Puerto Rico strike turns violent over Telefono sale
Protesters bombed a bank branch, severed and burned telecom cables as a strike against the 1.9 billion sale of Puerto Rico Telephone Co. to a GTE led consortium escalated. A bomb injured a policeman in Santa Isabel while outages and sabotage spread across 1.3 million customers.
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Puerto Rico
Santa Isabel
Banco Popular
Puerto Rico Telephone Co
Los Macheteros
Telefonica
Ponce
Cayey
Mayaguez
General Workers’ Council
Awilda Rivera
Council
El Salvador guard says higher ups ordered killings
Daniel Canales one of five former El Salvador National Guardsmen imprisoned for rapes and murders of four American church workers claims the 1980 attack was ordered by higher ups. He said parole was granted for him and two others and again professed innocence. He refused to name who gave the order. Other guardsmen have offered similar accusations without naming individuals.
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Quezaltepeque
EL Salvador
Daniel Canales
Associated Press
Canales
Remains swap with Lebanese prisoners in Lebanon war
Israel delivered the mangled remains of Sgt Itamar Ilya in exchange for 40 Lebanese guerrillas and 60 prisoners as part of a grim bargain. Two Israeli soldiers died and four were wounded by a roadside blast as fighting continued in southern Lebanon. Prime Minister Netanyahu called the effort a duty to recover missing soldiers while public pressure grew to end Israel’s Lebanon mission.
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Itamar Ilya
Lebanon
Israel
Tel Aviv
International Committee of the Red Cross
Ilya
Jerusalem
Benjamin Netanyahu
Beirut
Ezer Weizman
BBC film of death praised for sensitivity and dignity
Reviewers hail BBC series The Human Body episode showing Herbert Mowes dying of stomach cancer as immensely powerful and moving. Critics note the final minutes are hard to watch, while others defend the program’s sensitivity. Mowes and his wife, Hannelore, spoke of the film helping viewers see a humane end of life.
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London
Britain
Herbert Mowes
Mowes
Matthew Bond
Daily Telegraph
Bond
Robert Robinson
The
Evening Standard
Peter Waymark
Times
Waymark
Associated Press
Thomas Sutcliffe
Independent
BBC
Hannelore
Frankfurt
Galway
Ireland
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Pedro Toledo
U.S. Commonwealth
AP Propo
Washington Post
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3St St
Lawrence
Kansas City
City Hall
Kke
Journal-World
All My Children
General Hospital
Guiding Light
One Life To Live
Santa Barbara
Young and Restless
Ljworth.com
Lawrence Area
Journal-Worth
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