priceless tapes...with me in person, night after night after night at Stonehenge, at Urquhart Castle, at Old Sarum Castle, on Cradle Hill...and much more...(and bear in mind that I had to actually break into many of these places...like a burglar...in order to do my work)...
I will personally take two days and make you a duplicate set of tapes...plus a complete written report...astounding report...only one of its kind...
for any of you who will contribute $100 or more to my work and research. Not only my work and research...but this year I must write a complete book of my incredible life (and remember that I have accomplished hundreds of miracles...most of them fully documented) and your money will help me to get this done.
Not only will you get the set of priceless tapes...and the fully written report...but I will keep your name on a special list and after my book is published, will send you an autographed copy.
Ted Owens (PK Man)
Box 32, Cape Charles, Virginia 23310
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SEE MY PREDICTIONS FOR BELOW IN "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1971" BY STEIGER & SMITH.
# Financial Plight of N.Y. May Face Nation: Simon
6/27/75 Va. Pilot
WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary William E. Simon Thursday said that without sound fiscal management the nation could find itself in the same financial dilemma as New York City.
"Whether we can prevent the nation from falling into the same plight as our greatest city is now the central issue before us," Simon told a House subcommittee.
He said the philosophy of deficit spending in New York took root from "the seeds of fiscal irresponsibility" planted in Washington.
"For too many years, like the City of New York, we have been trying to burn the candle at both ends, living off inheritance and mortgaging our future at the same time," the Treasury Secretary told the House Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, which is investigating possible federal solutions to urban financial problems.
"We're not avoiding it," Simon said, "but it is a problem."
# Black Magic Blackballed See my work re: juju football. Owens.
# Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch
NAIROBI, Lenka (UPI) - Witchcraft is dominating some sports in Kenya, worried officials say.
Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note.
They have announced a new campaign to clean up witchcraft and expel the sorcerers from the trainer's bench.
Kenya football federation secretary Chare Asiko warned clubs, fans and witch doctors that anyone found guilty of practicing spells will be subject to criminal prosecution and also face the wrath of the Kenya Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"Witchcraft should have no place in Kenya soccer," Asiko said. "The practice of witchcraft is unsettling our efforts to clean up soccer."
An estimated 95 per cent of Kenya soccer clubs are thought to hire witch doctors or soothsayers to help them win matches. Competitions have been periodically marred by witchcraft-inspired riots.
The witch doctors themselves - many of whom have become extremely rich - claim they can do such tricks as making the ball disappear altogether or swerve at a vital moment, prevent opposing players from scoring by freezing their bodies momentarily or even move the net itself.
Recently, matches have been plagued by a series of witchcraft incidents involving birds and animals.
At one game, fans nearly rioted when a pigeon was seen hovering near one goal area. The fans claimed it was inspired by witchcraft and prevented their team from scoring. The situation was saved only when police caught the bird and escorted it out of the stadium.
At another game, fans claimed a dead cat found outside the stadium was also inspired by witchcraft.
Last year officials threatened to disband one leading team altogether because players and officials allegedly consulted a witch doctor.
But the sorcerers recently lost face in Kenya. In June, one official challenged Kenya's English soccer club, Norwich City, the national sports body would consider witchcraft a thing of Kenya soccer and would pay witch doctors for two years.
Norwich won every game.
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U.S. 1-Plane Record;
Lightning a Suspect
Va. Pilot 6/25/75
6/24/75
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) - An Eastern Airlines 727 jetliner coming in for a landing in a thunderstorm crashed and burned just short of Kennedy International Airport Tuesday. More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U.S. aviation.
The plane, carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members, was a nonstop flight from New Orleans.
At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plow into an area of parkland north of the airport.
En route to its resting place, the big airliner spun across heavily traveled Rockaway Boulevard and flipped upside down. The first doctor on the scene minutes later said "it was full of smoke; people were screaming and yelling."
The death toll eclipsed the loss of 58 lives in the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of an Eastern TriStar jetliner in the Everglades near Miami, previously the worst single-plane domestic air crash. The nation's worst air disaster involved the collision of a United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation above Staten Island in 1960. That crash claimed 134 lives.
In the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies, and debris from the shattered jetliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, in charge of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked about reports that the plane was struck by lightning.
"It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation," he said.
Epps said that at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
"Lightning hit the plane," said Paul Moran, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more yards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," said Neal Rairden, 23, who was pumping gas at a nearby service station.
The plane, Flight 66, was banking low on its approach to Kennedy at about 4:08 p.m., 23 minutes behind its scheduled 3:45 p.m. landing.
One of the passengers, Egon Luftaas of Norway, badly burned in the crash, said at the Jamaica Hospital emergency room:
"Going in for a landing, the pilot went too much to the left. You know, with one wing down, not two. Then there was an explosion. Everyone was flinging around. After that I only remember fire."
From above the scene, a unit reported: "Debris is tered over a large area."
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TORNADO WINDS RIP THRU AREA
For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth.
NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN!
It is known by courtesy of Ted Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens claims that he is the "spokesman" for the SIs (Saucer or Space Intelligences) who communicate with him via two-way ESP.
Ted has now made his private diaries (from 1963 to date) available to me.
Illustration by Gil Cohen
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Va. Pilot June 26, 1975
# Capricious Winds
# A Possible Cause In Jetliner Crash
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wind sheers -- capricious and powerful swerves and surges of wind -- may have been what slammed an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 to the ground in a thunderstorm as it approached Kennedy International Airport Tuesday.
But a safety official also recounted Wednesday that a small, light airplane landed safely just ahead of the big jet from New Orleans, in which more than 100 people perished.
Lightning also was a possible cause put before the big team of investigators assembled at the airport by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A number of witnesses say the plane was struck by a bolt of lightning and went down.
(A spokesman for the NTSB said there has been only one previous case in U.S. aviation history where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash.
(That clearcut case he said occurred Dec. 8, 1963, when a Pan American World Airways 707 crashed near Elkton, Md., and killed all 81 on board. He said the investigation revealed that lightning touched off an explosion of a fuel-air mixture in the wing tank.
(There was a crash near Milan, Italy, June 26, 1959, in which all 68 aboard a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation were killed. The Italian government concluded that the cause was an explosion set off by static electricity. Most investigators, he said, would say that static electricity wouldn't have been present without lightning.
(A random three-year check of general aviation statistics revealed that one aircraft accident a year is caused by lightning, he added.
(The NTSB spokesman said that lightning frequently strikes commercial airliners, but that they are designed and built to protect the craft and passengers from serious damage. "Serious damage from lightning," he said, "is rare."
("The basic reason is that aircraft are not sitting ducks, like a golfer on a golf course. They aren't grounded. If struck, the wing skin might be pitted or the crew blinded temporarily by the flash, but no real damage occurs from the bolt itself, which passes through the craft back into the atmosphere.
("There is no case in which lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly," the spokesman said.
(The problem develops where there is a fuel leak that can be ignited, causing an explosion, when the lightning hits, he said).
The flaming crash late Tuesday afternoon was one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history and the first major crash in New York in a decade.
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# QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES
Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist!
# TED OWENS-- FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY
By Otto O. Binder
22 ☐ SAGA
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ASIA
Mrs. Gandhi with backers after court decision: Seeing the verdict from the viewpoint of political necessity
Yet another Pres., Prime Minister, etc., taken out.
# Indira Gandhi in the Dock
The crowd packed the sweltering chamber of the High Court of Allahabad as Judge Jagmohan Lal Sinha entered the room. The tall, balding justice carried a 254-page document with him, but one short sentence told the story. "The election of Respondent No. 1 to the Lok Sabha [the lower house of Parliament]," Sinha intoned, "is declared void." Respondent No. 1 was no ordinary defendant; she was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who, the judge ruled, had violated Indian electoral law in her 1971 campaign for Parliament. The decision instantly pitched India into the most tangled constitutional crisis in its 28-year history as an independent nation--and could force Mrs. Gandhi to resign the prime ministership that she has held for nine years.
Within minutes of the ruling, Mrs. Gandhi's lawyer obtained a twenty-day stay of the decision, and aides of the Prime Minister announced that she would appeal the verdict to India's Supreme Court. There was "no question" of her resigning her office, they said. Mrs. Gandhi's strategy clearly was to muster public and political support, and leaders of her ruling Congress Party as well as thousands of her countrymen rallied to her side. But the court's action dealt a serious blow to Mrs. Gandhi's prestige, and the very next day she suffered a second setback. In a by-election in the western coastal state of Gujarat, the once invincible Congress Party was upset by an opposition coalition. It was a rare display of cooperation on the part of India's usually feuding minority parties--and a personal slap at the Prime Minister, who had campaigned vigorously and implored Gujarat's voters to back Congress candidates as a show of support for her policies.
The Prime Minister tried virtually everything to beat back the challenge of the six-party Janata (People's) Front in Gujarat. Despite broiling temperatures that often shot up to 110 degrees, she spent days campaigning, visiting each of the state's nineteen districts and speaking at 120 political meetings. She allotted $20 million in government relief funds for the drought-ravaged area and promised irrigation projects and special assistance to Gujarat's untouchables.
Nothing worked. Angry students forced her to flee from several rallies by hurling stones and sandals at her, and when the voters went to the polls last week, their reaction was almost equally harsh. The Congress Party--which had won 140 state-assembly seats in the last election--picked up a dismal 75 while the united opposition won 87. The significance of the opposition victory went far beyond the borders of Gujarat, for the election results were almost certain to spur a similar combined opposition assault on the Congress Party in India's national elections early next year.
"Fanciful": Mrs. Gandhi's legal setback in Allahabad, her home town, was far more stinging. Socialist politician Raj Narain--whom she had swamped in the 1971 election by more than 112,000 votes--charged that Mrs. Gandhi had spent nearly twenty times the permissible $4,500 in her campaign, illegally traveled in Indian Air Force planes and used government officials to campaign for her. The Prime Minister struggled for nearly four years to have the case thrown out of court, but that failed and so did her attempts to avoid testifying. Judge Sinha refused Mrs. Gandhi's request to file a deposition, and she sat on the witness stand for six and a half hours denying everything and labeling the charges against her "highly exaggerated" and "fanciful." In the end, Sinha disagreed. Although he dismissed several of the charges, the judge found the Prime Minister guilty on two counts: illegally using local policemen to set up equipment at her campaign appearances and illegally employing a government official as a campaign worker.
Chant: The verdict stunned India and split the nation into two camps. Mrs. Gandhi's opponents hailed the judge's ruling (on occasion comparing Sinha to Watergate Judge John Sirica) and scheduled a week of demonstrations to protest her refusal to resign from office. The pro-Gandhi bloc was just as vocal. Nearly 2,000 supporters thronged the street outside her home, sending up the odd chant: "We will face bullets and canes but will protect you." Hundreds of New Delhi shops were closed and buses canceled as expressions of support for the Prime Minister, and leaders of the Congress Party urged her to remain in office because of "the need of the country to have the benefit of your dynamic leader-
Newsweek, June 23, 1975
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SEE MY PREDICTIONS FOR BE DUY IN "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1971" BY STEIGER & SMITH.
# Financial Plight of N.Y. May Face Nation: Simon
6/27/75 Va. Pilot
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary William E. Simon Thursday said that without sound fiscal management the nation could find itself in the same financial dilemma as New York City.
"Whether we can prevent the nation from falling into the same plight as our greatest city is now the central issue before us," Simon told a House subcommittee.
He said the philosophy of deficit spending in New York took root from "the seeds of fiscal irresponsibility" planted in Washington.
"For too many years, like the City of New York, we have been trying to burn the candle at both ends, living off inheritance and mortgaging our future at the same time," the Treasury Secretary said. He added that the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, which is investigating possible federal solutions to urban financial problems, "We're not avoiding a crisis," Simon said, "but is a..."
# Black Magic Blackballed See my work on pro football. Owens.
# Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch
NAIROBI, Lenka (UPI)--Witchcraft is dominating some sports in Kenya, worried officials say.
Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note.
They have announced a new campaign to clean up witchcraft and expel the sorcerers from the trainer's bench.
Kenya football federation secretary Obare Asiko warned clubs, fans and witch doctors that anyone found guilty of practicing spells will be subject to criminal prosecution and also face the wrath of the Kenya Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"Witchcraft should have no place in Kenya soccer," Asiko said. "The practice of witchcraft is unsettling our efforts to clean up soccer."
