Wyoming storm floods Cheyenne. four dead, four missing
A 100-year thunderstorm drenched Cheyenne Wyoming with over 6 inches of rain and 6 inches of hail causing cars and trucks to float through 6 feet of water. Three tornadoes formed while thousands sought shelter. Four killed and four missing, including a deputy and a girl he attempted to rescue, as police emergency services strained. Water behind a western dam began receding but risk of dam breach remained amid forecast storms.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Jack Daseler
National Weather Service
Lice Department
Laramie County
Jeff Ketchum
Wyoming City
Crow Creek
F.E. Warren Air Force Base
Weather Service
Mall deal awaits closing in Syracuse area shopping mall
Reisman Property Interests of Rochelle Park New Jersey expects to close on the Northern Lights Mall in Mattydale by August end after signing the purchase contract. Abbott Road Management of Buffalo holds the seller stake. price not disclosed. Northern Lights, developed in the 1950s, has undergone upgrades and houses Chappell's, Zayre, Freddy's Drug Store, Wheels Auto Parts, and other tenants.
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Reisman Property Interests Inc
Rochelle Park
N.J
Northern Lights
Mattydale
Lester Gross
Abbott Road Management Inc
Buffalo
Gross
William Porter
Two Guys Discount Department Store
Porter
Buffalo Company
Abbott
Chappell’s
PennCan
Zayre
Syracuse Area
Freddy’s
Gordon Gross
Melville Corp
Wheels Discount Auto Parts
Fay’s Drug Co
Congress adjourns on vacations after approving 1986 budget
Congress ends its session for a month with a $968 billion budget and a $172 billion deficit. The House and Senate approve a $13 billion operations bill and fund $27 million for Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Sanctions against apartheid in South Africa pass 380-48 but await September action in the Senate.
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Washington
Congress
South Africa
House
Senate
Reagan
Nicaragua
White House
Carl D. Pursell
R-Mich
Robert Dole
Protest group blames government in slaying of S. African lawyer
A leading anti apartheid group condemned the killing of black activist lawyer Nonyamezele Mxenge as a cold cowardly calculated assassination. Police sought killers while the United Democratic Front warned against unfounded accusations. Australia recalls its ambassador in protest as Western nations withdraw envoys from Pretoria. The UDF asserts government agents might be involved, amid global diplomatic recalls and talks with three Common Market countries.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Nonyamezele Mxenge
United Democratic Front
Canberra
Australia
Pretoria
United States
Herman Nickel
Foreign Ministry
Italy
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Israeli jets strike Syrian Social Nationalist HQ in Lebanon
Israeli warplanes bombed the east Lebanon headquarters of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Chtaura, after the group claimed seven death by own action car bomb attacks in Israel's security zone. Reports say at least two people were killed and four wounded, with later figures up to fifteen dead and twenty wounded.
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Beirut
Lebanon
East Lebanon
Israel
Christian Voice of Lebanon Radio
Social Nationalist Party
Bekaa Valley
Chtaura
Beirut-Damascus
Habib Kayrouz
Kayrouz
Associated Press
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
South Lebanon
Arnoun
Seven held in Iran arms plot with Pentagon link
FBI says an Army officer Lt Col Wayne Gillespie and six others plotted to send thousands of missiles to Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini. The scheme stretched from the Pentagon's weapons command to Florida and California, aiming to resupply Iran with more advanced missiles amid Middle East tensions.
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Washington
Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iraq
FBI
Pentagon
Florida
California
U.S
U S
Wayne Gillespie
Gillespie
Western Alliance
West Point
Vietnam
Don McClow
Army Material Command
AMC
Britain
West Germany
France
Middle East
Far East
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S. Africa
Senate Budget Committee
Pete Dominici
R-N.m
House Budget Committee
William Gray
D-Pa
Laserphoto
Nonyamezelo Mxenge
West Point Grad
Army Materiel Command
Alexandria
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