Taiwan Typhoon Vera Kills at Least 25 in Keelung
Typhoon Vera battered northern Taiwan with 133 mph winds, killing at least 25 people and crippling Keelung port facilities. Rescue crews pull rubble as cranes topple and shipping viability shrinks while a new typhoon Wanda forms south of Tokyo.
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Famed banker murdered by goddaughter in West Germany
Police hunt three suspects after Juergen Ponto, Dresdner Bank chairman, was shot in his Oberursel villa. Susanne Albrecht, 26, godchild of the banker, along with a woman and a man, entered with roses, spoke through an intercom, and opened fire with two .45 pistols during a library visit. Federal officials say a kidnapping attempt preceded the fatal shooting. Police recovered two cars used in the getaway and labeled Albrecht a longtime participant in the terrorist scene.
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Juergen Ponto
Dresdner Bank
West Germany
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Miss Albrecht
Ponto
Oberursel
Taunus Mountains
Frankfurt
Kurt Rebmann
Federal Police Today
Rebmann
Hamburg
Teamster funds pay for defense of ex-officials
The Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund spent 500 956 dollars on legal fees for Allen Dorfman, former pension fund consultant, and two trustees Albert Matheson and Jack Sheetz. Dorfman was previously convicted of a kickback related to a fund loan, while all four defendants were acquitted of conspiring to defraud the fund of 1.4 million dollars.
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UPI
Teamsters Union Central States Pension Fund
Chicago Sun-Times
U.S. Labor Department
Allen Dorfman
Albert Matheson
Detroit
Jack Sheetz
Dorfman
Matheson
Sheetz
Japanese fishermen insist Nessie-like carcass is real monster
Thirteen crewmembers on the Zuiyo Maru claim the two ton ocean catch near New Zealand was a prehistoric creature not a shark or whale. They describe four leg like flippers and classify the find as a plesiosaurus, linking it to Loch Ness theories while scientists remain divided on its nature.
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UPI
New Zealand
Akira Tanaka
Tanaka
Yomiuri
Japan
United States
Scotland
Tokio Shikama
Yokohama National University
Suspected snuff gang links probed in Las Vegas raid
Police raided 11 Hessians motorcycle club residences and seized shotguns rifles handguns narcotics and a cache of weapons. About 27 people were arrested including seven women as investigators probe ties to alleged snuff pornography killings in Southern California deserts. Las Vegas leader Donald Oliver Wood 39 held on kidnapping charges. others face second degree kidnapping mayhem and stolen property counts with drug charges. Mayhem alleged torture in escape attempt cited.
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Las Vegas
UPI
Hessians
California
Donald Oliver Wood
Clark County
Hydrilla weed threatens California irrigation system
A growing aquatic hydrilla weed has appeared in Marysville Lake Ellis and in the All American Canal in Imperial Valley, risking clogging irrigation water for California crops. State officials warn it could spread statewide, jeopardizing the $153 million northern rice crop and major lettuce production. A $2.75 million plan funds lake drainage and dredging, with half federal and half state funding plus local contributions.
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API
California
George Farnham
State Food and Agriculture Department
Lake Ellis
Marysville
Imperial Valley
Farnham
Imperial County
Claude Finnell
Ellis
Food and Agriculture Department
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