Former Pepsi employee murders supervisor
SACRAMENTO “”mdash; A former bottling plant employee was arrested
Saturday in the fatal shooting of his supervisor, a father of five
who was gunned down on his doorstep in the middle of the night, the
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said.
Chanthinh “˜”˜Bobby” Sangthavong, 22, was
found hiding in an apartment bedroom on Taylor Street in Sacramento
and was taken peacefully into custody by detectives from the
sheriff’s fugitive warrant division.
A warrant had been issued for Sangthavong’s arrest last
week. He was fired from the Pepsi Bottling Group just days before
32-year-old Jerry Sarnowski’s death on Oct. 4. Sangthavong
blamed Sarnowski, witnesses told investigators, and may have
followed him home from work the day he was shot, sheriff’s
homicide Sgt. Craig Hill said.
Michael Goodwin, spokesman for the Pepsi Bottling Group, said
Sarnowski had supervised Sangthavong but could not comment on
details of Sangthavong’s employment.
Need no longer felt for a Vietnamese
program
MONTEREY, Calif.””mdash; In a sign of changing times and shifting
global priorities, the Defense Language Institute has graduated its
last class of Vietnamese majors due to a reduced need for military
specialists who can speak the Southeast Asian language.
The Monterey institute, the nation’s premiere language
training center, has discontinued the Vietnamese program it
launched in 1954 which mirrored the course of the war in
Vietnam.
At the program’s height in 1969, Vietnamese was the top
language taught at DLI, with 4,887 students enrolled that year. By
1973, the year of U.S. troop withdrawals from Vietnam, the program
had dwindled to 421 students.
The final class, which graduated during a low-key ceremony
Thursday, included three Vietnamese language students and five
students who specialized in Thai. In its half-century, the program
produced more than 23,000 graduates.
Compiled from Bruin wire services.