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Aryan festival Officials in Napa County, California, have gone to court to halt the first white supremacist rock concert in the United States. The concert, dubbed “Aryan Woodstock” and set for this week-end on -private farmland 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, is being organised by the former Ku Klux Klan leader, Tom Metzger, and his White Aryan Resistance. Mr Metzger said the bands would include the Boot Boys from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Haken Kreuz (Swastika) from Detroit, Michigan. — Napa. Retrieval unsure Investigators have not yet decided whether to try to recover the cargo door of the United Airlines jumbo jet which ripped open over the Pacific last week, a spokesman said yesterday. The door is believed to lie 5600 m below the surface. — Washington. Liz in clinic Elizabeth Taylor confirmed yesterday she had
spent time in the Betty Ford Clinic after suffering a back injury. Neither the 57-year-old actress nor her publicist would say if prescription drugs for that injury put Taylor into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic. — New York. Chemical spill Residents near the Lithuanian city of Kaunas were moved after a collision between a train and a tanker truck that released 50 tons of liquid fertilisers, Vilnius Radio said. The report on Thursday from the Lithuanian capital, monitored by the 8.8. C. in London, did not say when the accident happened. — London. Vote deferred The Papua New Guinea Government yesterday engineered an early adjournment of Parliament and postponed an Opposition no-confidence motion for four months. The vote, which was due next Thursday, will now be the first item when Parliament resumes on July 4 . — Port Moresby.
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