An estimated 95 per cent of Kenya soccer clubs are thought to hire witch doctors or soothsayers to help them win matches. Competitions have been periodically marred by witchcraft-inspired riots.
The witch doctors themselves--many of whom have become extremely rich--claim they can do such tricks as making the ball disappear altogether or swerve at a vital moment, prevent opposing players from scoring by freezing their bodies momentarily or even move the net itself.
Recently, matches have been plagued by a series of witchcraft incidents involving birds and animals.
At one game, fans nearly rioted when a pigeon was seen hovering near one goal area. The fans claimed it was inspired by witchcraft and prevented their team from scoring. The situation was saved only when police caught the bird and escorted it out of the stadium.
At another game, fans claimed a dead cat found outside the stadium was also inspired by witchcraft.
Last year officials threatened to disband one leading team altogether because players and officials allegedly consulted a witch doctor.
But the sorcerers recently lost face in Kenya. In June, one official challenged Kenya's witch doctors with the promise that if they could beat a visiting English soccer club, Norwich City, the national sports body would consider witchcraft a way of life of Kenya soccer and would pay witch doctors for two years.
Norwich won every game.
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On Her Britannic Majesty's Service
MR TED OWENS
Room 222
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Mr. Ted Owens
With the compliments of
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Thank you very much for a most fascinating discussion - and for the soup!
CAIRO
You can be sure that the information you gave me is being carefully considered.
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EGYPTIAN GAZETTE 6/21/75
AMIN STAYS EXECUTION OF BRITON
Nairobi, June 20, PRESIDENT IDI AMIN today postponed the execution of condemned Briton Denis Hills but insisted that only a personal visit by British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan could save his life.
Within hours of the arrival of a British emissary carrying an appeal for clemency from the Queen, President Amin announced that Mr. Hills, a 61-year-old lecturer, would be shot on Monday - two days later than originally planned.
(Cont. on page 4)
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# 'Time is running out' for 2 Britons warns Idi Amin
Nairobi June 18
PRESIDENT IDI AMIN said in Kampala yesterday the door is still open for the British government to discuss the fate of two Britons facing execution
But the Ugandan leader warned "time is running out."
Uganda Radio, monitored here, said President Amin was speaking at a meeting yesterday with the Acting British High Commissioner in Kampala, James Hennessy
The sentenced Britons are 61-year-old university lecturer Denis Hills, convicted of treason and already sentenced to death, and 38-year-old trader Stanley Smolen, who is accused of food hoarding, a capital offense.
Mr. Hennessy handed to President Amin a signed letter from British Prime Minister Harold Wilson replying to a six-point ultimatum given by President Amin to Britain last week for the release of the two Britons, the Radio said.
**Deadline**
President Amin told Mr. Hennessy that British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan or Defence Minister Roy Mason should fly out for talks with him before his 10-day deadline for compliance with his ultimatum expires Saturday
Mr Callaghan has already indicated in the House of Commons his willingness to visit Kampala for talks -- but said he would undertake such a mission only "if humanity prevails" in the cases of the two Britons.
This was taken to mean the death sentences would have to be rescinded before he visited Uganda.
**Delegation**
President Amin said whoever came to Uganda must be accompanied by a military delegation to discuss Uganda's requirements of spare parts for British-supplied armaments.
This was one of President Amin's six conditions. The others included the cessation of all "anti-Uganda propaganda" by Britain and in the British press and the return of all Ugandan exiles living in Britain.
President Amin said his ruling Defence Council was making arrangements on when and where to implement the death sentence on Mr. Hills, who was ordered to face a firing squad by a five-man military tribunal last Wednesday.
He was accused of referring to President Amin in a manuscript as "a village tyrant" -- AP
# ONE BRITON ACQUITTED IN UGANDA
Nairobi June 19
BRITISH businessman Stanley Smolen, who was facing a possible death penalty in Uganda on a hoarding charge, was acquitted today, Radio Uganda reported.
The radio said that Mr. Smolen had been acquitted of all charges by a Uganda military tribunal.
Mr. Smolen had pleaded not guilty to hoarding cooking oil and soap, an offence which normally calls for a prison sentence.
But President Idi Amin had warned that Mr. Smolen could have a firing squad if found guilty.
(Cont. on page 2)
# ONE BRITON ACQUITTED IN UGANDA
(Cont. from page 1)
After being acquitted, Smolen, 38, was received by President Amin, who congratulated him and told him that it was now clear that Uganda justice was fair and not a fake, the radio said.
Smolen, who was allowed to go free as soon as he was acquitted, thanked the General for his kindness, the radio said. -- Reuter
Another Briton, 61-year-old lecturer Denis Hills, faced execution by firing squad this weekend following his conviction on a treason charge on June 11.
In London, a British Foreign Office spokesman welcomed the news of Smolen's acquittal. He said: "We are glad to hear this news. We hope that clemency will now be shown to Mr. Hills."
British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan has said he would be prepared to visit Uganda for talks with President Amin if the two Britons were treated humanely.
After the news of Smolen's acquittal was announced, Uganda Radio said that the Deputy Police Superintendent who arrested Mr. Smolen has now been arrested himself for misinforming the military tribunal and if found guilty would be executed by firing squad. -- Reuter
EGYPTIAN GAZETTE 6/20/75
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The Lunatic Tyrant of Uganda
Va Pilot 6/26/75
If Adolf Hitler had been created by Evelyn Waugh, the hybrid would be very like General Idi Amin, the lunatic tyrant of Uganda.
But General Amin cannot be dismissed as a figure of fun: the crisis that he has precipitated between Britain and Uganda is too serious for that.
Denis Cecil Hills, a British citizen and lecturer, is now scheduled to be executed July 4 for making disparaging remarks about General Amin in a book that remains unpublished.
Mr. Hills, 61, characterized General Amin in his manuscript as a "village tyrant." He was arrested, charged with treason, and condemned to die by a military tribunal in Uganda.
The execution was postponed when two British representatives arrived in Uganda with a personal plea from Queen Elizabeth. But General Amin now says that Mr. Hills will not be spared unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan flies to Uganda to negotiate a political settlement.
General Amin is demanding spare parts for British-made military equipment, the expulsion from Britain of refugees from Uganda, and the ending of "malicious propaganda" against Uganda. The British Foreign Office is maintaining a stiff upper lip; the British are not only concerned for the fate of Mr. Hills but the future of the 700 British citizens remaining in Uganda.
General Amin obviously wants to humiliate the British for his own personal reasons. "I am only fierce to the British because I want these people to kneel down at my feet," he said in a speech delivered June 13 in the main square of Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and broadcast over the radio.
It ought to be noted that the envoy from the Queen was Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair, who formerly served in the King's African Rifles in Uganda before the British colony was declared independent in 1962. General Amin was a sergeant under his command. General Blair was accompanied by Ian Graham, a retired army major who once was General Amin's battalion commander.
According to Radio Uganda, the two British officers approached "on their knees" to beg that Mr. Hills be spared. But General Amin has since stated in a cablegram to the Queen that the British envoy behaved rudely and acted as if he were still General Amin's commanding officer, so the report seems untrue. In any event General Amin's anxiety to humiliate his old officers is a touch that a novelist -- Graham Greene, perhaps -- would understand.
General Amin is a gaudy villain in the 19th Century tradition, an antagonist for the likes of Chinese Gordon or Lord Kitchener. In dealing with him 20th Century diplomacy is unsuitable. It's a shame that gunboats are out of style.
Va. July 2, 1975
Pilot Amin Says Briton to Be Spared
KINSHASA, Zaire (AP)--President Idi Amin of Uganda Tuesday said that he has decided to pardon Denis Hills, the British lecturer who was ordered to be shot by a firing squad on Friday for describing Amin as a village tyrant in an unpublished book.
The national news agency Zaire Presse said Amin told a news conference he will respond favorably to a clemency request from President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire because Hills' confession showed he was at the service of his mentors. He gave no indication of who the mentors were.
The 61-year-old Hills, a resident of Uganda for 11 years, was convicted of high treason by a Ugandan military court.
Amin, on a 48-hour visit to Zaire, said he planned to inform the British charge d'affaires in Kinshasa of his decision to spare Hills.
Zaire Presse also quoted the Ugandan leader as saying he wants Mobutu to act as a mediator in all matters between himself and the British government.
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Uganda decides fate of British lecturer
Nairobi June 22.
THE fate of British lecturer Denis Hills, under sentence of death by firing squad for treason, will be decided tomorrow by the Ugandan Defence Council, Uganda radio said today.
The radio announced earlier that the execution of Mr. Hills, set for tomorrow morning, had been postponed, after General Amin received an appeal from Queen Elizabeth delivered by Lieutenant-General Sir Chandos Blair.
Later the radio said the president, after spending much of today with General Blair and Major Iain Grahame, the Queen's other envoy, would brief the Defence Council tomorrow on a final decision in the Hills case.
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The radio quoted General Amin as saying it was up to the Defence Council, the supreme policy-making body in Uganda under the chairmanship of the President, to make the decision.
The radio said that after the success of General Blair's visit to Uganda President Amin planned to send an envoy to London to restart afresh the relationship between Britain and Uganda.
All indications in Nairobi were that President Amin would recommend to the Defence Council that Mr. Hills' life be spared, according to diplomatic sources.
The envoys of Queen Elizabeth, after from being humiliated, were treated as honoured guests of President Amin, British government officials said today.
The officials were commenting on a statement broadcast by the Uganda government radio that the Queen's envoys, Lt Gen. Sir Chandos Blair and Maj Iain Grahame, had gone down on their knees to plead for the life of British teacher Dennis Hills.
As a result of the plea, the radio said, President Amin postponed the execution of Hills set for tomorrow by firing squad on treason charges.
British officials said Gen Blair and Major Grahame were received by President Amin yesterday at his home in Arua, 300 miles northwest of Nairobi. The home, they said, is a native-style thatched cottage with a doorway so low even Amin has practically to get on his knees to enter. - Reuter and AP.
UGANDA:
Kangaroo Court
"He has done harm to his people . . . He has reimposed on Ugandans old habits of submission and servility that one hoped uhuru was eroding." The target of that broadside was none other than Uganda's President Idi Amin. And considering Amin's whimsical brutality, the criticism seemed temperate enough. The trouble was that the author of the remarks, British scholar Dennis Cecil Hills, lives inside the borders of Amin's kingdom. And when the Ugandan leader learned that, he ordered the 61-year-old Hills to stand trial for "treason" before a military court. Last week, Amin's court duly found Hills guilty. The sentence: death before a firing squad.
Hills will be executed this week--unless Britain bows to an ultimatum from Amin which, among other things, demands the expulsion of anti-Amin Ugandans from Britain and the sale of military spare parts to his army. The British Government, which can scarcely afford to submit to such blackmail, has asked responsible African leaders to intercede with Amin. But there's no predicting Big Daddy's behavior. Late last week, in fact, Radio Uganda announced that another Briton might face the firing squad--this time for "hoarding." And if the spirit so moves Amin, there are 800 more British nationals living in Uganda whom he could use as pawns on his own political chessboard.
Newsweek, June 23, 1975
'CALLAGHAN MUST GO TO UGANDA'
Amin puts off execution for another eleven days
London June 23.
A BRITISH lecturer Denis Hills will be executed in 11 days time unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan goes to Uganda, Radio Uganda quoted President Idi Amin as saying today.
Hills, under sentence of death for treason, was to have faced a firing squad today. But the execution was postponed by General Amin after he met emissaries from Britain's Queen Elizabeth bearing her appeal for clemency for Hills.
General Amin had told them a decision in the hills case would be given today.
Instead the execution was postponed yet again - while General Amin renewed his request for a visit by Mr. Callaghan, a request he also made last week.
Radio Uganda today also quoted an emissary of Queen Elizabeth as telling President Idi Amin that he faces military retaliation by Britain if he sticks to his decision to execute British lecturer Denis Hills.
The Radio said the emissary, Lieutenant-General Sir Chandos Blair, threatened that Britain would use its forces stationed in Kenya against Uganda.
In London, however, an army spokesman at the Ministry of Defence said: "We have no army units in East Africa at the moment and we are not sending any out currently on exercise."
Mr. Callaghan has told the British Parliament he was willing to visit Uganda, but not under duress.
General Amin, according to the Radio today, said the advice he received from his Defence Council was not to change his decision on Hills unless Mr. Callaghan visited Uganda.
He would be prepared to meet Mr. Callaghan at any time and the British Minister would receive a great welcome in Uganda.
