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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1986
Page
8
Accu Weather forecast for Bluefield Princeton shows today cloudy with rain and drizzle and a high near 45. Tonight overcast with rain, low around 40. Tomorrow cloudy with likely rain, high about 48 and low 44. Record highs and lows for Dec 8 noted as 73 in 1978 and 10 in 1977.
The National Weather Service predicts a broad band of flurries extending from Wyoming and Colorado to the Great Lakes and down to the New Jersey shore, with rain from Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast and northeast to Virginia. Sunday highs and lows range from a low near 2 in West Yellowstone to a high near 83 in McAllen, Texas.
Parsippany New Jersey AP report says Republican governors at their annual gathering focused on Iran Contra disclosures. Governors Sununu Kean Thornburgh Mickelson plus eight new leaders attend with Nixon session planned. Conference covers 1986 GOP gains and redistricting hopes.
A wildlife official tranquilized and captured a caribou in Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. Canadian and Maine authorities have captured 27 caribou in total and are trucking them to Maine as part of a repopulation program to rebuild regional herds.
In Fort Worth Texas an early morning explosion destroyed a row of specialty shops and damaged many more across a four block area near the Tandy Center. The blast caused about $2 million in damage and injured a hotel guest with minor glass cuts. A natural gas leak in a cafe is suspected as the cause.
Claremont AP reporting that Hoang Nhu Tran, a 21 year old Air Force cadet and Vietnam refugee, is named among 32 Americans selected for Rhodes Scholarships. The list includes scientists interns a Peace Corps volunteer and a Mormon missionary with Yale leading the count. Tran plans two years at Oxford then four years medical school to become an Air Force flight surgeon. He fled Vietnam by boat in 1975 with his family and later moved to Rohnert Park California after sponsorship in Fort Collins Colorado. Also noted is Daniel Pak from Dallas who achieved a perfect 1600 SAT on his second attempt after a prior 1540.
HINTON AP Sylvia H Mathews of West Virginia wins a Rhodes scholarship for two years at Oxford University. Mathews, 21, a government major at Harvard, was chosen from 12 finalists by the Mid Atlantic District Committee and is one of 32 students nationwide awarded Rhodes scholarships to Oxford.
Former GM vice president John Z De Lorean faces a verdict on alleged 8.5 million investor funds siphoned from his failed sports car venture. Closing arguments set after a five week government case with 27 witnesses and 4,000 pages of documents.
A federal NIJ study urges tougher court action in domestic violence cases including pretrial home exclusion orders. It notes victims are most vulnerable before trials and cites FBI data that 30 percent of female murder victims in 1985 were killed by partners. Initial appearances are best for protection orders.
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