Flood Devastates Bandera Area as Texas River Floods
In Bandera Comfort and Medina counties the Medina River rose to 45 feet, flooding homes and luxury ranches. National Guardsmen and state police helicopters evacuated refugees, including 1977 Miss USA Kim Tomes. Gov Briscoe sought disaster declarations for three counties as rainfall reached 22 inches in Kerrville and floodwaters overwhelmed roads and bridges across the hill country.
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Bandera
Texas
LBJ
Kerrville
Comfort
Medina
National Guard
Serendip
Medina River
Pipe Creek
Texas Department of Public Safety
Guadalupe River
San Antonio
Dolph Briscoe
Claribel Lovelace
Kim Tomes
Houston
Guadalupe
Soviet court fines U.S. newsmen $73 each in Moscow
In Moscow a Soviet court fined American correspondents Craig R. Whitney of The New York Times and Harold D. Piper of The Baltimore Sun $73 each for not publishing retractions of stories on a Russian dissident. Both papers said they would not retract. Whitney and Piper were absent at the July hearing. The court set a five day deadline with threats of harsher measures and ordered payment of costs totaling $1,675 for the Times and Sun’s representation.
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Moscow
New York Times
Baltimore Sun
Craig R. Whitney
the Times
Harold D. Piper
the Sun
Whitney
Piper
United States
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Dicardant
David M. Shipler
David M. Axelbant
The
Times
Ley Almazov
Sun
Almazov
Axelbant
Shipler
Francis J. Crawford
Hare Wodnachar
Taotnetarn
Bomb blast wounds 50 at Tel Aviv market stall
In Tel Aviv an explosion at an open air market injured about 50 people, initially reported as at least 10. Bloodied Tshirts and kids clothing lay amid wreckage as police cordoned the area and gathered shrapnel. Local shop owner Vita Meshulam recalled feeling the blast as shoppers crowded the market.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Israel Radio
Vita Meshulam
Meshulam
Earthquakes test Californians on sleeping giant
AP reporter surveys apathy toward the San Andreas fault beneath California. Residents in Los Angeles and Palmdale live atop the fault, with little earthquake insurance and aging vulnerable buildings. The piece notes a potential 8.0 great quake every century and recalls the 1971 San Fernando event that killed 58, urging readiness.
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California
San
Los Angeles
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
San Andreas Fault
Ilinois
Robly Evans
Wisconsin
San Fernando Valley
San Fernando
Thomas Nemes
Nemes
San Andreas
Jim Davis
Blasdel Arms
Bel-Rio
Davis
Oklahoma
Drycleaner
Goddard
New York
Palmdale
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N.C. Hospital
Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina Medical School
Jaroslav Hulka
North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Texso
Hum
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Agence France-Presse
Arab League
Mohammed
France
Bill Gardner
Associated Press
Geoffrey Goddard
Farsone
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