Tragedy at Piraeus Stadium Leaves 19 Dead in Stampede
In Athens area, 40,000 fans left Karaiskaki Stadium after a 6 0 Olympiacos win over AEK when a stampede injured over 50 and killed 19. A special commission probes causes amid conflicting eyewitness accounts of a blocked exit and crowd surge. Hospitals list several in critical condition. victims include mostly young men, one woman, and a 14 year old boy.
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Athens
Greece
Karaiskaki Stadium
Piraeus
Olympiacos
AEK
Greek Soccer Federation
George Ratlis
ALK
Amherst Writer Cynthia Dwyer to Return Home After Iran Detention
Free lance writer Cynthia Dwyer expected to be released from an Iranian prison and fly to Vienna then New York. Her husband John Dwyer, Buffalo State College English Department chair, says the homecoming will be a private family affair with a calm reception. Neighbors and reporters gathered at their Amherst home as arrangements were discussed and friends prepared chili for the family.
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Amherst
Free-Lance
Cynthia Dwyer
Troes
Dwyer
Buffalo State College
John Sharpe
Sharpe
New York City
Buffalo
Tehran
William Miller
Benjamin
Washington
Mildred Brown
Horatio
Ark
Dwyer release delayed amid Tehran airport chaos
Mrs. Dwyer aboard a noon flight in Tehran when Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized all film taken by Western photographers at the airport. In Buffalo her husband Dr. John F. Dwyer says connections to New York were missed, plans to greet her in New York remain unsettled. The Amherst, New York, woman faces a Tehran court verdict on espionage and related charges, with nine months imprisonment and deportation for the May 5 arrest. Two other Americans and four Britons held in Iran await further developments.
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Dwyer
Mehrabad
Buffalo
New York
Buffalo State College
Europe
Vienna
United States
Pars
Cen
Tral Islamic Revolutionary Court
Tehran
Iran
Mom Sobhan
Ran
Lan
Rockwell International
Zia Nassry
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
Andrew Pyke
John Coleman
Audrey
Jeai Waddell
Tran
Boxing promoter resurfaces amid embezzlement case and show plans
Harold J. Smith, head of Muhammad Ali Pro Sports, reappeared to say the canceled 8 million This Is It boxing card at Madison Square Garden will be rescheduled after Wells Fargo filed a 21.3 million embezzlement suit naming Smith. Ali urged him to reveal himself. Smith hinted at a Wells Fargo official’s possible death and delivered a tape to KNBC while FBI questions loom.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Harold J. Smith
Muhammed Ali
Smith
Madison Square Garden
Muhammad Ali Pro Sports
MAPS
Wells Fargo Bank
United Press International
New York
Wells Fargo
Chicago Sun-Times Today
Ali
Ben Lewis
Beverly Hills
Lewis
Death toll climbs in circus tent fire in Bangalore
In Bangalore, a catastrophic circus tent fire during a children’s matinee killed 71 people and wounded more than 400, many of them women and children. Police and officials suspect wiring as a probable cause, and panic and a stampede contributed to the high death toll in a tent near capacity.
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New Delhi
India
UPI
Bangalore
Bigtop
Venus Circus
Rock Cut trash plant plan defends steam transmission route
The G Team argues that cutting frills lowers costs for an $11 million long-distance steam transmission project serving 160 buildings including SU campus and area hospitals. A mass-burning plant would burn trash at 1800 degrees producing steam for power and heat, with potentialExport to Niagara Mohawk if demand falls.
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William Southern
Gteam
Rock Cut
Mulroy
Harrisburg, Fa
Omaha
Neb
Harrisburg
Europe
Japan
Carrier Corp
United States
Hempstead, L.L
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse
Mulroy outlines Rock Cut trash to energy plan
Mulroy proposes a Rock Cut plant to burn trash for electricity, with air scrubbers and a 300 foot smokestack. Metals recovered from ash would fund county proceeds while remaining waste buried in a county landfill. The plan envisions private operation under a county agency with tax exempt revenue bonds to finance construction, aiming to avoid taxpayer costs.
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Mulroy
Camillus Town
Belle Isle Road
SWDA
McBride
Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency
Rock Cut
Resource Recovery Agency
County Industrial Development Agency
Ongadaga County
G-Team
Polish party meeting signals union shaping drive and strikes
The session opened without Stanislaw Kania as party head, Kazimierz Barcikowski delivered the Politburo report, and Tadeusz Grabski spoke on forming union conditions. Western diplomats suspect Kania may be replaced before the Soviet Congress as Solidarity strikes span Jelenia Gora and Poznan, with thousands idle and factory closures.
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Stanislaw Kania
Kazimierz Barcikowski
Tadeusz Grabski
PAP
Kazimierz Barczikowski
Kania
Solidarity
Gdansk
Poland
University of Poznan
Lodz University
Jelenia Gora
Solidarity Union
Warsaw
Communist Party
Trybuna
Fire tears through North Side apartment building injuring occupants
A third floor blaze at a stucco wood frame building sent Lois Brown and Johnson to escape via a bathroom window and ledge. Firefighters rescued Brown from the edge while Bailey aided others as about 20 residents fled unharmed. The roof collapsed as flames spread, with investigators expected to take hours to determine a cause amid debris.
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Brown
Bailey
Thomas Finnie
Lois Brown
Johnson
Serbun
Centro
Thomas Han
Lon
Hanlon
Green and
Lodi Streets
East Washington and
Sea Streets
Near East Ide
Fred Plumpton
Engine Co. 7
E. Washington St
Plumpton
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Robin Sanfilipo
FBI
KNBC
Stu Nahan
Wheeling
Eddie Beesley
Oklahoma City
Ludu
Politburo
Emil Wojtaszek
Soviet Union
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