Quake Roils Northern Italy Triggering Panicked Exodus
An earthquake shook Northern Italy from Genoa to Venice, collapsing chimneys and damaging art in Florence and Venice. One death reported in Guastalla, others injured as residents fled Parma and surrounding towns. Observatories cite epicenter north of Bologna with Mercalli intensity about four.
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Parma
Italy
Florence
Venice
Bologna Observatory
Bologna
Po Valley
Hunger strike in Moscow halts as 44 Jews detained
Public hunger strike by 44 Soviet Jews in Moscow ends when police break up demonstrations. About 30 detained in custody for alleged forcible return to Soviet Georgia. Some freed after warnings of punishment, while others loaded onto buses for possible expulsion. One Georgian Jew held over travel papers, and a 45-year-old Ukrainian woman detained for possible psychiatric treatment.
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Moscow
UPS
Pallee
Derwish
Israel
Georgia
Nona Yanovskaya
Ukraine
Midwest High Winds Toll in Missouri Trailer Courts
High winds lashed the Desloge area near St. Louis injuring 23 and killing three, two of them children. Seventy trailers were damaged or demolished as storms toppled foundations and hurled units up to 150 feet. A tornado near St Paul Minnesota caused no reported damage or injuries. National Weather Service said violent weather subsided though thunderstorms persisted across the region.
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Midwest
Hye
Desloge
St. Louis
S. Paul
Mins
National Weather Service
Missouri
Timpis
Kentucky
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