But he would have no choice but to implement his decision if Mr. Callaghan fails to go to Uganda, the Radio said. - Reuter
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Va. Pilot July 11, 1975
Both men saved.
Done, Owens
# Briton Freed by Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Denis Hills, who almost went before a firing squad for calling Ugandan President Idi Amin a village tyrant, was freed Thursday and flew home to England with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan.
The 61-year-old Hills, stepping aboard Callaghan's Royal Air Force plane with only a few possessions folded in a blanket, said he still loves Uganda. In freeing Hills, Amin declared his love for the British.
Hills walked unannounced into Amin's command post home as the president was talking with Callaghan, who flew to Africa on a two-day mercy mission to try to patch up British-Ugandan relations and win Hills' release after Amin gave him a reprieve from execution.
Standing beside Callaghan and Amin on the balcony of the house, Hills looked fit and untroubled despite three months in detention and his reported illness from cancer.
"I am well. I am very happy," Hills said at Entebbe Airport, 20 miles away on Lake Victoria.
"I would like to say how genuinely I have loved Uganda during my 12 years here and still do," he continued. "I am very sorry to be leaving Uganda.
"But I will never forget its beauty, the kindness of its people, and my pleasure in teaching Ugandan students."
Callaghan told newsmen after meeting with the mercurial Amin for 45 minutes that he is satisfied that more than 700 other Britons still living in Uganda are safe. He said top-level British and Ugandan officials will continue discussions to improve relations.
Amin told newsmen he is "definitely pro-British" and wants to strengthen ties between Britain and its former colony.
"I am not mad, as the British press has said," Amin declared.
# Marine Flier Still Missing After Crash
6/10/75
NORFOLK -- A Marine Corps flier from Beaufort, S.C. was still missing late Wednesday after his F4 Phantom jet crashed shortly after taking off from the aircraft carrier Nimitz Tuesday.
Capt. David E. Fritz, 32, a radar intercept officer assigned to Marine Fighter Squadron 333, ejected safely, a Navy spokesman said, but couldn't be located by rescue helicopters after the accident.
Fritz's pilot, Capt. Eric Denkwalter, was rescued in good condition by a helicopter.
The accident happened about 5:15 p.m. when the nuclear carrier was operating off the Virginia Capes.
The destroyer Dale out of Mayport, Fla., is continuing the search.
The Navy said it had no explanation for the crash. The aircraft had been among 600 Navy and Marine Corps Phantoms that had been grounded earlier this month after the crash of an F4.
Tuesday, the Navy said that all the planes had been inspected for a defective control mechanism and were corrected or okayed for operations.
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U.S. 1-Plane Record;
Lightning a Suspect
Va. Pilot 6/25/75
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Eastern Airlines 727 jetliner coming in for a landing in a thunderstorm crashed and burned just short of Kennedy International Airport Tuesday. More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U.S. aviation.
The plane, carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members, was a nonstop flight from New Orleans.
At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plow into an area of parkland north of the airport.
En route to its resting place, the big airliner spun across heavily traveled Rockaway Boulevard and flipped upside down. The first doctor on the scene minutes later said: "It was full of smoke; people were screaming and yelling."
The death toll eclipsed the loss of 99 lives in the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of an Eastern TriStar jetliner in the Everglades near Miami, previously the worst single-plane domestic air crash. The nation's worst air disaster involved the collision of a United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation above Staten Island in 1960. That crash claimed 134 lives.
In the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies, and debris from the shattered jetliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, in charge of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked about reports that the plane was struck by lightning.
"It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation," he said.
Epps said that at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
"Lightning hit the plane," said Paul Morse, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more yards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," said Neal Hayden, 22, who was pumping gas at a nearby service station.
TORNADO WINDS RIP THRU AREA
For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth. NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN. It is known by courtesy of Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC.
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| CAIRO | TW | 841 | Y | 24JUN | 835A | RQ | 20 | |
| NEW YORK-JFK | BA | 471 | Y | 24JUN | 830P | OK | |
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U.S. 1-Plane Record;
Lightning a Suspect
Va. Pilot 6/25/75
6/24/75
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Eastern Airlines 727 jetliner coming in for a landing in a thunderstorm crashed and burned just short of Kennedy International Airport Tuesday. More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U.S. aviation.
The plane, carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members, was a nonstop flight from New Orleans.
At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plow into an area of parkland north of the airport.
En route to its resting place, the big airliner spun across heavily traveled Rockaway Boulevard and flipped upside down. The first doctor on the scene minutes later said: "It was full of smoke; people were screaming and yelling."
The death toll eclipsed the loss of 98 lives in the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of an Eastern TriStar jetliner in the Everglades near Miami, previously the worst single-plane domestic air crash. The nation's worst air disaster involved the collision of a United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation above Staten Island in 1960. That crash claimed 134 lives.
In the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies, and debris from the shattered jetliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, in charge of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked about reports that the plane was struck by lightning.
"It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation," he said.
Epps said that at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
"Lightning hit the plane," said Paul Moran, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more yards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," said Neal Rairden, 23, who was pumping gas at a nearby service station.
The plane, Flight 66, was banking low on its approach to Kennedy at about 4:08 p.m., 23 minutes behind its scheduled 3:45 p.m. landing.
One of the passengers, Egon Luftaas of Norway, badly burned in the crash, said at the Jamaica Hospital emergency room:
"Going in for a landing, the pilot went too much to the left. You know, with one wing down, not two. Then there was an explosion. Everyone was flinging around. After that I only remember fire."
From above the scene, a unit reported: "Debris scattered over a large area."
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| TW | 841 | Y | 24JUN | 835A | OK | | |
| NA | 491 | Y | 24JUN | 835P | OK | | |
Note:
Arrived early. About 5 or 5:30
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TORNADO WINDS RIP THRU AREA
For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth.
NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN!
It is known by courtesy of Ted Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens claims that he is the "spokesman" for the SIs (Saucer or Space Intelligences) who communicate with him via two-way ESP.
Ted has now made his private diaries (from 1963 to date) available to me
Illustration by Gil Cohen
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Va. Pilot June 26, 1975
# Capricious Winds
# A Possible Cause
# In Jetliner Crash
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wind sheers -- capricious and powerful swerves and surges of wind -- may have been what slammed an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 to the ground in a thunderstorm as it approached Kennedy International Airport Tuesday.
But a safety official also recounted Wednesday that a small, light airplane landed safely just ahead of the big jet from New Orleans, in which more than 100 people perished.
Lightning also was a possible cause put before the big team of investigators assembled at the airport by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A number of witnesses say the plane was struck by a bolt of lightning and went down.
(A spokesman for the NTSB said there has been only one previous case in U.S. aviation history where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash.
(That clearcut case he said occurred Dec. 8, 1963, when a Pan American World Airways 707 crashed near Elkton, Md., and killed all 81 on board. He said the investigation revealed that lightning touched off an explosion of a fuel-air mixture in the wing tank.
(There was a crash near Milan, Italy, June 26, 1959, in which all 68 aboard a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation were killed. The Italian government concluded that the cause was an explosion set off by static electricity. Most investigators, he said, would say that static electricity wouldn't have been present without lightning.
(A random three-year check of general aviation statistics revealed that one aircraft accident a year is caused by lightning, he added.
(The NTSB spokesman said that lightning frequently strikes commercial airliners, but that they are designed and built to protect the craft and passengers from serious damage. "Serious damage from lightning," he said, "is rare."
("The basic reason is that aircraft are not sitting ducks, like a golfer on a golf course. They aren't grounded. If struck, the wing skin might be pitted or the crew blinded temporarily by the flash, but no real damage occurs from the bolt itself, which passes through the craft back into the atmosphere.
("There is no case in which lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly," the spokesman said.
(The problem develops where there is a fuel leak that can be ignited, causing an explosion, when the lightning hits, he said).
The flaming crash late Tuesday afternoon was one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history and the first major crash in New York in a decade.
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QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES
TED OWENS - FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY
Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist!
By Otto O. Binder
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Scientists...
To show you...my high accuracy, precognitively...see Warren Smith's "Predictions for 1975"...chapter on my predictions (made in early 1974, over a year before.) See p. 165...166...167.
(1) "President Thieu will be assassinated, in the near future, or he will run for his life to Europe where he can snuggle up to his Swiss bank billions. Either way, he is due to go soon." This...has come to pass.
(2) "Young people have been taught too much too quickly on television and in newspapers. In 1975 you will see gangs of teenagers a la Dillinger, robbing banks and doing criminal things only old, hardened ex-cons have attempted in the past. These youngsters will be more intelligent about it and better equipped. It will be a bad, bad year for law enforcement."
(3) "Asians and the Mid-Eastern countries will be the deadliest of all. (Speaking of those countries in the world which would give us fits in 1975...and look now at Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand..........)
by Steve Damian Saga Magazine p.17 June, 1975
# THE NEW TERROR OF JUVENILE CRIME
An elderly man is followed into his apartment in Chicago, strangled and mutilated, robbed of $37. Two boys, one 14 years old, the other 15, are arrested.
A cab driver is held up and fatally shot on a street in Dallas, Tex. Two 14-year-olds and a 15-year-old are charged with the crime.
An artist is brutally beaten to death in New York's Central Park in a struggle for his expensive bicycle. The police say five boys--two 16, one 15, one 13, and one 12--are responsible for the slaying.
A grocer in Los Angeles, Calif., is murdered during a holdup. The accused are a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. The arresting officer says: "It was the most vicious thing I ever saw. First they shot him, then they chopped his face up. They told me they did it because he wouldn't sell them beer and started to give them a lecture."
In New York, a 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of a 63-year-old woman in her apartment in the South Bronx, a decaying slum area. He is held for seven weeks in a juvenile detention center. Detective Ralph Walker of the Seventh Homicide Zone said that the youth looked familiar when he took him to Family Court. Then he remembered that a professional artist had witnessed a slaying the year before and had supplied a drawing of the youth. The witness was brought in, identified the youth, and he was arrested for the 1973 New Year's Eve multiple-stabbing death of a 73-year-old man during a mugging as the victim left a subway station in the South Bronx.
"This is his fourth arrest," said Detective Walker, referring to the 14-year-old boy, whose name was withheld in keeping with Family Court laws intended to protect the young. "All four cases were for assault and robbery. The result was the deaths of two innocent people. The kid didn't even seem shook up when we charged him with the second murder. He knows he can get only 18 months. We can't cope with this court system. There's no real punishment. That New Year's Eve victim was an old cripple, and the perpetrator chopped him up nine times with a butcher knife. That's no juvenile delinquent in my book."
Thousands of similar cases reported from across the country are symptoms of an alarming plague of violent crime committed by young people that is rapidly becoming one of our gravest problems. Not only has there been an astonishing increase, but more and more crimes are being committed by younger children. Seven- and eight-year-olds have been taken into custody for rape, robbery, and assault this year. One murder was attributed to an eight-year-old boy, another to a nine-year-old boy, a third to a nine-year-old girl. All used handguns to kill children approximately their own age, according to police.
Between 1960 and 1974, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, the number of "juveniles" arrested for all
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ASIA
Mrs. Gandhi with backers after court decision: Seeing the verdict from the viewpoint of political necessity
Yet another Pres, Prime Minister, etc., taken out.
# Indira Gandhi in the Dock
The crowd packed the sweltering chamber of the High Court of Allahabad as Judge Jagmohan Lal Sinha entered the room. The tall, balding justice carried a 254-page document with him, but one short sentence told the story: "The election of Respondent No. 1 to the Lok Sabha [the lower house of Parliament]," Sinha intoned, "is declared void." Respondent No. 1 was no ordinary defendant; she was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who, the judge ruled, had violated Indian electoral law in her 1971 campaign for Parliament. The decision instantly pitched India into the most tangled constitutional crisis in its 28-year history as an independent nation--and could force Mrs. Gandhi to resign the prime ministership that she has held for nine years.
Within minutes of the ruling, Mrs. Gandhi's lawyer obtained a twenty-day stay of the decision, and aides of the Prime Minister announced that she would appeal the verdict to India's Supreme Court. There was "no question" of her resigning her office, they said. Mrs. Gandhi's strategy clearly was to muster public and political support, and leaders of her ruling Congress Party as well as thousands of her countrymen rallied to her side. But the court's action dealt a serious blow to Mrs. Gandhi's prestige, and the very next day she suffered a second setback. In a by-election in the western coastal state of Gujarat, the once invincible Congress Party was upset by an opposition coalition. It was a rare display of cooperation on the part of India's usually feuding minority parties--and a personal slap at the Prime Minister, who had campaigned vigorously and implored Gujarat's voters to back Congress candidates as a show of support for her policies.
