Morvi dam collapse in India kills thousands
Dispatches from New Delhi report about 1,000 people dead after a dam failed near Morvi in Gujarat state. Troops rushed to aid survivors as monsoon floods worsened the disaster with up to 5,000 fatalities feared by officials.
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New Delhi
India
All-India Radio
Morvi
Charan Singh
Gujarat
Babubhai Patel
Singh
Brahm Perkash
Mervi
Twon
Belluno
Italy
Bombay
Morin
Keshubhai Patel
United News of India
Pigeon Magnetism Linked to Magnetic Tissue Found
A biologist suggests magnetic tissue near pigeons eyes might relate to their homing sense. The tissue is tiny and located outside the brain behind the eyes, per Professor Charles Walcott of SUNY Stony Brook.
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Boston
Charles Walcott
State University of New York At
Stony Brook
Boston Sunday Globe
Protection planned from false lawsuits
Dallas attorney Ellis Rubin forms Lawyers for Protecting People from Malicious and Unjustified Lawsuits Inc to counter sue attorneys who file malpractice suits. He says frivolous suits clog courts and plans legal reform with the new group unveiled at a bar association convention. Rubin cites persistent malpractice suits as a field needing legal development and notes opposition from lawyers who profit from lawsuits. He recalls pursuing recourse after a Fort Pierce doctor faced repeated malpractice suits dropped before trial.
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Dallas
Ellis Rubin
Rubin
Lawyers
Inc
American Bar Association
al Ellis
Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
Ellis
Rubin Crusade
John Sullivan
Fort Pierce
Fla
Sullivan
Gay aliens barred from United States
El Paso AP report says homosexual aliens remain barred from entry despite changes in health official roles. Charles Perez cites no orders to alter the prohibition under a category of mental defect or sexual deviation. Immigration Judge Theodore Jakaboski says the burden of determining homosexuality now rests with judges.
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EL Paso
Texas
United States
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Charles Perez
U.S
U.S. Public Health Service
Health Service
Perez
Theodore Jakaboski
Montgomery mayor bars KKK march to city limits
Mayor Emory Folmar vowed to block a Ku Klux Klan march without a permit. Riot police escorted the stoppage as nearly 200 Klansmen were arrested entering Montgomery. Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson led the group toward the Capitol grounds before surrendering to authorities.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Emory Folmar
Selma
Capitol
Bill Wilkinson
The
Invisible Empire
Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Charles Swindall
Swindall
Edmund Pettus
Martin Luther King Jr
Arafat rejects Carter on PLO state rights and dialogue
Yasser Arafat's PLO rejects U S overtures and demands recognition of a Palestinian state. The Palestine Central Council unanimously backs non dialogue until Washington recognizes the PLO and its right to an independent state. The council confines change to UN 242 only if it explicitly recognizes the PLO and a Palestinian state.
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Stephen K. Hindy
Associated Press
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Syria
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Palestine Liberation Organization
Carter
U.S
Israel
Palestine Central Council
PLO
United States
Washington
Yasser Abd-Rabbo
U.N. Security Council
Security Council
Kuwait
Camp David
Egypt
Arafat
Bruno Kreisky
Willy Brandt
Jerusalem
Yigal Yadin
Menachem Begin
Ephraim Evron
White House
Moshe Dayan
Vietnam plan to release 10000 refugees monthly
In Bangkok Vietnamese officials told visiting U S lawmakers they will allow about 10 000 refugees to depart legally each month to curb dangerous boat departures. They said resources prevent stopping all flee by boat and promised cooperation on MIAs. Malaysia meanwhile admitted 46 boat people to a refugee camp instead of towing them away.
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Bangkok
Thailand
U.S
Lester Wolff
D-N.y
Kriangsak Chomanan
Hanoi
Wolff
Kriangsak
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
China
Pol Pot
Peking
United States
James Scheuer
New York
Kuala Lumpur
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Lansing
Mich
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