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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1979)
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New York City and airport police, the FBI and U.S. Customs agents are pressing the search for at least five other suspects. None of the $5 million in U.S. currency and estimated $850,000 in gold, jewels and pearls taken in the robbery at Lufthansa’s Kennedy Airport terminal has been recov ered. But authorities said the arrests Saturday of Angelo John Sepe, 37, of New York, a convicted holdup man, and Peter Gruenwald, 39, of Levittown, N.Y., a cargo traffic divi sion operator for Lufthansa, provided the first major break in the Dec. 11 robbery. The two are to be arraigned today before a U.S. magistrate. Sepe was charged with taking part in the heist. He was arrested in a 1979 Thunderbird that agents said Progress’ in New Orleans police strike United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Only gun ^ salesmen are reporting record busi- ^ ness, and the mayor has canceled additional carnival activity, but a federal mediator reports progress in tmentha finding a solution to a 4-day police strike before Mardi Gras revelry culminates a week from today. “I’m very pleased to report that some progress has been made,” fed eral mediator Ansel Garrett said Monday night after police and city ither pen negotiators met for Q>Vi hours in the first bargaining session since more than 1,000 officers left their posts Friday night. Despite the progress. Mayor Er nest Morial canceled another downtown Mardi Gras parade that 3-year it was to roll through the streets to- not talk night and said it was be “realistic to he bought in a spending spree with his share of the loot. Gruenwald was held as a mate rial witness in the case. No formal charges have been filed against him. Both were lodged in the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. The arrests came six days after a accept the fact the raucous pre- Lenten carnival festival could be don ter wrecked by the strike. Hotels reported an increase in telephone calls from concerned Mardi Gras guests, but no wholesale cancellation of reservations was in volved. Carnival visitors continued to stream into the city and crowd guns aroi French Quarter streets, but Bour bon Street businesses reported a 30 percent drop in sales this year com pared to last year’s pre-carnival ac- 'ard reb tivity. Only gun salesmen reported rec ord business. A lot of pistols we’re out of and a ;e of42p lot of shotguns we re out of because to 2,0m weve got a run on them,” said gun dealer Emmett Bellaire. ton, itisl* State troopers and National prosper! Guardsmen supplemented the d bedroi handful of police remaining on the West r ’ is when job to protect the city of650,000 and hordes of Mardi Gras visitors arriv- ; to thefi ing daily despite the strike. Cultist of Con- ple. !-year-old ex- rancisco, had ■ r-Jead guilty to ipted murder at ly in a bid to iws. In a surprise ed innocent to all murder, three of rder and several 4 • United Press GEORGE Peoples Te Layton Mon cent to murder airstrip mass gressman Leo P. and four other Layton, a Marine from Sa been expected t charges of att< his arraignmen escape the gall move, he pleat five charges of attempted mu lesser charges. State prosecutor Nandram Kissoon said he was ready to pro ceed on all charges. Gonviction on the capital murder charges would bring Layton an automatic sentence of death by hanging. Chief defense counsel Rex McKay said he was not ready to present the defense because an “eminent psychologist and psychiatrist” from New York with opinions cnicial to his pre sentation was unable to obtain airline reservations to Guyana. Chief Justice Harold Boilers then granted an adjournment until Feb. 28. The prosecution had wanted to start the case, but the judge said he thought a break in the testimony would be incon venient. Asked what happened to the plea-bargaining deal, prosecutor Kissoon said there was never a | firm deal as such, ’ just feelers,” and that “something went wrong somewhere, with him.’' A guilty plea to charges of at tempted murder could have re sulted in a sentence of life im prisonment in the Georgetown Prison for Layton. Layton is being held i; Georgetown prison and in isolation to proce from other prisoners. E there was an attempt on I oner awaiting trial for murder, Charles Beikman, 45, of In dianapolis, 1ml. Layton is specifically charged with killing Congressman Ryan, three newsmen and a Temple de fector on Nov. 18 at a remote airstrip near the Rev. Jim Jones’s jungle commune where Ryan had just completed an investiga- 1 tion into the sect and wanted to leave with 17 defectors. 5 ie aien 3bby ed Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Majors San Francisco Bay Area Computer and Computerized Telephone Equipment Manufacturer seeks talented individuals interested in: • Telephony • Realtime Software Systems • Microprocessor Applications in Telephony • Digital and Analog Design • Data Base Management • CPU and Memory Design • System Programming Languages ROLM, located in Santa Clara, California, currently has 1600 employees and has grown 50% to 100% each year since 1969. ROLM’s Telecommunications Division is the leading independent supplier of computerized PBX’s (CBX) and microprocessor controlled telephones. ROLM’s Mil Spec Computer Division offers a complete line of rugged general pur pose minicomputers. Included in ROLM’s outstanding benefits package is a three month paid sabbatical after six years (and every seven years thereafter). Company paid tuition and time off for Graduate Study at Stanford, and flexible working hours. On Campus Interviews FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Meet with working Engineers Gibson Anderson (Hard ware) and Carl Strickland (Software) f n ^ dlscus s career opportunities with ROLM. See ROLM litera ur Placement Center. If unable to attend an interview, send resume to: IliOTI Gibson Anderson (Hardware) or Carl Strickland (Software) ROLM Corporation 4900 Old Ironsides Drive Santa Clara, CA 95050 An equal opportunity employer M/F CORPORATION federal grand jury heard testimony from seven subpoenaed witnesses Sepe is a reputed member of the Paul Vario organized crime family, authorities said. He was released from prison in August 1977 after serving time on a robbery convic tion. Charges against Sepe include theft from an interstate shipment, a federal extortion charge, possession of goods taken from an interstate and foreign shipment and conspi racy. Another suspect in the case was believed to berThomas DiSimone, an ex-convict said by police to have ties with organized crime. He was reported missing Jan. 14 and his wife reportedly was among those who appeared before the grand jury. The robbery occurred at 3:05 a.m., when six masked gunmen drove a stolen black van into a Lufthansa cargo hangar, overpo wered one employee, handcuffed eight others and entered the air line’s high-value safe. They loaded the van and disap peared. The planning that apparently went into the heist led authorities to believe it was an inside job, and 150 Lufthansa employees were given lie-detector tests. RAP ON YOUR ROOMMATE!! 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