Berkowitz Appears in Court After Killing Spree
Neysa Moskowitz watches as David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, enters a Brooklyn courtroom for sentencing amid chaos. He taunts victims, fights guards, and a psychiatric review is ordered. Court adjourns to June 12 as prosecutors protest the delay.
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New Koreagate data spur call for Kim to talk
UPI reports stronger evidence of influence buying on Capitol Hill increases pressure on Congress to compel testimony from former South Korean ambassador Kim Dong Jo. Sources say up to 10 current lawmakers may have received payments. Ethics counsel Jaworski urged a resolution to threaten aid to South Korea if Kim fails to testify. The House International Relations Committee was to decide the next steps.
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Brzezinski in the Orient U.S. China plan talks on USSR
National security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski arrived in Japan after visiting China where he reportedly agreed to regular talks on Sino U.S. relations and used Chinese terms to deride Moscow. He met Ambassador Mansfield and Prime Minister Fukuda, and China’s New China News Agency said talks would speed normalization. Brzezinski boasted of Chinese aid to resist Soviet influence and referenced the Great Wall episode.
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Verbal war widens over Zaire rescue
Zaire repatriates most Belgian paratroopers and leaves 600 French Legionnaires to mop up rebel pockets and search for white hostages in Kolwezi as diplomacy flares among Zaire France and Belgium. Col Brulin says initial mission to secure whites in Kolwezi is complete and no shots were fired Monday. Paratroopers sweep 6 miles from Kolwezi to end rebel pockets and locate about 50 French hostages.
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Declining enrollments hit 36 states 1971 to 1976
Washington reports 36 states saw public school enrollments fall 2.3 percent while operating costs climbed 56 percent across all 50 states. Hawaii saw a 16.4 percent rise and Alabama 95.2 percent. The NIE cautions planners to balance rising costs with declining enrollment through the 1980s.
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Italian bishop claims mediation with Moro kidnap gang failed
Bishop Enea Selis said he tried to bridge Moro family and the Red Brigades after Aldo Moro was abducted. He disclosed talks involved Giannino Guiso and a plea to Curcio and other jailed members to make a public appeal to spare Moro’s life, which was rejected.
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Carter sticks to opposition to Clinch River reactor
President Carter, after a Tennessee trip including the TVA and Oak Ridge, reaffirmed his opposition to the Clinch River nuclear breeder reactor and its $515 million planning cost. He did not visit the project, which Tennessee officials support, citing fears of plutonium proliferation. Congress has not shared his view.
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Photographer dies after chute collision in Indiana
Kevin Shea 28, of Chicago, died after colliding with a colleague during a television commercial shoot. He fell 8,000 feet near the runway, unarmed parachute failed, causing fatal impact at the rural field.
Child killer may get the chair
A jobless employment counselor convicted of killing his six children while they slept may be sentenced to die in the electric chair. A hearing was scheduled today on a government motion asking that Simon Peter Nelson receive the death penalty. The children, ages 3 to 12, were beaten, mutilated and stabbed to death in their home in Minois' second largest city. Their skulls had been crushed with a mallet and their throats slit.
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U.S. smoking up irritants down report says FTC
The Federal Trade Commission reports Americans smoked 603.2 billion cigarettes in 1975 up 9 billion from 1974 yet tar and nicotine per cigarette have fallen. Separate data note reduced harmful substances as experts caution.
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