Cyanide warnings spread as Louisiana towns face poisoned water scare
Anonymous calls claimed cyanide contamination reached St Gabriel Abbeville Delcambre Eunice Crowley Rayne Houma with seven cities warned. Tests found no cyanide in four towns and Eunice water remains cutoff for bacteriological checks. Authorities urge caution citing copycat threats and risks during flushing.
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Eunice
Louisiana
St. Gabriel
Abbeville
Delcambre
Charles Gauntt
State Health Department
Crowley
Rayne
Houma
Sue Ellen Lewis
Ms. Lewis
Strauss breaks with Kohl on zero option in West Germany
Franz Josef Strauss criticizes the NATO zero option as unattainable and absurd and urges a negotiated reduction of Soviet missiles. He argues for Western concessions to secure Soviet dismantling and warns that Kohl’s defense of the plan isolates the chancellor amid election debates.
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Bonn
West Germany
Europe
Franz-Josef Strauss
U.S
Geneva
Soviet Union
Strauss
Helmut Kohl
NATO
British water workers strike prompts boil-water alert
London AP reports 29 000 water and sewage workers walk out in England and Wales forcing boil water advisories for millions. Scotland unaffected. Troops ready as union warns of emergency service breaches if troops deployed. Average weekly pay cited.
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London
England
Wales
Scotland
Ron Keating
National Water Council
Government Arbitration Service
Ian Buchanan
Portugal’s Eanes to dissolve Parliament early elections planned
President Antonio Ramalho Eanes announced he will dissolve Parliament after the outgoing coalition implements emergency economic measures. He will give Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao time to form a new cabinet before dissolution, amid pressure for early elections from opposition Communist and Socialist parties.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Antonio Ramalho Eanes
Eanes
Francisco Pinto Balsemao
Pinto Balsemao
Democratic Alliance
Stay of execution sought in Barefoot case in Texas
Attorneys for Thomas Andy Barefoot seek a federal stay claiming new evidence. they also appeal to the Supreme Court. Barefoot, convicted of killing a Harker Heights police officer, is set for lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, the same chamber where Charlie Brooks Jr. was executed. This would mark Texas as the first state to exceed one death by injection since 1976.
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Huntsville
Texas
Thomas Andy Barefoot
U.S
Barefoot
Supreme Court
Harker Heights
Charlie Brooks Jr
500 Protest Mexico Plan Rally At Lompoc California
About 500 anti nuclear activists rallied in Lompoc to protest the MX missile program and plan a morning blockade of Vandenberg Air Force Base where the missile may be tested. At least 100 aimed to block the main gate, organizer Barbara Haber said for the Livermore Action Group.
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Lompoc
Calif
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg
Barbara Haber
Livermore Action Group
Cox urges public to remember Watergate lessons
Archibald Cox, former Watergate prosecutor and head of Common Cause, warns Boulder residents that Watergate produced reforms and safeguards. He cites the Special Prosecutor Act, the Ethics Commission, and state ethics laws as lasting gains that sharpened public official ethics.
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Boulder
Colo
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Common Cause
Cox
University of Colorado School of Law
Praise for that other sci fi guy
Mark Hamill says he is impressed with E T and has a sequel idea. He discussed the story with George Lucas who advised sharing it with Steven Spielberg.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Mark Hamill
Luke Skywalker
Showtime
Bill Harris
Byrne pens score for Tharp Catherine Wheel on PBS
David Byrne, Talking Heads frontman, wrote an original rock score for The Catherine Wheel, a Dance in America special directed by Twyla Tharp. The program airs March 28 on PBS Great Performances and features TVs first computer generated dancing figure representing Saint Catherine.
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New York
UPI
David Byrne
Talking Heads
America
Twyla Tharp
PBS
Saint Catherine
Bank offers handguns to depositors boosts deposits
The Bank of Findlay in Illinois reports strong interest in a six year deposit plan at 2500 and two Colt handguns as rewards. Executive vice president Jim Livergood says about 1500 inquiries and 80 new accounts, with deposits potentially rising 3 to 4 million dollars and benefits for local farmers through easier loans and lower rates.
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Newark
New Jersey
el Salvador
Free-Lance
Robert Torricelli
Dn.j
John J. Sullivan
Sullivan
San Salvador
Hustler Magazine
U.S
Livergood
Colt
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Marion
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Ave. S.E
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