Bermudian woman pledges 150000 for Milwaukee transplant
Maria Benn of Bermuda offered to finance a $150,000 heart transplant for Janice Terry of Milwaukee after a TV report. Terry, a 30 year old unemployed mother of two, was rejected for Medicaid funding as physicians deem the operation experimental. Benn plans to transfer funds to a trust set up by Mount Sinai Medical Center, saying a voice urged her to help.
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Mount Sinai
New Orleans
Tanks Level Vast Areas of Hama in Syria Conflict
The New York Times reports Syrian tanks and artillery leveled large parts of Hama, with thousands killed or wounded in a three week battle against the Moslem Brotherhood. Diplomatic accounts from several embassies describe streets littered with corpses and residents unable to leave.
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Revelers flood French Quarter for Mardi Gras start
Carnival crowds fill the French Quarter in New Orleans as four days of revelry begin. Police heighten presence by 40 percent over 1981 to prevent repeats of last year's crowd crush and gunfire incidents during the ongoing pre-Lenten Mardi Gras weekend.
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St. Louis Cathedral
Sound expert testifies in Williams trial in Atlanta
Police stakeout officer may have slept when he heard a loud splash in the Chattahoochee River. The sound expert for the defense says Campbell should have heard the car cross expansion joints before the splash, challenging prosecution that Wayne Williams entered the bridge quietly. The trial, tied to the murder of Nathaniel Cater and others, resumes amid illness of defense counsel and a separate home improvement loan witness.
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