Bomb threat forces Boston diversion of British Airways jet
A British Airways flight from London to Miami diverted to Boston after an anonymous bomb threat. State police and explosives dogs searched the jet with no bomb found. 341 passengers and 19 crew exited safely via a wheeled stairway on the runway. The threat came four hours after departure.
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Gritiah
Miami
Landon
Phil Orlandella
Massachusetts Port Authority
British Airways
London
John Lamps
Labrador
Lamp
Boston
Tanker and Container Ship Collide Off Galveston
A Panamanian tanker and an American container ship collided in nighttime fog about 20 miles off Galveston. No injuries were reported. Fuel oil leaked slowly from a hole in the Margaret Sykes, a New Orleans based container ship. The Shoun Emperor sustained considerable bow damage but no cargo spilled.
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Galveston
Texas
U.S. Coast Guard
Margaret Sykes
Cmdr
Frank Whipple
Coast Guard Marine Safety Office
Panama
Whipple
Pilot killed as jet crashes near Miami airport
A corporate jet crashed on takeoff Saturday near Miami International Airport, killing the pilot. Firefighters found the co-pilot on the tarmac after escaping the Jet Star L-325. The aircraft, carrying parts to Dallas Fort Worth, dragged a rack across airport property and burst into flames near the main access road.
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Susu
Miami International Airport
Ising
Metro-Dade
Bull Glass
Dallas-Fort Worth
Starr ordered to pay over seventy four thousand in recording costs
In Atlanta Superior Court Judge Clarence Doane ruled that Ringo Starr must pay musician Chips Moman 74 354 dollars plus seven percent interest to cover recording session costs for an unreleased 1987 album. Starr contended alcohol influence and dissatisfaction with results. He sued Moman and CBS Records to block release.
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Starr
Atlanta
Ringo Starr
Superior
Clarence Doane
Chips Moman
Coenen
Moman
CBS Records
College Park, Ga
Riot-free Klan rally draws 2,400 officers in Atlanta
About 50 to 60 Klansmen and supporters staged a peaceful rally at Capitol with 2,400 officers guarding 100 counterdemonstrators. Police from Georgia National Guard, Atlanta, state troopers and GBI kept tensions calm as protesters clashed verbally and a small Klan effigy was burned, drawing mixed reactions from locals and officials.
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Atlanta
Sacunday
HEK
Ku Klux Klan
Lena Shapiro
John Brown
Cumming
Cumming City Hall
Courthouise
City Hall
Georgia National Guardsmen
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Cult leader Lundgren preached doom after family killings
Kirtland Ohio police probed a cult led by Jeffrey Lundgren blamed for murdering a five member family. Eight followers were jailed as authorities tied the group to apocalyptic beliefs that only temple insiders could be saved. The victims included Dennis Avery 43 and Chery 42 with three daughters. The temple linked to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints features in the saga.
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Kirtland
Ohio
Jesus
Earth
Jeffrey Lundgren
Luffman
Lundgren
Luftman
Joseph Sth
Salt Lake City
Dennis Avery
Chery
Hher
Trina
Rebecca
Ki Tnvesti
Bushes celebrate 45th anniversary quietly at home
President Bush and Barbara marked 45 years of marriage with a quiet day at home and a dinner with friends. They planned no gifts aside from remodeling a few rooms in their Kennebunkport residence. They attended a White House dinner and the Kennedy Center show A Tuna Christmas, amid Barbara’s 10 day radiation treatment for Graves disease.
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Washington
Bush
Barbara
Kennebunkport
Maine
White House
Kennedy Center
Camp David
Churen
Rye
N.Y
Navy
Pacific
Greenwich
1989 Among Hottest Years in Global Records
Worldwide weather data show 1989 among the hottest years of the last century, likely the fifth warmest since 1880. British and U.S. scientists cite a warming trend, with six warmest years all in the 1980s, while debate continues on the greenhouse effect’s role.
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Philadelphia
United Sates
England
Philip Jones
University of East Anglia
Norwich
Levedeff
NAGA
Enddard-tretinte For Space Studies
GISS
New York City
Jones
U.S
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Mount St. Helens
Alaska
National Weather Service
Yakima
Wash
Steve Malone
University of Washington
Seattle
Ersten Breer
the Associates Press
Alabama
Savannah, Ga
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Tonyalle Ross
Thousaaus
Coumertemorsivatora
Curtist
The
Associated Press
California
AAEB_AGEE
Towrath Road
Dewnt
Hotian Charman
4.C
West Fast Road
Liverpool
New York
Rivenen
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
James E. Hansen
Ininewar
John Topping
Climate Institute
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