Fiery tanker split off Cape Town with oil spill threat
A Spanish supertanker with 200000 tonnes of crude caught fire and broke in two off South Africa near Cape Town. Sixty to seventy nautical miles from Cape Town, flames and a 20 mile by three mile slick followed as 33 crew were rescued and three were missing.
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Cape Town
South Africa
South Africa Press Association
Castillo de Bellvar
Michael Russell
SafMarine
Reuters
Russell
Phillip Antrobus
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Province
SAPA
Antrobus
South Africa Broadcasting Corp
McFarlane Heads to Damascus as Lebanon Bombings Kill 23
U S Middle East envoy Robert McFarlane arrived in Damascus from Beirut to urge Syria toward a pragmatic stance amid a wave of violence in Lebanon. Bombings killed 23 and wounded more than 50. attacks included a car bomb in Arbanieh, a grenade at a Beirut army checkpoint, and a blast at a Tripoli mosque triggering a general strike.
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Damascus
U.S. Middle East
Robert McFarlane
Beirut
Lebanon
McFarlane
Abdul Halim Khaddam
Hafez
Assad
Syria
Arbanieh
Tripoli
Chadian President Habre Returns Amid Ongoing Northern Fighting
AP reports Chadian President Hissene Habre returned to N'Djamena after leading loyalist troops against Li byan-backed rebels in the north. Western sources say rebels surrounded Habre’s forces and demanded surrender while columns of rebel vehicles and Soviet tanks moved toward Faya-Largeau. The State Department warned Habre’s position worsened as editors note journalists were barred from the front.
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Hissene Habre
N’djamena
Chad
Habre
Goukouni Oueddei
Faya-Largeau
Washington
State Department
John Hughes
Hughes
Reagan
Oum Chalouba
Kalat
Leaks force shutdown at Picker ing Nuclear plant
Ontario Hydro shut down the No 1 reactor at Pickering after a heat exchanger leak spilled about 4.5 litres of radioactive tritium into Lake Ontario, following a separate No 2 reactor incident. Officials say health and environmental risk is minimal while heavy water leakage continues in the vault.
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Robert Popple
Nuclear Generating Division
Toronto
Hamilton
First Canadian test tube baby in 11th week of pregnancy
A BC woman, the first Canadian conceived test tube baby, is 11 weeks pregnant and progressing well. doctors keep the couple anonymous per their privacy request. IVF involved with egg retrieval, hormone injections, and fertilization in a controlled lab setting.
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Canada
University of B.C
Victor Gomel
Gomel
Betty Poland
B.C
Poland
England
Louise Brown
Oakville
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