Californians Face Flood Cleanup After Dam Breach
Rainy conditions isolate dozens in the High Sierra as an earthen World War I era dam burst near North Lake 25 miles west of Bishop. Eight homes damaged in Big Pine Creek. Governor Brown declares Inyo County state of emergency.
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California
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North Lake
Bishop Creek
Big Pine Creek
Jerry Brown
Inyo County
Big Pine Indian Reservation
Dixon
Aspendell
Los Angeles
Dave Walker
Congressman Arrested Amid Warren County PCB Protests
About 120 people including the District of Columbia delegate Walter Fauntroy were arrested at the Warren County landfill protest against PCB tainted soil. Fauntroy blocked a dump truck entry and was carried to a prison bus. four buses carried detainees to Warren County Jail charged with impeding traffic and resisting arrest.
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Warren County
Walter Fauntroy
Hunger strike reports raise alarm over Shcharansky health
Ida Milgrom says Anatoly Shcharansky has begun a hunger strike to protest isolation, warning of possible death. U S officials express concern over his health as authorities face alleged rights abuses in the Soviet case.
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UPI
Anatoly Shcharansky
Ida Milgrom
Washington
State Department
Alan Romberg
United States
Shcharansky
Shultz Keeps Sanctions Off Soviet Pipeline Talk
State Department spokesman John Hughes said Secretary of State George Shultz did not discuss U S sanctions against the Soviet gas pipeline during a three hour dinner with French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. He cited clear U S France disagreements on the issue.
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George Shultz
U.S
State Department
John Hughes
Shultz
Claude Cheysson
United States
France
Hughes
West German opposition moves to oust Schmidt despite setback
Conservative leaders, led by Helmut Kohl, plan a no confidence vote to topple Chancellor Helmut Schmidt despite a regional defeat in Hesse. The move hinges on securing a Bundestag majority and may delay national elections, with CDU/CSU backing conditional on FDP support.
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West Germany
Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Kohl
Christian Democrat
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Kohl
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Karl Carstens
Christian Democrats
Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Hesse
Greens
Franz-Josef Strauss
Christian Social Union
Munich
Free Democrat
Bloomingdale mistress details spark high profile suit
Vicki Morgan, Bloomingdale's former mistress, testifies in a multimillion-dollar suit that the late Bloomingdale bound and degraded her, sat on her back, and drooled as she crawled. She recalls his Jekyll and Hyde persona and a Marquis de Sade complex, while a lawyer calls the promises of support an illegal contract for prostitution.
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LOS Angeles
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Alfred
Morgan
Jekyll and Hyde
Betsy
Chodos
Hollywood
Schwabb
Sunset Plaza
Hollywood Hills
Kaye
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