Two Arrested in Kidnapping of German Industrialist
Police in West Germany announced two arrests in the Hanns Martin Schleyer kidnapping case. Officials said the two suspects were unnamed, with the urban guerrilla group threatening execution of Schleyer unless Baader and other Baader Meinhof members are freed.
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Bonn
West Germany
UPI
Kurt Rebmann
Karlsruhe
Hanns-Martin Schleyer
Employers’ Association
Schleyer
Rebmann
San Francisco schools delay opening to September 12
San Francisco's 60,000 students face a delayed start as the Board of Education votes to postpone opening due to stalled contract talks over teacher evaluations transfers and hours. A new date targets September 12 with potential further delay if no agreement by then.
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San Francisco
UPI
Board of Education
Robert Alioto
Note Found On Body Of Dead Sniper
Police withhold contents of a handwritten note found on a white 17-year-old who killed one man and wounded three others at a Labor Day church picnic in Charlotte North Carolina. He shot himself after the attack and wore a swastika armband. Authorities search for his parents as part of the investigation. The youth parked a VW near New Jonesville AME Zion Church and fired 12 shots on the field before killing himself.
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Charlotte
N.C
UPI
C.L. Owens
Mecklenburg County
New
Jonesville Ame Zion Church
Amin orders public execution of 12 Ugandan officials
Ugandan President Idi Amin directed the execution of 12 high ranking officials and businessmen for alleged plots to overthrow his government. A military tribunal condemned them, with a public hanging to take place at 5 p.m. Friday at the clock tower on Entebbe Road outside Nairobi. Religious leaders would pray for the condemned before their death.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Idi Amin
Radio
Kampala
Amin
Entebbe
Elizabeth II
Britain
Jail crooks early says Rand study
A Rand Corporation study based on 49 California inmates for armed robbery urges separating professional intensive criminals from amateurs early and imprisoning them through their most active years. It notes many professionals commit far more crimes but lack proportional arrest records.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Rand Corporation
California
Chinatown Slayings Linked to Revenge by Gang Members
Homicide investigators say five people were killed at the Golden Dragon restaurant by three youths of the Joe’s Boys gang seeking vengeance for the July 4 firecracker shootings. The masked assailants used a shotgun an automatic weapon and a pistol, escaping in a car possibly driven by a fourth gang member. Several Wah Ching youths were dining but uninjured, they reportedly dove under tables.
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San Francisco
UPI
Golden Dragon
Chinatown
Wah Ching
Daniel Murphy
Murphy
Joe
Joe Fong
Graham Reverses View on Communism During Hungary Visit
Hungarian church leader Sandor Palotay says Billy Graham has changed his stance on communism after meetings in Hungary. Palotay notes Graham’s ongoing contact with churches and says his earlier objections no longer align with the reality of Hungary’s socialist system. Graham’s visit drew large crowds and prompted praise from church figures.
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Budapest
Hungary
UPI
Sandor Palotay
Billy Graham
Palotay
Hungarian Council of Free Churches
MTI
Graham
Socialist Society
Churches
Brown backs employment bill and full justice for workers
Governor Edmund G Brown Jr urged faster labor elections and stronger NLRB power to curb employers flouting laws at a Labor Day event. He linked California’s unemployment to right to work laws abroad and called for organizing the unorganized while warning multinational firms to ensure economic justice or exit California.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
Catholic Labor Institute
National Labor Relations Board
California
Pleasanton
Alameda County
United States
Dow Chemical Co
Sacramento Delta
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Bild Zeitung
Concord
George Barnes
Barnes
Alexandra
Mount Diablo
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Indiana
Bucky Pizzarelli
Carl Kress
Ruby Braff
Baader
Ulriche Meinhof
Joan Petersilia
Lompoc Valley
North H Street
Lompoc
Calif
Art Smith’s Medical Center
American College of Apothecary
BankAmericaid
Art Smith
East Enied
Robert J. Lagomarsino
Kurt Garman
Santa Barbara County
Federated Republican Women
Carolyn Schultz
Kurt
Robert Garman
Gemini Ave
UCLA
N ‘I
Kenneth H Smelds
Erik's
Diet Center
Judy White
Judy
Bob
Buellton
Moores
Pendleton
Mit
Portland
Oregon
Mers’ & Boys
West Ocean
I” Street
BankAmericard
Moore Charge
Moore’s Men's Department
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