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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1979
Page
20
Somerset Massachusetts police engaged Oswald Mayes in a 90 minute rooftop stand off. Mayes, 48, held a seven inch kitchen knife and jumped 12 feet as Lt. Alfred Medeiros prepared to deploy Mace. Mayes suffered a fractured leg and ankle. Medeiros sustained a shoulder wound. No charges were filed.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned Arab leaders in Baghdad that a attacks on Israel would prompt a counterstrike on their soil. Arab ministers debated a response to Sadat’s peace treaty, while Jordan mediated a possible compromise between conservative and hardline blocs.
Albert Lee III, 27, was charged with the murder of 11 year old Linda Vanderveen, a safety patrol guard, after being questioned and released earlier. Vanderveen, daughter of city official Andrew Vanderveen, was abducted February 12 near Mulick Park Elementary School and found dead in a snowbank. The case is the final of six Western Michigan kidnappings in six months. a $50,000 reward was posted and 1,500 tips were received by the Vanderveen task force.
Illinois Governor James Thompson and Ohio Governor James Rhodes warned that federal energy regulations could turn the Midwest into an industrial wasteland. They said high-sulfur coal usage is discouraged, risking billions of tons remaining unused and big electric bill increases for Ohio Indiana Illinois and Iowa.
A blaze gutted the Angelina Lauro docked at Charlotte Amalie in the U S Virgin Islands. All aboard escaped to shore safely. the ship remained upright in shallow water as crews fought the four hour fire and smoke inhalation affected several firefighters.
Kenneth Bianchi, 27, linked to the Hillside Strangler murders in Los Angeles, entered an insanity plea to charges he killed two Western Washington University coeds. He wore a bullet-proof vest during court and remained restrained as LAPD confirmed he remains a suspect in the 1977 78 killings.
About 1000 demonstrators peacefully gathered in Rawalpindi to plead for clemency for former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. With 24 hours left to file petitions to President Zia ul-Haq, protests grew after sabbath prayers at a central mosque. Police arrested two student leaders as chants of Save Bhutto spread.
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