Tanker Spill Triggers Evacuation on I-59 Near Ashville
An 18 wheeler overturned on Interstate 59 near Ashville causing a spill of aniline, a toxic dye chemical. About 300 residents were evacuated as 500 to 800 gallons leaked from a 3,500 to 5,000 gallon load. Controlling authorities restricted the highway while the Contintental Transport Express vehicle was investigated.
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Ashville
Ala
Interstate 59
Birmingham
State Department of Public Safety
Jim Hyatt
Continental Transport Express
Geismar
Hyatt
Crime Touches One in Four U S Households
A Justice Department report shows that 24.9 percent of U S households suffered a violent or property crime last year, up from 24.6 percent in 1988. The figures include attempts as well as completed crimes, with level holding steady over five years.
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Washington
U.S
Justice Department
Libyan Sudanese leaders sign integration plan in Tripoli
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Sudanese Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan el-Bashir sign an agreement to integrate their nations in political cultural economic and security cooperation. El-Bashir priorly proposed a plan and discussed a Libyan style governance approach amid his coup era reforms. Robert Holmes a Court dies in Australia at 53 after shaping Bell Resources into a diversified empire.
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Sudan
Rome
Muammar Gaddafi
Omar Hassan el-Bashir
Tripoli
JANA
El-Bashir
Australia
Sydney
Robert Holmes
Perth
Bell Resources Group
Holmes A Court
Israel seeks U S Patriots and arms for jets
Israel has formally asked the United States to supply the Patriot air defense system and new aircraft armaments amid the Persian Gulf crisis and U S arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Washington signals possible further military aid while Israel prioritizes stronger air defenses.
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Jerusalem
Israel
United States
U.S
Saudi Arabia
Gandhi Leads in Poll for India's Prime Minister Job
In New Delhi the latest opinion poll shows Rajiv Gandhi at 44 percent as preferred prime minister while V P Singh trails at 36 percent. Twenty percent see both men as equal. Gandhi leads the field among 10,239 registered voters surveyed by Marketing and Research Group.
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India
V.P. Singh
Rajiv Gandhi
Singh
Gandhi
Marketing and Research Group
Army seals Mohawk barricade at Oka ending seven week standoff
Canadian forces moved into the Kanesatake Mohawk territory near Oka without firing a shot trapping 30 militants in the woods. Lt. Col. Pierre Daigle confirmed takeover of the main barricade as police and Mohawk factions watched quietly. No casualties were reported.
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Oka
Quebec
Kanesatake
Pierre Daigle
Montreal
Ellen Gabriel
Robert Bourassa
Daigle
Kahnawake
Mercier Bridge
Four suspects remain in Florida college slayings mystery
Police narrowed the prime suspects to four in the knife slayings of five students in Gainesville. Officers searched the area near the suspect’s apartment and reviewed trash for clues while noting messages at crime scenes hinting at importance.
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Gainesville
Fla
Edward Lewis Humphrey
University of Florida
Humphrey
Robert McDowell
Ohio
Warren Virgil Tinch
Alachua County
Sadie Darnell
Cambodian government vows to keep status quo stance
Cambodian President Heng Samrin, in a state radio speech, said his Vietnamese-installed government intends to maintain the political and military status quo while viewing the U.N. peace plan as a basic document for future talks. He mentioned verification of agreements and elections as parts of the plan.
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Thailand
Cambodia
U.N
U.S
Richard Solomon
Vietnam
United States
Heng Samrin
State Radio
Indonesia
Police cancel Klan march but allow Capitol rally
Police canceled a planned Ku Klux Klan march through downtown Washington amid counterprotests but allowed about 40 Klan members in robes to hold a brief rally on the Capitol grounds. One arrest for inciting to riot reported. several injuries among counterdemonstrators.
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U.S. Capitol
District of Columbia
Isaac Fulwood
All Peoples’ Congress
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Youth and Students Against Racism
U.S. Park
Capitol
Dan Nichols
Matthew
Pringle
Fulwood
D.C
European gas prices surge after Kuwait invasion
American drivers face steep costs at the pump as European gasoline prices soar to around four dollars a gallon. Italy and Sweden top the list with about 4.92 and 4.85 per gallon respectively, while England and Greece sit lower. Crude oil prices have climbed to the mid twenty dollar range, feeding the rise.
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Los Angeles Times
Italy
Sweden
France
Kuwait
Rome
Europe
Associated Press
Denmark
Netherlands
England
Greece
Spain
West Germany
NASA sets Thursday as launch date for shuttle Columbia
NASA corrected communications problems with the X-ray telescope aboard the space shuttle Columbia clearing the way for a third launch attempt on Thursday. The 12:20 a.m. CDT lift off follows a two month halt and a long gap since April when Discovery carried the flawed Hubble Space Telescope.
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Fla
NASA
Columbia
Astro Observatory
Discovery
Thursy
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