Bombings hit British ministry and Old Bailey
A bomb outside Scotland Yard was defused at 8 3 0, after which strict security checks were ordered at ports and airports. Police arrested ten people, eight men and two women, amid tensions over the province's future and political violence.
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Scotland Yard
New Steel and Glass
Dean Stanley Street
Westminster
Windsor Castle
London ‘Times
The
Stock Exchange
Naonal
Trafalgar Square
Whitehall
Belfast
Pat Larkham
Old Bailey
London Fire Brigade
IRA
Dublin
Ministry of Agriculture
Central Criminal Courts
Irving's wife gets 2 years in Swiss fraud case
Edith Irving was sentenced to two years in jail in Zurich for her role in the 666,000 Howard Hughes autobiography hoax. She pleaded guilty to fraud and forgery and must pay trial costs. Her husband Clifford Irving is serving a 2 1/4 year sentence in Lewisburg. The court partially suspended the term for one judge while others favored an unconditional two-year term. The sentence accounts for two months served in the United States.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Edith Irving
Howard Hughes
Hans Artinay
Clifford Irving
Lewisburg
Texas bus and truck crash claims seven lives
A bus and truck collision in west Texas near the New Mexico line kills seven and injures others as part of a string of crashes in the area. Survivors recount panic and fire as the vehicle carried a San Francisco to Miami route passenger load, with a Port Stockton motel stay noted by one witness.
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Texas
New Mexico
Fort Sumner
N.M
Littlefield
Tex
Frank Cantu
la Villa
Rio Grande Valley
Cantu
Port Stockton
San Francisco
Miami
Stockton
Kerrville, Bus Co
San Antonio
Evacuations Under Way as Wounded Knee Standoff Intensifies
Women and children were being evacuated from Wounded Knee as militants fortified the village before a government deadline to depart. Seven former hostages were to join the move, leaving only one priest. Justice officials warned nonresidents to leave by 7 p.m. or face arrest. Father Manhart vowed to stay to serve his people.
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Wounded Knee
Justice Department
Paul Manhart
Carter Camp
American Indian Movement
Office evacuated in bomb threat
COPENHAGEN Den mark The American Express offices were evacuated today after a telephone bomb threat. Staff were evacuated while police searched the building. A bomb was found and police had no clue to the caller’s identity.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
American Express
Disabled Hero Cop Re-Captures Bank Robbers
Belt Gardens police officer William Hower, 27 and disabled, chased a bank bandit after hearing the demand for money at Golden State Bank. Without a gun he cornered the robber, who fled in a car then hid in an industrial area where two suspects surrendered. Rudolf Martinez, 49, Oxnard, and Bernard Perez Jr, 40, Whittier, were arrested.
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Belt Gardens
William Hower
Hower
Keyole
Golden State Bank
Pina
Rudolf Martinez
Oxnard
Bernard Perez Jr
Whittier
L B Airport expansion opposed by local school voices
Francis Lautenberg and nine other school officials warned that civil schools near flight patterns would be affected by expansion plans. Citizens from Cerritos Park, Bixby Hills and neighboring communities pledged opposition to offshore options. Attendees from Torrance, Inglewood, Westchester, Lakewood and Signal Hill attended the hearing amid concerns over noise and air traffic.
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Francis Laufenberg
Lautenberg
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Cerritos Park
Bixby Hills
Torrance
Inglewood
Westchester
Lakewood
Signal Hill
Llanal Hill
Agra
EPA moves to halt most construction over air rules
The EPA will require states to assess air pollution before approving shopping centers, stadiums, highways and similar projects. The plan could pause many builds in high pollution areas including Los Angeles and Washington metro regions.
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Washington
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Los Angeles
Court of Appeals
William D. Ruckelshaous
Libyan airliner survivor dies in Beersheba hospital
Beersheba report: one more Libyan airliner survivor dies at the city hospital raising toll to six. Abu Bakr Mohammed Rabayati 83 relapsed today after airliner shot down by Israeli warplanes on Feb 1 during its Tripoli to Cairo flight.
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Israel
Abu Bakr Mohammed
Suez Canal
Tripoli
Cairo
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Army of Foes
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Roos Atkins
Los Cerritos Center
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