Island Forces Track Down Routed Mercenaries
Seychelles defense forces search hills for remnants of armed mercenaries linked to a coup attempt. About 40 were in Pretoria Central Prison after hijacking an Air India jetliner with 79 aboard. Some suspects sighted near Point Larue Airport. 65 passengers and 14 crew released unharmed.
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Victoria
Seychelles
Pretoria Central
South Africa
Seychelles Agence Presse
Point Larue
Swaziland
Ronnie Jumeau
Seychelles People's Defense Forces
Air-India
Louis le Grange
Haitians Escape Krome Camp As Holidays Loom
Immig ruff refugees from the Krome Avenue detention center near Miami see 16 of 20 inmates believed to have resettled in a Haitian enclave within the city. Two recaptured. tensions remain high as Christmas nears. The escape followed an attempt by other Haitians to jump from a chartered plane to Fort Allen, Puerto Rico.
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Miami
Everglades
Krome Avenue
Air Florida
Fort Allen
Puerto Rico
United States
Krome
Florida
Freighter Disaster Off Bermuda Yields One Dead and One Near Death
Rescuers searched the Atlantic east of Bermuda for the 24 crew of the sunken German freighter Elma Tres. One man was found dead and another clinging to life aboard a drifting lifeboat while 22 remain missing. The Royal Eagle aided, with Coast Guard and Navy aircraft scouring for survivors amid an oil slick. In a separate rescue, Canadian helicopters saved 26 from the grain freighter Euro Princess off Sable Island near Halifax.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Atlantic
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Jim McGranahan
New York City
McGranahan
Sable Island
Halifax
Black Sea
Montreal
North America
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Bald
Jacques Hodoul
Gram
Kurt Waldheim
Seychelleia
Merdetariés
Defense Forces
Albert Rene
Islands
James Ik. Mancham
Mancha
London
Beverly McFarland
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Free Tax Saving Seminary
University Campus
S . Sesees
Waddell Reed
Hart
Ings
S.W. 29Th St
Topeka
Main
Ottawa
Pistae
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