Arkansas death toll rises as floods hit Little Rock
Heavy rain returned to Little Rock as floods worsened with at least 10 deaths and four missing. National Guard troops patrolled to prevent looting while crews searched Rock Creek for victims. Nine inches of rain fell in parts of central Arkansas in 12 hours, flooding set a September record and caused millions in damages.
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Justin Talley
Gwen Robinson
Marjorie Zaloudek
Marjorita Green
Carlo Robertson
France sues Amoco over oil spill disaster
France files a $300 million suit in Manhattan against Amoco International and Claude Phillips for the Amoco Cadiz grounding off Ushant. The tanker, carrying 220000 tons of crude from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam, lost steering March 17 in heavy seas, rupturing its hull and triggering one of the worst oil spills on record.
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Federal probe launched into alleged cheating for minority set aside contracts
Chicago AP reports federal investigators will reopen files on firms named in Chicago Tribune coverage of sham operations that used minority figureheads to win set aside contracts. The EDA chief counsel says 449 of 1,387 surveyed firms were phony, with contracts worth 14 million dollars, while officials warn phony schemes may total up to 100 million. The program, begun in 1977, aimed to spend 4 billion on public works with 10 percent reserved for minority firms.
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