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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1980
Page
3
Millions of Britons reported for work despite union leaders calling a 24 hour strike against government anti inflation policies. Transportation headaches emerged but many Londoners reached jobs by bicycle, roller skate or on foot as unions hoped to paralyze transit and the economy.
Uganda's ruling military commission dissolved President Godfrey Binaisa's Cabinet and said ministers may face trial for corruption. Commission chair Paulo Muwanga announced officers would run ministries while a presidential commission assumed Binaisa's functions. Elections were promised on schedule, date not set.
Muffoletto, 40, built Mansfield Contracting from a storefront firm to work on major projects including the Statue of Liberty and Yankee Stadium scoreboard. After facing threats by Teamsters and an FBI-backed probe, he won injunctions, a defamation verdict, and now credits FBI alliance, though he worries it strains his family and business.
Henry Ford II auctioned ten modern paintings at Christie's in New York for 18.39 million dollars, setting an American sale record. Highlights include Van Gogh Garden of the Poet in Aries at 5.2 million and Gauguin's work leading a string of top prices. buyers remained unidentified.
Washington reports indicate Soviet commanders urged Kremlin for 60 000 to 120 000 additional troops to seal the Afghan Pakistan border and pursue overall control. Analysts estimate total force around 250 000, with 5 000 inside Afghanistan and 25 000 30 000 nearby ready to move.
In Norfolk Virginia inmates armed or claiming to be so took four hostages early today at the City Jail. Three were sheriff's deputies and one a city paramedic. Police surrounded the eight story Public Safety Building as streets were closed to non police traffic. It is the jail’s first hostage incident since 1962.
Mondale told a Lorain crowd no auto aid from Washington and quipped Democrats are a handsomer, sexier lot with more kids. He forecast rain would stop and pressed for funding fixes as protests outside denounced food stamp problems and Carter policies. campus events featured student questions on Middle East tension and Iran.
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