Fiery France highway crash kills 53 during Black Saturday
In Chalon sur Saone three buses and seven cars collided on a rain slicked highway during peak vacation travel, killing 53 people including 44 children. Witnesses say two buses raced just before the crash while chaos engulfed the vehicles and flames spread.
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Chalon-Sur-Saone
France
UPI
Occu
Paris
Riviera
Jean Louis*Camus
Aither
France Inter
Munich airport bombing injures seven at check-in station
The Munich Airport blast crippled a passenger line when a suitcase bomb exploded at a check-in area for a flight to Israel. Seven people were injured, with two policemen and an El Al security officer among the wounded. Most victims were Israelis.
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Munich
West Germany
UPI
Israel
el al
West German MPs press probes on Soviet prisoner pipeline claim
Bonn lawmakers push to verify reports by the International Society for Human Rights that 100,000 Soviet prisoners are laboring on the Siberian Western European gas line. Christian Democrats urge scrutiny of the multi million dollar project amid opposition from President Reagan. The foreign ministry could not confirm the appeal to end German involvement.
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Daily Times
Bonn
Soviet Union
Heinz Landre
International Society For Human Rights
Reagan
Landre
Ingaborg Hoffmann
Helmut Schmidt
Hunger striker seriously ill in Siberia hunger protest
Six Pentecostal Christians sheltering at the U S Embassy report their relative Lydia Yashchenko has fallen seriously ill in a hunger strike in Siberia. Doctors warned she risks heart trouble and numbness in the left side as her supporters pray she receives care.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
Siberia
Lydia Yashchenko
Lyubov Yashchenko
Miss Yashchenko
Lydia
Chernogorsk
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Catanzaro
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America
Francesco Teti
Maserato
Naples
Luigi Scotti
Filippo
Lyubov Vashchepko
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