Midwest Express DC 9 crashes after takeoff near Milwaukee
The Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 plunged from Mitchell Field causing 31 fatalities as witnesses recalled a sudden nose-down dive. Fire and debris spread across a wooded area while investigators prepared to inspect the wreckage and engines.
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Midwest Express Airlines
Mitchell Field
General
Billy Mitchell Field
National Transportation Safety Board
Official report challenges Reagan on South Africa policy
President Reagan said there has been great improvement in South Africa but State Department background notes describe racial discrimination as increasingly institutionalized since 1948. Officials cited a 12 page pamphlet summarizing history and economy that offers scant support for claims of progress, noting segregation remains in many areas.
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Reagan
South Africa
National Party
State Department
WSB Radio
Atlanta
United States
Cape Town riot victims buried at mass funeral
In Cape Town area, police and soldiers surrounded a black township for a mass funeral of at least 10 youths killed in anti-apartheid violence amid renewed riots. A 14-year-old girl and an unidentified boy died in separate Ciskei incidents as protests flared across the region.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
United Democratic Front
Ciskei
Indian Ocean
Homeland
Mavuso Ngwendu
Bomvana Mankayi
Ngwendu
Artificial heart patient receives real heart in pioneering surgery
In Tucson a 25-year-old man, Michael Drummond, received the heart of 19-year-old Terrell K Griffith, ending his Jarvik-7 support. The transplant followed nine days with the artificial heart and involved a seven-hour travel for Griffith’s heart from Tyler Texas. Doctors planned Jarvik-7 use as a bridge until a donor could be found.
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Tucson
Ariz
Michael Drummond
Drummond
University Medical Center
Sharon Khoshe
Act
Jack Copeland
Terrell K. Griffith
Tyler
Texas
Griffin
Copeland
Photos Missing in Case Ties Dodrill to Prostitution Scheme
A year-old girl is linked to alleged incidents at a Chestnut Street apartment rented by Dodrill. Police found negatives during a search of his East Broad Street residence tied to his Party Favors business. Case workers identified the victims and an expert said the photos were not trick photography. Dodrill waived a jury trial. Cirigliano will hear the case.
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Dodrill
East Broad Street
Lorain County Children’s Services
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