Eight Dead As Central Texas Flood Ravages Ranches
Torrential rains from tropical storm Amelia swelled the upper Guadalupe River flooding Kerrville Ingram and surrounding ranches. Evacuations affected about 200 residents as the LBJ ranch and riverfront campsites were submerged and a bridge was washed out.
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Bandera
Texas
Guadalupe River
National Weather Service
San Antonio
Guadalupe
Kerrville
Ingram
Amelia
LBJ
Obenshain Nominee Dies In Virginia Plane Crash
Richard Obenshain 42 the Republican Senate nominee was killed in a Piper Seneca crash near Richmond along with two others. Obenshain former RNC cochair and state GOP chairman was returning from Winchester. Autopsies planned, party officials confirm identities. Flooding across Kerrville area worsened with widespread evacuations and damaged infrastructure.
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Richmond
Richard Obenshain
Woods
Chesterfield County
U.S
Jerry Litton
D-Mo
Litton
Kansas City
U.S. Senate
Obenshain
Cochairman
Republican National Committee
Winchester
Virginia
Republican
Andrew Mille
William Scott
GOP
Republican Central Committee
Weather Outlook Sees Cooling Night and Mild Friday
Partly cloudy and cooler conditions expected tonight with a low near 60. Friday should be mostly sunny and mild with a high near 80. This morning's low was 68 and yesterday's high 86, with nearly half an inch of rain fallen this morning since yesterday.
PLO Official Fatally Shot in Paris Office
Two Arab gunmen killed the PLO representative in Paris today and wounded two others before releasing hostages and surrendering to police. Izzeddin Qalaq, in Paris since 1972, died from 16 bullets. motive claimed by a group calling itself the Rejection Front of Stateless Palestinian Arabs.
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Paris
Palestine Liberation
PLO
Izzeddin Qalaq
Yasser Arafat
Israel
Agence France Presse
Arab League
Crime Alert hotline urged for crime reporting
A public safety notice emphasizes calling the police at 425 7700 to report any crime or suspicious activity, encouraging timely alerts to authorities.
Tel Aviv market bombing injures dozens in open air stalls
A bomb exploded under a T-shirt stall in a Tel Aviv open air market wounding about fifty people, with police cordoning the area and gathering shrapnel. Vita Meshulam described narrowly escaping injury as shoppers aided the wounded before ambulances arrived.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
APA
Israel Radio
Vita Meshulam
Meshulam
Too many get pacemakers report says
Boston AP report says doctors implant pacemakers in healthy or low risk patients who show signs of future heart trouble. A University of Oregon study of 257 patients with bundle branch block found only about 6 percent died of complete heart block and about 5 percent received pacemakers, urging limits and caution due to cost and surgical risks.
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Boston
University of Oregon
New England Journal of Medicine
John McAnulty
McAnulty
National Heart and Ae Institute
Oregon
Three new max security hospitals to replace Lima State
Dayton Columbus and Cleveland will replace Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Construction to meet a court order costs about 18 million dollars total with 6.7 million already allotted for Dayton. Each facility will house 75 to 150 patients and aims for completion in 1981. The Lima site may be taken over by Corrections to ease prison population.
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Columbus, Ohio
Dayton
Columbus
Cleveland
Lima State Hospital
Timothy B. Moritz
Lima
Moritz
State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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Richard Neal
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Comfort
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Serendip
Pipe Creek
Ann Landers
Lima State
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