Explosion at Aerojet silo injures workers in Tennessee
Roseville California and Arthur Totten 48 a rocket test technician from Citrus Heights California were among Aerojet employees at the center silo where a November 17 blast occurred. The 60 000 pound test engine contained about 55 000 pounds of solid rocket fuel which blanketed the silo floor. Firefighters from Coffee County Manchester and the center battled the blaze extinguished about 7 30 p.m. Luther Cross a security officer was hospitalized in stable condition. David Harmon treated and released. 14 others with minor injuries treated at the center infirmary.
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Pope Pressures Peace Talks Across Central America
The pope urged negotiation with leftists to end conflicts in El Salvador Guatemala and Nicaragua. Right wing groups and some military elements resist, forcing church ads in pro-government newspapers. In El Salvador Romero halted cathedral construction to aid the poor. Nicaragua faces a split church over Marxist shifts and government interference with papal letters.
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Romero
Guatemala
Efrain Rios Montt
Anastasio Somoza Debayale
Ice and rain sweep Eastern Iowa causing accidents
Ice coated trees and roads across Eastern Iowa as light rain lingered Sunday. In Cedar Rapids an accident left Karen Koehn, 22, of Shellsburg, seriously injured after her car slid into a ditch and struck a tree. Koehn was hospitalized in serious condition. An Ozark spokesman warned of potential crowd problems if weather delays persisted. Precipitation totals ranged from .83 to .87 inches in Davenport, Lorimer, Bussey, and Promise City, with several communities reporting over three quarters of an inch.
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Promise City
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Davenport
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Burlington
de Witt
Brighton
Indianola
Trade GATT Members Push to Cut Trade Frictions
The GATT conference aims to reduce trade frictions and overcome protectionist pressures while urging restraint from protectionist measures. Nations blame each other for failing to secure a broad pledge to fight protectionism, with the United States pressing for action against farm trade barriers and potential dairy surplus dumping. Jobert criticizes the talks as opportune and useless, calling for a measured approach amid European resistance to agricultural promises.
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Weather and conflict report with Israel Lebanon items
Midnight wind in Israel from the southerly direction at seven mph. Sun set at 4 37 p m and rises at 7 14 a m Tuesday. Weather notes include extended partly cloudy days with showers possible through Friday and varied highs and lows in the 30s to 80s regionally. In the region near Lebanon, Habib’s talks and reconciliation efforts are described with Israeli Cabinet positions on venue alternating Beirut and Jerusalem. Sniper clashes in the Shouf mountains kill one Druze and three Christians, while a British journalist is wounded and released. Israel imposes a curfew in affected villages to curb fighting.
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Armed Forces Radio
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Israel
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Halde
Beirut
Jerusalem
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Shouf
Bhamdoun
Kenneth Jobson
Jobson
Great Britain
Weather advisories spread amid freezing rain and fog
Freezing rain and fog coated the region from New England to Minnesota Sunday evening with highway hazards warned. Traveler advisories extended through Sunday night for much of the interior New England, portions of New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, with other areas given advisories for different reasons. Fog prompted additional advisories across several states.
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Ohio
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Michigan
Rural Chelsea man dies in farm accident
Charles Beck aged 63 died on his northwest Poweshiek County farm after his clothing became caught in an elevator chain driven by a tractor power takeoff. Rescuers used a four wheel drive to reach him in muddy fields, and he was pronounced dead at Mallory Medical Center in Tama. Funeral services are pending.
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Tama County
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Dennis Mallory
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Belle Plaine
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Union Strikes Farmland Foods Plant in Denison
About 750 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 440 walked out at noon at the Farmland Foods pork plant in Denison Iowa. Negotiations since August stalled over wage concessions and medical benefits. The union offered a three year wage freeze.
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Denison, Iowa
UPI
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 440
Farmland Foods
Did You Know Items and Trivia Facts
A collection of assorted trivia notes about toothpaste cleaning small jewelry pieces, diamonds that can explode, and linguistic origins. It also asserts women have shorter vocal cords and that the average person swallows over seven times per hour.
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