Son of Sam anniversary fuels intensified manhunt
New York City police mark the first anniversary of the 44 caliber killer's first murder with a publicized, expanded manhunt. The hunt targets a likely 20 to 35 year old ex law enforcer in Queens and the Bronx, whose string of weekend shootings has unsettled residents. Police consider multiple leads, including gun-trace efforts and hypnotism, while rumors link the alias to Jimi Hendrix.
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UPI
New York City
Jimmy Breslin
Sam
Donna Lautia
Queens
Bronx
Alba Milan
Louis Valentine
United States
Japan election flunks to give Fukuda party setback
Computer projections from Kyodo and NHK show Liberal Democratic Party likely winning 124 of 252 seats in the upper house. Amid UPI dispatches, Carter faces decisions on arms and a neutron bomb while Warnke meets the president during a busy Washington week. China’s Liberation Army Daily urges modernizing weapons as border tensions with the Soviet Union rise. A July 4 recess looms as Congress races to finish energy legislation before August. Five separate fatal crashes push the weekend toll to 17 in Ohio and beyond. The Columbiana County crash claims five lives including Leigh Ann Page and Kathy Laughlin among others.
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Takeo Fukuda
Liberal- Democratic
Kyodo News Service
Japan Broadcasting Era
House of Councillors
Japan
Washington
UPI
Carter
Sil
Paul Warnke
Warnke
Red Star
Krasnaya Zvezda
Hong Kong
China
Soviet Union
Liberation Army Daily
Peking Radio
Congress
House
Senate
Columbiada County
Ohio Highway Patrol
Leigh Ann Page
Christopher Earich
Robert Laughlin
Kathy Laughlin
Roy Harvey
East Liverpool
Flood Furies in Seoul Suburb Leave Hundreds Dead or Missing
In a Seoul suburb torrential rains and mudslides left nearly 300 dead or missing as 18.4 inches of rain drenched Yungdungpo and nearby towns within 30 miles of Seoul. more than 16,000 homes flooded forcing up to 80,000 to evacuate to shelters while relief scarcities challenged responders. construction minister Shin Hyung Shik proposed 1,000 unit apartments in the hardest hit areas.
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Seoul
South Korea
UPI
Yungdongpo
Shin Hyung-Shik
Yungdungpo
Anyang
Buchan
Poisoning at Osaka trade show sickens 1500 from lunches
More than 1,500 people at an Osaka furniture fair ate box lunches of rice, shrimp, and boiled meat and fell ill with stomach pains within about an hour. Over 100 remain hospitalized as health officials confirm staphylococcus in the boxed meals prepared by the Sakai Food Distribution Enterprise Cooperative. A sanitation team inspected the kitchen and ordered a halt to operations pending notice.
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Tokyo
UPI
Osaka
Food Distribution Enterprise Cooperative
Sakai
Osaka City
Hijackers threaten to blow up jet at Helsinki airport
Two Soviet Aeroflot hijackers demanded fuel to depart Helsinki threatening to blow up the aircraft with 79 aboard. They released women and children, kept 50 men hostage, and sought to head to Sweden amid ongoing extradition concerns. Palestinian hijackers surrendered in Damascus. Kuwaiti Airlines crew freed.
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Finland
Damascus
Syria
Sweden
Moscow
Finnish Board of Aviation
Soviet Union
Petrozavodsk
Soviet Karelia
Leningrad
Stockholm
Vladimir Stepanov
Interior Ministry
Rebel Archbishop Re-Dedicates U S Church in Texas
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 70, from Paris, performs a reconciliation ceremony at the Queen of Angels Chapel in Dickenson as part of reviving traditional rites. He has been suspended by the Vatican and warned with excommunication, but declares the Catholic Church remains faithful.
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Marcel Lefebvre
Queen of Angels
Dickenson
Texas
Lefebvre
Paris
U.S
Vatican
Evidence studied in bus kidnap case
A UPI report notes a court convening in Oakland to decide admissibility of evidence in the trial of three wealthy youths accused of seizing a California school bus with 26 children and their driver Ed Ray. The 1976 incident led to a 16 hour underground confinement at a Livermore quarry. The hearing reviews whether police searches were lawful and what motive may emerge.
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Oakland
Calif
UPI
Chowchilla
Ed Ray
Livermore
Central
California
Pipeline blast blamed on human error at Alaska pump
In Fairbanks Alaska a mistaken start order at a pump undergoing repairs is blamed for the Alaska pipeline explosion that killed one man injured five others and destroyed a pump station. Alyeska officials say the pump was likely started from the control room anywhere along the pipeline. Estimates for rebuilding reach 20 to 50 million dollars and repairs could take months. A second report from Washington notes President Carter praising Ohio for coal based energy efforts while urging continued gas controls and new gas wells.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
UPI
Pipe- Une
Valdez
Washington
Carter
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Akron firebomb death marks racial violence case
A firebomb on the Watsons porch triggered Carl Watson to grab a gun and shoot himself after rescuing his wife as neighbors spoke of ongoing harassment since the family, the only Black residents on Belew Avenue in Chapel Fall, moved in. Police declined to share details while investigations continued.
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Carl Watson
Tve
Toe
Watson’s
Chapel Fall District
Watson
Lynn
West Side
Belew Avenue
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E.L. Patton
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Frank Fosberg
Blaine
Wash
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