Residents plan to flee as krypton venting starts near TMI
In Harrisburg, Saundra Rineer and others prepare weekend evacuations as Metropolitan Edison begins venting 57 000 curies of krypton gas from Three Mile Island. Officials say 1 to 20 percent of nearby residents may depart, with venting lasting two to four weeks and Gov Thornburgh urging normal life.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Saundra Rineer
Clinton County
Patricia Street
Maryland
Andrea Hand
Groton
Conn
Metropolitan Edison Co
Three Mile Island
GTC Gee Pene
Kevin Malloy
Civil Defense
Dauphin County
George Hickerwell
Swatara
Army attacks National University in El Salvador clash
In San Salvador a fierce two hour gunbattle erupted as 400 troops using armored cars attacked the National University, a leftist refuge. About 25 people were killed, 12 students wounded, and some 100 arrested within the campus and La Fosa slum during the operation. Witnesses described bodies found face down with head shots.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
UPI
National University
la Fosa
Vietnamese capture four aid workers and photographers on Thai frontier
Vietnamese forces captured two American photographers and two International Red Cross workers while they searched for wounded along the Thai Cambodian border. U.S. officials pledged Hanoi would be held responsible for the Americans' safe return as fighting flares renewed near the frontier 150 miles east of Bangkok.
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Bangkok
Thailand
UPI
U.S
Burton Levin
United States
Hanoi
New York
ABC News
Carter
Kailand
Cambodia
George Lienemann
Los Angeles
Richard Franken
Miami
Lienemann
George Mann
Franken
Lensman Advertising Agency
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
Red Cross
Robert Ashe
Great Britain
Pierre Perrin
Bains de Bretagne
France
Ashe
British Empire
Sinking of Shapla Passenger Launch Near Dacca
In Bangladesh the passenger launch Shapla carrying 500 plus sank after a collision with an oil tanker on the Meghna River about 20 miles east of Dhaka. Over 200 feared dead, at least 100 swam ashore with seven hospitalized, many others believed trapped inside. Separately in Uttar Pradesh, a landslide killed at least 50, with officials fearing up to 150 deaths as heavy rains triggered boulder-fall on Gyansu village.
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Dacca
Bangladesh
Meghna River
Uttar Pradesh
Gyansu
New Delhi
Jaws photogs attacked as sharks test gear off California
Valerie Taylor 44 of Sydney was bitten by a blue shark during gear tests 3 miles northeast of San Clemente Island. She and her husband Ron were airlifted to University Hospital, treated for a 4 inch leg wound, and she was later released in good condition. Across the coast, Frank Mundus famed for Quint in Jaws harpooned a 15 foot great white off Montauk, with his heavy catch dragging a scale from a coal company.
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United Press International
California
Long Island
Capt
Quint
Frank Mundus
Coast Guard
San Diego
Valerie Taylor
Sydney
Australia
Ron
San Clemente Island
Taylor
University Hospital
TNS
Mundus
Montauk
East Hampton
Tanker Fire Forces SB Highway 17 Closure in California
Poisonous fumes rose from a burning sulfur tanker on Highway 17 in California, prompting CHP to close the southbound lanes. Officials said fumes and molten sulfur on the road forced the shutdown, with several hospitalized after exposure and the driver reported injured in the initial blast. Officials warned the closure would last at least until noon.
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Oakland
Calif
California Highway Patrol
Highway 17
Highway Patrol
Roberta Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Indian Point workers hit by excess radiation exposure
Two maintenance workers at Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan received 5.7 and 4.5 rems in one day while removing a radiation device from unit 3. PASNY said the dose exceeded three months allowance. NRC deemed the plant 10 times safer yet riskier for more people and will review a coalition call to shut units 2 and 3. The workers, ages 32 and 42, uninjured, returned to work but will avoid radiation areas for now.
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Dick Thornburgh
Buchanan
UPD
Indian Point
Power Authority
State of
New York
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC
New Jersey
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Citizens Task Force
Commission
PASNY
No. 3
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Robert Arnold
Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. District Court
Washington
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Ali
Sia Ay
Hafner’s
RED Bark Country Farm Market
Lew
Buckley RD
Liverpool
Florida
R.T.U
QUT
GAS & OK
Kale
Mashad
Pars
Ahwaz
Islamic Republic
Iraq
Tabriz
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Tehran
Foreign Ministry
Society For Prevention of Sin
Iraland
Mohitadi Guilani
KUNA
Khomeini
Denyayeh Iran
Arr
Toshiba
Howard Johnson
Northern Lights
Syracuse
Esro TV Corp
Rochester Se
Waliaay Inn
North Worday
Habi
Busters
USA
Ganda
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