The Prime Minister tried virtually everything to beat back the challenge of the six-party Janata (People's) Front in Gujarat. Despite broiling temperatures that often shot up to 110 degrees, she spent days campaigning, visiting each of the state's nineteen districts and speaking at 120 political meetings. She allotted $20 million in government relief funds for the drought-ravaged area and promised irrigation projects and special assistance to Gujarat's untouchables.
Nothing worked. Angry students forced her to flee from several rallies by hurling stones and sandals at her, and when the voters went to the polls last week, their reaction was almost equally harsh. The Congress Party--which had won 140 state-assembly seats in the last election--picked up a dismal 75 while the united opposition won 87. The significance of the opposition victory went far beyond the borders of Gujarat, for the election results were almost certain to spur a similar combined opposition assault on the Congress Party in India's national elections early next year.
'Fanciful': Mrs. Gandhi's legal setback in Allahabad, her home town, was far more stinging. Socialist politician Raj Narain--whom she had swamped in the 1971 election by more than 112,000 votes--charged that Mrs. Gandhi had spent nearly twenty times the permissible $4,500 in her campaign, illegally traveled in Indian Air Force planes and used government officials to campaign for her. The Prime Minister struggled for nearly four years to have the case thrown out of court, but that failed and so did her attempts to avoid testifying. Judge Sinha refused Mrs. Gandhi's request to file a deposition, and she sat on the witness stand for six and a half hours denying everything and labeling the charges against her "highly exaggerated" and "fanciful." In the end, Sinha disagreed. Although he dismissed several of the charges, the judge found the Prime Minister guilty on two counts: illegally using local policemen to set up equipment at her campaign appearances and illegally employing a government official as a campaign worker.
Chant: The verdict stunned India and split the nation into two camps. Mrs. Gandhi's opponents hailed the judge's ruling (on occasion comparing Sinha to Watergate Judge John Sirica) and scheduled a week of demonstrations to protest her refusal to resign from office. The pro-Gandhi bloc was just as vocal. Nearly 2,000 supporters thronged the street outside her home, sending up the old chant: "We will face bullets and canes but will protect you." Hundreds of New Delhi shops were closed and buses canceled as expressions of support for the Prime Minister, and leaders of the Congress Party urged her to remain in office because of "the need of the country to have the benefit of your dynamic leader-
Newsweek, June 23, 1975
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Engine Suspect RADAR DEMO June 25, 1975 Va. Pilot
# Oceana Jet Emergency Puts Fleet on Ground
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Navy Thursday disclosed that its entire fleet of 600 F4 Phantom jet fighters had been grounded for safety inspections after a crash caused by control failure.
Most F4s have cleared inspection and are free to fly again, the Navy said.
The grounding of the $18-million F14s, the Navy's newest combat aircraft, was ordered after an F14 made an emergency landing Tuesday at the Oceana Naval Air Station.
"The symptoms in that incident had certain similarities to earlier incidents experienced with the F14," a Navy announcement said.
Later that same month, an F14 flying from the carrier Enterprise in the Indian Ocean experienced engine flameouts, but managed to return safely to the carrier.
The January incidents involving the F14 are believed traceable to engine difficulties, Navy officials have said.
In announcing the new F14 grounding, the Navy said it will last "until the investigation of the recent incident (at Oceana) can be completed and fully assessed."
In event of emergency, the Navy said, the F14s will fly.
The two-man crew escaped harm in the emergency landing of the F14 at Oceana. At the time, the Navy said a muffled explosion was heard, and fire erupted from the port engine after the plane took off.
"While it is too early to report any firm details as to the cause," the Navy said in its grounding announcement, "it appears that the damage occurred in the left engine fan and compressor section.
"It has not yet been determined whether the damage was occasioned by a foreign object or by an engine malfunction."
At Oceana Naval Air Station, Capt. D. L. Hancock, commander of Tactical Wings, Atlantic, was surprised to learn of the grounding.
"It was the last thing I expected," he said.
He declined, because of regulations, to specify the number of F14s at the station. "There are four Oceana-based squadrons with F14s on board. Beyond that, I am not at liberty to say."
Hancock was, when he learned of the grounding, waiting for flag officers to inspect the plane that had trouble Tuesday.
The Navy said 93 of the 433 F4s checked since they were grounded June 21 were found to be defective and in need of repair.
The problem with the F4s centers in the tail-flap section of the control system.
nas ordered corrections officials to have
6/25/75 Va. Pilot
# Flight Mishap By F14
## Explosion, Fire Force Landing
VIRGINIA BEACH--An F14 Tomcat jet made an emergency landing at Oceana Naval Air Sta-tion Tuesday after an explosion and fire in one of its engines.
Spokesmen said there were no injuries. The F14 was from the Navy's Fighter Squadron 143.
According to spokesmen, the jet took off from Oceana on a routine training flight about 12:30 p.m. There was a muffled explosion and an eruption of fire almost immediately after the plane became airborne, officials said.
The jet reportedly was back on the ground within five minutes. The cause of the mishap is being investigated.
The extent of damage to the $16-million jet hadn't been deter-mined late Tuesday. Tomcats are new to the Navy and are said to be among the world's most so-phisticated fighter planes.
Va. Pilot 6/27/75
# 205 Jets Inspected After Crash
WASHINGTON (AP) -- About one-third of the Navy's 600 F4 Phantom jet fighters have been inspected after the entire force was grounded for safety checks, the Navy Thursday said.
The grounding was disclosed five days after it was ordered following investigation of an F4 crash blamed on malfunction of part of the control system. There was no explanation for the delay in making the grounding public.
The Navy said 205 Phantoms have been inspected and that 54 were found to be defective.
The Phantoms will be re-turned to flying from aircraft carriers and ground bases around the world as each is inspected and cleared, a Navy spokesman said.
RADAR DEMO
The precautionary grounding resulted from an F4 crash April 9 into the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The crew bailed out safely, the Navy said.
The Navy statement said investigation of that crash, conducted after the wreckage was fished out of the ocean, revealed a failure in the tail-flap section.
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Dr. Sprinkle
June 29, 1976..........TO MY SCIENTISTS..........Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Hynek; Dr. Fogel; Dr. Sprinkle...a message straight from the UFO intelligences (SIs) that I have worked for and with for ten years.
Last night...the SIs communicated with me. They instructed me to write to you scientists a "tough, hard, mean letter"...to pass on to government agency connections, which they say you have.
Fun and games...are over now.
First, I personally would not send this letter. It would have to come from the SIs. Because this letter...might stop me from getting to Yucatan. But...the SIs have infinite intelligence...mine is very finite...so I will do as instructed.
Let's take it from the top.
For ten years...I have been demonstrating one miracle after another, and documenting it solidly. (The miracles caused by the UFO Connection.) The scientists...and the United States government agencies...know this. Let's not keep on being coy and playing games about it. Either I am, or I am not, a miracle-worker through the SI connection.
If I am...then the United States government should consider me more priceless than "all the gold in China". If I am not...then no concern need be paid to this message from the SIs.
It's as simple as all that. IF I HAVE DONE MY MIRACLES...(and the government agencies know damn well I have)...then the U.S. should be supporting me; giving me funds with which to live, and to proceed. Obviously I cannot do everyday job and do my work for the SIs. I haven't the energy for that. Anyway, the SIs will not allow me to deviate and go into make-a-living job. Because they have looked for ages...for me...finally found me...and now need my help to try and save what is left of the human race, and modern civilization.
In 1965 they had me go to the CIA and NASA and ask for a hundred thousand...to fund me through what was to come in my work for them. Both CIA and NASA turned me down. Since then NASA was nigh-well been wiped out...and CIA, at this point...well, if you've been reading the papers and Newsweek...you know what condition CIA is in. Rosenbloom wouldn't listen to me...and he had to trade the Baltimore Colts away to escape from ruination. The Virginia Squires wouldn't listen to me, and they are now extinct.
My picture at present...although I have accomplished over 300 miracles and have more power, literally (through the SIs and my Egyptian Connection) than all of the military forces of all the countries of the world combined...I am broke; in debt thousands of dollars; living in a broken down house infested with black-widow spiders; and my car is broken down; and no money is coming in, to speak of. Am scrambling just to keep my phone, electricity, water and rent from being turned off.
Compare this...with the picture the SIs have for me...they want me to be their human Ambassador to the United Nations, to represent them. They have proved it, through the miracles...so that is not so funny. I have demonstrated time and time and time and time again...that I am no kook or crackpot. Our present Secretary of State, Ambassadors, President, Vice President, ad nauseum, have demonstrated no capabilities such as mine. So why should it be ridiculous that I represent the SIs to a world of humans?
At any rate...for several years the SIs have been wanting to erase the present formula for the human race on the World Blackboard...and begin building a new formula. I, alone...have talked them out of it...so far. But their patience, and mine, has come to a complete end.
What I need: a hundred thousand in cash, tax-free, with which to travel the world and do what the SIs want to help the human race. A safe-house deep in the forest somewhere...both for my safety and that of my family...with appropriate safeguards around that house. If you think that silly...think of this. Our President is so protected...but if he is killed by some idiot, then
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another person will take his place as president. BUT I CANNOT BE REPLACED WITH THE UFO ENTITIES...THE SIs! And just think for a moment...if we are comparing me with Ford...can Ford control the City of Chicago? The country of France? The State of California? Can he stop an erupting volcano? Can he guide hurricanes? I have done all of these things, through my UFO connection...as the government agencies damn well know...and the very thought of Ford, or anyone else, for that matter, doing it...is ridiculous. IN SHORT...THIS HUMAN BEING, OF ALL THE HUMAN BEINGS IN AMERICA, IS PRICELESS AND CANNOT BE REPLACED. And yet, I have to live like a bum. If you don't believe it...come to my house and I will show you. Meanwhile the Congressmen pay their mistresses $14,000 a year or even more (I wish I had that, then my family could begin living.) Basketball and football stars are paid a million a year....Barbara Walters, a broadcaster, gets a million a year. YET NONE OF THEM COULD EVEN BEGIN TO COMPARE WITH WHAT I AM, WHAT I DO, OR WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET DONE.
Well, the SIs, and myself, are sick of it. This is the end of the road. Right now.
If that is the way this government, and this country wants it...okay. This is no ultimatum letter.
From this point on...the SIs will start the tape again...as they had it running before I interfered and begged them to stop it temporarily...and they'll let the tape run out.
I realize that I will go down...my family will, too...and so will the rest of the United States.
But it has not been my choice. It has been the choice of the United States government...notified in advance for over ten years...but done nothing.
Now let me "make one thing perfectly clear". If you tend to take this letter lightly, then you are a fool. This letter...is the equivalent...of a 100 hundred nuclear missiles...hitting the United States.
If you laugh...and do not believe me...then wait.
Ted Owens (PK Man)
[Signature: Owens]
SPECIAL NOTE TO MY DISC PEOPLE..........
I have just returned from a long trip to Scotland and England. There I spent many, many nights on Loch Ness...communicating with the "Loch Ness Monster". It came up twice in front of me. Also I communicated, there in the dead of night...with UFO's...and they appeared all around me. One came down to where I was. One night on famous Cradle Hill, outside Warminster, about 1 AM in the morning...while I stood in the dark...the "Tin Bird" sound, made by UFO's (read Arthur Shuttlewood's great book, "Warnings From Flying Friends"...meaning UFO's...in which he describes this sound coming from UFO's...) anyway this weird sound came to me as the UFO came down to where I was...and I have it on my tape recorder.
Matter of fact...all those nights spent in haunted castles, on Loch Ness, on famous "UFO hills" like Cradle Hill, Elm Hill, etc...were taped by my tape recorder. And the tapes are priceless.
It takes me, under the conditions which I work...two days to make a duplicate set of tapes from my seven originals (I used hour tapes...try to get them onto 90's).
Very well. For those few people who would like a complete set of these priceless tapes...with me in person, night after night after night at Stonehenge, at Urquhart Castle, at Old Sarum Castle, on Cradle Hill...and much more...(and bear in mind that I had to actually break into many of these places...like a burglar...in order to do my work)...
