Daffy About WW II Youth Gunman Kills 1 at Labor Day Picnic
Kenneth Wilson, 17, of Charlotte, wore a swastika armband and opened fire at about 3 p.m. during a Jonesville AME Zion Church Labor Day picnic, killing 29 year old Roosevelt Davis and wounding three others before killing himself. Teachers said Wilson and a friend were obsessed with World War II.
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N.C
Jonesville
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Charlotte Observer Today
Kenneth Wilson
East Mecklenburg High School
Mecklenburg County
Lottie Carothers
Roosevelt Davis
Davis
The
Charlotte Observer
Gene Manion
Wilson
Doug Russell
Vith Wilson
Burglary Probes Theft of 10000 In Antiques
State police probe a burglary at Merwin Process’s rural Centerville home with missing trunks chests antiques a large worn chest and silver. Damages from two criminal mischief cases total 60, and 100 from damage at Columbus School. A Canadahia Lake crash left two teens uninjured. Probers cite prowling at Judy Burgess home and two broken windows at William Mangen residence.
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Corry
Merwin
Floyd Mckahn
Spartansburg
Rome Township
Columbus School
Canadahia Lake
Bruce Kerr
Lemon Street
James Knight
Oil City
Knight
Tural
Judy Burgess
Union Township
William Mangen
R.D. 3
Union City
Kidnapers Threaten to Kill German Industrialist in Cologne
West Germany's Hanns Martin Schleyer, head of industry groups, was abducted Monday in a Cologne street ambush after his chauffeur and three bodyguards were killed. Police detained two suspects, their identities undisclosed, amid threats of his execution unless Baader and associates are freed from Stammheim prison. The attack marks a third high profile terrorist strike in five months.
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West Germany
Hanns Martin Schleyer
Kurt
Rebmann
Schleyer
National Associations of Industries and of Employers
Munich
Bild Zeitung
Andreas Baader
Baader-Meinhof
Stammheim
Stuttgart
Social Security
U.S
Panama Treaty Signing Set Tomorrow
President Carter welcomed Omar Torrijos to the White House for the Panama Canal treaty signing after 13 years of talks. Torrijos praised U S readiness to yield eventual canal control as he and Carter met with Mondale Vance and Brzezinski. Dozens of Western Hemisphere leaders arrive to witness the ceremony promising an open neutral canal.
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White House
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Walter F. Mondale
Cyrus R. Vance
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Andrews Air Force Base
Monnday
United States
Torrijos
Vance
Pipeline foes say Alaska oil link confirms their warning
Environmentalists warn the Alaska North Slope to Valdez pipeline will bring more spills and wreck the Arctic wilderness. They note small incidents so far, plus a pumphouse explosion, while predicting broader oil spills and tanker crashes along the West Coast. Activists urge alternatives and cite caribou migration disruption.
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Alaska
Brock Evans
The
Sierra Club
West
Wilderness
United States
Pam Rich
Friends of Earth
Arctic
Evans
Canada
Labor Leaders Call For Jobs Not Promises This Labor Day
Labor leaders across about 300 communities kicked off Full Employment Week under Irving Bluestone with a push for a law requiring yearly full employment programs, aiming to cut unemployment to 3 percent for workers over 20. Meany warned of anti union campaigns in the South and against right to work moves, while labor actions and traffic tolls dominated the holiday.
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Boston
San Diego
Full Employment Action Council
Irving Bluestone
United Auto Workers Union
Congress
Labor Department
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Labor Day
National Safety Council
Park Indicted On 36 Charges In U S Probe
Washington report says South Korean businessman Tongsin Park faces 36 federal counts including conspiracy bribery mail fraud and racketeering tied to an influence buying probe on Capitol Hill The indictment returned Aug 26 was unsealed this morning with details withheld officials said Attorney General Griffin Bell planned a news conference to discuss the case with top assistants.
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Washington
Tongsin Park
Capitol Hill
U.S. District Court Clerk's
Atty
Griffin Bell
Tongsan Park
Park
Washington Post
Seoul
Congress Faces Financing Fix for Social Security
Congress must raise money to shore up Social Security as 38.5 million beneficiaries and 108 million workers rely on the system. The Ways and Means panel begins new financing talks September 12 amid concerns that reserves will run dry by 1978–79 without action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
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Social Security
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Carter
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