White activists killed in South Africa car crash
In South Africa two prominent white anti apartheid figures Molly Blackburn and Brian Bishop died in a late Saturday head on collision near Port Elizabeth. The driver of the other car also died and Bishop and Blackburns spouses were injured. The group had been interviewing blacks detained after rioting that has left about 1000 dead.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Molly Blackburn
Brian Bishop
Blackburn
Bishop
Port Elizabeth
Humansdorp
Friends
Mandela’s Home Fight Turns Violent at Johannesburg
Police forces dragged Winnie Mandela from her car and arrested her as she attempted to enter Johannesburg, defying a state order banishing her to Brandfort. She arrived with her daughter Zinzi and two grandchildren after flying from Cape Town and said she was going home to Soweto where her children live. Her suit seeks to quash the expulsion order set for a January hearing in the Supreme Court, arguing the measure is unreasonable.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Winnie Mandela
Mandela
Jan Smuts
Cape Town
Zinzi
Soweto
Supreme Court
Brandfort
TV Show on U S Soviet Relations Prompts Protest
Seattle watchers pressured the three hour U S Soviet satellite TV dialogue to ask tough questions while accusing producers of editing the audience. Donohue chaired with Vladimir Pozner in Leningrad as viewers pressed for a nuclear thaw and arms cuts. Protesters complained activists were barred from the U S audience and asked for tougher questions.
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U.S
Phil Donohue
Vladimir Pozner
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Donahue
Penny Rotheiser
Ducer
Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov
Gorky
Donohue
Washburn jailed after NC State MVP honor in Hawaii
NC State basketball star Chris Washburn checked into Wake County jail for the weekend following a February sentence for stealing a stereo from a dormitory. His jail term was postponed to allow a nationally televised game against Wake Forest.
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Raleigh
N.C
Hawaii
North Carolina
Chris Washburn
Wake County
Washburn
Savannah
Wake County Superior Court
J. Milton Read Jr
Wake Forest
Threats and arrests mark Ottawa county crime roundup
The Daily Report notes a December 24 threat allegedly made by G. Sitlington against his estranged wife Melinda. Inmates and juveniles face various charges from curfew violations to vandalism and open container citations. Minor traffic incidents, Life Flight transfers, and a Brass fire near Homewood are also reported along with Friday market quotations.
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Sitlington
Melinda. G. Sitlington
Ottawa Rfd
Princeton Road
Ottawa
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Raymond J. Cook
Winfield
Kansas Department of Corrections
Winfield Institution
Michael R. Eller
S. Walnut
West Second
Sherry L. Smith
Osage Drive
Forest Park
James M. Jumet
Rantoul
Gregory D. Shutt
N. Poplar
Second
Willow Streets
Department of Public Safety
Ransom Memorial Hospital
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Kan
Williamsburg-Homewood Township
Homewood
Sun Belt States Fastest Growing
Washington report notes migration to the South and West as Sun Belt states absorbed most of the 12.2 million gain in population since 1980. The Census Bureau says the U S population rose 5.4 percent this decade, with 91 percent of growth in Southern and Western states. Alaska led growth at 29.7 percent, rising from least populous to No 49 with 521,000 people.
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Sun Belt
Census Bureau
U.S
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