Riots in South Africa Leave Dozens Dead in Cape Town Clash
Police shot two suspected looters near Cape Town as riot police clashed with colored student demonstrators on two high school rugby fields in Port Elizabeth. About 350 to 550 students were arrested while clashes spilled into nearby institutions and streets amid escalating racial rioting across the country.
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Cape Town
South Africa
UPI
Port Elizabeth
Manenberg
Gelvandale
Paterson High School
St. Thomas High School
H.J. Pearce
Paterson High
Dawid Kriel
City Hall
Colored University of the Western Cape
Federal job forms drop loyalty questions on communism
Washington reports that questions 27 28 and 29 on federal job form 171 are erased and none of the loyalty inquiries will be used. The change ends a 1953 era internal security drive targeting Communist party members and sympathizers.
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Washington
UPI
Communist Party
U.S.A
Goverment
Battle halts Beirut cross-city road plan amid fighting
Fierce clashes along the Beirut front halt a joint Christian Palestinian project to open a new road between western Moslem and eastern Christian sectors. PLO and Phalangist leaders postpone the plan as sniper fire and shelling intensify in Beirut and Tripoli. The North ends with intensified Marada shelling of Tripoli while a Sudanese peacekeeping patrol reopens the green line crossing. The note about America’s first road paving appears as an unrelated insert.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
No Man’s Land
No Sarkis
Sarkis
Ayoun Siman
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Christian Phalangist Party
Arab League
League
Marada
Tripoli
Pollution Blights Mexico City Health and Storms
Mexico City faces severe air pollution blamed for the worst rainstorm in 50 years and rising lead levels. Experts warn the capital may be unhealthy to live in, with dust from dry seasons and 1.3 million cars plus many factories sustaining pollution despite measures.
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Mexico City
UPI
Ramonio Mestre
Mexican Academy of Ecological Law
Ojeda Mestre
Valley of Mexico
New York
Los Angeles
Mario Lizaola Reyna
Agriculture Department
Weather Bureau
Tenochtitlan
Valley of
Mexico
el Nacional
Alcohol Blamed for Half of Soviet Industrial Fatalities
The monthly magazine of the Young Communist League states intoxication contributes to 55 percent of deadly industrial accidents in the Soviet Union.
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Young Communist League
Soviet Union
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