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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1976
Page
2
In Haysville Kansas a former mental patient Larry Leer held eight people hostage for hours. A long time friend of the man, Jerry Lupton, urged Leer to end the crisis by phone. Leer was killed by two police marksmen. no hostages were hurt.
Reports of violence in China indicate that Mao Zedong's widow Chiang Ching and three top allies are under arrest, yet radical followers still threaten the new Peking regime. Hua Kuo-feng warned of a 1977 people's war against the gang of four as clashes erupted in Paoting and the army halting chaos.
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