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The Leader-Post from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada • 15

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The Leader-Posti
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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15
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The Leader-Post, Regina, Friday, June 18, 1976 15 Girl prisoner in bedroom CIA gets the blame in bid to loll Amin Row follows arrest of border patrolmen fused to speculate that the East Germans might be retaliating lor West Germany's refusal to liand over East German army detector Werner Welnhold, 26. luldmg the guards captive more than a day lifter their arrest. At the tune lie wus culling the affair a kidnapping, Boellmg re she escaped four months ago and hud found refuge with a church group. Iolice suld Donna Wilson had been too frightened to go to the police sooner. The rescued girl told officers lier parents beat her frequently and let her out of her bedroom prison only to use the bathroom.

When her parents were away or didn hear her pleas to use the bathroom, she would be forced to use the floor and then would be beaten for doing so. Police said some of the numerous cuts and abrasions on tlie girls body had become infected and she was suftermg irom malnutrition. LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -Iolice broke down the bedroom door of a house and freed a 10-yeur-oid girl who said her parents had imprisoned her for two years and fed her a dully diet ot one peanut butter sandwich. Randolph Johnson, 48, and his wlto, Willie, 47, were booked Wednesday for investigation of vullul cruelty to a child, police sud.

Johnson is a ti uek driver for the Long Beach sanitation department. The rescued girl, weighing 63 pounds, was reported in serious condition In hospital. Her identity was being withheld. The girls 19-year-old sister, Donna, said she too had been imprisoned by her parents but DEVELOPMENTS LTD. 2115 BROAD ST.

REALTOR guiird opened fire on a crowd attending a police academy graduation ceremony lust Thursday Just outside Kampala, killing many people. They said witnesses reported seeing Amin firing a weapon during the unprovoked attack. The sources got tlielr Information out of the East African country by beeret means, they said. Their account differed from rexrts' given by the government-controlled Radio Uganda, which bus said the incident was started by terrorists who threw hand grenades In an assassination attempt. The sources In Kampala said tlie number of persons killed could not be determined but prisoners were brought in the next morning, to remove the dead.

They said Amin had three reasons for staging the Incident to demonstrate his supernatural ability to survive, to do away with certain ofileials attending the ceremony and to avoid a coup. Radio Uganda has been referring to Amins ability to survive suiee the incident, referring to his heroic escape. No ottieials were known to be among the dead, the sources said. LONDON (Reuter) President ldl Amin of Uganda blamed the Central Intelligence Agency Thursday for an attempt to kill him last week, a Radio Uganda broadcast monitored in London said, Amin was not hurt when a grenade was thrown at his jeep in Kampala on June 10, hut his dilver was killed. Speaking at the internulion.il conference centre In Kampala Thursday, Amin said; "It was really planned by the Central Intelligence Agency of Uie U.S A.

that I should not be alive betore the first week of July. "This plan went everywhere, through the dim dies, through other organizations and everything, but I came to discover tills. Amin also said any diplomat "co-operating with the American intelligence agency, if they are found, whether he is an ambassador, he will face firing squad by military tribunal. By THU ASSOCI TED PRKSS Ugandan President ldl Amin staged an assassination attempt against himself lust week in order to do away with certain officials and to prevent a coup he believes Is In preparation, say 525-2531 RESALE DIV. 525-2581 Ontario murders may be linked ri8 5 4 "4 iV f- i y.4 J- i' Tty BONN (AP) East and West Germany hud another diplomatic row Wednesday, this time over the Coinmumsts arrest of two West Germun border patrolmen.

The Bonn government at first accused East Germany ot kidnapping the two but hacked down when one of the detained men appeared on East German television and said they had not been kidnapped. West Germany then said that in any case, it was uncivilized tor East Germany to hold the pair. Michael Kohl, head of East Germanys mission In Bonn, was handed an urgent demand for release of the two federal border patrol members, detuned Tuesday at the East-West border the region of Kassel, West German officials rebutted East Germun chargres the two were captured on East Germun territory. While admitting there were no witnesses, they said there was a probability bordering on certainty tlie men had been abducted. East Germany responded with contentions that the two had deliberately violated Its mined, death-strip frontier.

