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Two county commissioners drink tainted water at Rajneeshpuram; both fall ill

Rajneeshpuram followers planned to sicken Wasco County voters before the November election.

Rajneeshpuram's leaders wanted control of Wasco County, Oregon, and they had already been denied the building permits they needed to keep expanding. On August 29, 1984, two visiting Wasco County commissioners were handed glasses of water laced with Salmonella bacteria during a visit to the commune. Both men grew sick. It was an early test of a delivery method the group's followers would use on a far larger scale weeks later, when contaminated salad bars sickened hundreds of residents of The Dalles…

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Farmers under arms close the Northampton court before it can sit

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Some buildings still lack finishing touches, but the Air Force Academy finally has a permanent home.

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Fifty-three levee and floodwall breaches put 80 percent of the city underwater by nightfall.

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A thread-like shape appears under the electron microscope in Atlanta

CDC virologists Fred Murphy and Alyne Harrison get the first clear image of the virus killing hundreds in Sudan and Zaire.

A U-2 camera finds Soviet missiles ninety miles from Florida

The film still has to be developed and read before Washington even knows what it has.

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