Rocket Fuel Blaze Kills Three At Aerojet Silo
A Nov 17 explosion at Aerojet in Roseville California buried fuel in a silo. Three employees rose to the bottom of the silo. a fourth was higher on an elevator. Firefighters extinguished the blaze by 7:30 p.m. and several workers received treatment.
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Arthur Totten
Citrus Heights
Sacramento
Johnson
Aerojet
Pan Am World Services
Coffee County
Manchester
Luther Cross
Harton Hospital
David Harmon
Zimmerman
Pope presses peace strategy in Central America amid church clashes
The pope promotes negotiation with leftist groups to end conflicts in El Salvador Guatemala and Nicaragua, while right wing forces resist. In El Salvador the church faced newspaper ads to share views and the San Salvador cathedral was halted after Romero restricted its growth. Guatemala and Nicaragua show similar church-state strains and censorship.
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el Salvador
Metropolitan Cathedral
San Salvador
Romero
Guatemala
Efrain Rios Montt
Anastasio Somoza Debayale
Ice Closes Roads as Iowa Records Rain and Wrecks
A storm of ice and drizzle blankets Eastern Iowa causing slick roads and at least one collision in Cedar Rapids. Karen Koehn 22 of Shellsburg injured after losing control on an icy curve and hospitalised in serious condition. Rainfall totals range from .75 to .87 inches in several towns, with Promise City reporting about an inch.
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Ozark
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Karen Koehn
Shellsburg
Ellis Road
Koehn
Wayne County
Promise City
GATT Talks End With Cautious Compromise On Trade Barriers
Trade ministers from GATT members pledge to reduce frictions and resist protectionist pressures while nations blame each other for failing to secure a broad commitment to cut trade barriers. The United States and others criticize the EEC for not moving beyond a study on agriculture and consider retaliatory measures like dairy surpluses.
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Reagan Administration
Michel Jobert
United
Jobert
Gatt Nations
United States
Australia
Canada
European Economic Community
Extended Weather Forecast With Mixed Advisories Across Regions
The forecast calls for partial clouds from Wednesday to Friday with a chance of showers Friday. Temperatures will hover in the 40s to 50s, dropping to the 30s by Friday. lows mostly in the 30s. Sunday evening saw widespread freezing rain and fog from New England to Minnesota with advisories for hazardous highways and traveler warnings across multiple states. Monday forecasts expect snow in northern Maine to mix with rain through New England and the lower Great Lakes. rain and snow extend to the Northwest and across the South with variable highs ranging from the 30s to near 80 in Florida and the mid-60s on the Atlantic coast.
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New York State
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Wisconsin
Maine
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Atlantic
Carolinas
Ohio Valley
Idaho
Utah
Pacific Coast
California
Washington
Arizona
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Mississippi Valley
Missouri Valley
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Intermountains
Great Basin
Atlantic Coast
Florida
Texas
Israel and Lebanon near talks amid shifts in war diplomacy
Israel says talks on Lebanon peace may take weeks before starting as Habib suggests meetings near Beirut and Jerusalem. Cabinet insists negotiations occur alternately in Beirut and Jerusalem amid ongoing war and Druze Christian clashes in the Shouf mountains injuring a journalist.
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Lebanon
Israel
Habib
Halde
Beirut
Jerusalem
PLO
Shouf
Bhamdoun
Kenneth Jobson
Jobson
Great Britain
Rural Chelsea man dies in farm accident
Charles Beck, 63, of rural Chelsea, died on his farm in northwest Poweshiek County when his clothing was caught in an elevator chain powered by a tractor. Rescue efforts failed. he was pronounced dead at Mallory Medical Center in Tama. Funeral services pending.
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Chelsea
Poweshiek County
Tama County
Charles Beck
Dennis Mallory
Beck
Belle Plaine
Mallory Medical Center
Tama
Union strikes Farmland Foods in Denison Iowa
About 750 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 440 walked out Sunday against Farmland Foods plant in Denison Iowa. Negotiations for a new three year contract stalled since August with the company seeking wage concessions and medical benefit cuts. 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 Facts on Diamonds and Voices
A collection of trivia notes on toothpaste cleaning for jewelry, diamond explosions, gender voice differences, Aztec origins of the name Mexico, and daily swallowing frequency. Each fact offers a quick, curious insight into common beliefs and historical myths.
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