Deluged Louisiana braces for weekend rain and floods
Southern Louisiana endures days of historic rainfall with at least three fatalities and 2000 displaced. National Guards assist evacuations as floods, a tornado, and widespread outages devastate towns from Crowley to New Roads. Mississippi reports multiple deaths and property damage from storms.
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Lake Charles
Enterprise
Miss
Crowley
Glen DeVille
Louisiana
Vermilion Parish
New Roads
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Federated Co-operative Warehouse In Madison County
Biloxi
Canada blasts U S on acid rain studies linked to coal conversion
Canada rebukes the Carter administration for not studying environmental effects of a $10 billion coal conversion plan. Ambassador Peter Towe says lack of emissions safeguards and cross border impacts merit urgent action and notes Eastern Canada acid rain has risen.
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Canada
Donsellar Southam News
Washington
Peter Towe
U.S
New England
Subcommittee
Robert Eckhardt
Texas
Bomb blast kills one in London hotel room
One Iranian man was killed and another severely injured when a bomb they were assembling in a Bayswater hotel room exploded. A third man assists police as anti-terrorist units search the scene amid no immediate link to the recent Iranian Embassy siege in London.
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London
Bayswater
Scotland Yard
St. Mary’s Hospital
Cmdr
Peter Duffy
Khuzestan
Iran
Iran says two more groups move American captives abroad
Iran militants report sending two more groups of the 50 U.S. embassy captives to Ghazvin and Zanjan as part of a broader plan to thwart a possible U.S. rescue. The move marks the 16th and 17th cities used since the failed rescue attempt on April 25, with locals urged to monitor the Americans until a court can be set up.
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Tehran
United States
U.S
Ghazvin
Zanjan
Cabinet to discuss new postal deal in Canada
Ottawa cabinet meets to decide if it accepts a conciliator's pro union package for postal workers to avert a national strike. Postmaster General Ouellet will meet union leader Parrot as talks continue and a strike mandate could be sought if no agreement.
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Juliet O'Neill
Ottawa
Federal Cabinet
Andre Ouellet
Jean- Claude Parrot
Parrot
Union of Postal Workers
Ouellet
Jutras
Pierre Mercier
Conciliation Board
Chretien condemns Levesque for dividing Quebec voters
Justice Minister Jean Chretien says Rene Levesque would be irresponsible and anti democratic to blame English Quebecers if sovereignty association fails in the Tuesday referendum. He argues the vote should be secret for all, and credits the PQ for prompting loyalty checks toward a united Canada.
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Ottawa
Jean Chretien
Quebec
Rene Levesque
Forces For Sovereignty-Association
Chretien
Parti Quebecois
Confederation
Martial law declared in South Korea after student riots
South Korea imposed full martial law as protests for democratic reforms intensified. Police raided a Seoul women's university, arresting 18 student leaders and seizing control as 2,000 to 3,000 officers surrounded campuses. The government suspended civilian authority while promising a constitutional revision and elections next year.
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Seoul
South Korea
Lee Kyoo-hyun
Seoul University
Women's University
Park
Choi Kyu-hah
Choi
Bogle backs off on day care subsidies plan
Alberta social services will continue with plans to add minister day care subsidies after Bogle backs off the bill.
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Bogle
Edmonton
Alberta
Social Services
Susan Donnelly
Grant MacEwan Community College
Donnelly
Refugee Boatlift Surges as Cuban Ties Provoke Protests
Cuban authorities accelerate loading of refugees in Mariel Harbor amid U S pressure to end the boatlift linking the flux to Fidel Castro’s regime and prompting a mass anti American rally. Coast Guard searches for distressed vessels as Planeloads head to Indiantown Gap Pa and Fort Chaffee Ark.
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Key West
Fla
Carter
Freedom Flotilla
William Traugh
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Mariel Harbor
Curtis Beasley
U.S. Coast Guard
Florida Straits
Coast Guard
Bob Britt
Miami
Indiantown Gap
Fort Chaffee
Ark
U.S
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
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Quellet
Germain Jutras
Levesque
Reuter-Ap
Bill Sass
White House
Bob Bogle
Bob Clark
Clark
Maniee
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