Teacher Charged After 10-Year-Old Imprisoned In Closet
Chicago report says fourth grader Orlando Tillman was locked in a closet for 23 hours as punishment by 26-year-old Ricardo Davenport. Davenport faced endangering the life charge and was released on bond. Parents alerted police when the boy did not return home from John P. Altgeld School. In a separate note, Illinois fined Insurance Company of Illinois $104,000 for redlining, tied to areas on the South and Northwest sides.
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Chicago
Orlando Tillman
Ricardo Davenport
Orlando
Davenport
John P. Altgeld
Janice Tillman
State Department of Insurance
Insurance Company of Illinois
Japanese policewomen to guard Thatcher in Tokyo summit
Twenty Japanese policewomen with black belts in Aikido join Tokyo security for the summit. The plain clothes unit will support about 30,000 officers guarding male leaders. Officials say the women were chosen for strength and toughness and are crack shots, though armed status was not disclosed.
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Tokyo
Margaret Thatcher
Carter plans jogging circuit around Tokyo palace
President Carter aims to jog the 22 mile loop around Emperor Hirohito's palace during a June 24 to 29 state visit to Tokyo. Kyodo reports police and the Foreign Ministry fear security challenges and hope he abandons the idea.
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Tokyo
Carter
Imperial Palace
Foreign Ministry
Kyodo News Service
U.S
Emperor Hirohito
Iranian oil directors resign in protest in Iran
All seven directors of the National Iranian Oil Co submitted symbolic resignations in support of Chairman Hassan Nazih as Ayatollah Khomeini is accused of pushing Iran toward an Islamic straitjacket. The moves were symbolic. directors remain at work. The National Democratic Front blasts Khomeini over mixing clergy and politics as executions of SAVAK members rise to 259 since February.
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Tehran
National Iranian Oil Co
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iran
Hassan Nazih
Iranian Bar Association
National Democratic Front
Mohammad Mossadegh
Khomeini
SAVAK
Italy seeks to form new government after election
Christian Democrat leaders prepared for long negotiations to form a new government as Italy completed a two day parliamentary election with little change expected. The Senate 315 seats were at stake and preliminary talks with other parties aimed at a majority without the Communists. Premier Andreotti warned the caretaker government may stay through the summer to organize a solid new administration.
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Rome
Italy
Senate
Christian Democratic
Carlo Donat-Cattin
Giulio Andreotti
Police killed in car bomb in Armagh amid Northern Ireland conflict
A booby-trap car bomb killed a police superintendent and a constable during an anti guerrilla patrol in Armagh Northern Ireland. The RUC officer was the most senior to die in the 10 year sectarian war which has claimed 1 915 lives.
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Armagh
Northern Ireland
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Report says cocaine not safe drug
Miami doctors cite 68 deaths linked to recreational cocaine use in JAMA, 24 by direct cocaine toxicity. Ratios show injection to be most lethal. snorted use can trigger fatal seizures within an hour. Cocaine is used medically but sold on streets at 65 to 100 dollars per gram, with snorting as the common method.
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C.G. McDaniel
Chicago
Miami
Charles V. Wetl
Ronald K. Wright
Dade County
Fla
Journal of the American Medical Association
Colombia
South America
Wetli
Wright
Vorster resigns as South African president amid scandal
South African President John Vorster resigned after an investigative report linked to a major government funds scandal. Prime Minister Pieter Botha announced the action in Parliament, noting Vorster’s role in concealment and delay while funds were used for clandestine propaganda and alleged foreign political payments.
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Cape Town
John Vorster
Pieter W. Botha
Vorster
Botha
Washington Star
United States
Rudolph Erasmus
Steve Walker emerges as second personality in Hillside case
AP reports Kenneth Bianchi the Hillside Strangler suspect shows a second personality named Steve Walker under hypnosis. Steve boasts of strangulations in Washington and Los Angeles and is aware of Ken, who is described as a weakling by Steve. Prosecution suspects the personality may be a defense maneuver.
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Los Angeles
Kenneth Bianchi
Hillside
Steve Walker
Washington
Los Angeles Times
Bianchi
Steve
Ken
State of Washington
Bellingham
Wash
The
Times
University of Montana
John G. Watkins
Whatcom County
the Times
Watkins
Ken Bianchi
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