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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1978
Page
2
A caption released Thursday by Xinhua shows Chinese refugees fleeing into Hokou in Annam Province after being expelled by Vietnam. The image documents their arduous crossing of the Nanhsi River as they seek safety.
Sen Edward W Brooke admitted to giving false testimony in a divorce hearing last year claiming he owed 49 000 to a friend. The Boston Globe reported he sought to increase his liabilities under pressure during the proceedings and noted the deed of sale for his St Martin Caribbean home listed 222 800 francs, about 40 000 dollars, as the price.
The House Select Committee on Aging reports that eight years of patients were discharged from state hospitals into old hotels and private boarding houses funded by federal welfare, with costs rising from 2.2 to 4.4 billion dollars. Chair Claude Pepper warns many discharged receive inadequate care and some are forgotten.
Illinois legislators highlight profit driven boarding homes as unregulated facilities accepting SSI funds from patients. In Chicago 13000 discharged to the North Side created a psychiatric ghetto near Manteno state hospital with 14 related deaths. Pepper notes musical chairs of care to save money and rising federal SSI support.
Central Illinois farmers meeting with President Carter urged limits on foreign ownership of farmland and asked to keep imported beef restraints. They handed Carter a letter led by state Sen. Terry Bruce calling for congressional and USDA monitoring of foreign interests, and urging Locks and Dams 26 at Alton replacement as vital.
A roadblock confrontation near Caddo Oklahoma left three state troopers and both prison escapees dead. The pair, Claude Euene Dennis 35 and Michael Lancaster 25, were sought in a two state crime spree with five deaths. One trooper was wounded.
After months of inaction the House Ethics Committee opens a serious inquiry into influence-peddling accusations involving Pennsylvania Democrats Reps Daniel J. Flood and Joshua Filberg. The panel sent staff director John M. Swanner to California to interview the key witness as part of its probe.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged the United States to provide a clear response to a Soviet proposal to ban production of the neutron bomb. He called the weapon vicious and cruel and demanded a comprehensive ban. He also noted progress toward talks on banning nuclear tests. In parallel, Mobutu Sese Seko ordered civilians cleared from a 65 mile Shaba Province stretch and declared a free fire zone to block rebel incursions from Angola, as French troops withdraw from southern Zaire.
A barefoot gunman opened fire in the Port Authority Bus Terminal killing a police officer, Henry Kobel, 27, of Fords New Jersey, and wounding two civilians before he was shot to death by another officer, Wayne Konje 44. The casualties were taken to St Clare's Hospital where the woman remained in serious condition and the man in satisfactory condition.
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