Moosehead sled dogs race draws mushers to Maine lake
Dozens of sled dog teams from New England gathered around Moosehead Lake in Greenville Maine for a weekend race and social gathering. Mushers discussed costs and routines while teams tested skills on a 4 to 10 mile course under frigid 0 degree skies.
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Greenville
Maine
Moosehead Lake
New England
Roger Ek
Alaska
Big Squaw Mountain
State Fish and Game
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rangeley
Kurt Berube
Laconia
W.H
Wathan Tennant
Hampden
Tennant
Moosehead
Hijack attempt foiled aboard Alaska Airlines jet
Anchorage officials said two crew members and several passengers restrained a Spanish speaking man who bluffing into the cockpit and ordered Cuba. Juan Tapanes of Cuba was arrested by the FBI after the Boeing 727 landed in Anchorage at 145 PM. He faces a U S magistrate arraignment on attempted hijacking charge.
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Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska Airlines
Cuba
Juan Tapanes
FBI
Anchorage
Federal Aviation Administration
Paul Steucke
Posters pulled as Syria cements Beirut control
In west Beirut 2000 Sunni scouts removed posters of Khomeini and other Muslim leaders while leaving Assad portraits. Police reported no violence as posters of Jumblatt Berri and Khomeini were whitewashed from residential districts amid Syria’s military crackdown that has tied down 7500 troops and 100 tanks to end sectarian clashes.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Iran
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Syria
Hafez Assad
Walid Jumblatt
Nabih Berri
Khomeini
Toufie el-Dika
Youth and Scouts Union
West Beirut
Hezbollah
Party of God
Tran
Arab League
Assad
Damascus
Ali Akbar Mohtashemi
Jews Fast in Soviet Cities to Press Emigration Rights
About 75 Jewish women in Moscow Leningrad Riga Tallin Kharkov and Benders began a three day fast on International Women’s Day to press for exit visas and aid the release of Jewish prisoners. Inna Joffe called the protest symbolic and said it shows refuseniks want to leave despite Soviet limits. Detente era emigration allowed freer exits, peaking in 1979 with over 51,000 visas, dropping to under 1,000 in 1986.
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Innaloffe
Chase
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