Power outages hit Frederick County during Super Bowl chill
Dozens of residents faced outages across Frederick County on Sunday as bitter temperatures triggered fuse failures. Potomac Edison foreman Raymond Sandower reported about 100 Damascus and 30 Rocky Ridge homes still dark at presstime, with additional outages in Gladetowne and Hillside areas. The largest brief outage affected 2,090 Middletown customers, while others on Lander Road and Yellow Springs Pike had scattered failures. A separate reference notes a steamship incident near Shanghai.
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Record Low Temps Hit Dozens in East as Arctic High Dominates
The eastern half of the country endures a brutal cold snap as an arctic high pressure system drifts east. Maryland counties report subzero wind chills with Frederick at minus 12 and other cities setting new record lows across Maryland Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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Hagerstown
Oakland & Minus
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Nation braces for bitter cold with storms in Northeast
A cold weather front grips the nation with very cold temperatures forecast for most areas on Tuesday. Snow flurries are expected in the Northeast while the western Plains anticipate additional snowfall.
Jackson denied visa to visit South Africa
President Nelson Mandela? No. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was denied a visa to visit South Africa citing the time as not opportune. He had sought to delay his trip to February for Desmond Tutu’s enthronement events amid ongoing anti apartheid protests near the South African Embassy in Washington.
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Johannesburg
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Ethiopians Die While Fleeing to Israel's Airlift
The Sunday Times and The New York Times report about Operation Moses a secret airlift halted after leaks. An estimated 1,800 Ethiopians died in the Sudanese desert from disease and hunger, with thousands more in refugee camps awaiting resettlement as Israel paused evacuations.
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New York Times
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Umma Raquba
Ethiopia
Gaafar Nimieri
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Gondar
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Umma Requba
Mea
Sudan arrests include American amid pre-execution security
Reports from Cairo say Sudanese authorities detained at least 400 people before the execution of Mahmoud Mohammed Taha. Among those arrested were student leaders tied to the Republican Brothers and Ernest Johnson, a New Jersey native teaching at Khartoum University. The U.S. Embassy declined comment.
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Sudan
Khartoum University
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Gaafar Nimeiri
Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
Taha
Ernest Johnson
New Jersey
Johnson
U.S
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