Bus Collides With Cement Truck In Kansas City
A tour bus with 40 seniors rolled onto its side after striking a cement truck at a downtown Kansas City intersection. Nine patients were hospitalized Sunday. both drivers reported the other ran a red light. No citations were issued. The Marianna Trailways bus was part of a two-bus tour from Missouri to Yellowstone and Canada.
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Samantha Smith visits Artek camp in Crimea
American schoolgirl Samantha Smith tours the Artek Soviet youth camp near Yalta with her parents and about 200 young pioneers. She wears a Young Pioneer's uniform but no red neckerchief and flies a peace message into the Black Sea. She meets Natasha Kirishina, joins singing, and speaks at a news conference about her impressions and hopes for peace.
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Glemp in Rome criticizes media over pope trip to Poland
Poland's primate Cardinal Jozef Glemp spoke in Rome demanding restraint from foreign press coverage of Pope John Paul II's June pilgrimage. He accused media of political speculation and distortion while praising Polish unity between church and nation and urging respect for Poland's affairs.
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Church of the
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St. Stanislav
U.S
Reagan
Holy Father
Pope vows to aid in search for abducted girl Emanuela
Pope John Paul II told 30,000 in St. Peter's Square he is doing all that is humanly possible to free 15 year old Emanuela Orlandi abducted over the Agca case. He urged prayers for the family as police treat the case as kidnapping. The kidnapper demands Agca's release and claims ties to Bulgarian and Soviet intelligence.
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John Paul II
Mehmet Ali Agca
Emanuela Orlandi
St. Peter’s Square
Emanuela
Vatican
Agca
Wildfire Rages Across Los Padres Forest in Santa Barbara Area
A fast moving blaze scorched about 3,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest near Santa Barbara as winds fanned flames. More than 600 firefighters with six airtankers and six helicopters fought the fire while cooler weather aided mopping up in Utah and Montana. Across the West, over 350,000 acres burned in the past week due to lightning sparked fires and extreme heat.
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Secrecy surrounds burial of Vicki Morgan victim
The body of Vicki Morgan was taken to a Hollywood Hills mortuary for burial arranged by an unknown benefactor. Officials refused to reveal the arranger or burial time, as the mortuary confirmed no services occurred Sunday. The death notice urged gifts to children's psychiatric research.
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Los Angeles
Vicki Morgan
Forest Lawn Mortuary
Hollywood Hills
Forest Lawn
John Riley
Miss Morgan
Reagan approval up in Time poll despite Watergate sting
Time magazine poll shows more Americans rate Reagan's performance positively than in March with 54 percent giving him a 6 to 10. Newsweek poll finds 61 percent believe members of Reagan's 1980 campaign staff were guilty of wrongdoing over obtaining Carter White House documents.
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Reagan
Time Magazine
Newsweek Magazine
Carter
White House
Time
Daughters seek Congressional Gold Medal for Rep Leo Ryan
Two daughters of the late Rep Leo Ryan pursue the Congressional Gold Medal in his memory. Ryan, a California Democrat, was killed in 1978 in Guyana during a visit to Jonestown. They aim for the award by the fifth anniversary of his death on November 18.
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Guyana
Jim Jones
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Ryan
California
Congress
Jonestown
United States
Auto operating costs rise modestly in 1982
The average cost of driving a car increased by 57 dollars in 1982 to 2847 dollars, the Hertz Corp reports. Higher license fees taxes and repairs pushed costs up, while depreciation and cheaper fuel offset much of the rise. drivers traveled 8037 miles on average, producing 35.42 cents per mile versus 34.50 in 1981.
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Hertz Corp
Mudslides flood nine Utah homes. neighbors help
Neighbors aided Sunday in clearing mud and water from nine homes after a rain driven mudslide Friday night blocked an irrigation canal. Logan residents said the canal flow resumed after a ten day shutdown, with one homeowner noting prior flood damage and faulting officials.
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Larene Johnson
IRA rally honors hunger strikers in Mullaghmore
About 7,500 IRA supporters gathered in a meadow above the bay at Mullaghmore to praise hunger striker Bobby Sands and nine other jailed guerrillas who died in 1981. Police and plainclothes agents watched as speakers lauded the hunger strikers amid chants of Up the IRA in a peaceful, hour long rally.
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Ireland
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Irish Republican Army
Polish engineer defects by leaping from yacht into Kalmar strait
A Polish electrical engineer defected Sunday by jumping from a sailboat into the Kalmar strait on Sweden eastern coast. Witnesses reported gunfire from the boat as he swam to shore and sought asylum in Sweden. He cited Solidarity membership and unemployment in Poland and said he left his wife behind.
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Poland
Solidarity
Soviet bomber downed near Kabul claims by Afghan rebels
Afghan rebels claim a Soviet bomber was shot down northeast of Kabul and that the pilot and a Soviet adviser were captured. The plane went down on July 5 but no aircraft type or method is given. The report notes about 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan since 1979 to aid the government.
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Yugoslavia
Kabul
Tanjug
Afghanistan
Brazil Auto Factory Strike Ends as Worker Leaders Seek New Action
Thousands of workers ended a three day strike that halted production at foreign owned auto plants in Sao Paulo. Leaders announced a one day strike planned later this month while 3,600 refinery workers at two plants including the largest remain on strike for better job security. About 7,000 more refinery workers have threatened to join the walkout that began four days ago.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
Peer Gynt creator Werner Egk dies at 82
Werner Egk, German born composer and director of stage works including the opera Peer Gynt, died Sunday at age 82 in Munich. Born May 17, 1901, in Donauwoerth Bavaria, he earned international fame for his operas and ballets reflecting Bavarian life. In 1936 he won a IOC gold medal for his Olympic music contributions in Berlin.
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International Olympic Committee
Berlin
Iranian pilot seeks asylum after defection to Turkey
An Iranian air force captain flew a Phantom F-65 to a Turkish airfield and asked for asylum. Turkish officials provided no information on the defection. Sources say he requested aid to reach the United States as Iran faces opposition from many who fled to the West via Turkey.
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Turkey
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Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
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Persian Gulf
Peking banishes 648 repeat offenders to reform camps
Peking authorities banished 648 people from the capital to reform camps or prisons for terms of two to three years. The latest group faced charges including robbery, rape, gang fighting, assault, and swindling, as reported by the Peking Daily.
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