I will personally take two days and make you a duplicate set of tapes...plus a complete written report...astounding report...only one of its kind...
for any of you who will contribute $100 or more to my work and research. Not only my work and research...but this year I must write a complete book of my incredible life (and remember that I have accomplished hundreds of miracles...most of them fully documented) and your money will help me to get this done.
Not only will you get the set of priceless tapes...and the fully written report...but I will keep your name on a special list and after my book is published, will send you an autographed copy.
Ted Owens (PK Man)
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SEE MY PREDICTIONS FOR BELOW IN "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1971" BY STEIGER & SMITH.
# Financial Plight of N.Y. May Face Nation: Simon
6/27/75 Va. Pilot
WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary William E. Simon Thursday said that without sound fiscal management the nation could find itself in the same financial dilemma as New York City.
"Whether we can prevent the nation from falling into the same plight as our greatest city is now the central issue before us," Simon told a House subcommittee.
He said the philosophy of deficit spending in New York took root from "the seeds of fiscal irresponsibility" planted in Washington.
"For too many years, like the City of New York, we have been trying to burn the candle at both ends, living off inheritance and mortgaging our future at the same time," the Treasury Secretary told the House Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, which is investigating possible federal solutions to urban financial problems.
"We're not avoiding it," Simon said, "but it is a problem."
# Black Magic Blackballed See my work re: juju football. Owens.
# Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch
NAIROBI, Lenka (UPI) - Witchcraft is dominating some sports in Kenya, worried officials say.
Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note.
They have announced a new campaign to clean up witchcraft and expel the sorcerers from the trainer's bench.
Kenya football federation secretary Chare Asiko warned clubs, fans and witch doctors that anyone found guilty of practicing spells will be subject to criminal prosecution and also face the wrath of the Kenya Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"Witchcraft should have no place in Kenya soccer," Asiko said. "The practice of witchcraft is unsettling our efforts to clean up soccer."
An estimated 95 per cent of Kenya soccer clubs are thought to hire witch doctors or soothsayers to help them win matches. Competitions have been periodically marred by witchcraft-inspired riots.
The witch doctors themselves - many of whom have become extremely rich - claim they can do such tricks as making the ball disappear altogether or swerve at a vital moment, prevent opposing players from scoring by freezing their bodies momentarily or even move the net itself.
Recently, matches have been plagued by a series of witchcraft incidents involving birds and animals.
At one game, fans nearly rioted when a pigeon was seen hovering near one goal area. The fans claimed it was inspired by witchcraft and prevented their team from scoring. The situation was saved only when police caught the bird and escorted it out of the stadium.
At another game, fans claimed a dead cat found outside the stadium was also inspired by witchcraft.
Last year officials threatened to disband one leading team altogether because players and officials allegedly consulted a witch doctor.
But the sorcerers recently lost face in Kenya. In June, one official challenged Kenya's English soccer club, Norwich City, the national sports body would consider witchcraft a thing of Kenya soccer and would pay witch doctors for two years.
Norwich won every game.
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U.S. 1-Plane Record;
Lightning a Suspect
Va. Pilot 6/25/75
6/24/75
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) - An Eastern Airlines 727 jetliner coming in for a landing in a thunderstorm crashed and burned just short of Kennedy International Airport Tuesday. More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U.S. aviation.
The plane, carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members, was a nonstop flight from New Orleans.
At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plow into an area of parkland north of the airport.
En route to its resting place, the big airliner spun across heavily traveled Rockaway Boulevard and flipped upside down. The first doctor on the scene minutes later said "it was full of smoke; people were screaming and yelling."
The death toll eclipsed the loss of 58 lives in the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of an Eastern TriStar jetliner in the Everglades near Miami, previously the worst single-plane domestic air crash. The nation's worst air disaster involved the collision of a United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation above Staten Island in 1960. That crash claimed 134 lives.
In the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies, and debris from the shattered jetliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, in charge of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked about reports that the plane was struck by lightning.
"It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation," he said.
Epps said that at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
"Lightning hit the plane," said Paul Moran, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more yards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," said Neal Rairden, 23, who was pumping gas at a nearby service station.
The plane, Flight 66, was banking low on its approach to Kennedy at about 4:08 p.m., 23 minutes behind its scheduled 3:45 p.m. landing.
One of the passengers, Egon Luftaas of Norway, badly burned in the crash, said at the Jamaica Hospital emergency room:
"Going in for a landing, the pilot went too much to the left. You know, with one wing down, not two. Then there was an explosion. Everyone was flinging around. After that I only remember fire."
From above the scene, a unit reported: "Debris is tered over a large area."
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TORNADO WINDS RIP THRU AREA
For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth.
NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN!
It is known by courtesy of Ted Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens claims that he is the "spokesman" for the SIs (Saucer or Space Intelligences) who communicate with him via two-way ESP.
Ted has now made his private diaries (from 1963 to date) available to me.
Illustration by Gil Cohen
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Va. Pilot June 26, 1975
# Capricious Winds
# A Possible Cause In Jetliner Crash
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wind sheers -- capricious and powerful swerves and surges of wind -- may have been what slammed an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 to the ground in a thunderstorm as it approached Kennedy International Airport Tuesday.
But a safety official also recounted Wednesday that a small, light airplane landed safely just ahead of the big jet from New Orleans, in which more than 100 people perished.
Lightning also was a possible cause put before the big team of investigators assembled at the airport by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A number of witnesses say the plane was struck by a bolt of lightning and went down.
(A spokesman for the NTSB said there has been only one previous case in U.S. aviation history where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash.
(That clearcut case he said occurred Dec. 8, 1963, when a Pan American World Airways 707 crashed near Elkton, Md., and killed all 81 on board. He said the investigation revealed that lightning touched off an explosion of a fuel-air mixture in the wing tank.
(There was a crash near Milan, Italy, June 26, 1959, in which all 68 aboard a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation were killed. The Italian government concluded that the cause was an explosion set off by static electricity. Most investigators, he said, would say that static electricity wouldn't have been present without lightning.
(A random three-year check of general aviation statistics revealed that one aircraft accident a year is caused by lightning, he added.
(The NTSB spokesman said that lightning frequently strikes commercial airliners, but that they are designed and built to protect the craft and passengers from serious damage. "Serious damage from lightning," he said, "is rare."
("The basic reason is that aircraft are not sitting ducks, like a golfer on a golf course. They aren't grounded. If struck, the wing skin might be pitted or the crew blinded temporarily by the flash, but no real damage occurs from the bolt itself, which passes through the craft back into the atmosphere.
("There is no case in which lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly," the spokesman said.
(The problem develops where there is a fuel leak that can be ignited, causing an explosion, when the lightning hits, he said).
The flaming crash late Tuesday afternoon was one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history and the first major crash in New York in a decade.
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# QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES
Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist!
# TED OWENS-- FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY
By Otto O. Binder
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ASIA
Mrs. Gandhi with backers after court decision: Seeing the verdict from the viewpoint of political necessity
Yet another Pres., Prime Minister, etc., taken out.
# Indira Gandhi in the Dock
The crowd packed the sweltering chamber of the High Court of Allahabad as Judge Jagmohan Lal Sinha entered the room. The tall, balding justice carried a 254-page document with him, but one short sentence told the story. "The election of Respondent No. 1 to the Lok Sabha [the lower house of Parliament]," Sinha intoned, "is declared void." Respondent No. 1 was no ordinary defendant; she was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who, the judge ruled, had violated Indian electoral law in her 1971 campaign for Parliament. The decision instantly pitched India into the most tangled constitutional crisis in its 28-year history as an independent nation--and could force Mrs. Gandhi to resign the prime ministership that she has held for nine years.
Within minutes of the ruling, Mrs. Gandhi's lawyer obtained a twenty-day stay of the decision, and aides of the Prime Minister announced that she would appeal the verdict to India's Supreme Court. There was "no question" of her resigning her office, they said. Mrs. Gandhi's strategy clearly was to muster public and political support, and leaders of her ruling Congress Party as well as thousands of her countrymen rallied to her side. But the court's action dealt a serious blow to Mrs. Gandhi's prestige, and the very next day she suffered a second setback. In a by-election in the western coastal state of Gujarat, the once invincible Congress Party was upset by an opposition coalition. It was a rare display of cooperation on the part of India's usually feuding minority parties--and a personal slap at the Prime Minister, who had campaigned vigorously and implored Gujarat's voters to back Congress candidates as a show of support for her policies.
The Prime Minister tried virtually everything to beat back the challenge of the six-party Janata (People's) Front in Gujarat. Despite broiling temperatures that often shot up to 110 degrees, she spent days campaigning, visiting each of the state's nineteen districts and speaking at 120 political meetings. She allotted $20 million in government relief funds for the drought-ravaged area and promised irrigation projects and special assistance to Gujarat's untouchables.
Nothing worked. Angry students forced her to flee from several rallies by hurling stones and sandals at her, and when the voters went to the polls last week, their reaction was almost equally harsh. The Congress Party--which had won 140 state-assembly seats in the last election--picked up a dismal 75 while the united opposition won 87. The significance of the opposition victory went far beyond the borders of Gujarat, for the election results were almost certain to spur a similar combined opposition assault on the Congress Party in India's national elections early next year.
"Fanciful": Mrs. Gandhi's legal setback in Allahabad, her home town, was far more stinging. Socialist politician Raj Narain--whom she had swamped in the 1971 election by more than 112,000 votes--charged that Mrs. Gandhi had spent nearly twenty times the permissible $4,500 in her campaign, illegally traveled in Indian Air Force planes and used government officials to campaign for her. The Prime Minister struggled for nearly four years to have the case thrown out of court, but that failed and so did her attempts to avoid testifying. Judge Sinha refused Mrs. Gandhi's request to file a deposition, and she sat on the witness stand for six and a half hours denying everything and labeling the charges against her "highly exaggerated" and "fanciful." In the end, Sinha disagreed. Although he dismissed several of the charges, the judge found the Prime Minister guilty on two counts: illegally using local policemen to set up equipment at her campaign appearances and illegally employing a government official as a campaign worker.
Chant: The verdict stunned India and split the nation into two camps. Mrs. Gandhi's opponents hailed the judge's ruling (on occasion comparing Sinha to Watergate Judge John Sirica) and scheduled a week of demonstrations to protest her refusal to resign from office. The pro-Gandhi bloc was just as vocal. Nearly 2,000 supporters thronged the street outside her home, sending up the odd chant: "We will face bullets and canes but will protect you." Hundreds of New Delhi shops were closed and buses canceled as expressions of support for the Prime Minister, and leaders of the Congress Party urged her to remain in office because of "the need of the country to have the benefit of your dynamic leader-
Newsweek, June 23, 1975
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SEE MY PREDICTIONS FOR BE DUY IN "WHAT THE SEERS PREDICT FOR 1971" BY STEIGER & SMITH.
# Financial Plight of N.Y. May Face Nation: Simon
6/27/75 Va. Pilot
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary William E. Simon Thursday said that without sound fiscal management the nation could find itself in the same financial dilemma as New York City.
"Whether we can prevent the nation from falling into the same plight as our greatest city is now the central issue before us," Simon told a House subcommittee.
He said the philosophy of deficit spending in New York took root from "the seeds of fiscal irresponsibility" planted in Washington.
"For too many years, like the City of New York, we have been trying to burn the candle at both ends, living off inheritance and mortgaging our future at the same time," the Treasury Secretary said. He added that the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs, which is investigating possible federal solutions to urban financial problems, "We're not avoiding a crisis," Simon said, "but is a..."
# Black Magic Blackballed See my work on pro football. Owens.
# Kenya Asks for Soccer Sans-Witch
NAIROBI, Lenka (UPI)--Witchcraft is dominating some sports in Kenya, worried officials say.
Medicine men who claim they make the ball disappear or cast a spell on opposing players with animal or bird charms are especially active in soccer, officials note.
They have announced a new campaign to clean up witchcraft and expel the sorcerers from the trainer's bench.
Kenya football federation secretary Obare Asiko warned clubs, fans and witch doctors that anyone found guilty of practicing spells will be subject to criminal prosecution and also face the wrath of the Kenya Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"Witchcraft should have no place in Kenya soccer," Asiko said. "The practice of witchcraft is unsettling our efforts to clean up soccer."
An estimated 95 per cent of Kenya soccer clubs are thought to hire witch doctors or soothsayers to help them win matches. Competitions have been periodically marred by witchcraft-inspired riots.
