San Francisco observes slain mayor and supervisor funeral
San Francisco buries Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after three days of mourning as crowds file past their coffins. Dan White, in custody, allegedly confessed. Milk to be cremated, ashes scattered. Moscone to be laid to rest in Colma.
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San Francisco Today
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Harvey Milk
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Holy Cross
Colma
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Mexico City hit by string of quakes injuring hundreds
Up to 600 people treated for injuries or shock after six earthquakes rocked Mexico City and southern Mexico. No official deaths reported. Oaxaca state reports vary. First shock lasted 70 seconds with intensity around 6.5 to 7.9. Epicenter blamed on Pacific off Oaxaca coast. evacuations followed, including Goodyear offices and federal treasury building.
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Associated Press
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Ryan, Solzhenitsyn in New England and Cold War echoes
AP reports Rep. Leo Ryan warned reporter Daniel Schorr in 1975 about covert CIA actions in Angola before his Nov 18 1978 death with four others in Guyana. Natalia Solzhenitsyn urged international inspection of Soviet camps at Dartmouth while linking human rights to the 1980 Moscow Olympics. An LA Times piece notes a UT Texas study predicting a potential 7.5 quake near Oaxaca, though without a date.
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Hanover
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United States
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Moscow
Los Angeles Times
University of Texas
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Masakazu Ohtake
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Galveston
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Oaxaca
Nixon Visit Sparks Oxford Protests by Students and Anglophone Critics
Oxford University prepared for a noisy protest as former President Nixon arrived in London and planned to speak at the Oxford Union. American and British students aimed to cordon the building to block his appearance while police and U S Secret Service guards stood by.
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Philadelphia
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Paris
Britain
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Paalberg
Pembroke College
Dennis Washburn
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bernard Vorhaus
United States
America
Italian storms and Etna erupt as Italy endures harsh weather
Venice residents wade through water in St Mark's Square for the third day as winter storms and high tides strike the city. Mt Etna erupts sending lava downslope while snow surrounds the volcano. In Manila police surveil flight crews amid a drug trafficking probe after a steward's hashish seizure. In Paris, Jean Francois Poncet named foreign minister to replace retiring Louis de Guiringaud. In India, Morarji Desai's Janata Party wins a Bihar by election.
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India
Escaped prisoners caught in Arizona
Three men including Ricky Tison alleged to have helped his father escape from jail and join in four murders fled a county jail after overpowering a guard. Two were captured early today near Florence after officers spotted their pickup truck. Johnson and Gomez were held on forgery and assault charges.
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Russian girl improving here in Cambridge
The infant Jessica Katz, the "littlest refusenik," arrives in Boston with her family after a public struggle to emigrate from Russia. Doctors say her malabsorption syndrome has eased. she may not need hospitalization, though full recovery remains uncertain.
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