Survivor of jet wreck death toll rises in Michigan
Cecilia Cichan the four year old survivor of Northwest Flight 288 remains sedated after losing her father mother and brother in the crash near Detroit. Doctors report skin grafts and injuries while NTSB probes flap and slat positions and the cause remains undetermined.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
Cecilia Cichan
Michael
Paula
David
Northwest Airlines
Cecilia
Theodore Polley
Polley
Sandy Lincoln
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
Ann Arbor
Detroit
National Transportation Safety Board
NTSB
John Lauber
Washington
Northwest
Dole to Issue New Flight Rules Expand TCAs
Washington sources say the Transportation Department will create terminal control areas around nine more airports to reduce aerial collisions. The plan also requires collision avoidance technology, TCAS, in commercial aircraft, with a news conference by Secretary Elizabeth Dole in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Washington
Transportation Department
Transportation
Elizabeth Dole
Charlotte
N.C
South African mine strike turns deadly at Libanon mine
Security guards opened fire on 250 striking miners, killing one and wounding more than 20 during a 90 minute clash near the Libanon gold mine 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg. The strike's second week prompts mass firings across Anglo American and General Mining Union Corp. reserves while a bus crash at a mining complex in the Orange Free State killed 24 and injured 49.
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Rom Gazette Wire Services
Johannesburg
South Africa
Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd
Richmand Maange
Libanon
Maange
Onl
Anglo American Corp
Anglo American
General Mining Union Corp
Orange Free State
U.S. Halts Threat Against Workers Refusing Secrecy Pledge
The Reagan administration ordered all federal agencies to stop revoking security clearances from employees who refuse to sign Standard Form 18 secrecy pledges. The halt followed disclosures by attorneys for two Air Force civilians challenging the pledge. A. Ernest Fitzgerald and Louis Brase were among those affected, with ISOO enforcement actions suspended "until further notice."
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Washington
Air Force
A. Ernest Fitzgerald
Pentagon
Louis Brase
Wvenssof
Texas
Information Security Oversight Office
ISOO
General Services Administration
Mistrial ruled in Fatal Vision suit over royalties
A divided jury deadlocked in a federal breach of contract case against Jeffrey MacDonald, ending in a mistrial. Five of six jurors favored awarding him royalties from the book Fatal Vision but did not decide other contract issues. McGinniss had obtained releases. MacDonald said they were invalid and that his royalties were short.
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Los Angeles
Jeffrey MacDonald
Army Green Beret
McGinniss
MacDonald
McGinnis
Lucille Dillon
Agoura
Elzabet
Dillon
Lane
Collette
Kimberley
Kristen
Fort Bragg
N.C
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