Hostages freed from consulate in Puerto Rico standoff
A man and a woman released two Chilean consulate hostages in San Juan and surrendered to authorities. The FBI said four captors had held Chilean Consul Ramon Gonzalez Ruiz and another employee since Monday demanding Puerto Rican nationalist prisoners be freed and July 4 celebrations canceled. The group later softened demands and sought government statements.Authorities isolated the consulate area as investigations continued.
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San Juan
United States
FBI
U.S
Julio Viera
Ramon Gonzalez Ruiz
White House
Associated Press
Puerto Rico
Salvador Allende
Gordon McGinley
U.S. State Department
Washington
Carter
Cuba
Lolita Lebron
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Irvin Flores
House of Representatives
Oscar Collazo
Truman
Beirut clashes end 18 hour truce with deadly shelling
Artillery shells hammered Beirut's Christian east as an 18 hour ceasefire collapsed. Police tallies show 132 Lebanese killed and 517 wounded with roughly $10 million in property damage. Syria and Lebanon discussed conditions for peace while Syrian troops pressed to disarm Christian militias. Canadian ambassador residence was briefly struck but no one injured.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Ap-Nyt
Arab League
Hafez Assad
Farid Naja
Phalange
National Liberal Party
Martys Square
Damascus
Andre Couvrette
Canadian protest over alleged kidnapping in Algeria
Canadian ambassador Pierre Charventier filed a formal protest to Algerian authorities after Dalila Maschino, 26, allegedly was drugged and flown from Montreal to Algeria to wed a non Muslim Algerian man. Algerian officials denied involvement and noted no public comment on the case.
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Algiers
Pierre Charventier
Canada
Dalila Maschino
Algeria
Montreal
Vna
Denis Maschino
France
Charventier
Abdelabiz Bouteflika
Don Jamieson
Charpentier
Trudeau
Dalila
Maschine
Paris
Messaoud Zeghar
Houari Boumedienne
el Bulma
Glass workers to vote on strike call decision
Redcliff glass plant workers will vote Friday on walking off the job after a government supervised strike vote is scheduled. Three special meetings Wednesday at the public library discuss the union’s position with Dominion Glass workers.
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Redcliff Glass
Roy Hoffman
United Glass and Ceramic Workers Union
Dominion Glass
Hoffman
Lewis Toole
Glass Workers Union
Dick Campion
Douglas
Medicine Hat
Toole
Suitcase smuggling leads to man charged
Noel Golding, 31, of Mount Kisco New York, arraigned on criminally negligent homicide for the death of his brother in law Audrey Gibson who suffocated inside a suitcase while being smuggled into the United States from Kingston Jamaica. Bail set at 5000 dollars. Passport ordered surrendered. Hearing scheduled.
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New York
Mount Kisco
N.Y
United States
Noel Golding
Max Gallant
Golding
Audrey Gibson
Kingston
Jamaica
Gibson
Kennedy Airport
Dog kills dog while injuring woman in high rise fall
An elderly woman in Johannesburg is in serious condition after a dog was thrown from a 13 storey apartment window. The toy cameraman owners said vandals tossed the dog after it strayed. the animal died. The woman remains unnamed.
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Johannesburg
Reuter
Court strikes out death penalty with Ohio ruling
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 1 against Ohio capital laws, halving the death-row population and prompting questions on individualized mitigating factors, jury participation, and applicability to minors. The decision casts doubt on Arizona’s death-penalty laws and returns an Ohio case for further review.
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Washington
United States
Supreme Court
Ohio
U.S
Jack Boger
Legal Defence Fund
Arizona
Arizona Supreme Court
Azerbaidzhani interior minister killed in office shooting
Lt Gen Arif Geidarov the Azerbaidzhani interior minister and two aides were shot dead in his Baku office by a prison official named Muratov 29. The killer also died by suicide in the attack last Thursday. A commission was formed to investigate with burial held in Baku.
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Moscow
Azerbaidzhan
Caucasus
Interior Ministry
Arif Geidarov
Geidarov
Baku
Caspian Sea
Muratov
Shusha
U.S.S.R
Interior Ministries
Saladin Kyazimov
Soviet Union
Aziz Safikhanov
Bakinsky Rabochy
Azerbaidzhani
KGB
Communist Party
Geidar Aliyev
Semyon Tsvigun
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Labrador
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Glenn
Lisa Anderson
Quebec City
Here
Ian Turnbull
Blanc Sablon
Quebec
St. Augustin
Elkwater
Dan Lander
Assad
Elias Sarkis
Christian Phalange
Sheila Pratt
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