Illegal release of Colombian cocaine kingpin shocks Colombia
Bogota authorities accuse Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez of illegal jail release and flight on a private plane. President Barco says warden and prison lawyer fired and face charges. release Wednesday night confirmed. Nearby, Nathaniel Davis faces aggravated assault and burglary charges after machete attack on a girlfriend’s parents in Richland County. Lula Mae Lloyd treated for facial wounds. Ernest Lloyd hospitalized in fair condition.
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Bogota
Colombia
United States
Virgilio Barco
Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez
Ochoa
Gadsden
Nathaniel Davis
Richland County
Lula Mae Lloyd
Richland Memorial Hospital
Ernest Lloyd
Tri County Concrete
Ortega Says Contra War Costs High
President Daniel Ortega said the Soviet Union has given Nicaragua over 2 billion in aid since 1979 but the Sandinista war with the Contra rebels has cost even more. He dismissed reports of Moscow pulling back support and cited six years of fighting costing 3.6 billion.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega
Soviet Union
Contra
Ortega
Moscow
Washington
Barricada
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Potential lethal medicine recalled across the US
The FDA warns over 100000 bottles of mislabeled cold medicine may contain the tranquilizer haloperidol. My-K Laboratories recalls four ounce bottles lot 15718 exp 1288 sold as iyfed Syrup Life-Line Trifed Syrup URL Uni Fed Walgreen Water Osco Aphedrid Syrup via military civilian vendors and major chains.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
My-K Laboratories
Morton Grove
Life-Line Pharmaceutical
Hayward
Calif
United Research Laboratories
Philadelphia
Walgreen
Walgreen Co
Deerefield
Osco
Osco Drug Inc
Oak Brook
Ill
Smokers Revolt on TWA Flight From Boston to Los Angeles
A Trans World Airlines captain abandoned the cockpit as smokers defied a tobacco ban aboard Flight 853 from Boston to Los Angeles. The incident near the end of the six hour flight included verbal clashes and shoving with flight attendants, with the captain returning to address the disturbance. TWA spokesman Robert Blattner described the episode as a disruption and noted the flight experience.
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Los Angeles
Trans World Airlines
Boston
TWA
Robert Blattner
St. Louis
Phone Bill Put On Installments
Southern Bell agrees to installment payments for Ryan Kirby Jr after his 14 year old daughter Sonia ran up a 1100 bill by dialing 976 numbers. Kirby sought relief from state authorities amid alleged deceptive advertising. He will pay his normal bill plus 200 monthly until the sum is cleared.
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Columbia
Southern Bell
Ryan Kirby Jr
Sonia
Kirby
State Attorney General's Office
State Department of Consumer
Lawmakers Waver On Peeples Support For Supreme Court
Legislative debate over Circuit Judge Rodney Peeples for the South Carolina Supreme Court shifts after a judicial screening panel split over his fitness. Half say he is not qualified, while others remain supportive. Jean Toal is the only other announced candidate, with Ness's seat to be filled soon. Senator David Thomas says Peeples’ toughness on crime victims influences his view, though Toal’s liberal stance concerns him.
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Columbia
Rodney Peeples
Supreme Court
Peeples
Jean Toal
D-Richland
Julius B
Bubba” Ness
Legislative Committee
Crowds Welcome New Year Across World In 1988
Thousands in London’s Trafalgar Square ring in 1988 with expectations of peace and prosperity while Tokyo marks the Year of the Rabbit with temple bells tolling 108 times. Leaders offer hopeful messages amid trade frictions and market volatility. Police note crowds were calmer than in prior years as revelers endured cold weather.
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London
Trafalgar Square
Tokyo
New Jersey Man Arrested After Airline Attendant Advances
Joseph Litchfield Clark, 32, of Vernon, N J, was arrested by the FBI in Charleston after allegedly making sexually explicit remarks and attempts to assault two airline attendants aboard Eastern Airlines Flight 835 from Pittsburgh to Orlando. The flight stopped in Charleston for the arrest following an onboard incident and police alert.
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Charleston
New Jersey
FBI
Eastern Airlines
Pittsburgh
Orlando
Fla
Joseph Litchfield Clark
Vernon
N.J
William Nettles
Nettles
Charleston International Airport
Subscription Rates for Home Delivery Mail
Rates listed for home delivery show three and six month options and a one year plan. The text includes figures 4.90 for weekly, 14.70 for three months, 29.40 for six months, and 58.80 for twelve months. The final word gaR AN appears unrelated.
Troubled loner accused in Iowa family killings and suicide
In Algona Iowa a 40 year old man Robert Dreesman allegedly shot six relatives as they sat down to lunch at his parents home then killed himself. Investigators found no suicide note and described the attack as occurring in 15 to 30 seconds.
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Algona
Towa
Robert Dreesman
Hll
Dan Courtney
Kossuth County
John Dreesman
Ayres
Dreesmans
Marilyn Chuang
Jason
Jennifer
Joshua
Dreesman
Iowa
Ron Makin
Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
Makin
Mass slayings bury seven family members and others
Russellville Arkansas AP seven relatives and two other victims of a mass shooting were buried including a mother who wrote to her infant son about what he would be like. R Gene Simmons, 47, is charged with killing 14 relatives and two former co workers in a rampage that began at his Dover home before Christmas and ended in a five minute spree in Russellville. Autopsy shows eight younger children and grandchildren were strained while older relatives were shot seven times. Simmons remains in custody in Little Rock for psychiatric examination and faces capital murder charges along with attempted capital murder.
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Dreesman
Arkansas
R. Gene Simmons
Russellville
Ark
Simmons
Dover
New Hampshire
Nashua
Londonderry
Rafael Rodriguez
Dayton
Texas
Edward Lee Rouse Jr
Makin
Gene Simmons
Sheila Simmons McNulty
Dennis McNulty
Conway
Sheila
William Simmons II
Fordyce
Here
Kathy Kendrick
J.D. Chaffin
State Hospital
Little Rock
Pope County
Billy Baker
Dallas Morning News
Becky
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