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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

May 09, 1977

Page

2

Carter visits Abbey as Carter presses for Dylan Thomas plaque

President Carter, during a Britain visit, urged commemorating Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in London’s Abbey precincts and met Anglican Bishop Knapp Fisher after prayers. The scene contrasted with a Honolulu police veteran recounting a near fatal shooting during a separate profile of courage and resilience.

Eaty Knapp Fisher London Carter Cornes Geoffrey Chaucer Robert Browning W.H. Auden Dylan Thomas Bishop Fisher

African stowaway boy baffling Manhattan lawmen

A 14 year old Ugandan refugee claimant known as Losh Sadter wandered into Manhattan, telling authorities his family was killed by British soldiers and that he stowed away on a ship to reach the United States. Police and child workers questioned him at length but the boy’s true status remains unclear.

Herb Terri Terri Honolulu Iam Manhattan Uganda Midtown Uth Himelf East Side Midtown South Idi Amin Africa United Nations N.Y Andrew Young Young U.S Abidjan Ivory Coast U.N Mozambique Zimbabwe Rhodesia Namibia South-West Africa Walter F. Mondale Lisbon Portugal Ghent Nigeria Gabon Sudan Southea

Hijack attempt foiled on Northwest Airlines jet

A 25 year old American was struck with a fire axe hat preventing a hijack on a Los Angeles bound Northwest Airlines jumbo with 261 aboard. The hijacker Bruce Trayer of Wisconsin was injured and questioned as the plane returned to Tokyo. No motive given.

Tokyo Los Angeles Airlines National Razor Moscow Bruce Trayer Wisconsin

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