Ceasefire under shelling as Beirut battles flare
Artillery fire resumes across Beirut as Israel and the PLO clash near the Christian Moslem divide threatening a fragile cease-fire. Massive Tel Aviv protests demand peace while Arafat meets Avneri in west Beirut amid talks on a multinational force.
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Beirut
Tel Aviv
Israel
Lebanon
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Christian East Beirut
Arafat
West Beirut
Uri Avneri
Averni
Mahmoud Labadi
Avneri
Likud
West
U.S
Philip Habib
Weather outlook with warm temperatures and light rain chance
Partly cloudy conditions continue through Monday with highs near 80 today and mid 80s Monday. Tonight's low around 60 with a southeast wind at 10 to 15 mph. Precipitation probability 10 percent today and near zero Sunday night. Details on Page A-3.
Did Franklin pen the declaration
New York AP reports that Maurice and Mollie Freedman claim Benjamin Franklin authored the Declaration of American Independence, challenging the widely accepted view that Thomas Jefferson wrote the draft. Jefferson and Franklin scholars dismiss the theory as unfounded while noting the Freedmans offer no consensus. The debate centers on handwriting analyses and the original draft in the Library of Congress.
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New York
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Jefferson
Franklin
Maurice
Mollie Freedman
New York City
Royal Canadian Navy
Mollie
Cooper Union
Paris
Library of Congress
Arkansas bus hijacking ends in double suicide
Two religious fanatics hijacked a Continental Trailways bus near Jasper Arkansas and after pleading for police to kill them, the pair turned guns on each other on a mountain bridge over the Little Buffalo River. Mrs Haigler died after killing her husband and then herself. fifteen passengers freed unharmed. Police removed suspected dynamite on the bus. The couple worshiped a Jasper resident known as Emory Lamb, claiming they would be resurrected in three days.
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Ark
UPI
Continental Trailways
Little Buffalo River
Ozark Mountains
Arkansas
Keith Haigler
Kate
Haigler
Little Rock
Polite
Fou
Emory Lamb
Astronauts salute as shuttle nears reentry
The Columbia 4 crew led by Thomas Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield prepared for a Fourth of July touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base California after seven days in orbit. Mission control said re-entry was on schedule and the mission aimed to usher in a new era of American space operations. The crew wrapped up in orbit with a patriotic television segment and final preparations before the final descent.
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Uncle Sam
America
Walter J. Smith
River Oaks
Rocky River
Ridgeview
C-T
John G. Kenney
Cape Canaveral
Fila
UPI
Columbia 4
Reagan
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Thomas
Ken" Mattingly
Henry Hartsfield
Monkeyshines and Me A Losesome Monkey Escape Tale
A humorous reminiscence recalls the famous Monkeyshines escape at Hopkins Airport in June and a fictional elder monkey figure named Seldom Seen, reflecting on days of adventure from 1979 and the imagined Japan voyage, with playful nicks and zookeeper chatter.
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Hopkins
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