Five Dead In Glass Plant Shooting Rampage
In South Connellsville Pennsylvania a glass plant worker Mansel Sonny Hammett shot five plant supervisors after being suspended. He overpowered a gate guard entered the Anchor Glass Container Co plant and killed four men and wounded another before killing himself. Hammett from Dunbar had been sent home for disciplinary action shortly before the attack.
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Sonny’ Hammett
Dunbar
Anchor Glass Container Co
Fayette County
Pittsburgh
Pete Casini
Hammett
Casini
Phillip Halfhill
Mount Braddock
Gunman shoots at Glass bottle plant near Pittsburgh
Witnesses describe a gunman entering the Globe Glass plant near Pittsburgh and firing on workers after a foreman was suspended. Four killed include Donald Abbott and Hammett's foreman. two others wounded, with 600 to 700 employees evacuated. Casualties listed as James Silbaugh, Richard Hosier in serious condition. The plant, located about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, makes glass bottles.
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Donald Abbott
Hammett
John Coligan
Ralph Tamaro
Paul Gabelt
Richard Hosier
Uniontown
James Silbaugh
Connellsville
James Wagner
Connellsville State General Hospital
Hosier
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh
Silbaugh
Globe Security Co
Wagner
Illinois governor Thompson opens trade bureau in China at Peking
Governor Thompson leads a 160-member Illinois delegation in a six day trip to China. He pins a shamrock on Premier Zhao Ziyang and states Illinois aims to lead US commercial and cultural relations with the People’s Republic. A Beatrice Foods joint venture signs a contract worth about 1 million dollars. Illinois extends cooperation with Liaoning for University of Illinois researchers and aims to increase hog litter size. Thompson invites Chinese President Li Xiannian to visit Illinois, and says arms deals would stay defensive.
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Zhao
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People’s Republic of China
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Guangdong
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Canton
Ing
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Beatrice
China International Trust and Investment Corp
Beatrice Group
James Dutt
Liaoning Province
University of Illinois
Zhongnanhai
Forbidden City
Li Xiannian
U.S
Mexican cops charged in DEA agent's death
Mexican authorities charged two Jalisco state officers with kidnapping and murder in the case of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Four other policemen and a former officer face lesser counts. warrants were issued for six or seven more suspects. The officers confessed to kidnapping Camarena and taking him to the house of Rafael Caro Quintero, who remains at large.
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Attorney General’s Office
Enrique Camarena Salazar
Drug Enforcement Administration
Camarana
Felipe Flores
Jalisco
Camarena
Alfredo Zavala Avelar
Guadalajara
Gerardo Torres Lope
Victor Manuel Lopez Razon
Jalis
Rafael Caro Quintero
Flores
Caro Quintero
Sonora
Eighth District
Attorney General’s
Gabriel Gonzalez Gonzalez
Administration Realistic About New Soviet Leader
Secretary of State George P. Shultz says the administration combines realism with hope that Mikhail Gorbachev represents more than a change in style. Two days after meeting in Moscow, he cautioned against expecting a rapid reversal of Soviet policy while noting Gorbachev appears capable and businesslike.
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George P. Shultz
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Moscow
Shultz
Soviet Union
Southern Illinoisan publication details and staff
Published Sundays and daily except Saturdays and holidays by The Southern Illinoisan at 710 N Illinois Carbondale Illinois 62901. Second class postage paid at Carbondale Illinois and at additional mailing offices. The Southern Illinoisan is owned by Lee Enterprises Inc. Publisher Steve Burgess General Manager Mike McGrorty Circulation Manager Dave Worley Retail Sales Manager Bruce Whittenberg.
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Carbondale
Illinois
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Mike McGrorty
Dave Worley
Bruce Whittenberg
World Today Kidnaps AP Journalist in West Beirut
Beir ut Lebanon AP chief Middle East correspondent Terry A Anderson was abducted Saturday morning by three armed men in a green Mercedes with no plates. Photographer Donald Mell witnessed the scene and said the abduction took about 20 seconds. Anderson, 38, vanished with no immediate claim of responsibility as Syrian troops massed near Lebanon’s Christian areas to back President Amin Gemayel against pro Israeli rebels.
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Lebanon
Terry A. Anderson
Middle East
Associated Press
Anderson
Donald Mell
Mell
Wilmington
Del
Jeremy Levin
Cable
Washington
State Department
Vivienne Ascher
Syria
Amin Gemayel
Rebels consolidate power after declaring Syria conflict
Rebel leaders held a war council after Syria declared conflict and vowed all fighting units of the Lebanese Forces militia would mobilize fully to meet emergencies. Israeli forces and Lebanese allies faced six attacks in south Lebanon as Syrian tanks were seen moving toward Christian areas from Syria. In Iraq, IRNA said Iran and Iraq fought harshly over the Basra Baghdad highway with thousands of casualties and prisoners reported.
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Lebanon
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Baghdad
Iraq
Iran
Huwairah
Basra-Baghdad
Islamic Republic News Agency
IRNA
Nicosia
Cyprus
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