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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1977
Page
1
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat returns to Cairo after urging no more war as he meets Israeli leaders in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Menachem Begin calls the visit a success and pledges peace while both leaders stress negotiations over conflict.
A chartered Austral Air Lines BAC-L11 jet carrying 74 passengers and five crew from Buenos Aires to Bariloche crashed while attempting to land in stormy weather. Army and police units reached the wreck about 20 miles from Bariloche. officials reported survivors among the 79 aboard.
A cyclone battered eastern India for two days then moved offshore. Estimates place deaths from 1 200 to over 6 000 with 3 million plus in property and crop losses. Guntur and Krishna districts suffered severe damage as thousands were left homeless.
Dean G. Hefner, 23, was found stabbed once in the chest behind the counter of the U T ote L AM Market in Hawaiian Gardens after a customer arrived at 3 a.m. The cash register was open and empty, indicating robbery as the motive. Hefner had started work three nights earlier on Norwalk Boulevard.
A Pacific storm cripples Sierra passes and flood downtown San Francisco streets with up to a foot of water. Icy highways trigger closures from Mount Shasta to the Oregon border while Red Bluff reports snow. Dozens of minor accidents follow amid gale winds and rain in Northern California.
John Wesley Sharrar, 22, barricaded in his Hellman Street apartment with a shotgun and a hostage, held four men for hours. After two men were freed for cigarettes and a hostage was tied to a chair, police force ended the standoff with Sharrar surrendering around 8 a.m. No injuries reported. STAR team provided support. Sharrar jailed for assault with a deadly weapon and kidnapping.
Mayor Michael Bilandic fired consumer sales chief Jane Byrne after a lie detector test he said disproved her charges of bribe taking and conspiracy to raise taxi fares. Byrne, who accused Bilandic of backing a 1.7 percent cab-rate increase, had taken a polygraph at the Chicago Daily News request.
The article notes a Lakewood High School pair among two graduates who earned their wings but turned them in after learning of a pregnancy. The report appears on Page A-2.
Union members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 walk out at Alameda County Transit District halting service for 115000 riders. The strike followed an all-night bargaining session that ended at a midnight deadline with no deal over the pension plan.
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