The witch doctors themselves--many of whom have become extremely rich--claim they can do such tricks as making the ball disappear altogether or swerve at a vital moment, prevent opposing players from scoring by freezing their bodies momentarily or even move the net itself.
Recently, matches have been plagued by a series of witchcraft incidents involving birds and animals.
At one game, fans nearly rioted when a pigeon was seen hovering near one goal area. The fans claimed it was inspired by witchcraft and prevented their team from scoring. The situation was saved only when police caught the bird and escorted it out of the stadium.
At another game, fans claimed a dead cat found outside the stadium was also inspired by witchcraft.
Last year officials threatened to disband one leading team altogether because players and officials allegedly consulted a witch doctor.
But the sorcerers recently lost face in Kenya. In June, one official challenged Kenya's witch doctors with the promise that if they could beat a visiting English soccer club, Norwich City, the national sports body would consider witchcraft a way of life of Kenya soccer and would pay witch doctors for two years.
Norwich won every game.
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EGYPTIAN GAZETTE 6/21/75
AMIN STAYS EXECUTION OF BRITON
Nairobi, June 20, PRESIDENT IDI AMIN today postponed the execution of condemned Briton Denis Hills but insisted that only a personal visit by British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan could save his life.
Within hours of the arrival of a British emissary carrying an appeal for clemency from the Queen, President Amin announced that Mr. Hills, a 61-year-old lecturer, would be shot on Monday - two days later than originally planned.
(Cont. on page 4)
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# 'Time is running out' for 2 Britons warns Idi Amin
Nairobi June 18
PRESIDENT IDI AMIN said in Kampala yesterday the door is still open for the British government to discuss the fate of two Britons facing execution
But the Ugandan leader warned "time is running out."
Uganda Radio, monitored here, said President Amin was speaking at a meeting yesterday with the Acting British High Commissioner in Kampala, James Hennessy
The sentenced Britons are 61-year-old university lecturer Denis Hills, convicted of treason and already sentenced to death, and 38-year-old trader Stanley Smolen, who is accused of food hoarding, a capital offense.
Mr. Hennessy handed to President Amin a signed letter from British Prime Minister Harold Wilson replying to a six-point ultimatum given by President Amin to Britain last week for the release of the two Britons, the Radio said.
**Deadline**
President Amin told Mr. Hennessy that British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan or Defence Minister Roy Mason should fly out for talks with him before his 10-day deadline for compliance with his ultimatum expires Saturday
Mr Callaghan has already indicated in the House of Commons his willingness to visit Kampala for talks -- but said he would undertake such a mission only "if humanity prevails" in the cases of the two Britons.
This was taken to mean the death sentences would have to be rescinded before he visited Uganda.
**Delegation**
President Amin said whoever came to Uganda must be accompanied by a military delegation to discuss Uganda's requirements of spare parts for British-supplied armaments.
This was one of President Amin's six conditions. The others included the cessation of all "anti-Uganda propaganda" by Britain and in the British press and the return of all Ugandan exiles living in Britain.
President Amin said his ruling Defence Council was making arrangements on when and where to implement the death sentence on Mr. Hills, who was ordered to face a firing squad by a five-man military tribunal last Wednesday.
He was accused of referring to President Amin in a manuscript as "a village tyrant" -- AP
# ONE BRITON ACQUITTED IN UGANDA
Nairobi June 19
BRITISH businessman Stanley Smolen, who was facing a possible death penalty in Uganda on a hoarding charge, was acquitted today, Radio Uganda reported.
The radio said that Mr. Smolen had been acquitted of all charges by a Uganda military tribunal.
Mr. Smolen had pleaded not guilty to hoarding cooking oil and soap, an offence which normally calls for a prison sentence.
But President Idi Amin had warned that Mr. Smolen could have a firing squad if found guilty.
(Cont. on page 2)
# ONE BRITON ACQUITTED IN UGANDA
(Cont. from page 1)
After being acquitted, Smolen, 38, was received by President Amin, who congratulated him and told him that it was now clear that Uganda justice was fair and not a fake, the radio said.
Smolen, who was allowed to go free as soon as he was acquitted, thanked the General for his kindness, the radio said. -- Reuter
Another Briton, 61-year-old lecturer Denis Hills, faced execution by firing squad this weekend following his conviction on a treason charge on June 11.
In London, a British Foreign Office spokesman welcomed the news of Smolen's acquittal. He said: "We are glad to hear this news. We hope that clemency will now be shown to Mr. Hills."
British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan has said he would be prepared to visit Uganda for talks with President Amin if the two Britons were treated humanely.
After the news of Smolen's acquittal was announced, Uganda Radio said that the Deputy Police Superintendent who arrested Mr. Smolen has now been arrested himself for misinforming the military tribunal and if found guilty would be executed by firing squad. -- Reuter
EGYPTIAN GAZETTE 6/20/75
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The Lunatic Tyrant of Uganda
Va Pilot 6/26/75
If Adolf Hitler had been created by Evelyn Waugh, the hybrid would be very like General Idi Amin, the lunatic tyrant of Uganda.
But General Amin cannot be dismissed as a figure of fun: the crisis that he has precipitated between Britain and Uganda is too serious for that.
Denis Cecil Hills, a British citizen and lecturer, is now scheduled to be executed July 4 for making disparaging remarks about General Amin in a book that remains unpublished.
Mr. Hills, 61, characterized General Amin in his manuscript as a "village tyrant." He was arrested, charged with treason, and condemned to die by a military tribunal in Uganda.
The execution was postponed when two British representatives arrived in Uganda with a personal plea from Queen Elizabeth. But General Amin now says that Mr. Hills will not be spared unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan flies to Uganda to negotiate a political settlement.
General Amin is demanding spare parts for British-made military equipment, the expulsion from Britain of refugees from Uganda, and the ending of "malicious propaganda" against Uganda. The British Foreign Office is maintaining a stiff upper lip; the British are not only concerned for the fate of Mr. Hills but the future of the 700 British citizens remaining in Uganda.
General Amin obviously wants to humiliate the British for his own personal reasons. "I am only fierce to the British because I want these people to kneel down at my feet," he said in a speech delivered June 13 in the main square of Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and broadcast over the radio.
It ought to be noted that the envoy from the Queen was Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair, who formerly served in the King's African Rifles in Uganda before the British colony was declared independent in 1962. General Amin was a sergeant under his command. General Blair was accompanied by Ian Graham, a retired army major who once was General Amin's battalion commander.
According to Radio Uganda, the two British officers approached "on their knees" to beg that Mr. Hills be spared. But General Amin has since stated in a cablegram to the Queen that the British envoy behaved rudely and acted as if he were still General Amin's commanding officer, so the report seems untrue. In any event General Amin's anxiety to humiliate his old officers is a touch that a novelist -- Graham Greene, perhaps -- would understand.
General Amin is a gaudy villain in the 19th Century tradition, an antagonist for the likes of Chinese Gordon or Lord Kitchener. In dealing with him 20th Century diplomacy is unsuitable. It's a shame that gunboats are out of style.
Va. July 2, 1975
Pilot Amin Says Briton to Be Spared
KINSHASA, Zaire (AP)--President Idi Amin of Uganda Tuesday said that he has decided to pardon Denis Hills, the British lecturer who was ordered to be shot by a firing squad on Friday for describing Amin as a village tyrant in an unpublished book.
The national news agency Zaire Presse said Amin told a news conference he will respond favorably to a clemency request from President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire because Hills' confession showed he was at the service of his mentors. He gave no indication of who the mentors were.
The 61-year-old Hills, a resident of Uganda for 11 years, was convicted of high treason by a Ugandan military court.
Amin, on a 48-hour visit to Zaire, said he planned to inform the British charge d'affaires in Kinshasa of his decision to spare Hills.
Zaire Presse also quoted the Ugandan leader as saying he wants Mobutu to act as a mediator in all matters between himself and the British government.
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Uganda decides fate of British lecturer
Nairobi June 22.
THE fate of British lecturer Denis Hills, under sentence of death by firing squad for treason, will be decided tomorrow by the Ugandan Defence Council, Uganda radio said today.
The radio announced earlier that the execution of Mr. Hills, set for tomorrow morning, had been postponed, after General Amin received an appeal from Queen Elizabeth delivered by Lieutenant-General Sir Chandos Blair.
Later the radio said the president, after spending much of today with General Blair and Major Iain Grahame, the Queen's other envoy, would brief the Defence Council tomorrow on a final decision in the Hills case.
today
The radio quoted General Amin as saying it was up to the Defence Council, the supreme policy-making body in Uganda under the chairmanship of the President, to make the decision.
The radio said that after the success of General Blair's visit to Uganda President Amin planned to send an envoy to London to restart afresh the relationship between Britain and Uganda.
All indications in Nairobi were that President Amin would recommend to the Defence Council that Mr. Hills' life be spared, according to diplomatic sources.
The envoys of Queen Elizabeth, after from being humiliated, were treated as honoured guests of President Amin, British government officials said today.
The officials were commenting on a statement broadcast by the Uganda government radio that the Queen's envoys, Lt Gen. Sir Chandos Blair and Maj Iain Grahame, had gone down on their knees to plead for the life of British teacher Dennis Hills.
As a result of the plea, the radio said, President Amin postponed the execution of Hills set for tomorrow by firing squad on treason charges.
British officials said Gen Blair and Major Grahame were received by President Amin yesterday at his home in Arua, 300 miles northwest of Nairobi. The home, they said, is a native-style thatched cottage with a doorway so low even Amin has practically to get on his knees to enter. - Reuter and AP.
UGANDA:
Kangaroo Court
"He has done harm to his people . . . He has reimposed on Ugandans old habits of submission and servility that one hoped uhuru was eroding." The target of that broadside was none other than Uganda's President Idi Amin. And considering Amin's whimsical brutality, the criticism seemed temperate enough. The trouble was that the author of the remarks, British scholar Dennis Cecil Hills, lives inside the borders of Amin's kingdom. And when the Ugandan leader learned that, he ordered the 61-year-old Hills to stand trial for "treason" before a military court. Last week, Amin's court duly found Hills guilty. The sentence: death before a firing squad.
Hills will be executed this week--unless Britain bows to an ultimatum from Amin which, among other things, demands the expulsion of anti-Amin Ugandans from Britain and the sale of military spare parts to his army. The British Government, which can scarcely afford to submit to such blackmail, has asked responsible African leaders to intercede with Amin. But there's no predicting Big Daddy's behavior. Late last week, in fact, Radio Uganda announced that another Briton might face the firing squad--this time for "hoarding." And if the spirit so moves Amin, there are 800 more British nationals living in Uganda whom he could use as pawns on his own political chessboard.
Newsweek, June 23, 1975
'CALLAGHAN MUST GO TO UGANDA'
Amin puts off execution for another eleven days
London June 23.
A BRITISH lecturer Denis Hills will be executed in 11 days time unless British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan goes to Uganda, Radio Uganda quoted President Idi Amin as saying today.
Hills, under sentence of death for treason, was to have faced a firing squad today. But the execution was postponed by General Amin after he met emissaries from Britain's Queen Elizabeth bearing her appeal for clemency for Hills.
General Amin had told them a decision in the hills case would be given today.
Instead the execution was postponed yet again - while General Amin renewed his request for a visit by Mr. Callaghan, a request he also made last week.
Radio Uganda today also quoted an emissary of Queen Elizabeth as telling President Idi Amin that he faces military retaliation by Britain if he sticks to his decision to execute British lecturer Denis Hills.
The Radio said the emissary, Lieutenant-General Sir Chandos Blair, threatened that Britain would use its forces stationed in Kenya against Uganda.
In London, however, an army spokesman at the Ministry of Defence said: "We have no army units in East Africa at the moment and we are not sending any out currently on exercise."
Mr. Callaghan has told the British Parliament he was willing to visit Uganda, but not under duress.
General Amin, according to the Radio today, said the advice he received from his Defence Council was not to change his decision on Hills unless Mr. Callaghan visited Uganda.
He would be prepared to meet Mr. Callaghan at any time and the British Minister would receive a great welcome in Uganda.
But he would have no choice but to implement his decision if Mr. Callaghan fails to go to Uganda, the Radio said. - Reuter
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Va. Pilot July 11, 1975
Both men saved.
Done, Owens
# Briton Freed by Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Denis Hills, who almost went before a firing squad for calling Ugandan President Idi Amin a village tyrant, was freed Thursday and flew home to England with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan.
