Judge Ponders Issue In Buchwald Suit Over Coming to America
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harvey Schneider took the suit under submission after closing arguments on whether Paramount Pictures plagiarized Art Buchwald s idea for a story about an African prince used in Eddie Murphy s Coming to America The judge said he would issue a written ruling relatively soon Paramount s lawyer faced a mild rebuke when he invoked race to frame the dispute while Buchwald s counsel argued there were insufficient similarities between King for a Day and Coming to America to prove piracy In Lakeland Florida discovery of an eagle s nest near a proposed 75 million hazardous waste plant site may block the project federal and state laws protect bald eagles and their habitat and could bar construction by Florida First Processing Inc May affect plans for the plant.
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Paramount Pictures
Art Buchwald
Eddie Murphy
America
Superior Court
Harvey Schneider
Buchwald
Schneider
Paramount
Robert Draper
Draper
Murphy
Lakeland
Fla
le Florida
Florida First Processing Inc
Don Palmer
Jacksonville
Federal Fish and Wildlife Service
Eastern Cuts 600 Jobs and Salary Reductions Unveiled
Eastern Airlines plans 600 additional layoffs with wage cuts for about 10 000 workers as Latin American routes are sold to American Airlines. Factors include economic softness higher fuel costs and Pan Am competition. The package aims to save about 100 million next year amid a 185.2 million loss in Q3.
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Miami
Eastern Airlines
Air Line Pilots Association
Eastern
American Airlines
Tom Matthews
Pan American World Airways
Aiken Standard Classified Display Advertising Contacts
The Aiken Standard provides phone numbers for subscription and advertising inquiries including 649-5316 for subscriptions and 649-1555 or 648-2311 for classified and display advertising. Office hours are listed with mailing and physical addresses in Aiken South Carolina.
Death Toll Mounts in Newcastle Earthquake Tragedy
Rescue workers pull another body from the Newcastle Workers' Club wreckage after a 5.5 magnitude quake that killed at least 10. Officials fear up to 21 people may remain trapped as aftershocks disrupt search efforts. Some 140 injured. seven died at the club, three from falling masonry.
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Newcastle
Australia
Sydney
Group Claims Responsibility For Bombings In Retaliation Threats
An unnamed group calling itself Americans for a Competent Federal Judicial System says it killed Judge Robert S. Vance and attorney Robert Robinson and threatens two more NAACP officials. The letter, read on WAGA-TV, praises attacks on a white woman killed in Atlanta in 1988 and urges further assassinations as reprisal. Federal and local authorities consider the claim credible and bolster King holiday security in NAACP branches.
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Atlanta
NAACP
Waga-Tv
Americans For
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Robert S. Vance
Birmingham
Ala
Savannah
Robert Robinson
William L. Hinshaw
FBI
Hinshaw
Paar Ys Arcs
Let
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Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Julie Love
Florida and Texas tally crop losses after Christmas freeze
Florida declares statewide disaster area to seek federal aid as drought and freeze damage hits 67 counties. Texas moves to open relief centers for farm workers displaced by the hardest freeze in six years along the lower Rio Grande. Water systems in the Deep South struggle to recover while temperatures dip across the region.
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Florida
Texas
Bob Martinez
Rio Grande Valley
Coldest December hits New England’s poor hardest
Boston reports show fixed income and fuel aid recipients suffer most from frigid weather. DOE data indicate record heating oil flow toward the Northeast and waivers allowing foreign ships to move oil between U.S. ports. Residents fear slow relief as some must conserve energy, even harming health.
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Boston
New England
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S
Jeanne Steenbeke
Concord
N.H
Coal Strike Talks Continue In Secret Washington Negotiations
United Mine Workers and Pittston Co. press anew to end a three state coal miner strike. Talks, held in secrecy in Washington, follow a Christmas break with cautious optimism and no clear sign of a quick settlement.
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Washington
United Mine Workers and
Pittston Co
Noriega's Aide Was Former Israeli Intelligence Chief
JERUSALEM An Israeli who once advised Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega allegedly led a bungled special operations mission for Israel in an assassination attempt. The 62 year old Michael Harari, arrested in Panama, was said to have recruited Israeli mercenaries as Noriega’s bodyguards.
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Jerusalem
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Israel
Norway
Michael Harari
Panama
Noriega
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