Sprinkler mandate proposed for hotels after Dupont Plaza fire
Congressional sponsors unveil legislation requiring fire sprinkler systems in hotels and motels following hearings on the Dupont Plaza blaze that killed 96. Rep. Walgren notes most hotels lack sprinklers despite public belief. Separate items report White House tree donation and Thurmond Lake renaming moves. A California USC and UC Berkeley team identifies a cancer switch gene named jun.
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Puerto Rico
Doug Walgren
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U.S
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D-S.c
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Strom Thurmond
RSC
J. Strom Thurmond
Thurmond
Derrick
United States Congress
Senate
California
University of California, Berkeley
University of Southern California
Peter Vogt
USC
Vogt
Suit Accuses First Union in Stock Sell Conspiracy
Bennie H. Taylor, former Southern Bancorporation chief, sues First Union in U S District Court Greenville accusing deceptive devices to force him and wife Patricia to sell Southern stock during First Union's 1984 takeover. Patricia Taylor already won $169,975 in a related suit. First Union seeks dismissal of that verdict or a new trial.
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Southern Bancorporation
First Union Corp
Bennie H. Taylor
U.S. District Court
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First Union
Southern
Taylor
World Acceptance Corp
Patricia B. Taylor
Charlotte
N.C
Anderson
G. Ross Anderson
Bomb threat delays South African Airways Taipei flight
A five hour delay occurred on the Taiwan to Johannesburg SAA flight after a bomb threat while refueling in Mauritius. Passengers were evacuated and cargo unloaded during a search, nothing found, and the plane resumed its journey. The prior Saturday crash of an SAA Boeing 747 killed 159 near Mauritius.
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South Africa
South African Airways
South African Press Association
SAA
Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Taipei
Taiwan
Jan Smuts
Avivation
Dawie Uys
Maurice Baguant
Business Day
Eleven Americans Among Thirteen Die In Kenya Plane Crash
An American chartered propeller Cessna 404 crashed in a mountainside near Kanama Rwanda while en route from Goma to Nairobi. Ninety-one Americans were aboard, including Amarillo Texas residents Dr Danny Schwartz Dr Thelma Yamboo Jill Cowan and Nancy Gerald. The plane was owned by Cooper Skybird Air Charters Nairobi and had been hired for a safari to Zaire.
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Kenya
Rwanda
U.S
Goma
Zaire
Kanama
State Department
Washington
Amarillo
Texas
John Ouma-Daniel
Cooper Skybird Air Charters
Kigali
Globe- News
Danny Schwartz
Thelma Yamboo
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
Jill Cowan
Nancy Gerald
Leaders Work To Salvage Economy At EEC Summit
Leaders of the European Economic Community gather in Copenhagen to resolve a 1988 budget crisis tied to agricultural subsidies and funding shares. Tensions between Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and West Germany’s Helmut Kohl over spending loom as East West issues and nuclear talks shadow the summit.
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Lord Geoffrey Howe
Copenhagen
Denmark
European Economic Community
Britain
Helmut Kohl
West Germany
EEC
Poul Schlueter
Western Europe
Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Washington
Cambodian Leaders In Accord Seek Talks In France
Cambodian resistance chief Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to negotiate a political settlement for Kampuchea in talks that marked the first meeting of rebels and Phnom Penh leaders in nine years. They set a second meeting for January in Fere en Tardenois, France.
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Hun Sen
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Sihanouk
Phnom Penh
Kampuchea
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