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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1976
Page
2
Rhodesia's white minority government moves to enlarge the armed forces with a rural guard unit and veterans from Angola and Mozambique wars. A new anti guerrilla chief is named as a Rhodesian locomotive was hit by gunfire from across the border amid ongoing fighting with guerrillas.
MIT Chancellor Paul Gray and President Jerome Wiesner ordered an inquiry into reports that a Taiwan student enrolled under a two year foreign student program is taking photographs and performing surveillance for the Republic of Taiwan. Fifteen NTU students are in the program run by MITs Center for Advanced Engineering Study.
A four person death toll from a Vail Colorado ski lift accident rose Sunday with Iron head, neck, or back injuries. Steve Meoti, 18, of Wayland Massachusetts, died at St. Anthony Hospital in Denver after being among nine injured when gondolas derailed. Two other cars hung from the cable as passengers were rescued by ski patrol.
Iga Talamante of Gilroy California, a UC Santa Cruz honor student turned tutor, told reporters at Kennedy Airport she was blindfolded and beaten for two days to force a confession during a November 1974 arrest by the Isabel Peron regime. She, with 17 others, was held in a tan and dirty stucco building and later sentenced to three years. The case sparked U.S. sympathy and congressional appeals as the new military regime expelled foreigners deemed undesirable.
Lily Pons estate valued at more than 2 million dollars according to her brother in law Roger Girardot. Jewelry furs works of art and documents form the estate with art due to be sold in New York and London to pay death duties.
The north Italian village of Arolo dedicated a stone plaque to American writer Vincent Sheean who died in Arolo a year earlier. Sheean lived in Arolo on Lake Maggiore shores for years and penned his best known work Personal History there.
King Hussein of Jordan, his arm in a cast from a karate injury, heads to Washington with Queen Noor to discuss the Middle East crisis. The royal party will spend three weeks in the United States and travel to Mexico, Canada, Britain and Morocco with talks planned with President Ford.
Gen. George S Patton III commander of the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas told over 1,000 delegates at the National Guard Association of Texas annual conference on Saturday that more money is needed to train personnel for any emergency. He said he is tremendously concerned about national security.
Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker travels to London for a week’s visit to receive the Companion of Honor from Queen Elizabeth II. The 30 year old former Conservative leader is the sole Canadian politician to earn the award, announced in the New Year’s honors list.
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