Puerto Rico statehood support polls show 20 percent favor bid
AP survey in San Juan finds 20 percent favor making Puerto Rico the 51st state while 32 percent back current status and 29 percent back independence. Governor Romero Barcelo plans to present statehood to voters in 1981 and seek Congress approval if urged. Puerto Rico currently does not vote in U S elections.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
United States
Commonwealth
Carlos Romero Barcelo
Romero Barcelo
Congress
Spanish tragedy blast kills many at Costa Brava campsite
A runaway propane truck exploded at a Costa Brava campsite near Tarragona, Spain, killing 119 to 125 people and injuring more than 200. Survivors described a massive blaze that burned hundreds of yards high while officials said many victims were burned beyond recognition and identification would be difficult. The truck carried 43 cubic meters of propylene and the operator absent.
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Fenton Wheeler
Associated Press
Tarragona
Spain
Costa Brava
Barcelona
Vincente Mirabel
Valencia
Antonio Betancurt
Tortosa
Madrid
Capital murder charges in Winnie killings loom this week
Ovide Joseph Dugas Jr held in Chambers County jail on five counts of aggravated kidnapping. Jefferson County sheriff says capital murder charges will be filed this week in the killings of Bishop Phillips Ester Phillips their son daughter in law and grandson near Winnie Texas. Authorities tie motive to revenge over a broken marriage. Linda May Burnett of Nederland faces five counts of capital murder in connection with the slayings.
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Joseph Dugas
Bishop Phillips
Ester
Elmer
Martha
Jason
Winnie
Texas
Dugas
Here
Jefferson County
R.E. Culbertson
Culbertson
Ovide Joseph Dugas Jr
Chambers County
Port Arthur
Phillips
Linda May Burnett
Nederland
Body found prompts warrant for mother in boy's death
In Lawton Oklahoma a 26 year old Bren da Carr mother of a 6 year old boy missing since last month faces a warrant for arrest on child beating. The boy’s decomposed body was found in a shallow grave near a burned farmhouse south of Decatur Texas. Autopsy suggests death by starvation and suffocation one to six weeks prior. A man, Larry Paul Gough, 36, jailed on murder suspicions, previously lived with Carr. Authorities charged Carr and Gough with depriving the child of food and nourishment. Police say Carr may surrender through her attorney.
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Lawton
Okla
Brenda Carr
Melvin Kirk Ward
Decatur
Texas
Ms. Carr
Larry Paul Gough
Wise County
Judge rules man may be disconnected from respirator
A 73 year old ALS patient Abe Perlmutter in Fort Lauderdale won a judge's ruling that he may have his life support respirator disconnected. The decision, made by Judge John G. Ferris after a bedside visit, is not final for 10 days and may be appealed to Florida's 4th District Court.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
4Th District Court
John G. Ferris
Abe Perlmutter
New York City
Here
Perlmutter
Ferris
Karen Ann Quinlan
Miss Quinlan
New Jersey Supreme Court
New Jersey
Perlmuster
David Haines
Florida
Jacksonville
Celia Cain
Trials of Soviet dissenters loom in arms talks impact
In Moscow and Kaluga the trials of Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg near climax, threatening to influence Geneva SALT II discussions. Shcharansky, 30, faces the death penalty on a spy charge linked to the Los Angeles Times. Ginzburg, 41, faces up to 15 years and exile for anti-Soviet activities. U.S. and Soviet officials press on with arms talks amid protests and restricted court access. Natalia Shcharanskys's wife travels to the U.S. to seeking support.
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Natalia Shcharansky
Anatoly Shcharansky
Paris
Human Rights League
Moscow
Seth Mydans
Associated Press
Soviet Union
U.S
Geneva
United States
Los Angeles Times
Robert C. Toth
Alexander Ginzburg
Kaluga
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Liberia
Cyrus R. Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Vance
Carter
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Shcharansky
Natalia
U.S.S.R
Mili
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