Haitians Escape Detained At Krome Camp
About 50 Haitians fled through a barbed-wire fence into the Everglades from the Krome North camp near Miami after a stone throwing protest over detention conditions. By midafternoon all but five had been recaptured.
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Miami
Here
Everglades National Park
Krome North
South Florida
Vern Jarvis
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Washington
United States
Haiti
Bahamas
Immigration Agency
Jarvis
Krome
Bob Graham
Florida
Board of the Valley Industrial Park
Glasgow
Montana
Car Bomb Kills 20 in Damascus Front of Air Force HQ
Western diplomats report a booby-trapped car explosion in front of Syria's air force command in Damascus killed at least 20 people and wounded 50. A driver died trying to flee after guards opened fire. no official Syrian comment. The blast damaged the air force building and nearby hospital, with area cordoned off until night.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Air Force Command
Damascus
Socialist Baath Party
Hafez Assad
Brotherhood
Air Force
al-Sharq Hospital
Voice of Free Lebanon Radio
Sheraton
SANA
Amputee shoots doctor at Manhattan Veterans Hospital
James Rock 55, confined to a wheelchair after leg amputations, shot and killed Dr. Jacob Brickman at Veterans Hospital in Manhattan. Rock was arrested at the exit soon after the shooting. Brickman, 10-year veteran and NYU lecturer, died at the scene.
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New York
UPI
Veterans Hospital
Manhattan
James Rock
Jacob Brickman
Upstate
New York University
Edward Lorenze
Brickman
Rock
Lorenze
Duke faculty split over Nixon library on campus
Duke University's Academic Council voted 35 to 34 to urge trustees not to build a Richard Nixon presidential library on campus. A separate motion to approve the library with faculty consultation was defeated 36 to 34 amid lengthy debate and campus divisions.
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Durham
N.C
Duke University
Richard Nixon
Sanford
Egypt rounds up hundreds of opposition figures in pre-dawn crackdown
Egyptian security forces arrested 553 religious leaders journalists and lawyers in a massive crackdown on Sadat opponents. Al Ahram reported six religious papers suspended while other counts reached 683. Authorities linked arrests to sectarian clashes between Muslims and Copts as Sadat prepared to address Parliament.
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Cairo
Egypt
UPI
Anwar Sadat
al Ahram
Sadat
Baltic Seaport Birth of Union Amid Mass Strikes
A Baltic port city marks the one year anniversary since mass strikes sparked the union's beginnings. Workers organized protests and solidarity actions that drew national attention to labor rights and collective bargaining.
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Baltic Seaport
Iran Bandar Abbas Hit By 5.0 Earthquake
An AP report from Nicosia notes a 5.0 magnitude quake struck Bandar Abbas port region in Iran at 8 37 p m local time with no immediate word on casualties or damage. The piece recalls a prior Kerman quake with over 1000 dead and 1500 injured.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Iran
Bandar Abbas
Tehran
Pars
Tehran University Geophysics Institute
Kerman
Kania Warns Solidarity Not To Be Pushed To Brink
Poland's Communist Party leader Stanislaw Kania declares the party will not be pushed to the brink and will use any means to preserve socialism. The warning follows a Central Committee session on the economy and self management and precedes Solidarity's first national convention in Gdansk.
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Warsaw
Poland
UPI
Communist Party
Stanislaw Kania
Solidarity Labor Union
Kania
Solidarity
Gdansk
Students Learn by Mail in Prairie City District
In Grant County remote Blue Mountain area 25 pupils from Granite and Bates will study via Calvert Correspondence School of Baltimore after local taxpayers refuse funding for bus service. Superintendent Paul Butcher notes students will receive lessons by correspondence.
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Prairie City, Orc
UPI
Blue Mountain
Grant County
Paul Butcher
Prairie City
Granite
Bates
Calvert Correspondence School
Baltimore
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Third Avenue
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