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i f it’s only a game
j.vhere did he go?
United Press International
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A
“ tombtack-studded bulletin board,
i unusually neat dormitory room
* idabogus suicide note are the only
ads police have in the strange dis-
ipearanee of a 16-year-okl com-
jter genius.
"ljust hope he’s playing a game
us,” one investigator said of
ichigan State Universits sopho-
oreJanies Dallas Egbert III, who
sbeen missing for three weeks.
Campus authorities said most of
search effort has been eoncen-
etbon Egbert’s dorm bulletin
lard and its possible connection
Ith the complex fantasy game
)ungeons and Dragons.’
Egbert was active in a campus
oup also called “Dungeons and
pgons. Police said they hoped
[her club members could help re-
1 the meaning of the pattern of
irome thumbtacks and colored pins
i Egbert's board.
‘The number of different pins in-
ates the beginning of the game,
e believe it could he a maze or a
ue to his whereabouts, said Bill
r, a private investigator hired by
gberts family.
Police flew over the MSU campus
I* ran aerial view which might link
impjs geography with the design
..n » Egbert’s dorm room bulletin
;;; Brd.
•" 'Hazy weather prevented them
pm making any connections. Dear
■" lid.
.!n “We didn’t see anything that re-
Rled anything that looks like the
"> >ard. Dear said investigators had
H inned a second flight Thursday.
"" Dear said handwriting experts
ave concluded Egbert, a native of
pylon, Ohio, did not write what
..ii as suspected to he a suicide note
iking to be cremated if his body
"1 ere found.
Dear said he believes Egbert
might not have left his usually clut
tered dormitory room by' choice.
“His room was neat. His clothes
were folded in a military style right
down to the socks,” he said.
Campus police are not yet certain
foul play was involved, he said.
Some Demos
like Mondale,
Times says
United Press International
NEW YORK — Vice President
Walter Mondale is being considered
by some influential Democrats as a
replacement for President Carter if
Carter falters in his re-election try,
the New York Times reported
Thursday.
According to the Times story,
Mondale in coming under pressure
to run for the presidency and has, in
fact, privately voiced dissatisfaction
with the administration’s handling of
important political moves recently.
Specifically mentioned were the
cabinet firings in late July, UN Am
bassador Andrew Young’s resigna
tion and the subsequent internal
dispute over Middle East policy.
The Times said that a political as
sociate who saw Mondale recently
described him as “fairly disgusted
with the politics in the White House
— the amateurism of it, the mis
takes, the whole confluence of
events beginning with the Presi
dent’s return from Japan in early
July.”
A second associate said Mondale
was “very low” about the political
outlook while a third said “the prob
lem is that he’s not in the inner cir
cle.”
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1979
Airline prices soaring high
as CAB OKs new increase
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WASHINGTON — BranifT Inter
national and Frontier Airlines Wed
nesday were first to file for a 9.5 per
cent fare increase with the Civil
Aeronautics Board to go into effect
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out a confrontation with an irate buf
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Fulton was participating in a
Labor Day weekend sailplane meet
at the Black Forest Gliderport Sun
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into a pasture dominated by a herd of
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The uninvited guest irritated one
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the sailplane’s plastic canopy, mang
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As Fulton’s crew drove up to re
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