Freedom One Touches Down at Newburgh NY Welcome Home
An emotional return as Freedom One lands with 52 Americans. Families and crowds cheer from hillsides and the airport, tears and laughter mix as Marines exit the plane and reunions begin. Security keeps onlookers behind barriers while others wave and celebrate.
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Commonwealth Microfilm Library
Meers
Freedom One
Newburgh
N.Y
Hudson Valley
Col
Donald Bernstein
Four ex Labor ministers form social democracy group in Britain
Four right wing former Labor cabinet ministers David Owen Shirley Williams William Rodgers and Roy Jenkins will set up a social democratic pressure group after a leftist victory at a Labour conference. They did not quit the party but warned of a possible split as they call for a realignment of British politics. The conference curtailed MP leadership election power in favor of unions and activists, fueling cross party tension amid Britain’s polarized politics since 1979.
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London
Reuter
Labor
Britain
Labor Party
David Owen
Shirley Williams
William Rodgers
Roy Jenkins
Margaret Thatcher
Owen
Williams
Rodgers
Michael Foot
China hails Mao widow Jiang Qing in death sentence
The People's Republic praised the verdicts against Jiang Qing and nine co defendants in the cultural revolution trials with Jiang and Zhang Chunqiao receiving suspended death sentences and others given prison terms from 16 years to life. The court offered potential reprieve if they repent during two years of confinement.
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Peking
China
Communist Party Today
Mao Tsetung
Yangtze
Communist Party
People’s Daily
Mao
Jiang Qing
Zhang Chunqiao
Jiang
Zhang
Deng Xiaoping
Poland warned over unrest after three day strike wave
Poland cautioned by diplomats as strikes by millions for a five day week test national unity and image abroad. Deputy Foreign Minister Marian Dobrosielski called on TV for restoring confidence while Solidarity and the government ready to resume talks on work free Saturdays and other issues.
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Warsaw
Reuter
Marian Dobrosielski
Poland
Solidarity
Aerial Prison Break Fails At Manhattan Federal Center
In a dramatic Sunday escape bid, a helicopter hijacked by a man and two women tried to land on the roof cage of the Metropolitan Correction Center in Foley Square. The plan unraveled as prisoners held a guard hostage before surrendering around 1 p.m. EST.
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New York
Manhattan
Federal
Metropolitan Correction Centre
Foley Square
City Hall
Dale Thomas
Robert Wyler
FBI
Wyler
Sanchez
Island Helicopters Corp
New Jersey
Teterboro
Thomas Nietsche
Hudson River
Island of
Anthony Amanzio
Island Helicopters
Federal Detention Centre
Amanzio
West Side
Michigan
Mexico City
Dublin
Ireland
Marion
Chicago
Radioactive gold rings spark health alert in New York
New York health officials warn doctors and jewelers after three contaminated 24 karat gold rings were found amid 1 200 pieces checked at a Buffalo station. Radiologists warn radon gas in seeds used for cancer treatment can remain active for a century.
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Albany, N.Y
New York State
Buffalo
Hamburg
Wkbw-Tv
William O’brien
State Health Department
Buffalo Bureau of Radiological Control
New York
New York City
Pennsylvania
O’brien
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Centre For Cancer Research
Roswell Park Institute
Sweden faces seabird die off from oil spill and shots
Sweden endured its worst seabird disaster as thousands of Guillemots Razorbills kittiwakes and auklets washed ashore with oil. Coast guard and locals shot an estimated 30 000 birds in Sweden and up to 100 000 died overall from oil or gunfire.
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Stockholm
Reuter
Sweden
Goteborg
Coast Guard
Tor Schoett
The
Norway
Magnar Norderhaug
Sven Mathiasson
Institute For Oil and Water Protection Research
Olle Linden
Institute
Marine Sciences Unit
Linden
Rainer Lichtenthaler
Industrial Research Institute
North Atlantic
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Gerald Naves
U.S
Frank Tarbell
Metropolitan Airport Authority
British Labor Party
Medicine Hat News
Dunmore Road
S.E
First Street
Fred Welz
Frank Webber
Health Department
Frances Tarlton
Tarlton
Karim Rimawi
Denise Wood
Sloan-Kettering
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