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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1980
Page
3
Police grapple a demonstrator inside Detroit City Council chambers as they remove him from a spectator seat during a hearing on a joint KKK Nazi parade permit request. Anti Klan and anti Nazi groups disrupted the hearing and two men and a woman were arrested for allegedly attacking a Klan leader.
Two American photographers and two International Red Cross workers were captured while documenting refugees near the Thai Cambodian border. U S officials said Hanoi must ensure their safe return as clashes intensify.
The Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says its forces killed an Israeli intelligence agent Moshe Golan in reprisal for the death of a Palestinian woman wounded in Bethlehem. The group cites the woman as a PFLP member and notes Israel's curfew on a Jewish West Bank village after grenade incidents.
Condemned killer Jack Potts and his new commitment to die in peace face a federal ruling on stays. Judge William O Kelley rejected a bid to change course with an appeal filed in New Orleans as another Macon ruling looms in the case. Potts is slated for electrocution next Tuesday for the kidnapping and murder of Michael Priest. Meanwhile a separate Tampa Bay barge incident and other regional legal actions unfold.
The release of 31 boats seized during the Cuban refugee sealift has been postponed to allow the 5th U S Circuit Court of Appeals more time to decide the case.
World DACCA Bangladesh officials say a passenger launch Sha pla carrying over 500 passengers collided with an oil tanker and sank about 20 miles east of Dacca. Over 100 swam ashore, seven hospitalized, but many feared trapped inside the sunken vessel.
A federal appeals court appears to allow venting radioactive krypton gas from Three Mile Island. An anti nuclear coalition lawyer says further legal challenges are planned. Venting set to begin 8 a.m. Saturday at the Harrisburg plant. Sanford Sagalkin says venting can proceed unless an appeal succeeds in higher courts. Daniel Sheehan weighs options, including a new NRC petition.
President Valery Giscard d Esteing announced at a national press conference that France has built and tested a neutron warhead and will decide in two to three years whether to add it to its nuclear arsenal. Details of test sites and timing were not disclosed. The State Department noted a recent French test on a South Pacific island and said the announcement was not unexpected amid ongoing public discussion.
Police and army backed by tanks and helicopters storm the University of El Salvador and a nearby high school in pursuit of leftists. Reports vary on deaths and arrests with witnesses noting casualties and hundreds detained while the government denies fatalities.
The ACLU challenges Carter's wartime draft plan as sex discrimination arguing only men born 1960 and 1961 would register. The suit in Washington claims women are excluded, while leaders expect Congress could require universal registration if they win.
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