Teenager rescued from mobile home details abuse by mother
An 18 year old girl weighing 42 pounds was admitted to Tift General Hospital in Tifton with signs of severe abuse. She told authorities her mother Ola Mae Thomas tied her with ropes and covered windows with chicken wire to imprison her. Thomas is jailed on false imprisonment and aggravated battery charges awaiting bond. In Knoxville, a judge delays sentencing for Baby John Doe 1, an abortion clinic protester who refuses to reveal his name, until identity is provided. Prosecutors call trespass guilty but the sentence is held. An attorney from Free Speech Advocates represents the anonymous protester.
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Tifton
Betty Faye Green
Tift General Hospital
Ola Mae Thomas
Tift County
Knoxville
Tenn
Randy Nichols
Baby John Doe
Baby Doe
Peter Kornell
New Hope
Free Speech Advocates Group
John Doe
Kornell
Atlanta
Weather Outlook Mostly Cloudy With Isolated Storms
Mostly cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. High near 90, a low near 70. Sunday also cloudy with a chance of storms. Details on Page 8A.
Obituary notices list six deaths across several cities
Death notices for Rev. B T Bouland Ward Mattie R Brown Clarence Drayton Anna T Grant Frances E Green and James P McKenney listed from Lake Success New York Boston Philadelphia Graniteville and Aiken with details on Page 8A referenced.
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B.T. Bouland
Ward
Mattie R. Brown
Lake Success
N.Y
Clarence Drayton
Boston
Anna T. Grant
Philadelphia
Frances E. Green
Graniteville
James P. McKenney
Aiken
Government Resumes Tritium Sales Amid Missing Material
The Energy Department said it resumed selling tritium to US and foreign buyers though investigators cannot prove no diversion of the five grams missing since June. About 0.2 grams were accounted for. shipments from Oak Ridge to Surelite and Saunders-Roe remain unreconciled.
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Washington
Energy Department
U.S
Phil Keif
Keif
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tennessee
Surelite Ltd
Saunders-Roe Developments Ltd
Death shocks baseball as Giamatti dies at 51
Edgar town Mass. Baseball commissioner A Bartlett Giamatti died of a heart attack at his Martha’s Vineyard retreat eight days after suspending Pete Rose. He was pronounced dead at 4 32 p m after CPR failed. He had left New York Friday morning to spend the weekend on the island.
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Edgartown
Mass
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Pete Rose
Martha’s Vineyard
Giamatti
Yale University
Matthew Stackpole
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
Stackpole
New York
New England Island
Baseball
U S Forces Not Needed in Colombia War Against Cartels
In Bogota defense minister Gen Oscar Botero says Colombia can face the drug lord challenge alone despite U S advisers being sent to assist. A narcotics official cites cartel corruption allowing leaders to evade crackdown while Medellin police defuse a 40 pound bomb at a bank amid a surge of cartel violence as extradition fights continue.
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Bogota
Colombia
U.S
Oscar Botero
United States
Medellin
U.S. Justice Department
Steel Helmet Assured Tank Gunner's Safe Return
F L Eaves recalls March 7 1945 near the Moselle River in Rhineland Germany when a shell hit his tank killing the commander and wounding crew. Eaves 712th Tank Battalion Patton's 3rd Army survived a near miss and spent 45 days in hospital. Now 72 he remains active as a farmer, fisherman and service station operator near Savannah River Site.
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F.L. Eaves
Eaves
712Th
George S. Patton Jr
3Rd Army
Germany
Rhineland
Larry Greene
Barnwell County
Cassels
Savannah River
Johnson Crossroad
Bakker Evaluated by Government Psychiatrists in Prison Hospital
PTL founder Jim Bakker, ordered to federal prison hospital after collapsing emotionally during his fraud and conspiracy trial, has a history of breakdowns and nerve problems. Tammy Faye Bakker visited him at the federal facility in Butner North Carolina as reporters were kept away.
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Butner
N.C
PTL
Jim Bakker
Don Hardister
Bakker
Tammy Faye Bakker
Orlando
Fla
Federal Correctional Institute
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Aiken North Augusta
Strom
Abbeville
Rs-Mon
Saluda Wagene Swanse
Wardlay Thornwe
Armond
R Salley
Sepp Renee Enene
The
Associated Press
of Rose
Cincinnati Reds
Giamatti’s
Moselle
By Scott Webster
Kay Mercer
Susan Burkhart
Gene-Cap
Pennsylvania
Bakkers
Tammy Sue Chapman
Mark Chapman
South Carolina
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