California Gov orders aerial pesticide plan to stop medfly outbreak
Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. approves wide scale malathion spraying over 630 square miles in the San Francisco Bay Area after federal pressure. The first aerial assault targets the 97 square mile Palo Alto region near Stanford with follow up sprays planned for the quarantine zones in Santa Clara San Mateo and Alameda counties. A federal task force led by Richard Lyng will also be sent to California.
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San Jose
Calif
California
Edmund Brown Jr
Brown
Palo Alto
Stanford University
Sacramento
Santa Clara
San Mateo
Alameda
San Francisco
Jerry Scribner
Afghans Jump From Plane at Frankfurt Stopover
Forty six Afghans leapt from a Pakistan Airlines jumbo jet during a stopover in West Germany and rushed into the Rhine-Main airport seeking asylum. Twenty one were sent to an immigrant processing center while 23 stayed in the transit area awaiting status decisions. two had valid West German visas.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
Reagan and Trudeau Discuss Aid Policy Before Summit
President Reagan told Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that industrialized nations should show developing countries how to help themselves. The two met two hours in the Oval Office and over lunch to prep for the July Ottawa summit. Trudeau aimed to secure assurances that the gathering would address growth for developing nations amid ongoing trade and energy disagreements.
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Washington
Reagan
Trudeau
White House
France
London Riots Shake City as Thatcher Declares London Ban
Rioting and looting turned London into a battleground with six provincial cities affected. Police report gangs of youths attacking, burning, and fighting as Home Secretary Whitelaw bans demonstrations in greater London for a month. Prime Minister Thatcher calls it terrorism and criminal looting threatening democracy.
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London
William Whitelaw
Greater London
Margaret Thatcher
Britain
Britons Battle Mourners at McDonnell Funeral
British troops clashed with mourners at the funeral of hunger striker Joseph McDonnell in Belfast as youths attacked with bricks and firebombs. Police captured one of three IRA gunmen who fired a volley, marking possibly the first disruption of an IRA funeral by British forces. McDonnell, the fifth hunger striker to die, was buried beside Bobby Sands in the IRA martyrs cemetery.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Joseph McDonnell
Bobby Sands
Irish Republican Army
IRA
McDonnell
Maze
Pat McGeown
Polish Communist Party calls probe of former Premier Jaroszewicz
The Polish Communist Party central committee urged investigations into former Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz for possible mismanagement while in office. Politburo member Tadeusz Grasbski noted trials for former leaders would be unheard of in Europe and urged deep consideration. The committee also urged stripping medals from ousted party chief Edward Gierek and prime minister Edward Babiuch.
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Warsaw
Poland
UPI
Polish Communist Party Central Committee
Piotr Jaroszewicz
Europe
Tadeusz Grasbski
Edward Gierek
Edward Babiuch
Fire Levels San Francisco Bathhouse and 15 Buildings
A suspicious blaze in San Francisco’s South of Market district destroyed The Barracks bathhouse and spread to 15 nearby buildings, leaving at least 15 residents homeless. About 220 firefighters fought the early morning fire, which officials deem one of the city’s worst, with millions in damage.
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San Francisco
Folsom Street
Market District
Andrew Casper
Casper
Dick Efting
American Red Cross
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