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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1981
Page
4
Frank Hampton, 93 and frail with cancer, appeals at a Vacaville parole hearing to die at home in Louisiana. The longtime inmate, who says he never committed crimes beyond killing a nuisance, seeks release after 63 years in prison and 17 years at Folsom.
ATLANTA The arrest of Wayne B Williams, a 28th suspect in a two year string of killings, stirs city tensions. Officials warn calm may hide deeper unrest while some in the black community view Williams as possibly a scapegoat amid ongoing fear of renewed violence.
Aziz Maupin, leader of Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation, says true believers will rise to heaven in a bodily ascent Sunday or Monday. He quit his ironwork job to spread the message and has seen widespread reaction. He foresees nuclear war tipping the world to the end and Israel waging a war with Syria to redraw borders by 1988.
A bearded man stripped naked after a fight at Eighth Avenue and 43rd Street fled along 42nd Street chased by about 40 bystanders. He ran onto the Times Square IRT station platform, touched the electrified third rail twice and was killed instantly. Police could not identify him.
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