Big Sur Fires Merge To Form California Blazes
Two large wildfires in the Big Sur Ventana Wilderness area merge to create the state’s worst blaze among 400 fires sparked by lightning. The merged fire spans about 30,000 acres on both sides of the resort and prompted National Guard mobilization for supplies and manpower.
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Big Sur
Worst of
California
United Press International
National Guard
Ventana
Los Padres National Forest
Kathy Ross
U.S. Forest Service
Susanville
Lassen County
Department of Forestry
$1.1 Million Stolen From Club Mediterranee in Italy Heist
Four armed men robbed the Club Mediterranee resort in Nicotera Marina taking $1.1 million in cash and jewels and hundreds of passports. Two attackers wore police uniforms to gain entry. getaway car used a civilian accomplice. Police linked the plot to a similar Corfu theft and possible identity‑fraud ring.
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Nicotera Marina
Italy
UPI
Mediterranee
Corfu
Greece
Imi
Oe Na
Sore Auoen
Calabria
Michel Mons
Club Mediterranee
Distasteful eviction at the International Hotel shocks San Francisco
Sheriff Hongisto calls the International Hotel eviction the worst job of his career as thousands witnessed the raid to clear 45 elderly tenants after a nine year court fight. Police and deputies entered with sledgehammers amid protests, injuries, and crowded lobbies.
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San Francisco
UPI
Richard Hongisto
International Hotel
Hongisto
California Supreme Court
Chinatown
Four Seas Investment Co
Bangkok
Alaskan Oil Begins Long Pipeline Run to Lower 48
The ARCO Juneau nears Washington as Alaska North Slope oil marks a $9 billion, nine year effort. The tanker carries 840000 barrels to a refinery near Bellingham after a 46 day voyage from Prudhoe Bay, with 25 to 30 years of expected North Slope production. Gasoline products to Washington Oregon and northern California expected within days.
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Arco Juneau
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Vancouver Island
United States
Valdez
Alaska
Prudhoe Bay
Juneau
North Slope
Fielding Farmway
Atlantic Richfield
Washington
Oregon
California
Soviet scientists thaw baby mammoth found in Siberia
Tass reports the mammoth, about a yard long, was preserved with minutest details of head trunk and skin. A commission will study its cells proteins and blood for at least six months and share findings with foreign scientists. The discovery was made by a gold prospector in Siberia.
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Leningrad
U.S.S
UPI
Siberia
Tass
Nikolai Vereschagin
Vance seeks Middle East peace framework in Jordan talks
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrives in Amman aiming to advance a Geneva peace conference framework. He meets King Hussein amid Syria's warning that a confrontation ministers plan may require Palestinian representation for any progress. Vance keeps door open to Damascus talks and a possible brief return visit.
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Amman
Jordan
UPI
Cyrus Vance
Damascus
Middle East
Syria
Hussein
Vance
Geneva
Hafez Assad
United States
Assad
West Bank
Israel
Egypt
Lebanon
PLO
Black doctors back sterilization as birth control
The National Medical Association House of Delegates in Los Angeles endorsed sterilization as a birth control method and proposed a 72 hour waiting period. Dr Ezra Davidson of Martin Luther King Hospital criticized 30 day rules as excessive and noted risks to patient autonomy and care.
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Los Angeles
UPI
House of Delegates
National Medical Association
Ezra Davidson
Association
Davidson
Martin Luther King Hospital
New York
Spaniard push to bring Picasso Guernica home from U S
Basque senator Justino Azcarate plans a parliamentary motion to urge Spain to begin formal talks with the United States on returning Picasso’s Guernica from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The painting honors Spanish youth and is conditioned on Spain’s democracy returning.
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Madrid
Spain
UPI
United States
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
New York
Museum of Modern Art
Francisco Franco
Picasso
Justino Azcarate
Cortes
Parliament
Senate
Azcarate
Pio Cabanillas
Cabanillas
U.S
Wells Stabler
Paris
Franco Rein
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Fairbanks. Alaska
Larry D. Wertz
Donald E. Drum
William J. Freeman
Wertz
Drum
Vogler
SF Hotel
Mercury
Nev
Russia
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Energy Research and Development Administration
Japan
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Wash
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Rosario Strait
Bellingham
Gulf of Alaska
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Palestine Liberational Organization
New York State
Daniel Amos
Vandenberg Afb
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Mastro’s
I” Street
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