El Salvador military coup ousts Romero and seizes bases
Two colonels Gutierrez and Najano topple President Carlos Humberto Romero after seizing five key bases. One army captain was killed. Romero taken to Guatemala. The new rulers promise a junta and future elections while calling for national unity and democracy amid ongoing violence.
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Associated Press
San Salvador
el Salvador
Jaime Abdul Gutierrez
Adolfo Arnoldo Najano
Carlos Humberto Romero
Romero
Guatemala
Central America
Americas
Popular Revoluionary Bloc
Poverty lines at Eton and global political shifts in brief
A 13 year old at Eton writes on poverty in class. U S Ambassador Malcolm Toon leaves the Soviet Union for Israel and retirement with Thomas J Watson to arrive in Moscow. Milovan Djilas fined for illegal publishing and facing 30 days in prison. In South Korea police arrest 49 suspected pro communist activists tied to a Viet Cong style group. 27 others sought.
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London
The
Financial Times
Eton
Britain
Moscow
U.S
Malcolm Toon
Soviet Union
Israel
IBM
Thomas J. Watson
Toon
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Milovan Djilas
Djilas
Josip Broz Tito
Seoul
South Korea
Koo Ja-choon
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Lee Chai-Mun
Home Ministry
Train derailment on Media West Chester line injures dozens
A rush hour collision on the Media West Chester line sent 51 people to Misericordia Hospital and 47 to University of Pennsylvania Hospital. A five car Philadelphia bound train rear ended a two car West Chester express, derailing at least four cars. Passengers recount chaos as officers, ambulances and fire crews aided survivors amid twisted track and collapsed cabs.
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Philadelphia
Media-West Chester
Misericordia Hospital
University of Pennsylvania
West Chester
R.C. Morrow
Glen Mills
Conrail
Samuel Smith
Boothwyn
Imperial Valley quake injures at least 91 in Calexico hit
A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake centered near the Mexican border rocked the Imperial Valley injuring at least 91 people. Buildings collapsed fires started and widespread damage halted utilities while authorities feared further aftershocks and a large fuel fire near the Imperial Valley Airport.
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Norm Clarke
Associated Press
Calexico
Calif
Imperial Valley
U.s.-Mexican
San Diego
Sylmar-San Fernando
el Centro
Colorado River
Brawley
el Centro Community Hospital
Mexicali
Apulinar Samaran
Red Cross
Alex Smith
California
Arizona
Nevada
Mexico
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Dorothy Shook
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Here
Imperial
Phase one of Sombrero plan to halt Gulf oil spill
Mexico City AP Pemex reports first phase of Operation Sombrero completed as 310 ton steel cone nears the well mouth within 10 feet. Cone expected to capture about 85 percent of spill though the well remains out of control. Weather delays and a cracked cone delayed progress. Initial flow estimated at 30,000 barrels daily, later reduced to 10,000. Permanent fix relies on two relief wells finishing to relieve pressure at Ixtoc I.
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Mexico City
Gulf of Mexico
Pemex
Gulf
Houston
Texas
Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Schultz and Lewis
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics goes to Theodore Schultz of Chicago and Sir Arthur Lewis of Princeton for pioneering development economics. Schultz and Lewis share the $190,000 award, recognizing work on economic problems of developing countries with a focus on human factors and policy implications.
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Stockholm
Sweden
United States
Theodore Schultz
Chicago
Sir Arthur Lewis
Princeton University
Schultz
Lewis
Royal Academy of Sciences
Arlington
S.D
Tok
University of Wisconsin
Charles Hutchinson
University of Chicago
Castries
West Indian
St. Lucia
James Madison
New Jersey
Commor
Central Bank of Sweden
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Atlanta
Ohio
National Center For Disease Control
CDC
Santa FE
N.M
San Andres
John Crenshaw
Game and Fish Department
White Sands Missile Range
New Mexico
Carson City
Nev
Jesse W. Bishop
Bob Lippold
Economics
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