Copter Dives Into Hudson During Live WNBC Broadcast
A New York traffic helicopter collided with the Hudson River during a live WNBC radio show. Reporter Jane Dornacker died from drowning after rescue attempts failed. pilot Bill Pate remained in critical condition with internal injuries. Passers-by and divers aided in the rescue effort near the USS Intrepid as the incident shocked listeners.
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Hudson River
WNBC
Hudson
Donna Osso
Emergency Medical Service
Jane Dornacker
St. Vincent’s Medical Center
Caroline McBride
Bill Pate
Bellevue Hospital
Bill Allen
Dornacker
Hackensack River
New Jersey
Lincoln Tunnel
Joey Reynolds
Reynolds
Mamdouh Bayoumi
Intrepid
Hawkins Apology Over Immigrant Patriot Comment
Florida Senator Paula Hawkins apologized for remarks claiming Mexican immigrants are less patriotic than Cuban-Americans. The Republican incumbent faced Graham in a heated race after comments made on a Miami Spanish language radio show. Hawkins also criticized immigration bill delays, provoking wide attention. Charlie Watts helps rescue Meg the dog in El Salvador and pays her kennel bill to avoid quarantine costs.
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Florida
Paula Hawkins
Hawkins
Bob Graham
Miami
Congress
Mexico
Rolling Stones
Charlie Watts
el Salvador
Meg
David Jones
Jones
Watts
Associated Press
Beirut professor freed after five months in captivity
In Beirut a Lebanese Christian professor abducted by gunmen five months ago was released by his captors Tuesday night and walked home in the Muslim sector. His wife said he is healthy and back at work at the American University of Beirut. The group Independent Committee for the Liberation of the Kidnapped claimed responsibility, seeking the release of more than 2,000 Muslims held by Christian militiamen.
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Beirut
Lebanon
American University of Beirut
Bait Matar
Independent Committee For the Liberation
Paroled jewel thief Murph The Surf to leave prison Nov 11
The Florida Parole Commission voted to release Jack Murphy aka Murph The Surf from life imprisonment for the 1967 murder. He will live at The Bridge halfway house in Orlando and work as staff and counselor at Christian Prison Ministries after parole. Murphy has been in a work release program since 1984. In Las Vegas Wayne Newton testified he receives death threats about weekly and sought help from crime figure Guido Penosi in 1980 to stop threats to him and his daughter. threats stopped after two calls.
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Fla
Jack “Murph
Murphy
Orlando
Christian Prison Ministries
Las Vegas
New
Wayne Newton
NBC
Newton
Guido Penosi
Penosi
Reagan’s Air Force One Used as Radar Test Target
Maj. Ron Rand said President Reagan’s Oct. 9 flight to Iceland served as a target track for the first stage of the Over-the-Horizon-Backscatter radar. The unit built in Maine tracked Air Force One about 600 nautical miles off the North American coast until landing in Iceland without the president’s knowledge.
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Washington
Reagan
Air Force
Iceland
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ron Rand
Air Force One
Maine
North American
Rand
Aquino threatens insurgents after talks with Enrile
President Corazon Aquino and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile met privately after a long rift. Aquino warned rebels of a possible declaration of war while pursuing cease-fire talks and an encompassing peace program including economic development and military action.
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Manila
Philippines
Corazon Aquino
Enrile
Juan Ponce Enrile
Aquino
Defense
Ferdinand Marcos
Marcos
Afrikaner Church Denounces Apartheid as Error
South Africa's Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk Synod, attended by about 400 clerics and elders, reversed decades of support for apartheid calling it an unjust error and opened to interracial membership if local councils approve. The move rejects merging with black, Asian and mixed-race branches.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk
Pieter W. Botha
Meese Says Supreme Court Not the Supreme Law
Attorney General Edwin Meese argued that Supreme Court interpretations are not the supreme law of the land and urged officials to follow their own interpretations of the Constitution. He said court rulings bind parties and the executive but do not bind all government branches forever, criticizing judges equating themselves with lawgivers.
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Aquino
Supreme Law
Meese
New York Times
Washington
Edwin Meese
Supreme Court
Executive Branch
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