Acid cloud forces evacuation near Coles County derailment
About 2,100 residents fled rural Illinois after a Penn Central freight train derailed eight miles east of Charleston. A tank car spilled liquid nitric acid, creating a two mile orange cloud upwind. Eleven people sought treatment for throat and lung irritation. no severe injuries reported. Evacuation covered a 40 square mile zone, but was lifted after eight hours.
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Charleston
Ill
Illinois
Coles County
Penn Central
Here
Cease-fire gains, IRA rift dims Ireland turmoil
Cease-fire by one IRA wing follows Catholic pressure for peace in Northern Ireland. Provisional militants blamed for escalations as gunfire wounds a British trooper and a civilian in Belfast. Meanwhile Tokyo schools close due to photochemical smog from heavy auto emissions affecting 352 students.
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Irish Republican Army
IRA
Ireland
Ieaders
Provisionals
Ulster
Ardoyne
Ay Street
Shankill
Tokyo
Osaka
Japan
California
United States
Airplane Explodes Over Cruzeiro do Sul in Acre State
An air cargo Constella aircraft exploded in midair shortly after takeoff from Rio Branco in western Acre. Officials in Brasilia said there were no immediate details on crew casualties or survivors as authorities investigated the blast.
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Brasilia
Cruzeiro Do Sul
Acre State
Rio Branco
Chinese surgeons walk out over Taiwan reps at congress
Chinese doctors Chen Qing-wei and Tsien Yingching from Shanghai protested the attendance of Nationalist doctors at the Inter national College of Surgeons meeting. They demanded Taiwan representatives be expelled but were refused as the body said it has no power to remove physicians. They remained to present a paper on stitching back fingers and arms severed in accidents.
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Rome
International College of Surgeons
Chen Qing-wei
Tsien Yingching
Shanghai
Taiwan
Wild prison break spurs two state chase across highways
Four female inmates escaped a Connecticut prison farm with a knife to the matron’s neck and led police on a 120 mph throughway and 190 mph city pursuit. A driver, Karlene Nelson, 29, was hailed for her driving as officers cornered them on Manhattan's West Side after wrecks and a road barricade smash.
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New York
Connecticut
New England
John Birmingham
Upper West Side
Birmingham
Karlene Nelson
Air crash near Burke Lakefront claims three in Lake Erie
A twin engine plane carrying five Minnesota Confederate Air Force members crashed and burned on Lake Erie during approach to Burke Lakefront Airport. One confirmed dead and two presumed drowned. survivor Edward Kolar, 50, of St Paul, said the group planned a refueling stop on the way home from the Transpo ’72 show at Dulles International Airport.
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Cleveland
Minnesota
Confederate Air Force
Lake Erie
Burke Lakefront
Edward Kolar
St. Paul
Dulles International Airport
Washington
Doctor snubs medical society overcharges claim
Dr John Knowles former Massachusetts General Hospital director and soon Rockefeller Foundation head refuses to appear before the Massachusetts Medical Society to substantiate his charges that doctors overcharge and perform unnecessary surgery. Society vote on censure set for June 5 amid calls for substantiation and bylaw concerns.
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John Knowles
Massachusetts General Hospital
Rockefeller Foundation
Massachusetts Medical Society
Knowles
United States
John Birch Society
Nixon
China
James McDonough
Winchester
McDonough
American Medical Association
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Penny Pearcy
Coles County Civil Defense
Mark Busekius
Dulac
Louisiana
Petroleum Helicopters Inc
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Penrod Drilling Company
Petroleum Helicopters
West Virginia
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Buffalo Mining Co
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Snubs Medical
Miami
William Seals
Seals
Dade County
Fla
Sears
N. J. Mralak
St. Bonaventure Catholic Church
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Neb
Mizlak
Paulette
Betty
Maxine
Carel
Mralak
Polly
Carol
Texas
Buffalo
N.Y
Delaware Park
Witnsses
Solomon Fletcher
John Mosley
Mosley
Fletcher
Dulles Airport
Robert Kennedy
Escondido
Calif
Birdman
Bullock’s Lakewood
Arrow
J Lakewood
Clark Avenue
Lakewood
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