Famine relief leader may be defecting from Ethiopia
Dawit Wolde Giorgis, head of Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, vanished while on a Western tour and may be seeking asylum in the United States. British press cited anonymous sources. Addis Ababa officials and Washington withheld comment. He oversaw drought relief for about 8 million Ethiopians and is a close ally of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Ethiopia
Dawit Wolde Giorgis
Dawit
United States
Relief and Rehabilitation Commission
RRC
Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Pri
Brussels
Sunday Times of London
Washington
State Department
Deborah Cavin
Department
New York
Ticket sting nets 100 fugitives at pre game party
U S marshals and police lured 100 fugitives to a Washington DC event by posing as waiters serving free Redskins tickets for a pre game party promoting a TV station. Invited 3,000. some wore team gear. two on DC police top 10 wanted list. Arrestees included murder, robbery, assault, burglary, narcotics, rape, arson, and forgery cases.
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Washington (Ap
Washington Redskins
Herbert M. Rutherford III
U.S
District of Columbia
Metropolitan Police Department
International Sports Television
Redskins
Bengals
New Orleans
TV Enterprise
F.I.S.T
Fugitive Investigative Strike Team
U.S. Marshals Force
D.C. Convention Center
Stanley Morris
U.S. Marshals Service
D.C
Blast kills six white vacationers near Messina
The light truck carrying two white families on a game ranch near the South Africa Zimbabwe border detonated a land mine planted by black nationalist guerrillas, killing six and injuring five others. The blast followed a spike in similar mine attacks, while protests and caroling bans marked postwar unrest.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Messina
African National Congress
South African Defense Headquarters
Pretoria
Durban
Nelson Mandela
Curries Fountain
Six kids among 12 killed in two fires
In Hoffman Estates Illinois six of ten children in a single family died when a weekend fire ravaged their home. A teenage brother was restrained by firefighters after attempting to re-enter to help siblings. In Southfield Michigan a separate blaze killed six elderly residents at a hospice and forced evacuations.
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Hoffman Estates
Ill
Chicago
Southfield
Mich
Detroit
Robert Syre
Syre
Krawczyk
St. Hubert’s Catholic Church
Jean Noble
Shultz warns Romanians on human rights record
Secretary of State George P. Shultz told Romanian leaders in Bucharest they risk losing key trading rights unless human rights improve. He and Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu agreed to set up procedures to resolve differences, with Shultz calling talks frank and candid.
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Budapest
Hungary
George P. Shultz
Shultz
Nicolae Ceausescu
U.S
Ceausescu
Bucharest
United States
Moscow
Romania
Congress
Ilie Vaduva
House
Bob Michel
Reagan
Cedar Rapids couple among Keystone chairlift crash victims
Colleen Hotchkiss and her husband Bruce, from Cedar Rapids, were among 23 skiers still hospitalized after a chairlift failed at Keystone Resort in Colorado. The accident hurled 49 skiers to the slope as engineers and safety officials investigated why the Teller Lift failed just weeks after a routine inspection.
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C.R
Denver
Colo
Cedar Rapids
Keystone Resort
Colorado Rockies
Colleen Hotchkiss
Adirondack Dr
University Hospital
Bruce
Craig Hotchkiss
Ranier
the Gazette
Colleen
Hotchkiss
Bruce Hotchkiss
Vail
Keystone Mountain
North Peak
Lillian Ross
Central Rockies
Steamboat Springs
Lift Engineering and Manufacturing Co
Carson City
Nev
Keystone
Ross
Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board
U.S. Forest Service
Mubarak invites Khadafy to visit Egypt amid tensions
President Hosni Mubarak said Egypt would welcome Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy and invited him to come anytime. He noted 14 Libyan emissaries had proposed a meeting and suggested border or neutral ground. Egypt has long accused Khadafy of saboteurs related to anti pact unrest, with warrants issued for three Libyan officers in a separate murder plot case.
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Cairo
Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
Col
Muammar Khadafy
Mubarak
Al-Seyassa
Khadafy
Libya
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Johan Theron
Wynberg
Cape
Kwa- Thema
Patricia Krawczyk
Michigan
Southfield Rehabilitation Center
Denny McGuire
Jehovah's Witnesses
Berlin
Diamond Back
Associated Press and Gazette
Teller
Colorado
Tramway Safety Board
For Personal Service
Henry Witwer
Prievendent
Witwer Insurance
Anwar Sadat
Camp David
Israel
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1St Ave. S.E
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