Atlantis Returns to Hangar After Mission
Atlantis, bolted to a 747, touched down at Kennedy Space Center Florida ending a secret mission. NASA engineers assess heat shield tile damage on the right fuselage after a December blast off, with 150 to 300 tiles potentially affected. Discovery is slated for February 18 as the next shuttle in the lineup to deploy a TDRS satellite.
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Ariz
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Farrakhan unveils drug treatment plan in DC
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan unveiled a local drug treatment program at Mayfair Mansions in Northeast Washington calling the city the world capital of murder and mayhem. He urged Mayor Barry and the City Council to adopt the plan on a large scale while noting 347 homicides in DC this year and 227 last year.
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Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan
District of Columbia
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Farrakhan
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Post Office
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Barry
The
Fruit of Islam
Jesse Jackson
Myerson alimony case nears closing in New York trial
UPI reports closing arguments in the Bess Myerson alimony fixing trial. Prosecutor Abrams urges jurors to convict Myerson Capasso and Justice Gabel on five counts each of conspiracy mail fraud and use of interstate facilities. The trio faced three months of trial with defenses to present closing briefs.
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UPI
Bess Myerson
U.S
Stewart Abrams
Myerson
Carl
Andy"’ Capasso
Supreme Court
Hortense Gabel
Jay Goldberg
Capasso
Michael Feldberg
Gabel
Fred Hafetz
Abrams
Sukhreet
Robinson
Goodman
Sukhjeet Gabel
U.S. District Court
Manhattan
Murphree Marries Inmate in Civil Ceremony
Debra Murphree, linked to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart by motel liaisons, wed Samuel Travis, 32, an inmate at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center serving time for child abuse and simple escape. Travis due for release Oct 13, 1989. ceremony held in Gretna, witnesses included Jules Eddie Baumer.
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Gretna
Debra Murphree
Jimmy Swaggart
Samuel Travis
Metairie
Travis
Jules Eddie Baumer
Jefferson Parish
Swaggart
Postal workers scan holiday mail at San Diego central
Manny Martinez transfers mail from a cart to a conveyor at San Diego’s central post office. The two Mondays before Christmas deliver the heaviest load, with more than 12 million pieces processed on each day.
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Manny Martinez
San Diego
Central Post Office
Mercury contamination prompts inland lake fish warnings in Michigan
Detroit report says state health officials will urge limits on consuming sport fish from Michigan’s 10 000 inland lakes due to mercury. Testing found 46 of 67 lakes exceeding 0 5 parts per million, with a Lake Orion bass at 1 8 ppm, near federal limits for commerce. The advisory targets bass species and northerns with no commercial fishing involved.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Upper Peninsula
Lower Peninsula
Lake Orion
Oakland County
John Hesse
State Department of Public Health
Detroit Free Press
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