The 61-year-old Hills, stepping aboard Callaghan's Royal Air Force plane with only a few possessions folded in a blanket, said he still loves Uganda. In freeing Hills, Amin declared his love for the British.
Hills walked unannounced into Amin's command post home as the president was talking with Callaghan, who flew to Africa on a two-day mercy mission to try to patch up British-Ugandan relations and win Hills' release after Amin gave him a reprieve from execution.
Standing beside Callaghan and Amin on the balcony of the house, Hills looked fit and untroubled despite three months in detention and his reported illness from cancer.
"I am well. I am very happy," Hills said at Entebbe Airport, 20 miles away on Lake Victoria.
"I would like to say how genuinely I have loved Uganda during my 12 years here and still do," he continued. "I am very sorry to be leaving Uganda.
"But I will never forget its beauty, the kindness of its people, and my pleasure in teaching Ugandan students."
Callaghan told newsmen after meeting with the mercurial Amin for 45 minutes that he is satisfied that more than 700 other Britons still living in Uganda are safe. He said top-level British and Ugandan officials will continue discussions to improve relations.
Amin told newsmen he is "definitely pro-British" and wants to strengthen ties between Britain and its former colony.
"I am not mad, as the British press has said," Amin declared.
# Marine Flier Still Missing After Crash
6/10/75
NORFOLK -- A Marine Corps flier from Beaufort, S.C. was still missing late Wednesday after his F4 Phantom jet crashed shortly after taking off from the aircraft carrier Nimitz Tuesday.
Capt. David E. Fritz, 32, a radar intercept officer assigned to Marine Fighter Squadron 333, ejected safely, a Navy spokesman said, but couldn't be located by rescue helicopters after the accident.
Fritz's pilot, Capt. Eric Denkwalter, was rescued in good condition by a helicopter.
The accident happened about 5:15 p.m. when the nuclear carrier was operating off the Virginia Capes.
The destroyer Dale out of Mayport, Fla., is continuing the search.
The Navy said it had no explanation for the crash. The aircraft had been among 600 Navy and Marine Corps Phantoms that had been grounded earlier this month after the crash of an F4.
Tuesday, the Navy said that all the planes had been inspected for a defective control mechanism and were corrected or okayed for operations.
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U.S. 1-Plane Record;
Lightning a Suspect
Va. Pilot 6/25/75
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Eastern Airlines 727 jetliner coming in for a landing in a thunderstorm crashed and burned just short of Kennedy International Airport Tuesday. More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U.S. aviation.
The plane, carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members, was a nonstop flight from New Orleans.
At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plow into an area of parkland north of the airport.
En route to its resting place, the big airliner spun across heavily traveled Rockaway Boulevard and flipped upside down. The first doctor on the scene minutes later said: "It was full of smoke; people were screaming and yelling."
The death toll eclipsed the loss of 99 lives in the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of an Eastern TriStar jetliner in the Everglades near Miami, previously the worst single-plane domestic air crash. The nation's worst air disaster involved the collision of a United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation above Staten Island in 1960. That crash claimed 134 lives.
In the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies, and debris from the shattered jetliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, in charge of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked about reports that the plane was struck by lightning.
"It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation," he said.
Epps said that at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
"Lightning hit the plane," said Paul Morse, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more yards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," said Neal Hayden, 22, who was pumping gas at a nearby service station.
TORNADO WINDS RIP THRU AREA
For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth. NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN. It is known by courtesy of Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC.
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| CAIRO | TW | 841 | Y | 24JUN | 835A | RQ | 20 | |
| NEW YORK-JFK | BA | 471 | Y | 24JUN | 830P | OK | |
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U.S. 1-Plane Record;
Lightning a Suspect
Va. Pilot 6/25/75
6/24/75
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Eastern Airlines 727 jetliner coming in for a landing in a thunderstorm crashed and burned just short of Kennedy International Airport Tuesday. More than 100 people were killed in the crash, the worst single-plane disaster in the history of U.S. aviation.
The plane, carrying 115 passengers and eight crew members, was a nonstop flight from New Orleans.
At least two witnesses said they saw lightning strike the aircraft just before it tore through three landing-approach light stanchions and plow into an area of parkland north of the airport.
En route to its resting place, the big airliner spun across heavily traveled Rockaway Boulevard and flipped upside down. The first doctor on the scene minutes later said: "It was full of smoke; people were screaming and yelling."
The death toll eclipsed the loss of 98 lives in the Dec. 29, 1972, crash of an Eastern TriStar jetliner in the Everglades near Miami, previously the worst single-plane domestic air crash. The nation's worst air disaster involved the collision of a United Airlines DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation above Staten Island in 1960. That crash claimed 134 lives.
In the Kennedy crash, luggage, bodies, and debris from the shattered jetliner were scattered over a five-acre patch of undeveloped land.
George Van Epps, in charge of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, was asked about reports that the plane was struck by lightning.
"It's certainly something that will be considered in the investigation," he said.
Epps said that at least two previous crashes in the 1960s were attributed to lightning, one of them a Pan American plane at Elkton, Md., and the other a TWA airliner in Rome.
"Lightning hit the plane," said Paul Moran, a Nassau County police officer. "It tilted to the right and went about 20 more yards, then hit the ground."
"I am almost positive the plane was hit by lightning," said Neal Rairden, 23, who was pumping gas at a nearby service station.
The plane, Flight 66, was banking low on its approach to Kennedy at about 4:08 p.m., 23 minutes behind its scheduled 3:45 p.m. landing.
One of the passengers, Egon Luftaas of Norway, badly burned in the crash, said at the Jamaica Hospital emergency room:
"Going in for a landing, the pilot went too much to the left. You know, with one wing down, not two. Then there was an explosion. Everyone was flinging around. After that I only remember fire."
From above the scene, a unit reported: "Debris scattered over a large area."
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| CARRIER | FLIGHT | CLASS | DATE | TIME | STATUS | FARE BASIS/TKT. DESIGNATOR | ALLOW |
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| TW | 840 | Y | 10JUN | 915P | OK | | |
| TW | 841 | Y | 24JUN | 835A | OK | | |
| NA | 491 | Y | 24JUN | 835P | OK | | |
Note:
Arrived early. About 5 or 5:30
Owen
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TORNADO WINDS RIP THRU AREA
For 24 years since 1947, when Kenneth Arnold sighted nine disks, everyone who believes in flying saucers has been wondering why the UFOs are here and what the occupants, if any, are up to on earth.
NOW THE ANSWER IS KNOWN!
It is known by courtesy of Ted Owens, the PK Man. As SAGA readers know from last year's August and September issues, Ted Owens claims that he is the "spokesman" for the SIs (Saucer or Space Intelligences) who communicate with him via two-way ESP.
Ted has now made his private diaries (from 1963 to date) available to me
Illustration by Gil Cohen
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Va. Pilot June 26, 1975
# Capricious Winds
# A Possible Cause
# In Jetliner Crash
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wind sheers -- capricious and powerful swerves and surges of wind -- may have been what slammed an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 to the ground in a thunderstorm as it approached Kennedy International Airport Tuesday.
But a safety official also recounted Wednesday that a small, light airplane landed safely just ahead of the big jet from New Orleans, in which more than 100 people perished.
Lightning also was a possible cause put before the big team of investigators assembled at the airport by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A number of witnesses say the plane was struck by a bolt of lightning and went down.
(A spokesman for the NTSB said there has been only one previous case in U.S. aviation history where lightning has been cited as the cause of a crash.
(That clearcut case he said occurred Dec. 8, 1963, when a Pan American World Airways 707 crashed near Elkton, Md., and killed all 81 on board. He said the investigation revealed that lightning touched off an explosion of a fuel-air mixture in the wing tank.
(There was a crash near Milan, Italy, June 26, 1959, in which all 68 aboard a Trans World Airlines Superconstellation were killed. The Italian government concluded that the cause was an explosion set off by static electricity. Most investigators, he said, would say that static electricity wouldn't have been present without lightning.
(A random three-year check of general aviation statistics revealed that one aircraft accident a year is caused by lightning, he added.
(The NTSB spokesman said that lightning frequently strikes commercial airliners, but that they are designed and built to protect the craft and passengers from serious damage. "Serious damage from lightning," he said, "is rare."
("The basic reason is that aircraft are not sitting ducks, like a golfer on a golf course. They aren't grounded. If struck, the wing skin might be pitted or the crew blinded temporarily by the flash, but no real damage occurs from the bolt itself, which passes through the craft back into the atmosphere.
("There is no case in which lightning destroyed the airframe or damaged it to the extent that the plane couldn't fly," the spokesman said.
(The problem develops where there is a fuel leak that can be ignited, causing an explosion, when the lightning hits, he said).
The flaming crash late Tuesday afternoon was one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history and the first major crash in New York in a decade.
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QUAKE JOLTS 20 STATES
TED OWENS - FLYING SAUCER MISSIONARY
Although he can literally unleash and control hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, influence our space probes, and make UFOs appear at his request, he is not a sorcerer--but the representative of the SIs (Saucer Intelligences) who have bestowed the most incredible power in him so that he could act for them on Earth and prove to the world that they really exist!
By Otto O. Binder
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Scientists...
To show you...my high accuracy, precognitively...see Warren Smith's "Predictions for 1975"...chapter on my predictions (made in early 1974, over a year before.) See p. 165...166...167.
(1) "President Thieu will be assassinated, in the near future, or he will run for his life to Europe where he can snuggle up to his Swiss bank billions. Either way, he is due to go soon." This...has come to pass.
(2) "Young people have been taught too much too quickly on television and in newspapers. In 1975 you will see gangs of teenagers a la Dillinger, robbing banks and doing criminal things only old, hardened ex-cons have attempted in the past. These youngsters will be more intelligent about it and better equipped. It will be a bad, bad year for law enforcement."
(3) "Asians and the Mid-Eastern countries will be the deadliest of all. (Speaking of those countries in the world which would give us fits in 1975...and look now at Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand..........)
by Steve Damian Saga Magazine p.17 June, 1975
# THE NEW TERROR OF JUVENILE CRIME
An elderly man is followed into his apartment in Chicago, strangled and mutilated, robbed of $37. Two boys, one 14 years old, the other 15, are arrested.
A cab driver is held up and fatally shot on a street in Dallas, Tex. Two 14-year-olds and a 15-year-old are charged with the crime.
An artist is brutally beaten to death in New York's Central Park in a struggle for his expensive bicycle. The police say five boys--two 16, one 15, one 13, and one 12--are responsible for the slaying.
A grocer in Los Angeles, Calif., is murdered during a holdup. The accused are a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. The arresting officer says: "It was the most vicious thing I ever saw. First they shot him, then they chopped his face up. They told me they did it because he wouldn't sell them beer and started to give them a lecture."
In New York, a 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of a 63-year-old woman in her apartment in the South Bronx, a decaying slum area. He is held for seven weeks in a juvenile detention center. Detective Ralph Walker of the Seventh Homicide Zone said that the youth looked familiar when he took him to Family Court. Then he remembered that a professional artist had witnessed a slaying the year before and had supplied a drawing of the youth. The witness was brought in, identified the youth, and he was arrested for the 1973 New Year's Eve multiple-stabbing death of a 73-year-old man during a mugging as the victim left a subway station in the South Bronx.
"This is his fourth arrest," said Detective Walker, referring to the 14-year-old boy, whose name was withheld in keeping with Family Court laws intended to protect the young. "All four cases were for assault and robbery. The result was the deaths of two innocent people. The kid didn't even seem shook up when we charged him with the second murder. He knows he can get only 18 months. We can't cope with this court system. There's no real punishment. That New Year's Eve victim was an old cripple, and the perpetrator chopped him up nine times with a butcher knife. That's no juvenile delinquent in my book."
Thousands of similar cases reported from across the country are symptoms of an alarming plague of violent crime committed by young people that is rapidly becoming one of our gravest problems. Not only has there been an astonishing increase, but more and more crimes are being committed by younger children. Seven- and eight-year-olds have been taken into custody for rape, robbery, and assault this year. One murder was attributed to an eight-year-old boy, another to a nine-year-old boy, a third to a nine-year-old girl. All used handguns to kill children approximately their own age, according to police.
Between 1960 and 1974, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, the number of "juveniles" arrested for all
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ASIA
Mrs. Gandhi with backers after court decision: Seeing the verdict from the viewpoint of political necessity
Yet another Pres, Prime Minister, etc., taken out.
