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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1978
Page
2
Radical protesters attacked Tokyo's Narita as the new international airport opened. Police repelled about 15,000 protesters with water cannons and tear gas. 21 officers injured and 49 demonstrators arrested. Authorities planned heavy riot police for Sunday flights.
Roman Catholic women in Baltimore form the Baltimore Task Force on the Status of Women in the Church to protest Archbishop William D. Borders stance on the ERA. They urge archdiocese Catholics to cut Sunday donations about 12 percent in response to Borders and Auxiliary Bishop J. Francis Stafford voting against an ERA proposal at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Spokeswomen say parish gifts fund the archbishop’s office and administration.
Mavis Hutchison, 53, a grandmother from South Africa, finished a 2,908 mile transcontinental run from Los Angeles City Hall to New York City Hall in 69 days two hours and 40 minutes. She averaged 14 hours a day with two camper vans supporting her and shed about five pounds from her starting weight of 108. She described traffic as nonstop, recalled crossing the steep MacArthur Bridge in St. Louis with eyes closed, and planned a celebration before flying home to see family.
Police in Chicago say two suspects are in custody over two separate stabbings from last week. William Collins, 23, faces murder charges for the slaying of Anderson Carey, 69, and Ethel Carey, 67, found in their South Side apartment. Marvin Booker, 17, is charged with the stabbing death of Elezena Rogers, 62, whose body was found after a Rogers apartment robbery. Booker was arrested after a court summons for burglary tied to the case was discovered. Collins was ordered held without bond.
The FBI seized three Soviet citizens in Woodbridge New Jersey on spying charges for collecting classified Navy anti submarine warfare material. Two UN secretariat employees Rudolph Chernyayev and Valdik Enger face espionage counts while Vladimir Zinyakin, a suspected co conspirator, was released after identification by the Soviet Mission. A U S Navy officer helped the FBI investigation with a confidential source. The case ties to other Soviet defections but is not linked to Shevchenko.
Residents in Glendale Carbondale area vote 76 to 44 to authorize 250000 for new classrooms and gym. Dongola Unit 66 passes 311 to 308 to add five classrooms and a storage music room costing 290000. Shawnee Unit 84 raises education fund tax from 1.60 to 2.85 and transport tax from 0.12 to 0.20 with 1027 total ballots, 15 spoiled.
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