Nurse fired after crisis line mix up in Fontana
Linda Reno a San Bernardino Community Hospital nurse was fired after giving a distraught caller an 800 crisis line that led to a sex line tape. The incident highlights defunct crisis numbers being reassigned to adult services and prompted calls to agencies with no resolution.
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Fontana
Calif
Linda Reno
San Bernardino Community Hospital
Ms. Reno
State Public Utilities Commission
Attorney General’s Office
Focal
The
Sun of San
Pat Pina
Hotline Help Center Inc
Orange County
At&t
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
Ms. Pina
Ping
Helen Riddick
Los Angeles
Orange
San Bernardino
Riverside
Riddick
Network Telephone Services
Pacific Marketing
Woodland Hills
Calif Company
Dan Coleman
Sun
Tsunami Devastates Papua New Guinea Coastline
A 23 foot wall of water struck the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea destroying several villages. Death tolls ranged from 700 to 3,000 with hundreds injured and about 6,000 left homeless. Officials warned more than 1,000 died and 2,000 were missing amid ongoing rescue and recovery efforts.
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Yvanimo
Papua New Guinea
Arop
Lusien Romme
John Tekwi
West Sepik
Australian Broadcasting Corp
Tekwi
Jerry Apuan
New Guinea
Australia
Australian High Commission
Port Moresby
Richard Humby
Jim Croucher
Associated Press
Australian Defense Department
Keith Jobson
Canberra
Jobson
Merapi Volcano Erupts Prompting Major Evacuation
Indonesian volcano Merapi erupts with gases ash and lava forcing evacuation of over 3,000 villagers. Two gas clouds and a 2 mile lava trail reported as activity remains high with possible major eruption feared despite no casualties reported.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Merapi
Java
Rohadih
Jakarta Post
Aryan marchers clash with opponents in Idaho protest
About 99 Aryan Nations members marched through Coeur d Alene while 1,000 counter demonstrators and police watched. The event ended with 22 arrests, no major injuries, and simultaneous rallies in Spokane and Moscow.
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Idaho
Coeur D'Alene
Lake Coeur d’Alene
Spokane
Moscow
Aryan Nations
Coeur d‘Alene
Hayden
New York
Saturn union workers vote to authorize first strike
Saturn Corp. workers at Spring Hill TN overwhelmingly authorized union leaders to call the automaker's first strike, raising the specter of a wider GM labor action. More than 5,000 ballots produced 96 percent support as talks continued and a strike could start by week’s end.
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Spring Hill
Tenn
Saturn Corp
General Motors
Michigan
Saturn
Luis Gonzales
Joseph Rypkowski
United Auto Workers Local 183
Rypkowski
Flint
Mich
UAW
Clinton to Buy Wheat for 250 Million to Aid Farmers
President Clinton announced the government will purchase 80 million bushels of wheat within days at about 2.75 per bushel, worth 250 million dollars, to lift farm prices. The wheat will be donated as humanitarian relief in Sudan and other regions while he urged Congress to expand loan programs and replenish the IMF to stabilize Asian markets.
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Washington
Clinton
Sudan
America
Little Rock
Ark
U.S
Trapped cave explorer freed after 30 hour rescue
Craig Douglas of Medford Massachusetts was lodged 100 feet underground in Keyhole Cave near Albany for over 30 hours. Rescuers using chisels and drills worked from Saturday afternoon until Sunday night to free his right thigh from a narrow 10 by 18 inch slot. He rested briefly inside a small chamber before the careful ascent began, the sheriff noting the slow but hopeful process.
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Gallupville
Craig Douglas
Medford
Mass
Keyhole
Albany
Schoharie
John Bates
Douglas
EPA stands by tobacco report in face of court ruling
EPA officials say they will appeal a North Carolina ruling that the 1993 report linking secondhand smoke to lung cancer rested on inadequate science. Administrator Carol Browner calls the decision disturbing and affirms health risks from inhaling tobacco smoke.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
William Osteen
North Carolina
Osteen
EPA
Carol Browner
New anti smoking vaccine could aid hard core quitters
ImmuLogic of Waltham Mass develops a revolutionary vaccine to neutralize nicotine by raising antibodies that block nicotine from reaching brain receptors. Tests on human volunteers planned soon after cocaine vaccine trials. The approach aims to reduce the rewarding nicotine hit and curb persistent craving.
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Scripps Howard News Service
ImmuLogic
Waltham
Mass
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