South Africa braced as strike and clashes surge
Thousands of black workers began a two day defiance strike across major cities on the eve of elections, with unions endorsing the action while Archbishop Desmond Tutu accused police of desecrating his cathedral during rallies. Police detained Tutu and another activist at a church after blocking its doors with an armored vehicle.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Desmond Tutu
de Klerk
Cape Town
Tutu
Alla Boesak
Central Mission Methodist Church
St George’s Anglican Cathedral
Africa
Virginia Beach unrest ends after Greekfest weekend clashes
Labor Day weekend brought near clashes and 260 arrests as Atlantic Avenue hosted about 100000 partying youths. Police cleared the beachfront with National Guard help after looting hit at least 100 businesses and 43 were injured. Local leaders blamed poor preparedness and heavy-handed policing amid tense racial dynamics between Black communities and authorities.
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Virginia Beach
Atlantic Avenue
Meyera E. Oberndorf
Virginia National Guard
Gerald L. Baliles
Sailor says Navy browbeaten him over Iowa explosion
Seaman David Smith alleges Navy investigators pressured him to implicate Clayton Hanwig in the USS Iowa turret explosion that killed 47 sailors. In an ABC interview he claims Hartwig proposed sexual advances and discussed explosives, while investigators allegedly fed him words and threatened murder charges. ABC and Navy declined immediate comment.
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Smith
Hartwig
ABC News
ABC
Hanwig
Navy
Kendall Pease
Reform urged for Vietnam by ex general Ky in OC interview
Nguyen Cao Ky, former South Vietnamese premier and fighter pilot, hints at a possible role in postwar Vietnam. After bankruptcy shut his Orange County liquor business, he says he consults for governments and industries.Ky envisions no political run, aims for economic leverage to push reforms, and considers himself a potential loyal opposition leader in Vietnam.
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Huntington Beach
Calif
Republic of
South Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Vietnam
Orange County
Asia
Orange County Register
North Vietnam
United States
Poland
Kansan joins Earhart search expedition to Pacific islands
LeRoy Knoll a Garden City man and Southwestern Bell line repairman is among five divers chosen for The Earhart Project, a 20 member expedition by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. The team will search Nikumaroro and McKean Islands for Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10E Electra as doubt and caution color hopes for a breakthrough.
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Dolores Hope
Harris
Garden City
Mid- Pacific
Amelia Earhart
LeRoy Knoll
Southwestern Bell
International Group For
Earhart Project
Knoll
Earhart
Nikumaroro Island
Gardner Island
McKean Island
Tighar
Tom Wills
Navy
Tom Gannon
Air Force
Earhant
Fred Noonan
South Pacific
Midwest
Caribbean Sea
Richard Gillespie
TIG
Wilmington
Del
Saigon
Los Angeles
Suva
Fiji
Phoenix Islands
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National Party
F.W. de Klerk
Jack W. Gravely
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Pittsburg
Main
Ottawa
American Heart Association
Kansan
Republic of Kiribati
Florida
Texas
California
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Nomad
Foreign Ministry of
Earhan
Wake
Midway
Oahu
Lockheed
Gardner and McKean
Life Insurance
Ae Farm Lite Ance Company
Bloomington
Kings
Larry Maes
City of
City
Kansas
Sand Creek
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