English Channel Tunnel Project Is Scrapped
The British Labour government宣布 pulling out of the joint Channel Tunnel project with France due to the world economic crisis. The plan was to start in 1980 and was approved in the House of Commons by 76 votes with over 100 abstentions.
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Dover
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Calais
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Hitler
Albert Mathieu
Queen Victoria
Europe
Greek War Hero Returning Home From Walter Reed
Spyridon Moustaklis, partially paralyzed and nearly speechless, is returning to Greece after weeks of treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for torture suffered under the Greek military regime. His wife Christina and daughter Natali accompany him, while U.S. and Greek officials faced questions over support for the jailed officer.
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Christina Moustaklis
Athens
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George Levidis
Levidis
U.S. Department of Defense
Elias P. Demetracopoulos
United States
Congress
Revere Fire Claims Five Lives on Marshall Street
Five people died and a sixth was injured in a two alarm house fire on Marshall Street in North Revere. Police said the dead likely belonged to the same family. a 12 year old boy was hospitalized with burned legs. The roof collapsed and the attic housed bedrooms. no firefighters or officers were hurt.
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Reconsideration of Dump Site Plans in Old Orchard Beach
Old Orchard Beach may gain a reprieve as DEP rejected the Ross Road dump site due to insufficient information. Additional soils analyses could approve the site, while the town seeks alternative locations and a sludge disposal area ahead of new regulations.
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Louis Savelas
Joseph Deering
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Chinese herbal medicines linked to dangerous blood disease
California doctors report four cases of agranulocytosis linked to imported Chinese herbal medicines from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The patients, middle aged and elderly, took pills for arthritis and back pain, with one fatality. Pills contain aminopyrine and phenylbutazone, drugs banned or restricted in the US. Packages lack warnings. Federal and state actions to stop importation have failed. more cases are expected.
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United States
Journal of the American Medical Association
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Mervyn A. Sahud
University of California At
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Taiwan
Ries
Sahud
Car pools hinder daydreaming says Seattle sociologist
University of Washington sociologist Dr Avery Guest concludes from data across 98 U S metropolitan areas that commuters prefer driving alone to car pooling. He says people value privacy and quiet to daydream, and that automobiles contribute to a varied, generally happier life.
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University of Washington
Avery Guest
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Sleeping pigs help study sudden heart attacks
Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston study heart attacks in sleeping pigs to learn why many sudden deaths start during deep sleep. They found irregular heartbeats predicting fatal events arise in deep sleep, challenging the idea that dream content triggers the attacks.
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American Heart Association
Science Writers Forum
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IRA Dims Cease-Fire Hopes Amid Bombing Spree
Bombs exploded in London and Manchester injuring 26 as IRA violence resumes. A Scotland Yard spokesman warned of more blasts while Northern Ireland also sees deaths. Ireland's Provos discuss a possible truce in Dublin, but the current flare up undermines cease-fire prospects.
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England
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Northern Ireland
Washington Briefs: Ober Ties CIA Spy Controversy
Rich Ober, linked to CIA domestic spying, faced the Rockefeller Commission with limited comment. Colby confirms Ober ran a counterintelligence unit from 1969 to 1974, handling Soviet cases and inserting operatives into dissident groups.
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