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By Associated Press
JUPI'I KK, Ha. ? Seven people, including
three small children were electrocuted in
their car Saturday when it touched another
vehicle on which a downed 7,620-volt
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Witnesses gave conflicting versions of
what happened.
One, Bernard Johnson, told Palm Bcach
County Sheriff's Department that the seven
died as they tried to flee a fire caused by the
power line, which tell in tront ot their mobile
home before dawn, said department
spokeswoman Carolyn Nelson.
She said the seven were electrocuted when
the rear door of their car struck another
automobile on which the downed powerline
had fallen.
But Thomas Kennedy, 23, told The
Press t lu?i five of I hi* victims were
spending the night in the ear and died when
they tried to get out of the vehiele.
Kennedy said Bernett Fulks, 21, her three
children and her boyfriend, Irving Robert
Sr., 26, were in the ear around 4 a.m. when
the downed powcrlinc struck a car parked
nexl to them.
"Irving tried to back away from the wire
but he was trapped in by the trailer." Kennedy
said.
CHICAGO ? Clara
Peller, the feisty actress JOHANNES
who became famous for killed in new i
bellowing "Where's the death and bun
beet " in those hamburger working with
ing "I found it. I Really I i\o deaths '
fovmd it." eastern ( ape
But she's plugging a dif- erowd ol hlael
fcrtfnt product ahd^ died as a result
Wendy's International who died of hi
Inc. said Friday the in* I lie I hurstl;
uorsement me&nt sne macks marchec
couldn't continue to speak of Uitenhage. I
for the hamburger chain. ths of unrest tl
Peller, who is believed . c '"L
to be in her 80's is now do- doad ,.1> pol,cc
ing a commercial for unvnsh,p ou,v
Campbell boup's Prego ? l ff
Spaghetti Sauce, being llUll Ddll
broadcast on prime-time
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Fulks' mother and brother were alerted to
the danger and came out of the trailer to help
the five escape, kennedy said. As they touched
the car, Fulks opened a door that touched
the adjacent car, electrocuting all seven people,
Kennedy said.
lie said the couple was in the car because
Robert did not get along with Fulks' parents.
Pronounced dead at the scene, Nelson
said, were Robert, Fulks and her children,
San Tresa Renett Brown, 4; Irving Fulks Jr.,
2; and Gail Danielle Fulks, 7 months; her
mother, Bcrnice Fulks, 44; and her brother,
James Fulks, 23.
The bodies were taken to the Palm Beach
County medical examiner's office for
autopsies.
lulks' father. James Troy Fulks. 46, slept
through the incident and knew nothing about
it until rescue crews came.
Neighbor Edna Runner said she accom
panted another tulks daughter, Joanne
Fulks, 19, who lives elsewhere, to identify the
bodies.
Florida Power and Light Co. spokesman
l name scneer saici u was noi immediately
known why the powerline had fallen.
"We have a team of investigators trying to
piece together the situation," he said.
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1|U K(I, South Africa ? Seven blacks were
iotini! on Saturday, three of them hacked to
led b\ an angr\ crowd that suspected them of
the \\hite-miiu>rit\ government, police and
occurred in kwanohuhle, a black township in
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\ marchers in a nearby community. Nineteen
dI' die shootings, including a 24-year-old black
s injuries Saturday.
iv shootinps took place when 3,000 to 4,000
1 illegally Irotn l.anga toward the white center
it was the bloodiest simile incident in nine moil
Hat lias left about 250 blacks dead.
Cierric van Rooycn said two blacks were shot
early Saturday moring in Kwazakhele, a black
ide the Indian Ocean city of Port Elizabeth.
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'< ?Eighi people were shot and a woman was
Saturday in an after-hours social club during a
.eon factions of immigrants from the West Intl.
u, iiiliiiuin^ u woman wihi was cigm mom us
avc birth by C'acsarean section after the melee,
:uarded and stable condition at area hospitals,
gunmen fired 28 to 30 shots about 6 a.m., cause
among some 300 people packed into the
in the Bronx, said police Lt. Michael O'Shea.
r crowd left either through the front door and a
pie were known to have jumped out a second
' he said.
t woman was shoi in the stomach, but the bullet
hifd, said North Central Bronx Hospital
Patricia Irving.
imen and one man weie shot in the buttocks,
nd feet.
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LOS ANGELES ? U. S. military
transport planes on Friday airlifted the last
Lthiopian Jews from the Sudan to litael in a
secret operation planned by the Central Intelligence
Agency, the Los Angeles Times
reported.
The Jews, known as Falashas, were loaded
swiftly aboard about 10 C-130 transport
planes beginning at dawn on a gravel airstrip
about eight miles north of Gedaref in eastern
Sudan, the Times said in Saturday's editions.
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Thursday before an au
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^ Generals player Sam
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The planes were believed 10 have followed
a route over the Red and Mediterranean seas
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Falashas was not immediately known, but
about 900 were believed to have been in the
Gedaref area, about 200 miles southeast of
Kartoum, it said.
The Ethiopian Jews, who fled conditions
caused by the famine in that country, have
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of the Tawawa refugee camp.
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