New quake rocks Algeria hampering survivor search
A fresh tremor struck near Al-Asnam two hours after dawn hampering rescue teams seeking survivors from the Friday quake that killed about 20 000. Officials warn the final death toll could rise well past 20 000 as hundreds remain trapped and thousands homeless spread across a 60 mile destruction zone.
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Al-Asnam
Algeria
UPI
Algerian Red Crescent
Red Cross
Algiers
Red Crescent
Masoud Belaone
Interior Ministry
Bendjedid Chadli
Gilford shareholders approve $52 million merger
Gilford Instrument Laboratories shareholders vote 1,261,767 for to 1,620 against with 525 abstentions on a $52 million tax free merger with Corning Glass Works. Exchange sets 4528 Corning shares per Gilford. Fractions paid in cash. Company employs about 800 in Oberlin, Cleveland, and Waltham. Estate of Saul R. Gilford holds about 22 percent.
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Gilford Instrument Laboratories, Inc
Corning Glass Works
Corning
Raymond E. Smiley
Gilford
Smiley
Gilford Instrument
Cleveland
Waltham
Mass
Saul R. Gilford
Metro
Diane
Mikie) Sherman
Catherine
Argentinian wins 1980 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Argentinian Perez Esquivel, a leader of Servicio Pat y Justicia, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for coordinating nonviolent movements across Latin America. The prize carries a $215,000 award. The Nobel Committee highlighted his shift from architecture teaching in 1974 to human rights work amid Argentina's civil conflict.
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Oslo
Norway
UPI
Argen Tecir Oles i
Servicio Pat Y Justicia
Ameriecas
Nobel Committee
Perez Esquivel
Quaker Society
Latin America
Tecai
Local police face funding cut from LEAA
Area officials warn that removal of LEAA funding will hamper police training education and equipment. Lt William Cameron of Elyria notes many officers benefited from LEAA funded classes at Lorain County Community College. Bay Village’s Peter Gray says county police projects and units like the West Shore Enforcement Bureau may halt without federal support.
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
LEAA
Congress
Wiliam Cameron
Elyria
Lorain County Community College
LCCC
Cameron
Ohio State Patrol Academy
Columbus
SEAA
Cameron Sai
Bay Village
Peter Gray
Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
Cuyahoga County
Gray
West Shore Enforcement Bureau
WEB
Cleveland
Phantastic Phillies meet Royals in World Series opener
Report notes the first World Series game Tuesday night between the Phillies and the Kansas City Royals. The piece also covers LEAA funding cuts affecting Lorain and area police and city plans to continue crime alert services on a limited basis. Weather outlook calls for sunny skies, mid 50s, light winds.
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Kansas City Royals
Gray
Lorain
Rick Novak
Loram
Novak
Strongsville
Raymond Buchman
Buchman
LEAA
Berea
Olmsted
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Alva Myrdal
Sweden
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Philish Phirst
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