Chicago DC-10 disaster kills all 271 aboard
A DC-10 operating Flight 191 from Chicago to Los Angeles crashed after losing one engine shortly after takeoff from O'Hare. All 271 aboard perished, with investigators from NTSB and FBI beginning inquiries. Ground casualties reported and a temporary morgue set up at O'Hare.
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Chicago
American Airlines
Los Angeles
O’hare International
Rich Dusek
Richard Albrecht
Douglas Dreifus
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
NTSB
FBI
Elwood
Neal Callahan
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
Callahan
Michael Laughlin
Toronto
O'Hare
Elk Grove Township
Oasis
Charles Pepp
O’hare
American Booksellers Association
Playboy Magazine
Sheldon Wax
Judith Wax
Pacific Southwest Airlines
San Diego
Arson Suspected After Downtown Hotel Fire Evacuates 300
Police report arson suspected in a downtown Edmonton hotel fire that forced evacuation of about 300 people including 90 guests at the Sheraton Caravan and 200 in the penthouse lounge. Damage estimated at 65,000 with no injuries. A second fire nearby caused 500,000 in damage but no injuries. Det. Ernie Caskey noted linen carrier left in a second floor stairwell as the likely ignition source.
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Edmonton
Sheraton
Ernie Caskey
Caskey
Trudeau seeks MPs confidence as leadership questioned
Prime Minister Trudeau will ask Liberal MPs next week to affirm him as leader after a vote of confidence from the caucus. He plans to stay on as Opposition leader to Joe Clark's minority government, while facing questions from rank and file Liberals about the party's future and a possible leadership convention within a year.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Joe Clark
Liberal Party
Ontario
Quebec
Clark
Barney Dawson
Toronto
Keith Davey
National Liberal
Newfoundland
William Rowe
John Turner
Don MacDonald
Jim Coutts
Davey
Liberal Art Phillips Wins Vancouver Centre Seat
Liberal candidate Art Phillips defeated Conservative Pat Carney by 100 votes in Vancouver Centre after revised tallies gave Phillips 15 437 to Carney 15 337. New Democrat Ron Johnson had 13 347 as Clark’s minority government shrinks to 135 Conservative seats.
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Vancouver
Joe Clark
Vancouver Centre
Art Phillips
Pat Carney
Margaret Young
Phillips
Carney
Ron Johnson
Manitoba
NRC Blocks Discharge of Radioactive Water at Three Mile Island
The NRC forbids releasing highly radioactive wastewater from Three Mile Island into the Susquehanna River until an environmental assessment is completed and alternatives studied. About 450,000 gallons flood a containment building and 200,000 more gallons remain in plumbing and tanks. Legal challenges from Lancaster and Susquehanna Valley Alliance await judicial review as the study timeline is set.
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Harrisburg
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
Three Mile Island
Susquehanna River
Lancaster
Susquehanna Valley
Iranian cleric Rafsanjani shot by underground group
Gunmen from a mysterious faction said to oppose Iran s ruling clergy fired at Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran injuring him and wounding his wife. He underwent surgery as the group Forghan claimed responsibility amid a wave of anti government violence.
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Tehran
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
Ferghan
Ayatullah Hashemi
Rafsanjani
Iran
Khomeini
Secret
Forghan
Islamic Revolutionary Movement
Mohammad Ali Gharani
Ayatullah Moreza Motahari
Revolutionary Council
Mehdi Bazargan
United States
Soviet Union
China
UN to Hold Conference on Oil Reserves in Edmonton
A United Nations conference on heavy crude oil and oil sands will take place in Edmonton from June 4 to 10. The UN Institute for Training and Research will host experts to discuss extracting heavy oil with Venezuela's Orinoco belt estimated at 4.2 trillion barrels and Alberta at two trillion, versus about 600 billion barrels of conventional global reserves.
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John Ward
United Nations
Edmonton
United Nations Institute For Training and Research
Joseph Bernae
Institute
Venezuela
Orinoco
Bernae
Alberta
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Ms. Young
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U.S. Senate
Revolutionary Courts
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Shah
Bahamas
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