Rampage ends as self-styled Nazi gunman kills five then commits suicide
Fred Cowan, 33, a Nazi sympathizer at Neptune Worldwide Moving Co. in New Rochelle, killed five coworkers including officer Allan McLeod after menacing staff for hours. Police and federal agents. five shot dead. Cowan died from a self-inflicted wound following a 10 hour siege.
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N.Y
Fred Cowan
Norman Bing
Bing
Cowan
Mary Ellen Cowan
Westchester County
New York City
Roland Lersch
Clint Wynant
Photograph of gunman Fred Cowan identified in New Rochelle warehouse killings
Police identified Fred Cowan as the gunman who stormed a New Rochelle New York warehouse on Monday, killing a policeman and four other men.
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Fred Cowan
New Rochelle, N. Y
Vance Trips Middle East Aims for Peace Talks Progress
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance heads to the Middle East seeking concessions on the Palestinian issue to resume the Geneva peace conference. He plans visits to Israel Egypt Lebanon Jordan Saudi Arabia and Syria to gauge Arab commitment to a Palestinian state and to press for arms reduction while opposing Israeli oil exploration in the Gulf of Suez. He expects to brief President Carter on views of regional leaders and how Washington can aid a just lasting peace.
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Carter
Middle East
Vance
Geneva
Palestine Liberation Organization
U.S
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Gulf of Suez
State Department
Egyp
Young advocates open discourse as core of Carter foreign policy
United Nations ambassador Andrew Young promotes a low key, outspoken approach as essential to American policy. He argues open debate, not secret State Department decisions, strengthens policy over time and values confrontation over secrecy. He says he may face criticism but will continue speaking his mind.
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Associated Press
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N.Y
Andrew Young
Carter
Jimmy Carter
State Department
Africa
Young
Vietnam
Perpich outlines wide reform of Minnesota crime system
Gov. Rudy Perpich urged major changes to Minnesota crime policy including unifying the district and county courts, determinate sentencing, a new 400 bed Stillwater prison, a 200 bed medium facility, and the consolidation of juvenile and adult facilities. He pressed for faster court handling, stronger victim focus, and tougher controls on gun use.
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Minn
Rudy Perpich
Minnesota
Perpich
Stillwater
State Corrections Department
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Shakopee Women’s
Sauk Centre
Red Wing Training School
Thistleden Forestry
Carter State Dinner Highlights Amy Car ter and Lopez Portillo Visit
The Carters hosted a streamlined state dinner for Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo and wife with 103 guests including Amy Carter and pianist Rudolf Serkin. Amy read aloud at table while Mrs Lopez Portillo performed Chopin pieces to an ovation. The menu featured American fare and English menus with no hard liquor, and ceremonial guards were omitted.
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Frances Levine
Associated Press
Washington
Carter
Amy Carter
Rudolf Serkin
Mexico
Jose Lopez Portillo
Amy
Lopez Portillo
Misty Malarky Ying Yang
Carters
Lopez Por
Serkin
Slayings Shock Indiana Town Four Brothers Killed
In Hollandsburg Indiana a shotgun attack on a mobile home left four brothers aged 2 to 17 dead and their mother wounded. Investigators said four men in their early 20s fled in Raymond Spencer’s car after ransacking the trailer and cutting telephone lines.
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Jan Carroll
Associated Press
Hollandsburg
Ind
Raccoon Lake
Virginia Tyler
Ralph Spencer
Reeve B. Spencer
Raymond M. Spencer
Gregory B. Brooks
Betty Spencer
Gregory Brooks
Terre Haute
Raymond Spencer
Lyle teacher reprimanded for classroom incident
Industrial arts instructor Theodore Haugen received a letter of reprimand from the Lyle School Board after kicking a student in a classroom. Haugen appeared before the board, which placed the reprimand in his file citing physical abuse of a student. Haugen is a first year teacher employed by the Southland School District and shared by Southland and Lyle schools.
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Lyle
Lyle School
Theodore Haugen
Haugen
Southland
Lyle Schools
Lost glasses recovered after one-day ad run
A man recovered his bronze wire rim glasses in a blue case after placing a low cost lost and found ad in the Herald. The ad offered a reward and requested return to the Herald office. The notice states the ad ran for one day out of a planned three.
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Herald
Ellis School
Herald Office
Minnesota tightens fuel oil and gas supply outlook
Minnesota officials report No 1 fuel oil stock at 1,317,008 barrels with light oil about one third of the total and gasoline at 1.6 million barrels. Officials say no current retail shortages but monitor for potential fuel gaps as Canadian crude shipments may drop and proposals to extend an energy emergency are considered.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
Rudy Perpich
Dixie Diehl
Jon Millhone
State Energy Agency
Wes Lane
Emergency Services Division
Lane
Perpich
Earthquake scale revised reshapes historic quakes
The Richter Scale update lowers the San Francisco 1906 quake magnitude and increases the Chile 1960 quake energy by 62 times. The changes adjust long standing records of ground motion and energy release for major earthquakes.
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Calif
Chile
San Francisco
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