Ancient Indian Glyphs Reveal Mud Cave Art in Tennessee
In Mud Glyph Cave, a 350 foot passage in eastern Tennessee, researchers unveil a rare 12th to 14th century mud etching gallery likely made by ancestors of the Creek or Cherokee. The walls display faces animals and human figures formed in mud with finger and stick tools, suggesting ritual artistic use rather than habitation.
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Washington
Tennessee
National Geographic Society
Charles H. Faulkner
University of Tennessee
North America
Faulkner
Walter Merrill
U.S. Forest Service
Merrill
Student sentenced for draft registration refusal in Virginia
Enton Eller, 21, ordered by U.S. District Court Judge James Turk to two years of unpaid public service after refusing to register for the draft. He may graduate from Bridgewater College in June before reporting to a VA hospital for service.
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Roanoke
Enton Eller
U.S. District Court
James Turk
Eller
Bridgewater College
Virginia
Veterans Administration Hospital
EPA to remove dioxin soil and relocate residents
The EPA will remove dioxin contaminated soil from a suburban area and temporarily relocate residents until cleanup. Rita M. Lavelle reversed an earlier decision and said Superfund monies would be used for the planned removal action at the residential areas following meetings and resident protests.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Rita M. Lavelle
Christopher Bond
Hoffa Declared Legally Dead After Long Disappearance
Oakland County Probate Judge Norman Barnard ruled James R. Hoffa legally dead seven years four months after he vanished from a Detroit area restaurant. The widespread manhunt failed to locate the former Teamster President or any trace of his whereabouts.
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Detroit
UPI
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
Oakland County
Norman Barnard
Hoffa
Actor Will Lee dies at 74 in New York
Veteran actor Will Lee known as Mr Hooper on Sesame Street died of a heart attack in New York at age seventy four. The longtime performer earned a loyal following for his shopkeeper role.
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New York
Will Lee
Mr. Hooper
British troops confined to barracks in Northern Ireland
The British army ordered 10 500 troops in Northern Ireland to stay in barracks while off duty to reassess security after a disco bombing that killed 11 soldiers and five civilians. A 40 detective murder squad was formed to hunt the Irish National Liberation Army, which claimed the attack targeted British troops. At Shackleton barracks Ballykelly a notice prohibited booking out until further notice by order of the Adjutant.
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Ballykelly
Northern Ireland
Irish National Liberation Army
Shackleton
Cheshire Regiment
False space shuttle fuel leak prompts 12 hospital visits
A false report of a truck leak near Kennedy Space Center led to 12 people being treated and released at Holmes Regional Medical Center. NASA investigators said the symptoms were likely psychosomatic with theories including condensation on cooled fuel drums.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Kennedy Space Center
Hugh Harris
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Palm Bay
Harris
Kmart
Cindy Ingraham
Holmes Regional Medical Center
Sue Layton
Space Agency
Drug activates fetal genes to reverse sickle cell
Boston researchers report an experimental drug 5-azacytidine reactivates dormant gamma-globin genes to boost normal fetal hemoglobin. In early tests on two sickle patients and three with thalassemia, the treatment reduced sickled cells and increased normal cells though long term effects remain unknown. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, marks a potential new gene-based approach to blood disorders.
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Boston
Arthur W. Nienhuis
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Bethesda
New England Journal of Medicine
Warsaw priests press Glemp over tough line on government
Priests in Archbishop Jozef Glemp's Warsaw archdiocese confronted him face to face at a Tuesday meeting with about 200 clerics. They criticized the primate for not taking a stronger public stance against Poland's martial law government, highlighting growing tension with militant clergy. One participant called the session stormy and painful.
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Warsaw
Poland
Jozef Glemp
Independent Labor Movement
Glemp
Sweden moves to create a nuclear free zone in Europe
Prime Minister Olof Palme's government announced a plan to establish a zone free from tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Foreign Minister Lennart Bodstrom said neutral Sweden would approach NATO and the Warsaw Pact, plus neutral and non aligned nations including Finland Ireland Yugoslavia Switzerland Austria for support.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Olof Palme
Europe
Lennart Bodstrom
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Finland
Ireland
Yugoslavia
Switzerland
Austria
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Salt Lake City
Barney Clark
John Dwan
University of Utah Medical Center
Chase Peterson
University
Dwan
John Carta
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Brooklyn
Staten Island
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New York Harbor
World Trade Center
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9-West
Cpe
Own & Westdale
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Yale Medical School
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