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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1985
Page
1
Philadelphia residents mourn as nine year old Robyn Prattis and other children cope with trauma after police bombs levelled the MOVE house and over 50 nearby homes. William Cullen Bryant School students report night terrors and sleeplessness amid the destruction and fear.
Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode defends the police bombing of a suspected terrorist stronghold as at least 11 people are confirmed dead and a neighborhood is destroyed. He rejects calls for City Managing Director Leo Brooks to resign amid two gunbattles and an aerial confrontation.
Writer decries the MOVE house bombing as an episode of madness with critics blaming police. Goode says the bombing was accidental and not a planned destruction of the house. Mayor, Page A12.
Federal officials search for William P. Hunt and J.L. Hunt of Utica who were listed as owners of the crash plane. Pilot Aimee Garvey 34 of Old Saybrook was killed along with passenger Kevin Kelly 34 near Route 20 in Eaton. Garvey had a 1978 Maine marijuana smuggling conviction. authorities investigate whether other ties to drug activity exist.
A brief forecast notes showers probable Friday with temperatures reaching the mid sixties. Local conditions are expected to improve thereafter with a mild weekend ahead.
Allied Corp plans to merge with Signals Co in a cash and stock transaction valued at over 434 billion, creating a large high technology and engineering conglomerate with projected annual revenues of about 16.7 billion. Analysts compare it to GE in the 1990s and note strong aerospace and automotive electronics positions.
The 225 million year old skeleton, described as ostrich sized, was found in the Painted Desert by UC Berkeley scientists. The find promises new insight into the dawn of the dinosaur era as mammals birds and flowering plants had yet to appear and early reptiles declined.
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