# Indira Gandhi in the Dock
The crowd packed the sweltering chamber of the High Court of Allahabad as Judge Jagmohan Lal Sinha entered the room. The tall, balding justice carried a 254-page document with him, but one short sentence told the story: "The election of Respondent No. 1 to the Lok Sabha [the lower house of Parliament]," Sinha intoned, "is declared void." Respondent No. 1 was no ordinary defendant; she was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who, the judge ruled, had violated Indian electoral law in her 1971 campaign for Parliament. The decision instantly pitched India into the most tangled constitutional crisis in its 28-year history as an independent nation--and could force Mrs. Gandhi to resign the prime ministership that she has held for nine years.
Within minutes of the ruling, Mrs. Gandhi's lawyer obtained a twenty-day stay of the decision, and aides of the Prime Minister announced that she would appeal the verdict to India's Supreme Court. There was "no question" of her resigning her office, they said. Mrs. Gandhi's strategy clearly was to muster public and political support, and leaders of her ruling Congress Party as well as thousands of her countrymen rallied to her side. But the court's action dealt a serious blow to Mrs. Gandhi's prestige, and the very next day she suffered a second setback. In a by-election in the western coastal state of Gujarat, the once invincible Congress Party was upset by an opposition coalition. It was a rare display of cooperation on the part of India's usually feuding minority parties--and a personal slap at the Prime Minister, who had campaigned vigorously and implored Gujarat's voters to back Congress candidates as a show of support for her policies.
The Prime Minister tried virtually everything to beat back the challenge of the six-party Janata (People's) Front in Gujarat. Despite broiling temperatures that often shot up to 110 degrees, she spent days campaigning, visiting each of the state's nineteen districts and speaking at 120 political meetings. She allotted $20 million in government relief funds for the drought-ravaged area and promised irrigation projects and special assistance to Gujarat's untouchables.
Nothing worked. Angry students forced her to flee from several rallies by hurling stones and sandals at her, and when the voters went to the polls last week, their reaction was almost equally harsh. The Congress Party--which had won 140 state-assembly seats in the last election--picked up a dismal 75 while the united opposition won 87. The significance of the opposition victory went far beyond the borders of Gujarat, for the election results were almost certain to spur a similar combined opposition assault on the Congress Party in India's national elections early next year.
'Fanciful': Mrs. Gandhi's legal setback in Allahabad, her home town, was far more stinging. Socialist politician Raj Narain--whom she had swamped in the 1971 election by more than 112,000 votes--charged that Mrs. Gandhi had spent nearly twenty times the permissible $4,500 in her campaign, illegally traveled in Indian Air Force planes and used government officials to campaign for her. The Prime Minister struggled for nearly four years to have the case thrown out of court, but that failed and so did her attempts to avoid testifying. Judge Sinha refused Mrs. Gandhi's request to file a deposition, and she sat on the witness stand for six and a half hours denying everything and labeling the charges against her "highly exaggerated" and "fanciful." In the end, Sinha disagreed. Although he dismissed several of the charges, the judge found the Prime Minister guilty on two counts: illegally using local policemen to set up equipment at her campaign appearances and illegally employing a government official as a campaign worker.
Chant: The verdict stunned India and split the nation into two camps. Mrs. Gandhi's opponents hailed the judge's ruling (on occasion comparing Sinha to Watergate Judge John Sirica) and scheduled a week of demonstrations to protest her refusal to resign from office. The pro-Gandhi bloc was just as vocal. Nearly 2,000 supporters thronged the street outside her home, sending up the old chant: "We will face bullets and canes but will protect you." Hundreds of New Delhi shops were closed and buses canceled as expressions of support for the Prime Minister, and leaders of the Congress Party urged her to remain in office because of "the need of the country to have the benefit of your dynamic leader-
Newsweek, June 23, 1975
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Engine Suspect RADAR DEMO June 25, 1975 Va. Pilot
# Oceana Jet Emergency Puts Fleet on Ground
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Navy Thursday disclosed that its entire fleet of 600 F4 Phantom jet fighters had been grounded for safety inspections after a crash caused by control failure.
Most F4s have cleared inspection and are free to fly again, the Navy said.
The grounding of the $18-million F14s, the Navy's newest combat aircraft, was ordered after an F14 made an emergency landing Tuesday at the Oceana Naval Air Station.
"The symptoms in that incident had certain similarities to earlier incidents experienced with the F14," a Navy announcement said.
Later that same month, an F14 flying from the carrier Enterprise in the Indian Ocean experienced engine flameouts, but managed to return safely to the carrier.
The January incidents involving the F14 are believed traceable to engine difficulties, Navy officials have said.
In announcing the new F14 grounding, the Navy said it will last "until the investigation of the recent incident (at Oceana) can be completed and fully assessed."
In event of emergency, the Navy said, the F14s will fly.
The two-man crew escaped harm in the emergency landing of the F14 at Oceana. At the time, the Navy said a muffled explosion was heard, and fire erupted from the port engine after the plane took off.
"While it is too early to report any firm details as to the cause," the Navy said in its grounding announcement, "it appears that the damage occurred in the left engine fan and compressor section.
"It has not yet been determined whether the damage was occasioned by a foreign object or by an engine malfunction."
At Oceana Naval Air Station, Capt. D. L. Hancock, commander of Tactical Wings, Atlantic, was surprised to learn of the grounding.
"It was the last thing I expected," he said.
He declined, because of regulations, to specify the number of F14s at the station. "There are four Oceana-based squadrons with F14s on board. Beyond that, I am not at liberty to say."
Hancock was, when he learned of the grounding, waiting for flag officers to inspect the plane that had trouble Tuesday.
The Navy said 93 of the 433 F4s checked since they were grounded June 21 were found to be defective and in need of repair.
The problem with the F4s centers in the tail-flap section of the control system.
nas ordered corrections officials to have
6/25/75 Va. Pilot
# Flight Mishap By F14
## Explosion, Fire Force Landing
VIRGINIA BEACH--An F14 Tomcat jet made an emergency landing at Oceana Naval Air Sta-tion Tuesday after an explosion and fire in one of its engines.
Spokesmen said there were no injuries. The F14 was from the Navy's Fighter Squadron 143.
According to spokesmen, the jet took off from Oceana on a routine training flight about 12:30 p.m. There was a muffled explosion and an eruption of fire almost immediately after the plane became airborne, officials said.
The jet reportedly was back on the ground within five minutes. The cause of the mishap is being investigated.
The extent of damage to the $16-million jet hadn't been deter-mined late Tuesday. Tomcats are new to the Navy and are said to be among the world's most so-phisticated fighter planes.
Va. Pilot 6/27/75
# 205 Jets Inspected After Crash
WASHINGTON (AP) -- About one-third of the Navy's 600 F4 Phantom jet fighters have been inspected after the entire force was grounded for safety checks, the Navy Thursday said.
The grounding was disclosed five days after it was ordered following investigation of an F4 crash blamed on malfunction of part of the control system. There was no explanation for the delay in making the grounding public.
The Navy said 205 Phantoms have been inspected and that 54 were found to be defective.
The Phantoms will be re-turned to flying from aircraft carriers and ground bases around the world as each is inspected and cleared, a Navy spokesman said.
RADAR DEMO
The precautionary grounding resulted from an F4 crash April 9 into the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, N.C. The crew bailed out safely, the Navy said.
The Navy statement said investigation of that crash, conducted after the wreckage was fished out of the ocean, revealed a failure in the tail-flap section.
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Dr. Sprinkle
June 29, 1976..........TO MY SCIENTISTS..........Drs. Targ and Putoff; Dr. Hynek; Dr. Fogel; Dr. Sprinkle...a message straight from the UFO intelligences (SIs) that I have worked for and with for ten years.
Last night...the SIs communicated with me. They instructed me to write to you scientists a "tough, hard, mean letter"...to pass on to government agency connections, which they say you have.
Fun and games...are over now.
First, I personally would not send this letter. It would have to come from the SIs. Because this letter...might stop me from getting to Yucatan. But...the SIs have infinite intelligence...mine is very finite...so I will do as instructed.
Let's take it from the top.
For ten years...I have been demonstrating one miracle after another, and documenting it solidly. (The miracles caused by the UFO Connection.) The scientists...and the United States government agencies...know this. Let's not keep on being coy and playing games about it. Either I am, or I am not, a miracle-worker through the SI connection.
If I am...then the United States government should consider me more priceless than "all the gold in China". If I am not...then no concern need be paid to this message from the SIs.
It's as simple as all that. IF I HAVE DONE MY MIRACLES...(and the government agencies know damn well I have)...then the U.S. should be supporting me; giving me funds with which to live, and to proceed. Obviously I cannot do everyday job and do my work for the SIs. I haven't the energy for that. Anyway, the SIs will not allow me to deviate and go into make-a-living job. Because they have looked for ages...for me...finally found me...and now need my help to try and save what is left of the human race, and modern civilization.
In 1965 they had me go to the CIA and NASA and ask for a hundred thousand...to fund me through what was to come in my work for them. Both CIA and NASA turned me down. Since then NASA was nigh-well been wiped out...and CIA, at this point...well, if you've been reading the papers and Newsweek...you know what condition CIA is in. Rosenbloom wouldn't listen to me...and he had to trade the Baltimore Colts away to escape from ruination. The Virginia Squires wouldn't listen to me, and they are now extinct.
My picture at present...although I have accomplished over 300 miracles and have more power, literally (through the SIs and my Egyptian Connection) than all of the military forces of all the countries of the world combined...I am broke; in debt thousands of dollars; living in a broken down house infested with black-widow spiders; and my car is broken down; and no money is coming in, to speak of. Am scrambling just to keep my phone, electricity, water and rent from being turned off.
Compare this...with the picture the SIs have for me...they want me to be their human Ambassador to the United Nations, to represent them. They have proved it, through the miracles...so that is not so funny. I have demonstrated time and time and time and time again...that I am no kook or crackpot. Our present Secretary of State, Ambassadors, President, Vice President, ad nauseum, have demonstrated no capabilities such as mine. So why should it be ridiculous that I represent the SIs to a world of humans?
At any rate...for several years the SIs have been wanting to erase the present formula for the human race on the World Blackboard...and begin building a new formula. I, alone...have talked them out of it...so far. But their patience, and mine, has come to a complete end.
What I need: a hundred thousand in cash, tax-free, with which to travel the world and do what the SIs want to help the human race. A safe-house deep in the forest somewhere...both for my safety and that of my family...with appropriate safeguards around that house. If you think that silly...think of this. Our President is so protected...but if he is killed by some idiot, then
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another person will take his place as president. BUT I CANNOT BE REPLACED WITH THE UFO ENTITIES...THE SIs! And just think for a moment...if we are comparing me with Ford...can Ford control the City of Chicago? The country of France? The State of California? Can he stop an erupting volcano? Can he guide hurricanes? I have done all of these things, through my UFO connection...as the government agencies damn well know...and the very thought of Ford, or anyone else, for that matter, doing it...is ridiculous. IN SHORT...THIS HUMAN BEING, OF ALL THE HUMAN BEINGS IN AMERICA, IS PRICELESS AND CANNOT BE REPLACED. And yet, I have to live like a bum. If you don't believe it...come to my house and I will show you. Meanwhile the Congressmen pay their mistresses $14,000 a year or even more (I wish I had that, then my family could begin living.) Basketball and football stars are paid a million a year....Barbara Walters, a broadcaster, gets a million a year. YET NONE OF THEM COULD EVEN BEGIN TO COMPARE WITH WHAT I AM, WHAT I DO, OR WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET DONE.
Well, the SIs, and myself, are sick of it. This is the end of the road. Right now.
If that is the way this government, and this country wants it...okay. This is no ultimatum letter.
From this point on...the SIs will start the tape again...as they had it running before I interfered and begged them to stop it temporarily...and they'll let the tape run out.
I realize that I will go down...my family will, too...and so will the rest of the United States.
But it has not been my choice. It has been the choice of the United States government...notified in advance for over ten years...but done nothing.
Now let me "make one thing perfectly clear". If you tend to take this letter lightly, then you are a fool. This letter...is the equivalent...of a 100 hundred nuclear missiles...hitting the United States.
If you laugh...and do not believe me...then wait.
Ted Owens (PK Man)
[Signature: Owens]
Collection
Citation
“7506 Newspaper Files,” Archive Home, accessed August 27, 2026, https://mail.pkman.org/archive/items/show/610.