Coup in Upper Volta: Sankara's bloody takeover shocks Ouagadougou
In Ouagadougou a former prime minister with Libya ties leads a brutal coup against Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo's government. Thirteen people are reported killed, about 15 wounded including six French nationals, as Capt. Thomas Sankara seizes power on national radio and vows to end foreign domination. Ouédraogo is under house arrest but unharmed. The move marks the third coup in as many years and comes a year before promised civilian rule.
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Ouagadougou
Upper Volta
Libya
Jean-Baptiste Ouedraoga
France
Thomas Sankara
Ouedraogo
Sankara
Sangoule Lamizana
Muammar Khadafy
Pair sentenced in baby's death from diaper rash
In Florida, mother Darla Smith and grandmother Mary Smith received one year in jail after no contest pleas to child abuse and manslaughter in the death of Olivia Angie Smith, a 2 month old who died from blood poisoning and shock linked to a diaper rash. The infant weighed only 4 pounds 3 ounces at birth. The father, James Ervin Lyons, pleads not guilty.
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Gainesville
Aulls
Olivia Angie Smith
Leesburg Regional Medical Center
Shands Teaching Hospital
Miss Smith
New Mexico Reports 20th Plague Case
The 20th human plague case in New Mexico this year was confirmed. A 58 year old Tesuque man in Santa Fe County fell ill on July 27 and was admitted to St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe. He has the septicemic form of the plague according to state epidemiologist Dr Jonathan Mann.
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Santa FE
N.M
New Mexico
Tesuque
St. Vincent Hospital
Jonathan Mann
Mann
Possible Dreams auction on Martha's Vineyard raises funds
At a Martha's Vineyard auction emceed by Art Buchwald, Lillian Hellman and other island notables bid on items such as cocktails for four with Hellman and an Edgartown walk with Henry Beetle Hough. A Jules Feiffer cartoon of Reagan and Kissinger sold for $500, an Edgartown walk went for $500, and the event raised about $33,000 for community service agencies.
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Edgartown
Mass
Lillian Hellman
Reagan
Henry Kissinger
Martha’s Vineyard
Art Buchwald
Miss Hellman
Rose Styron
Rose
Lawrence Treat
Island
Martha's Vineyard
Buchwald
Vineyard Gazette
Henry Beetle Hough
Jules Feiffer
Reagan and Kissinger
Playboy's College Park renege student billed as Maryland’s student
Kerry McClurg a 19 year old born in Prince George's County is cited as Maryland's Student Body in Playboy though she never attended classes at the College Park campus or paid a registration fee. She says she registered to attend but could not afford classes and graduated high school in 1982.
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College Park, Md
University of Maryland
Playboy Magazine
Kerry McClurg
University
College Park
High Point High School
Prince George's County
McClurg
Girls of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
Playboy
The
Roz Hiebert
Dave Salyers
AIDS Foes Fight Gay Rodeo At Reno Fairgrounds
In Reno Nevada opponents led by the Pro Family Christian Coalition press to cancel the National Reno Gay Rodeo over AIDS fears. Governor Bryan and Washoe County officials declined to intervene as organizers defend the event as a traditional rodeo with a social aim.
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Nev
Pro Family Christian Coalition
Washoe County
Nevada State Fairgrounds
Nevada
Richard Bryan
Bryan
Phil Ragsdale
The
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