Mubarak Referendum Draws Massive Turnout Despite Attacks
In Cairo crowds vote to confirm Hosni Mubarak as successor to slain President Anwar Sadat amid airport bomb blasts and a Giza gun battle. Police report 118 killed in the Asyut assault and multiple injuries, but polling stations remain heavily guarded and turnout is high.
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Solidarity Workers Stage Food Strike Across Polish Towns
About 22,000 Solidarity workers walked off the job in Zyrardow Tomaszow Mazowiecki and Niewiadow to protest food shortages. The government proposed talks and price oversight while Solidarity pressed for access to state media and decisive food relief.
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Tazewell student held at gunpoint by former friends
Thomas Fowler, a Virginia Intermont College student from Tazewell, Va., was abducted in his dorm by three Thailand exchange students. Police say Amorn Itinanpong, Nopadol Chiaravanont, and Wanyuth Waiyawath face $15,000 bonds on charges including kidnapping and brandishing a firearm after 90 minutes of threats. Fowler, frightened and seeking safety, describes a call for help and the fear of being killed.
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Nobel Prize Awarded To Yale Professor
Yale University Professor James Tobin, originator of the Portfolio Selection Theory, won the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for analyses of financial markets and their relation to expenditures, employment, production and prices. Tobin, 63, from Champaign Illinois, expressed surprise and pleasure at the honor.
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Victor the bear ends Virginia wrestling career for safety
Victor the 500 pound Alaskan brown bear may not wrestle in Virginia again after the Virginia Athletic Commission required a license and a physical exam for contestants. The rule targets bear matches after a Virginia Beach bout injures a human, with owner Tuffy Truesdell cited and the commonwealth attorney previously blocking action.
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