Bus Truck Collision Kills Six In Levy County
A school bus carrying 19 students and unknown number of adults collided with a rock-hauling tractor-trailer at a rural intersection southwest of Gainesville. Six people died. about 20 injured, including every child aboard. Five children and one adult flown to Alachua General Hospital. victims in intensive care or awaiting surgery.
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Bronson
Fla
Janice Zipperer
Levy County School Board
John R. Touchton
Gainesville
Levy County
Bubba Castell
Troy Reid
Alachua General Hospital
Ruby Brigman
Gainesville Hospital
Libyan claim of recapture at Aouzou meets Chad denial
Libya announced it had recaptured the Aouzou outpost after two hours of fighting, saying Libyan forces now fully control the town. Chad denied the claim and said it had captured Aouzou on August 8. Independent confirmation was not immediately available.
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Tripoli
Libya
Aouzou
Chad
JANA
Paris
Hissene Habre
Anglo meets union reps amid largest South African mining strike
In Johannesburg Anglo American Corp fired 12 000 more miners as talks with the National Union of Mineworkers continued after a 19 day walkout. The conflict left one miner dead and another burned, with the strike causing injuries, arrests and extensive job dismissals across major gold and coal mines.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
National Union of Mineworkers
Anglo American Corp
Johannesburg Consolidated Investments
Cyril Ramaphosa
James Motatsi
Marcel Golding
Anglo
Bobby Godsell
W. van der Colf
Soviet grain export dream could reshape world market
A Washington private analyst team says huge Soviet harvests and reforms may push the USSR from importer to exporter within 10 to 12 years. They note historical doubts due to climate and efficiency but argue policy changes could alter the grain balance by century’s end.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Moscow
United States
Canada
Argentina
John A. Schnittker
Schnittker Associates
U.S
Three men executed on busiest death row day since 1976
On a day tied to the busiest death penalty execution schedule since reinstitution, Wayne Ritter in Alabama, Pierre Selby in Utah, and Beauford White in Florida were put to death, while Gerald Stano received a stay. The tally reached 90 executions since 1976.
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Supreme Court
Wayne Eugene Ritter
Alabama
Pierre Dale Selby
Utah
Beauford White
Miami
Florida State Prison
Starke
Texas
Mississippi
United States
California
Watt Espy
Headland
Ala
Gerald Eugene Stano
Florida
Carolyn Snarkowski
Criminal Appeals
Stano
Antonin Scalia
Point of the Mountain
Selby
Ritter
Reagan backs Bork as strong law and order judge
President Reagan pressed for Senate approval of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, presenting him as a tough law-and-order jurist. Illinois Gov James Thompson and law enforcement leaders backed the pick, arguing Bork would emphasize truth in criminal justice and support death penalty standards.
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Los Angeles
Reagan
Senate
Supreme Court
Robert H. Bork
Bork
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Washington
Illinois
James Thompson
U.S
Secord says Iranians offered help in hostage rescue
Richard V. Secord says in Playboy interview Iranians offered to provide information for a U.S. raid to free American hostages in Lebanon. He says Iran could not fully control Hezbollah and that Tehran paid Hezbollah to secure some releases while noting mutual interest in weakening the hostage groups.
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Secord
Washington
U.S
Richard V. Secord
Air Force
Hezbollah
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Playboy Magazine
Satan
Santoni sentenced in Md drug case
Former Maryland delegate George J. Santoni was sentenced to eight years in prison for cocaine possession with intent to distribute in an interstate drug conspiracy tied to an alleged New Jersey organized crime family. A five year special parole term will follow. Santoni, 48, of Cockeysville, once represented East Baltimore, pleaded guilty April 27.
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Baltimore
Maryland
George J. Santoni
New Jersey
Walter E. Black Jr
Santoni
Black
Cockeysville
East Baltimore
General Assembly
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