Police kill armed man in sorority house
A University of Arkansas student armed with a 12 gauge shotgun entered a Delta Delta Delta sorority house in Fayetteville. He threatened women, claimed he was fixing to shoot, and was shot three times by a campus patrolman. he died later at Washington Regional Medical Center. The motive remains unknown pending relatives notification.
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Fayetteville, Ark
University of Arkansas
Delta Delta Delta
Merry Lee Hewitt
Clint Northrop
Fayetteville
Mark Hanna
Hanna
Washington Regional Medical Center
Catholic Conference to house 1400 Cuban refugees
The UPI report states the State Department will give $3.5 million to the U S Catholic Conference to resettle 1400 Cuban sealift refugees from Fort Chaffee Arkansas and federal prisons. Most are single, illiterate, and hard to place. Forty dioceses will assist with housing and services.
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Miami
UPI
U.S. Catholic Conference
State Department
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Miami Herald
Catholic Conference
Gerald Doyle
Washington
Cuba
Doyle
Federal
Tor
Miami Daily
Detroit Schools Open Amid Sickout By Principals
Detroit city schools remained officially open as principals and assistants continued a sickout over a contract dispute. About 90 percent of administrators stayed home, causing sporadic attendance in 24 high schools and several middle schools closed or operating lightly.
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Detroit
Norman Fuqua
Fuqua
Arthur Jefferson
Prairie du Chien Iowa bridge declares emergency state
Wisconsin and Iowa governors Dreyfus and Ray jointly declared an emergency as the U S 18 bridge over the Mississippi linking Prairie du Chien Wisconsin and Marquette Iowa remains closed after a large crack. Emergency services and local economy face disruption with ferry and boats pressed into service. officials fear possible collapse before repairs and seek federal funding.
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Prairie du Chien
Wis
UPI
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mississipp River
Lee S. Dreyfus
Robert Ray
U.S. 18
Was
Marquette
Dreyfus and Ray
Ine
James Bittner
Portsmouth
Ohio
Advier
Ohio River
Artificial heart implant likely seen
Salt Lake City UP I reports the University of Utah review board approved human implantation of a polyurethane artificial heart for a first patient who would die without it. The plan requires FDA approval, with a 17 to 60 year old high risk patient, tethered to an external pump, plus substantial costs for device, hospital stay, and home modifications.
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Robert Jarvik
Artificial Organs Laboratory
University of Utah
Ralph Wakley
Salt Lake City
UPI
Ernst Hichwald
Food and Drug Administration
Eichwald
Texas
Denton Cooley
Argentina
Willem Kolff
Fused heart seals twin girls fate in Nashville
Nine day old Siamese twins Samantha Dawn and Marie Lynn Self died after a day long operation at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Doctors partially separated them before discovering their hearts were fused beyond repair. Parents Katherine and Roger Self, both teenagers, were unavailable for comment.
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Nashville
Tenn. Tap
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Samantha Dawn
Marie Lynn Self
Ginger Carnahan
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Roger Self
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Salina Street
Syracuse
New York
Gulistan
Saxony
G.A.F
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