Children among 43 killed in Honduran bus flood
A bus carrying 33 preschoolers and seven adults, including American missionary Dorothy Saunder, was swept away by a flash flood on the Rio Grande between El Naranjal and Cantarranas. Forty three died, with three children rescued and four still missing as rescue teams hunted downstream.
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Honduras
Rio Grande
National Fire Department
Frank Medina
el Naranjal
Cantartanas
Red Cross
Jordan Peralta
Dorothy Saunder
George B. Hood
Medina
Cantarranas
Peralta
New Delhi
India
Sri Lanka
Lafayette
Eugene J. Hebert
Valadehena
Batticaloa
Hebert
Tami
Hed Cross
Hravur
Eigg Islanders Fear Landlord Sale Sees Future Jeopardized
On the Isle of Eigg Scotland seventy residents fear loss of their way of life as the island is slated for sale this autumn to a potential land speculator. The 7 500 acre estate near Muck and Rhum could fetch over 1 850 000 dollars as the current owner faces a legal dispute with his wife.
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Isle of Figg
Keith Schellenberg
Atlantic
Figg
Angus MacKinnon
Isles of
Muck
Walesa to Run for Poland President in 1990 Race
Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa announced from Gdansk that he will run for president of the Polish Republic in popular elections. He cited fulfilling a pledge from 1980 and said reforms require democratic leadership. The race shapes a multiparty system between Center Alliance backing Walesa and ROAD supporting Mazowiecki, amid post-Communist tensions.
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Lech Walesa
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Gdansk
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
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Solidarity Union
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Caribbean rebounds after Hugo battered islands
Caribbean islands slowly recover from Hugo with Seaside resorts reopening and cruise calls resuming. St Croix and Montserrat still rebuild while St Thomas St John and the British Virgin Islands show rapid gains. FEMA aid and housing delays shape the uneven recovery across the region.
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Puerto Rico
Hugo
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U.S. Virgin Islands
Montserrat
Carl Mitchell
Organization of Eastern Caribbean
St. John's
Antigua
Betty Sperber
Hotel and Tourism Association
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
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St. John
British Virgin Islands
U.S
Israelis hail high level talks with Gorbachev in Moscow
Israeli Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai and Science Minister Yuval Neeman met Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for 24 hours in Moscow in the highest level encounter since 1967. They carried a personal message to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and spoke of the Persian Gulf crisis and potential trade deals, including agriculture and oil.
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Jerusalem
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Moscow
Gideon Raphael
Israel
Yitzhak Modai
Yuval Neeman
Gorbachev
Israel names Aridor to U.N. post
Israel appoints Yoram Aridor a former finance minister with no prior diplomatic posts as ambassador to the United Nations. At 57 he will assume duties after the General Assembly opens in New York, succeeding acting Ambassador Yochanan Bein.
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Israel
Yoram Aridor
United Nations
Aridor
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Likud
Shamir
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Abdor
General Assembly
New York
Yochanan Bein
Soviet aiplane talks hint at tripartite link
Raphael warned Moscow decades of Soviet support for Arab states and oppression of Jews while Haaretz noted dramatic Moscow weekend events defying predictions. Modai and Neeman met unannounced with Mikhail Gorbachev, arranged by immigrant Ilya Zemtsov, to discuss wide import export possibilities and a Soviet U.S. Israel passenger plane.
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Israel
Berlin Wall
Chinese Wall
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Moscow
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Neeman
Ilya Zemtsov
Gorbachev
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