Amtrak Train Derails Stranding 300 Holiday Passengers
Crews worked to rescue more than 300 passengers and crew after a 17 car California Zephyr derailed in Glenwood Canyon near Glenwood Springs Colorado. No injuries were reported among 294 passengers and about 15 crew members. A work train with seven cabooses moved in to transport them to hotel housing.
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Denver
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Washington, D.C
Man Killed as Gunfire Pierces Roxbury Window
Boston police report 43 year old Inacio Mendez of Roxbury died after a home shooting through second floor blinds on Christmas night. He was hit in the chest and arm while at the kitchen sugar bowl. suspect(s) unknown. In separate dispatches, SCweather officials warn of ongoing drought, and Bethlehem Christmas sees heavy security with casualties in occupied lands.
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Inacio Mendez
Boston
Roxbury
Boston City Hospital
Albert Goslin
Goslin
Mendez
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Jesus
Robin crossings spark birdwatcher frenzy in Scotland
North American robin believed to have crossed the Atlantic to Scotland has drawn hundreds of birdwatchers to the Scottish east coast on Monday.
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London
Atlantic Ocean
Scotland
PLO demands corridor for independent Palestine
PLO chief Yasser Arafat says in Der Spiegel interview that Palestine must have a corridor through Israel to link Gaza and the West Bank. He also insists Jerusalem be the capital of an independent Palestinian state and notes the question of adhering to UN Resolution 181 on borders.
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PLO
Palestine
Israel
Gaza Strip
West Bank
Yasser Arafat
der Spiegel
Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Jerusalem
U.N
Aiken Standard Classified Display and Delivery Ads
Aiken Standard offers subscriptions and advertising contacts with phone numbers for classified and display ads. Weekly delivery times and monthly to annual mail rates are listed, along with address for subscription payments and post office changes.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken Standard, P.O
Aiken, S.C
Aiken Standard - Pbm
de Aiken
Aiken Communications Inc
P.O
Aiken
S.C
Weather Slows Search For Crash Victims in Lockerbie
In Lockerbie Scotland police say search efforts for Pan Am Flight 103 victims are hampered by rain and difficult terrain as 239 bodies have been recovered with about 30 still missing. Looting arrests reported as investigators weigh bomb or structural failure as likely causes amid weary search crews and sniffer dogs taking a holiday break.
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Lockerbie
Scotland
Britain
Paul Newall
Angus Kennedy
Pan Am
New York
CIA Agent Unlikely Cause For Attack
Senator William Cohen of Maine said the possible presence of a CIA operative on the Pan Am jet that crashed last week would probably not, by itself, have provoked a terrorist attack. He could not confirm if the CIA agent was aboard the flight.
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Washington
Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA
William Cohen
Maine
ABC
David Brinkley
Mexico Prison Riot Ends Amid 23 Deaths
In Tepic Nayarit the Venustiano Carranza prison uprising ended after two days with 23 dead including the warden and a police commander. Five inmates listed among the dead were reportedly captured or surrendered earlier and were later counted among fatalities. NBC videotape shows prisoners questioned outside before more shots were heard.
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NBC
Ernesto Medina
State of Nayarit
Associated Press
Notimex
Brenda Margarita Rubio Gonzalez
Ms. Rubio
Medina
State Judicial Police
Sergio Anzaldo
Anzaldo
Nayarit
Tepic
Venustiano Carranza
Fox
Scorpion
Homeless Use Of Federal Buildings Rated Unsatisfactory
Washington AP report notes that 43,000 square foot Square 571 in the District of Columbia sits vacant near a shelter. The McKinney Act aims to open underutilized federal properties to the homeless, but only 12 properties qualify. Judge Oliver Gasch urged compliance and blocked sales until access is expanded. 335 excess or surplus properties, including a Providence office building and a Phoenix school, remain unutilized.
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District of Columbia
Homeess
U.S
Lynn
Mass
Bell
Calif
Vocates
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Congress
Gasch
Providence
R.I
Phoenix
American Doctors Recall Scenes Of Armenian Destruction
An eight member Montefiore Medical Center team returned from a 10 day mission in Yerevan Armenia shaken by the earthquake disaster. They treated hundreds of patients including crush injuries kidney failure and respiratory failure while witnessing civilians trapped under rubble for days. They hope to establish a permanent relationship with Armenian physicians and create a flying critical care team to work with a Seattle disaster unit.
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U.S
Montefiore Medical Center
Yerevan
Armenia
Vladmir Kvetan
Montefiore
Soviet Republic
Kvetan
Seattle
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