Motive unknown in Colombia jetliner crash with 137 aboard
A Boeing 727 carrying 137 people including Roman Catholic auxiliary Bishop Horacio Olave Velandia and at least 31 soccer players crashed in the northern Colombian mountains near Zulia after leaving Cucuta. Witnesses said the plane clipped trees and burned. Heavy rain hindered rescuers.
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Panama militarizes utilities as curfew imposed after coup bid
Panama City authorities place soldiers in charge of public utilities and impose a curfew in the second largest city after a coup attempt against Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Electrical workers report some employees forced to work at gunpoint as strikes disrupt power and water.
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Saudis Buy Missiles From China Amid Nuclear Warhead Debate
Washington says China supplied Saudi Arabia with intermediate range CSS2 missiles capable of reaching parts of the Middle East with a nuclear warhead though both nations assure the US the weapons will not be used for nuclear purposes.
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China
Saudi Arabia
Middle East
United States
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Sharpeville Six win Supreme Court stay of execution
Five men and a woman condemned to death for the 1984 murder of a black deputy mayor receive a four week stay just hours before scheduled hangings at Pretoria Central Prison. A car bomb in Krugersdorp killed three and wounded twenty as protests for clemency rose across the country. Authorities link white fugitive Heinrich Grosskopf to the bombing. The court cites potential perjury by a key witness and allows arguments to reopen the trial by April 18.
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Mecham denounces threat as manufactured claim
Gov Evan Mecham angrily rejects impeachment charges he planned to obstruct justice and calls the alleged threat by a staffer a manufactured thing. He says he was kept in the dark and notes he ordered the top lawman not to cooperate with the attorney general's probe.
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Evan Mecham
Mecham
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FDIC Advances $1 Billion to First Republic Banks
The FDIC lends $1 billion to subsidiaries of First Republic Bank to stabilize the Dallas based holding company and reassure depositors. Seidman pledges full protection for depositors and general creditors, indicating a long term solution without detailing size or final rescue.
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First Republic Bank Corp
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L. William Seidman
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