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Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • Page 93

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Bll 2nd ED. Police Seek Bloomf ield Man In Death of Young Prostitute THE HARTFORD COURANT: Tuesday, August 17, 1982 ih imsmm mm ments at 68 Folly Brook The state medical examiner's office in Farmington ruled A8g. 10 that Callahan was a homicfije victim who had died of traumatic asphyxia. The medical examiner did not fix a time of death, but police have said her body was discovered shortly after she was murdered. In the 1976 incident, the brdtfi-ers choked 20-year-old Narfriy Hoag, dragged her unconscious body across the snow in Devifs Hopyard State Park and left her on a snowbank.

She later testified that John Lindstrom had triedo sexually assault her. Police said the warrant for John Lindstrom was issued aftir "an intensive, round-the-clock Investigation" by Wethersfield police and the state police major crime squad. They would rrot elaborate. Police are asking anyone with information about John Lindstrom to call the Wethersfield Pb-lice Department. Lindstrom is described by police as a white male who is 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighs 180 pounds and has a medium build, brown hair and green eyes.

He is not believed to be armed but is considered "extremely dangerous," police said. By TAO WOOLFE Courant Correspondent WETHERSFIELD A 30-year-old Bloomfield man who has served time in prison for assaulting a prostitute is being sought by police in connection with the strangulation death of a prostitute whose body was found near Folly Brook Aug 8. Police said Monday that a warrant has been issued for John Oscar Lindstrom of Wade Avenue, Bloomfield, and formerly of the Madison Street area of Hartford, charging him with the murder of 19-year-old Christine Callahan, formerly of Orange, who sources have said was a prostitute. John and his brother, Allan Lindstrom, were arrested in January 1976, after attempting to. strangle a prostitute in Devil's Hopyard State Park, East Had-dam, police records show.

At separate trials in February 1976 in Middletown Superior Court, both brothers pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and second-degree larceny in connection with the Devil's Hopyard incident. John Lindstrom was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison. He served five years at the Somers and Enfield state prisons. He was JOHN OSCAR LINDSTROM Sought by Police paroled from Enfield Oct. 23, 1981, according to the state's attorney's office.

His parole supervision ended in June. Allan Lindstrom was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison and has since been released. According to the state's attorney's office, he is riot suspected of being involved in the Callahan case Callahan's body was discoveied by a newspaper carrier shortly after 7 a.m. Aug. 8 in a wooded area.

It was lying in a small clearing beside one of the few paths that lead to the brook near apart Rebels Kill 20 in Guatemala Amfeuslv The police Friday arrested 20 other members of the movement who were accused of taking part in the plot. Immediately after the March coup, Sisiniega Otero was onaJbf the first political leaders to go on radio and urge support for he new regime. He became a frequent criti(jof Rios Montt, however, when new elections were not immediately called. throw military President Efrain Rios Montt. Sandoval Alarcon and Sisiniega Otero were respectively the presidential and vice presidential candidates this year for the National Liberation Movement, the most powerful rightist group in this country of 7.2 million people.

Sandoval came in third in the voting. The government said they headed a plot to oust Gen. Rios Montt, who seized power in a March coup and overturned the elections. G.E. Kassabaum, Architect, Dies By RAUL GONZALEZ United Press International GUATEMALA CITY Guerrillas ambushed a military patrol in the highlands north of Guatemala City and killed 20 soldiers, the army said Monday.

Two insurgents were also killed in the battle, army officials said. A group of guerrillas attacked the patrol, which consisted of army soldiers and a group of village militiamen, in Chimalten-ango province about 50 miles north of Guatemala City, the army announced. The date of the ambush was not announced. The rebels killed four army soldiers and 16 militiamen, officials said. The army also said its troops discovered 100 caches of weapons and food in a recent sweep of Quiche province, a northern region populated mainly by Indians where guerrillas have become increasingly active.

Officials said they distributed the food to poor people in the province. All police forces in Guatemala were told to look for rightist leaders Mario Sandoval Alarcon and Leonel Sisiniega Otero, accused of spearheading a plot to over United Press International ST. LOUIS George E. Kassabaum, president of an internationally known architectural firm and a former national president of the American Institute of Architects, died Sunday at Barnes Hospital. Kassabaum, 61, had been taken to the hospital after suffering a stroke Thursday at his home in the St.

Louis suburb of Ladue. Kassabaum's firm, Hellmuth Obata Kassabaum planned the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, Houston's Galleria shopping complex and Mobil Oil's division headquarters in Fairfax, Va. It also designed the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the Ralston Purina "Co. headquarters in St.

Louis, the terminal at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, McDonnell Douglas Automation Co. and the Southern Illinois University cari-pus at Edwardsville. The firm, which is one of 'Sie profession's largest, was founded in 1955 by Kassabaum and two longtime associates, F. Hellmuth and Gyo Obata.

he three were graduates of wie Washington University School of Architecture. The company has 800 staff members in nine offices, including eight offices in the United States and one at Riyadh, Saidi Arabia. Kassabaum, who was recognized nationally for his system of cost analysis and controls, was national president of the American Institute of Architects in 1969-70 and chancellor of its College of Fellows in 1977-78. He was an honorary fellow of the royal Architectural Institute of Canada and La Sociedad de Ar-quitectos Mexicanos. Ex-Klansman Loses Bid To Regain Job Ewery Wednesday in aju.

i i consumer-oriented eolymn about meat DOO how to boy it i how cook it I how to carve it lj how to serve it the Klan in March and has since spoken out against the white racist organization. A spokesman for the state Department of Labor said the dis-missal was upheld in an oral decision last week by the arbitration board and that a written decision would be issued soon. Hurd fought his dismissal through his union, Council 4 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ- A former member of the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut has lost an appeal to the state Board of Mediation and Arbitration of his firing last November as a state correction supervisor. Joseph Hurd, 52, lost his state job for allegedly soliciting support for the Klan among inmates at the Connecticut Correctional Institution in Niantic. Hurd, who joined the state chapter of the Klan in the spring of 1981, denied the charge in his appeal.

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