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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1978
Page
3
Italian police say Giuseppe Sicchia age 48 was killed instantly Monday as he returned from good behavior leave to serve his sentence. His wife Giacomina, 52, died en route to hospital. Sicchia had been convicted of attempted murder in 1973 and was due for release next year.
About 600 Belgian paratroopers remained at Kamina with 800 French legionnaires patrolling Kolwezi to stabilize Sha ba Province after rebels invaded, killing hundreds. Evacuation left Kolwezi to French and Zaire troops, while tens of thousands of Europeans still in the region. Officials cite hundreds dead among rebels and civilians, with lingering hostage fears and calls for continued European protection.
The General Assembly begins its first special session on disarmament with proposals for specific goals and new machinery to end the arms race. Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Lazar Misov will preside. more than 20 heads of government and 50 cabinet ministers are set to speak over two and a half weeks.
In Tokyo Zbignew Brzezinski told Prime Minister Fukuda the United States intends to strengthen ties and pursue normalizing relations with China within the Shanghai communiqué framework. He cited talks with Hua Kuo-feng and Huang Hua as useful and constructive.
Hundreds of anti-nuclear demonstrators, about 300, crossed into the Bangor submarine base near Tacoma, climbing a 6 foot barbed wire fence to protest missile firing subs. They were arrested and released, vowing to return unless charged, as a United Nations disarmament session opened in New York.
In Corsier-sur-Vevey Switzerland the body of Charlie Chaplin was reburied today in a concrete underground vault at the same grave site from which it was stolen twelve weeks earlier. The private ceremony involved only the widow Oona Chaplin, some children and local officials while two refugees are held on extortion and disturbing the peace of the dead charges.
In Griffith Indiana a parachutist died during a TV commercial filming after colliding in the air with another skydiver. Kevin Shea 28 of Chicago was identified as the deceased. Joseph Wielgosz 24 of Winnipeg Manitoba was injured and hospitalized. Witnesses said Shea’s chute failed to open while Wielgosz’s was only partially open.
In Peru, at least five killed and many hurt as a general strike against price hikes ends in violence. Security curfew in Lima and Callao, troops ordered to shoot without passes, and widespread disruption cripples transport and commerce amid 66 percent gas, 50 percent foods, and 50 percent transport price hikes.
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