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DIED. Tran Van Huu, 87, Prime Minister of Viet Nam from 1950 to 1952; in Paris. Huu, a wealthy financier, based his pro-French Vietnamese government on his country's small upper class, exiled his ablest political associates and ignored French pleas to fight insurgent forces of the Communist...
The Great Plains and the Midwest were hit hardest by the air mass that rolled in from Canada. In Big Timber, Mont., the wind chill factor (a combination of 15-m.p.h. winds and temperatures of 40 below zero) made it feel as if it were -85°. In Minneapolis, the...
Instead, Syria blinked. As Arafat's forces retreated to Tripoli after putting up a fierce fight against superior numbers in the city's suburban refugee camps, it became clear that the wily chairman could hold out longer than expected. The Saudis and the Soviets, reluctant to see Arafat destroyed, began...
These sanctions were invalidated last month by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Lois G Forer.
EXECUTED. Robert Austin Sullivan, 36, convicted murderer; by electrocution, despite clemency pleas from seven Florida bishops and Pope John Paul II; at the state penitentiary in Starke, Fla. Sullivan was found guilty of the 1973 slaying of the night manager of a restaurant outside Miami. Although he first confessed to...