Apollo crew tour ends with 20 mile coast to ceremony
Apollo astronauts Armstrong Aldrin and Collins rode in a 20 mile motorcade from the space center to Cocoa Beach for a luncheon in their honor, drawing an estimated 10 000 spectators. The trip followed a visit to Huntsville where Saturn 5 was designed and included Alan Bean who warned space progress may stall until the USSR acts.
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France basked in bicentennial glow after weekend parade
Paris celebrated the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution with a grand parade and fireworks drawing massive crowds. Leaders faced criticism beforehand, but the event drew Paris’s largest crowds since liberation, seen as a symbol-rich national moment.
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Maguelone Fallot
Prayers Mark Bastille Victims at Manhattan Funeral Mass
In New York a funeral Mass at St. Ann's Church honored Louis XVI Marie Antoinette and other Bastille victims with a Gregorian chant. 125 mourners prayed for the aristocrats and clerics as speakers urged against another French Revolution.
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Weather forecast for Southeast Midwest and Northwest
A weather alert indicates thunderstorms are forecast for the Southeast and the Midwest. Showers are possible for the upper Northwest, with unsettled conditions expected in coming hours.
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Weather forecast notes scattered storms and warm highs
Cloudy skies persist with a 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms tonight. Tomorrow remains partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and highs near the low 90s. From Wednesday to Friday expect scattered afternoon and evening storms with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s and mid 70s lows.
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Striking Coal Miners Threaten Kremlin Power in Kuzbass
About 100,000 miners in nine Kuzbass cities walk out demanding local manager control and social services. The protests spread from one Siberian town and threaten national industry, with Pravda labeling Kuzbass a volatile region as Gorbachov faces the challenge of dissent and economic reform.
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Ethnic Unrest Spreads Across Caucasus Regions
A senior Georgia official Givi Gumaridze traveled to Abkhazia with law enforcement to restore order as ethnic tensions flare across the Caucasus. Abkhazia, home to 91,000 Abkhazians, borders the Black Sea. clashes since Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms echo in Tbilisi and neighboring republics Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, with hundreds killed and protests over independence and nationalist demands.
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Summit allocates focus to environment at G7 gathering
Leaders including Bush Thatcher and Kohl discussed East West cooperation, with Gorbachev sending a letter. The final 22 page statement urged decisive action to protect ecological balance, condemn ocean dumping and oil spills, and curb emissions while pushing scientific innovation to save tropical forests. Bush called the summit a watershed for the environment.
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Bush urges world on environment in Leiden Pilgrim speech
President Bush spoke in Pieterskerk Leiden after meetings in The Hague calling for global action on pollution and climate, noting Eastern Europe voices of hope and referencing Pilgrim history and Rev. John Robinson buried in the cathedral. He cited shared resolve to build a new, free Europe.
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Buzz) Ridrin Jr
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