Tritium-Laced Water Leak At Pickering A Reactor
Ontario Hydro reports about 14 gallons of tritiated water leaked into Lake Ontario from Unit One at Pickering A. The utility says the release is virtually undetectable against background levels and poses no public hazard. The leak stems from a heat exchanger and is unrelated to a separate leak that shut Unit Two earlier.
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Toronto
Lake Ontario
Ontario Hydro
Bob Popple
Pickering A
Popple
Enrollment to drop again in state as births fall
The New York Education Department reports 2.2 percent fall in fall enrollment, the 18th straight decline. About 3.2 million students will attend public and private schools, down 75 thousand from 1982. Public districts spend 12.2 billion in 1983 84 with 4.8 billion state aid.
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Albany
State Education Department
Education Department
John Stiglmeier
New York
Boards of Cooperative Educational Services
McFarlane heads to Syria for peace talks
US Middle East envoy Robert C. McFarlane travels to Damascus today to press for peace in Lebanon after a day of bombings that killed 23 and wounded more than 50. In Damascus he will meet Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam with President Hafez Assad expected to join tomorrow. No major breakthrough is anticipated on his first Syria trip since replacing Philip C. Habib.
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Middle East
Robert C. McFarlane
Syria
Lebanon
McFarlane
Abdul Halim Khaddam
Damascus
Beirut
Hafez Assad
Philip C. Habib
Reagan
Cantaloupe Strike Erupts in Firebaugh Pickets Clash
In Firebaugh and nearby Los Banos fierce clashes between hundreds of striking cantaloupe packers and non-strikers injure 21 and lead to 19 arrests. Officials fear more violence as millions of dollars worth of cantaloupes sit in fields awaiting shipment on the 17th day of the strike. The firm seeks pay cuts while Local 78 B demands wages frozen at last year’s level.
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Firebaugh
Calif
Cantaloupe
Los Banos
Dennis Palmer
Firebaugh Police Department
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union
Elderly man breaks windows to escape overheated nursing home
In Opa-Locka authorities report an unlicensed nursing home operated by Dorothy Gray Pitts housed three elderly residents. Clarence Monroe 88 used a cane to smash windows to flee dehydration and extreme heat. William Gibson 100 and Daisy Gray 88 were also present. Gibson unable to walk and Gray an amputee. Police say the home was run by a Hebrew Israelites member.
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Miami
Opa-Locka
Richard Ortiz
Clarence Monroe
Crime Watch
William Gibson
Daisy Gray
Gibson
Gray
Dorothy Gray Pitts
Man stuck in chimney not Santa, arrested after failed burglary
Windsor Locks Connecticut police say a 21 year old resident, James Roberts, became stuck up to his armpits in a chimney during an attempted burglary near 2 am. He was freed by the fire department rescue unit and charged with attempted third degree burglary and criminal mischief.
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Windsor Locks
Conn
Santa Claus
James Roberts
Emb ar Embassy worker held after Beirut bombing
A U S embassy employee suspected of leaking inside information has been detained since the April 18 bombing that killed at least 63 people. Lebanese authorities question several embassy staff and Americans aid the probe as FBI specialists analyze the site for clues.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Ameri
United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Solidarity Leader Walesa condemns post martial law policy
Solidarity chief Lech Walesa accuses the Communist government in Warsaw of repressive and fraudulent post martial law measures and breaking the August 1980 pact. He says authorities treat the accord as waste paper except for live church radio and urges opinion on pledged implementations.
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Cuomo vetoes bill on utilities selling their own stock
Governor Cuomo rejected a measure allowing private utilities to sell their own stock directly to customers via a PSC approved plan. He cited missing criteria and safeguards for unsophisticated buyers. He also signed tougher DWI related license revocation laws and AIDS funding, while vetoing a state agency paperwork reduction bill.
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Cuomo
Albany
Mario Cuomo
New York
Public Service Commission
Commission
Weather: Storms hit Midwest and Gulf Coast region today
Partly cloudy tonight and mostly sunny tomorrow with highs in the mid 80s. Storms battered Louisiana Illinois Wisconsin Missouri with a St. Louis cloudburst causing a building collapse and fatalities. I 55 closed for hours as debris cleared. Scattered showers expected southeast Texas and the central Gulf Coast while much of the nation stays fair. Sunset 6:20 p.m. Record highs and lows noted for dates, with humidity around 87 percent yesterday and 96 today.
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Missouri
St. Louis
Interstate 55
Texas
Gulf Coast
Eastern
Great Lakes
Atlantic Cogs States
Midwest Plateau
Central Rockies
Central Plains
mid-Mississippi Valley
Rockies
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