Virginia reports two new avian influenza cases
Two Western Virginia outbreaks raise alarms but officials say the strains differ from last year’s deadly outbreak and are not human risk. One case was on a commercial Augusta County farm and the other in a Shenandoah County backyard, with no quarantines planned due to weak, nonfatal viruses.
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Mardi Gras Ball to Crown Queen on Feb 16
Holly Hammond Isaacson is slated to reign as Queen of the Mardi Gras Ball with details on her royal court outlined in B-1. A cold snap arrives as a Gulf storm could bring the area's first major snowstorm late Wednesday or Thursday, following an attic front.
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Daki Napata
Baltimore
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NAACP
King
Napata
Heaven's
Gromyko warns Star Wars talks risk collapse of arms talks
In a live Soviet TV interview Andrei Gromyko warned that U S insistence on space weapon research could trigger an arms race and end negotiations. He called the U S Star Wars program superfluous and inadmissible without a space weapons accord as Geneva discussions resumed with Shultz and Weinberger commenting on the pace and scope of the talks.
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Sile
George P. Shultz
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Caspar Weinberger
Soviet Union
Weinberger
U.S.A
Ethiopian Train Crash Kills 418 in Central Ethiopia
An express train derailed on a curved bridge about 125 miles east of Addis Ababa, killing 418 passengers and injuring 559. Rail officials cited excessive speed on the curve. the diesel engine remained intact while coaches fell into a ravine. Injured were taken to Addis Ababa and Nazareth hospitals.
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Djibouti
Addis Abbaba
Ethiopian Red Cross
Awash
Nazareth
Franco- Ethiopian Railway Co
Tribute to Dr. King Echoes at Frederick Church
The Frederick County NAACP sponsored an All Saints Street observance at Asbury United Methodist Church honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with prayers songs and speeches. Maynard Hurd Jr. spoke briefly highlighting King's life and contributions in about four minutes.
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Westminster
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Nickens
Two French observers killed in Beirut ambush
Two French cease fire observers were ambushed in a jeep near Beirut airport, dying from head wounds. Reports by Voice of Lebanon and Voice of Free Lebanon named a captain and a corporal as victims, part of four French observers killed since the multinational force arrived last April.
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Ress
American University Hospital
Jal el-Baiah
Reagan presses Belgium to deploy missiles with NATO backing
President Reagan urges Belgian Prime Minister Martens to ignore party opposition and back immediate deployment of 48 U S cruise missiles in Belgium, citing NATO 1979 decision and alliance solidarity. Martens plans March decision as Belgians weigh Soviet missile buildup and arms talks.
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