Customs Patches Seized On 200th Anniversary Shipment
The U S Customs inspectors blocked an illegal shipment of 5000 commemorative patches at a Peace Bridge warehouse in Buffalo New York. NTEU president Robert Tobias said the patches were made outside the United States and shipped from Canada in violation of country of origin labeling rules.
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Washington
U.S
Robert Tobias
National Treasury Employees Union
Peace Bridge
Buffalo
N.Y
Canada
Tobias
OSHA fines proposed over Joliet grain elevator blast deaths
OSHA proposed a total of 14000 dollars in penalties against ADM Growmark Inc for willful and serious violations tied to grain dust collection deficiencies at its Joliet Illinois elevator. Ronald J. McCann, director of OSHA's Calumet City office, said the company knew or should have known about the hazards.
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Washington
Illinois
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA
Adm-Growmark Inc
Joliet
Ronald J. McCann
Calumet City
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Leak found in shuttle engine
NASA said one of the $41 million engines that powered the space shuttle Discovery last month has a small cooling system leak and will be replaced for the February flight. Engineers found separation in nickel and copper layers in the engine’s combustion chamber, but it is too early to know if the change will delay the schedule.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jerry Berg
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center
Alabama
Fire disrupts air traffic at DFW control tower
An electrical fire in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport control tower forced the suspension of operations and the diversion of 15 flights. Officials said the blaze impacted takeoffs or landings of 120 flights during a busy midday period and prompted evacuation of the FAA tower at the world’s fourth busiest airport.
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Grapevine
Texas
Dallas-Fort Worth International
Federal Aviation Administration
Hurricane Joan kills eleven in Venezuela and threatens Central America
Hurricane Joan killed at least 11 in Venezuela and sent tens of thousands fleeing as it neared Nicaragua and Costa Rica with heavy rain and 105 mph winds. More than 37,000 sought safety from floods and mudslides in coastal areas of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. French civil servants strike disrupts public services in Paris, challenging Premier Rocard.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Venezuela
Central America
Costa Rica
Paris
Michel Rocard
Path clear for vote on drug bill in Congress
Washington reports House and Senate negotiators agree on final anti drug bill language clearing the way for a floor vote in the 100th Congress. The package also advances measures banning plastic firearms aiding the homeless and toughening procurement fraud rules.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Jim Wright
Texas
Congressiona
Wright
Winds lift hope for whales trapped near Barrow
In Barrow Alaska favorable easterly winds aided a rescue attempt for three Arctic whales stranded 200 miles from open water. An Army National Guard Skycrane helicopter towed an icebreaking barge toward the animals as two deicers kept breathing holes clear while biologists monitored their respiration.
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Bill Skluzacek
St. Croix River
Minnesota
Skluzacek
Alaska
Barrow
Prudhoe Bay
Chukchi Sea
Gary Hufford
National Weather Service
Hufford
Arctic Ocean
Craig George
North Slope
Army National Guard
Tom Carroll
Carroll
Point Barrow
Evidence links to another mass extinction event
Researchers in Los Angeles say a large extraterrestrial impact could have driven the latest major extinction about 11 million years ago. Nuclear chemist Frank Asaro of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory notes the finding suggests a comet or asteroid impact may have caused the loss of about 25 percent of species between 10 and 11.7 million years ago.
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Los Angeles
Earth
Frank Asaro
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reagan Signals Possible U S Troop Withdrawal From Korea
President Ronald Reagan suggested the United States could withdraw some troops from South Korea in the near future during a meeting with Roh Tae woo. State Department expert Gaston Sigur said there is no intention to withdraw. The United States maintains about 42,000 troops in South Korea.
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Washington
Reagan
United States
South Korea
Gaston Sigur
State Department
Roh Tae-woo
U.S
Britain moves to end right to silence in Ulster
The Thatcher government introduced legislation to abolish the right of suspects in Northern Ireland to remain silent under police questioning. The bill, aiming to curb IRA activity, signals a broader plan to extend restrictions to England and Wales and could become law by January.
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Northern Ireland
Britain
Irish Republican Army
IRA
House of Commons
Margaret Thatcher
England
Wales
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