To back this, Gunther Bolile, one of the captured patrolmen, was interviewed on an East German television newscast Wednesday night. Bolile, 29, said he and his 23-year-old patrol leader, Wolt-dieter Frese at Freses suggestion knowingly walked 150 to 200 yards inside East German territory to get a closer look at on Communist burder installations. Frese was quoted as con-firmuig this in an interview later circulated by the East German ADN news agency. ithdrawmg the earlier accu-s a i Bonn government spokesman Klaus Boellmg said "whichever way the history of this affair is cleared up, the fact remains East Germany is Children ate crumbs i 4 I 4 (1 I -V. lr Jt s' Bob Hassler 569-2342 Marjorie Will 586-0878 Jack Grundy 585-0847 C.

W. Cook 543-7116 in a field about five miles west of tins community, about 25 miles northeast of Death was caused by a punctured windpipe. S. Sgt. Mitchell said no weapon has been found.

An autopsy report did not slate whether the girl had been sexually assaulted. In two of the three earlier murders, the women's throats were slit and the third was Strangled by a nylon stocking at train Charles Turner, 36, died in a hospital about 2 12 hours after he was hit In the chest by gunfire aboard the Chicago Transit Authority elevated tram as it sped between slops. Turner's sister, Rose, 21, was shot in the head and was in very critical condition, said a hospital spokesman. Two oilier persons were slightly hurt in panic that following the shooting. beside parents 2865 Park Street, Douglas Place OPEN HOUSE SAT.

2 5 p.m. You will agree this is (he perfect home in a peilect location. Tins home has 1 ,040 square feet of beautiful, well planned living area, including three bedrooms, large living room, and a formal dining room Completely and beautifully finished rumpus room with an exit a bedroom and three piece bath Totally landscaped with many mature trees and shrubs. The large double garage completes this home perfectly Located close to schools, shopping, and recreation This home will sell quickly hurrytocallanyoneofourqualified sales persons for a private showing June Savage 586-4458 Mary Drackett 522-4370 Dianna Hebert 543-7190 Lome Tuplin 569-9395 Terry Elsler 586-0873 Muriel Polowyk 545-0596 -f-jf -y FOREST, Out. (CP) -There is a possibility that four murders In southwestern Ontario in little more than two years are linked, a spokesman with the Forest provincial police detachment said Thursday.

S. Sgt. George Mitchell said tlie slaying Tuesday of a 15-year-old London, girl may be linked to three other slayings of women in the Stratliroy area in the last 27 months. The partially-clad body of Susan Lynne Scholes was found Gunman fires CHICAGO AP) A gunman opened fire on a crowded elevated commuter train Thursday, killing one person, seriously wounding another and spreading panic among rush-hour passengers. The gunman got away as police squad cars, dog teams and a helicopter swarmed into the area.

The assailant escaped down one staircase as two policemen went up another. i 7 17 a-L'- 11)1 AMI reports reaching neighboring Tanzania from Ugandan government sources. The sources said Wednesday that Amin fears an etfort will be made to oust him next month during a meeting on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which he is scheduled to attend. The sources said Amins Dallas home Tuesday, Billy, 3, and his sister Mary Ann, 2, were dirty, hungry and frightened. Their clothes were stained with blood but they were not harmed.

Near the bodies was a BB gun, its barrel bent out of shape and its stock shuttered. A blood-stumed butcher knite was on a couch. Homicide detective Sgt. Gus Rose said the children appar- rj vmwsm y'jilLurTI il bodies ently were In the house at the' time of the slayings. Billy is a mute and his sister is too young to question.

They have been placed In the custody of juvenile ofticials. Officers went to the residence after a neighbor, Edward Bolar. reported he had not seen the Locklears since Saturday morning and asked police to investigate. tvy It sari 1 j. DALLAS (AP) For three days, the two children survived on bread crumbs scattered on the living room floor.

In the living room lay the bodies of their parents, tied buck to back, beaten and repeatedly stabbed, police said. Olticers said Billy Virgil Locklear and his wife Hazel, both 28, apparently had died Saturday afternoon. When police arrived at the '-X 1 i it 1 C. tsi vPr 5 rxr JtJ.

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