Nassau Fire Ruins Downtown Bay Street Area
A fast moving Nassau fire destroyed nearly half a square mile of downtown, forcing evacuations as four apartment houses, a four story office building, six businesses and about 20 homes burned. Winds of 25 mph worsened water pressure hampering firefighting efforts. Officials traced the blaze to a furniture store on Bay Street.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Bay Street
Audrey Feaster
Ministry of Education
Scaffold Collapse Kills 51 at Willow Island Tower
Eyewitness accounts describe a scaffold failure as a giant cooling tower section dropped 170 feet, killing 51 workers amid a 680 million dollar Pleasants Power Station project on the Ohio River. OSHA opened inspections. company officials cited daily scaffold checks amid mystery over the disaster. Names of victims were read at a Belmont church near the temporary morgue.
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Ohio River
Washington
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Pleasants
Tos
Bill Hess
Lee Steele
Steele
Belmont
W.va
Rebels claim victory as Kabul battles continue in Afghanistan
In Kabul heavy fighting persisted despite claims that rebel forces led by an air force commander had eliminated President Daoud. The White House reported 1,300 Americans in Kabul with no injuries. diplomats warned guerrilla resistance could last months amid embassies surrounded and a new military council enforcing a non-aligned foreign policy.
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New Delhi
India
Kabul
Afghanistan
Mohammed Daoud
Kandhar
Harar
Dagarwal Abdul Qadir
Darulaman Road
Justice Ministry
Army Central Corps
Washington
State Department
Radio Afghanistan Today
Daoud
Military Revolutionary Council
Defense Ministry
Abdul Qadir
Delhi
Soviet Union
Pakistan
Iran
United States
General Singlaub criticized Carter policies at Pentagon
Major General John K. Singlaub, a veteran commander, was summoned to explain his public criticisms of Carter’s neutron bomb decision and the Panama Canal treaties. He urged reader cadets at Georgia Tech to consider security risks and warned the canal agreement could invite future restrictions. He had previously clashed with Carter over troop withdrawals in Korea, prompting a personnel reassignment.
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Washington
John K. Singlaub
Carter
Singlaub
Pentagon
Atlanta
Army
Army Forces Command
ROTC
Georgia Tech
Panama Canal
Senate
Panama
Cuba
South Korea
U.S
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Associated Press
Singapore
Teh Sin Tong
Changi
Teh
High
London
Grand Metropolitan Ltd
General and Municipal Workers Union
David Hutchins
Tokyo
Japan
Employers’ Federation
Moscow
Morocco
Spanish Sahara
Aziz Bel-Riti
Bel-Riti
Spain
Polisario Front
Algeria
Sault Ste. Marie
Ontario
International Bridge
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Canada
Bridge Authority
Blue Water Currency Exchange Ltd
Sarnia
Berkeley
Calif
University of California
CivTl
Donald Terner
Environmental Design Research Center
Uc-Berkeley
San Francisco
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Bureau
Fresno
United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez
Gallo
Chavez
State Agricultural Labor Relations Board
UFW
Willow Island
George Pepper
OSHA
James Foster
Research Cottrell Inc
Bound Brook
N.J
Thomas Buontane
Yates Seils
Asbes
Red Brigades
Rome
Aldo Moro
Il Tempo
Tempo
Cristoforo Piancone
Turin
Moro
Piancone
Italy
Christian Democratic Party
Milan
Genoa
Czechoslovakia
Angola
New York Times
Communist Party
Texas
Longhorn
Barbra Jo Horan
Dallas
U.S.A
Charleston
D.C
Cbs-Tv
Farnum Saa Pecos
Emergy
County Court AT Law
H.D. ‘Darrell’ Glover
Reeves County
W.A
Bil
Figman
Jane Ross
Reeves County Clerk
Caherine Ashley
Eva R. Grammer
Barbara Peer
Frank X. Spencer
Douglas Fernandes Wendel Faulkner
Dr. Elvin Reynolds
Cecil Coihrun
Louis C. Guerrero Bernardo Marinez
Justice OF the Peace
J.T. Marsh
Clay'on Stallings
Cliff Presior
Ismael Diaz Dominguez
Constable, Prec
Don Gass
Ilvia Reynolds
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