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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1977
Page
2
Three volunteers including 75 year old Ilse Bardet sit with a policeman outside a crisis center in Assen as Dutch authorities negotiate with South Moluccan gunmen who remain holding four teachers hostage.
Police stopped about 20 people near Bovensmilde who offered to act as substitute hostages for 55 captives held by South Moluccan gunmen on a hijacked train. The siege included a schoolhouse in a nearby village where four teachers and four others were hostage. Negotiations continued as the government refused to release jailed comrades or permit flight with hostages.
Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner said on IPBN Iowa Press that he and Governor Robert Ray could team up for a strong Republican ticket in the U.S. Senate and governor races next year. He would back Ray if he ran for the Senate while Turner seeks another term as attorney general. He also commented on the Williams case and Miranda warnings, criticizing Supreme Court decisions as overly technical.
DES MOINES AP The Williams defense signals new twists at a June 20 retrial for the 1968 abduction and slaying of 10 year old Pamela Powers of Urbandale. They seek to cast Williams as an accomplice and will pursue medical records and alleged sterility as defenses.
Cedar Rapids items note the police pension board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Riverside annex. Other briefs list local shop closings, job offers, a $89 handbag theft at Ramada Inn, vehicle and tool thefts, arrests for drug and false check offenses, and local business ads plus a law graduate planning to practice in St. Paul.
Ugandan President Idi Amin is slated to attend the Commonwealth conference opening in London on June 8 despite British opposition. Ugandan High Commission official Idi Osman said Amin will come, countering earlier Radio Uganda reports that his regime would state its position by that date. Osman spoke at Stansted Airport while awaiting a flight from Uganda.
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