Shipwreck survivors sing and joke during raft ordeal
Eight Pride of Baltimore crew members recount four day ordeal on a life raft after the clipper schooner sank in a white squall May 14. Survivors describe singing, humor, and mutual support while drifting, with several missing or feared dead and scarce rations aboard.
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Middle River
Baltimore
Sumcoe
Garfumble Vines
Tay Jobs Fiapagas
Tay
Niantic, Coon
Armand Elstesser Jr
Flansean
Seback
Balamore
Barry Duckworth
Georgetown
Del
South Dartmouth
Mass
Vincent Lazaro
West Redting Cone
Ube Pride
Ubu
Sami Flanagan
Singapore Eyes Presumed Consent For Organ Donations
Singapore moves to become the first Asian nation to allow doctors to remove organs from accident victims for transplant without prior consent. The Ministry of Health weighs a bill creating an opt out system, with incentives and safeguards, amid cultural and religious debates and a long waiting list for kidneys.
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Singapore
Ministry of Health
Yeo Cheow Tong
National Kidney Foundation
Kidney Foundation
U.S
Council of the Academy of Medicine
Finland
Greece
Italy
Norway
Spain
Sweden
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
France
Israel
Poland
Switzerland
Australia
Britain
Canada
Iftand
New Zealand
Suu Africa
United States
Health and Human Services
Otis R. Bowen
Yeo
Leslie Fong
Shin Min Daily News
Fong
State panel weighs minority health concerns in Frederick
Frederick County Health Officer Dr. Martha T. Schipper testified before the Governor's Commission on Black and Minority Health, noting black infant death rates in the county higher than the state. She called for expanded MAP eligibility, limited access to gynecological care, and better outreach to minority men while outlining local demographics and clinic limitations. NAACP President Lord Nickens urged funds for chronically ill residents to buy medication and pressed for insurance cost review.
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Frederick County
Martha T. Schipper
Frederick
Schipper
Lord Nickens
NAACP
Sesan C. Nicolox
Queen Elizabeth to Visit Kentucky Horse Farms
Queen Elizabeth II heads to Kentucky for a private visit to Bluegrass horse farms with no public events. She is to be welcomed at Blue Grass Airport by British consul Antony Hayday and introduced to Governor Martha Layne Collins and Dr Bill Collins. The governor will present two handmade silver julep cups as a gift from Kentucky.
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Leiington
Britain
Kentucky
Bluegrass
Blue Grass
Antony Hayday
Cleveland
Mayday
Martha Layre Collins
Bill Collins
Air Force May Delay Vandenberg Launch to Mid 1980s
Air Force officials debate delaying the California Spaceport launch due to the Challenger disaster. NASA projects slower shuttle recovery, with estimates of 12 to 19 yearly launches later, and possible postponement of Vandenberg initial capability to the mid 1980s.
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Air Force
Washington
Beanag
California
Millay
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg
National Aeronautics and Space
United States
Remainneg
Vandasherd
Miarula
Pensagon
Maj
Ron Rand
Azid
NASA
Plas
Sant Wes
Space Agency
Lebanon braces as 35 die in brutal fighting flare
In ongoing Lebanon civil war fighting, 35 people died as clashes intensified around Beirut and southern towns. President Amin Gemayel warned against fragmentation while security forces pressed for stability. Amal militia reported four fighters killed in a two hour clash with Israeli troops near Nabatiyeh, where Israeli forces conducted operations with armoured units and helicopters.
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West Beirut
Amin Gemayel
Lebanon
General Security Department
Israel
Nabatiyeh
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Assarified Press
James Chesney
Newmartet Nhresent
Scott Jeffrey
Linthicum, Md
Nina
Jeffrey
Dan Krachuck
Springfield
Sremyane Alee Tag
Associated Press
Queen Elizabeth
Sven Ryland
West Virginia
Pennsylva
Abbott's
A.H. Drilling
Annapolis
National Water Well Association
Wash. Co
Lee
Fred. Co
Gary
Berkeley Co. W. Va
Jim
Sharpsburg Pike
Boonsboro, MD
Che Frederick
Tom Meacham
Alps
Triangle Motors
Honda
Pomick St
Fema
PicWay Shoes
Sunbher Fun
East $1
Monocacy Village
First National
First National Bank OF Maryland
FIC
Feder
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