Police break up sex ring of 150 in San Francisco
San Francisco police say they dismantled a large escort operation linked to Chayne Corp. involving about 150 women supplying prostitution services for three years. The ring used a 35 line phone system, credit card payments, and bank accounts to launder profits, with arrests including mastermind Janice Chatterton, 49, and others after a two year probe.
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Chayne Corp
China holds mass death sentences at stadium rally
A crowd of about 60,000 watched 30 murderers and other criminals receive death sentences in a Workers' Stadium spectacle. Officials announced verdicts by loudspeakers as convicts were moved to police trucks for execution, amid a broad nationwide crackdown expected to last three months and impact thousands.
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Communist Party
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Libyan column advances toward French Chad posts
Chad reports Libyan tanks and armored vehicles moved from Faya Largeau to a desert strongpoint about 50 miles closer to French positions. Western intelligence cites no real shift while U S planes to monitor Chad head home. Faure heads to Addis Ababa to seek cease fire as African leaders urge talks.
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Faya-Largeau
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Washington
Paris
Maurice Faure
Addis Ababa
Megistu Haile Mariam
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Congo Republic
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Soumaila Mahamat
Soumaila
Borges Says He Will Not Commit Death by Own Action
South America's dean of letters Jorge Luis Borges, who turns 84, says he will not kill himself now. He recalls writing a 1977 story that envisioned such a date, but explains laziness and cowardice keep him from acting and notes he remains engaged with five books despite blindness.
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Argentina
South America
Jorge Luis Borges
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Actress Fulton quit soap due to bizarre storylines
Akron based actress Eileen Fulton left the CBS series As the World Turns citing increasingly bizarre plots. She played Lisa Miller before exiting in April and is to star in Ravenna Carousel Dinner Theatre's It Had To Be You. Fulton said soaps should reflect real life and focus on relationships, not zany, backward plot twists.
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Akron, Ohio
Eileen Fulton
Fulton
Lisa Miller
Ravenna
Carousel Dinner Theater
Rosalynn Carter Joins Gannett Board of Directors
Rosalynn Carter was elected to the Gannett Co. Inc. board, becoming part of a 14-member panel that includes Meredith Brokaw and Dolores Wharton. Gannett, publisher of 86 daily newspapers with TV and radio holdings, touted her public and private sector perspectives.
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Rosalynn Carter
Gannett Co. Inc
Jimmy Carter
White House
Meredith Brokaw
NBC
Tom Brokaw
Dolores Wharton
Fund
Gannett Co
Gannett
Allen H. Neuharth
Zoo worker charged in monkey death at Prospect Park Zoo
Horace L. Canty 26 of Brooklyn is charged with fatally scalding a stump tail macaque at Prospect Park Zoo after the animal allegedly pulled his braid. Canty faces a misdemeanor under Agriculture and Market Law. investigation continues into lack of employee reporting.
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Horace L. Canty
Brooklyn
Canty
Agriculture and Market Law
Gordon
Prospect Park Zoo
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