Fraternity House Fire Kills Five at Baker University
A fire at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house on Baker University campus in Baldwin Kansas killed five students and sent about two dozen others fleeing. The blaze began around 4 a.m. and burned for six hours before being brought under control by local firefighters.
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Lebanon Faces New Front as Beiruts Mountains Burn
Beirut battles intensify with artillery exchanges along the mountain front east of the city. Palestinian leader Salah Khalaf calls for mutual pullback involving Palestinians Syrians Lebanese rightists and leftists amid a faltering Arab League plan.
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Ousted bishop defies pope in Lille service
Marcel Lefebvre, suspended by Pope Paul VI, celebrated a Latin mass for 7000 French traditionalists in Lille, calling the church’s modern shift adulterous. He warned of possible excommunication as he denounced Vatican II as a betrayal of 2000 years of Catholicism.
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Italy
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Lefebvre
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Tulle
France
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Prague rock trial tests nonconformist culture
Amnesty International sent an Austrian lawyer to Prague to observe the trial of 14 defendants linked to the Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307 on charges of organizing public disturbance and nuisance. They have been in custody since March as the trial opens. Dozens report a missing amnesia case in Milwaukee with a woman claiming Kay Johnson as a maiden name, mother of four, possibly arriving from Alaska via Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Oshkosh with prior bus travel. Authorities have yet to confirm her identity.
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Frontier Gandhi released after 16 months in Pakistani jail
Ghaffar Khan known as the frontier Gandhi and opponent of Bhutto’s government was freed in Karachi on the eve of Ramadan after 16 months in detention. Officials cited prolonged illness and Bhutto’s orders. He is father to Khan Abdul Wali Khan, leader of the National Awami Party.
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Peshawar
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India
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Jawaharal Nehru
Subcontinent
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