Tuna talks lead ambassador to plant one on cameraman
Former actor John Gavin the U.S. ambassador to Mexico confronted NBC San Diego cameraman David Smith at the Kona Kai Club in Shelter Island during tuna industry talks. Gavin said he felt ill from food poisoning and lights blinded him as he shoved the camera man and battered his lens with a briefcase.
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Dutch heart transplant recipient haunts first wife visit
In Houston a critically ill Dutch patient who survived 54 hours with a plastic heart during bypass surgery recovery saw his wife Willibrod A. Meuffels during a 20 minute ICU visit. He recognized her voice but cannot speak due to a windpipe tube. The reunion followed the Thursday operation by Texas Heart Institute chief Dr Denton Cooley that used an artificial heart before a human donor heart was implanted.
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Earthquake rocks eastern Iran near Afghanistan border
A major earthquake registering 7.3 on the Richter scale struck eastern Iran near the Afghanistan border, per the U S Geological Survey. The quake hit the same area as a 7.7 event in 1978 that killed about 15 000 people, though no injuries or damage were immediately reported.
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