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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1980
Page
3
Four feet underground Satan and Sgt. Matthew Stannish began patrols on Monday at Union Square subway station in Manhattan as part of the New York City Transit Police Department’s newest recruit duo.
A hijacked Colombian plane returns to its homeland with more than 60 freed hostages. The M 19 guerrillas who seized the aircraft remain in Cuba, where authorities say they will likely not be deported. The incident, seen as an attempt to disrupt an eight nation Latin American summit in Santa Marta, drew attention to regional political violence.
Lech Walesa urged restraint and negotiations over strikes as Poland honors workers killed in December 1970 riots. He spoke after ceremonies and a mass in Gdynia calling for calm, national unity, and careful conduct by workers amid commemorations led by President Jablonski and Solidarity officials.
A California man, Harry Leland Leach 33 of Mountain View, was found mentally unfit to stand trial and committed to Lake's Crossing Center Sparks. He was charged with threatening to poison Caesar's Tahoe water supply unless paid 10 million dollars.
Turkish police captured Omer Faruk Aydin the founder and leader of the Turkish Peoples Liberation Party Front Warriors known as the Red Doctor. He allegedly planned and executed the ambush slaying of Army Spec. 5 Thomas Mosley near Istanbul on May 11, 1979. The group pledged to wipe out American influence in Turkey.
President Carter says the 96th Congress ended with a superb record, approving the windfall profits oil tax, China policy, Panama Canal treaties, a Department of Education, and major Alaska lands and chemical clean up measures, while failing to balance the budget and facing Abscam scandals.
White House press secretary Jody Powell defends snakes after Ron Reagan says Carter has the morals of a snake. Powell recalls catching snakes in childhood and praises their cleanliness and rodent-killing role.
Reagan faces opposition from Democrats over the selection of retired Gen. Alexander Haig Jr. as secretary of state due to his Nixon era role. Donovan is named labor secretary while other posts remain open and RNC chair could be filled by Richard Richards.
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