NATIONAL
July 30, 2006 | From Times Wire Reports
Authorities were investigating the disappearance of a Florida woman from a cruise ship sailing along the coast of Italy, relatives said. Family members identified the woman as Elizabeth Kay Galeana, 22, of Naples, Fla., reported missing Tuesday from Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas. Royal Caribbean confirmed only that the missing woman was from the United States. The ship was en route to Naples, Italy, from the port of Civitavecchia, near Rome, according to the cruise line.
BUSINESS
March 23, 1989 | From Associated Press
Transcisco Industries Inc. announced that it signed a joint venture agreement with the Soviet Union to provide heating systems for train tank cars. Under the agreement signed in the Soviet Union, Transcisco will make its Uni-Temp heating systems in the United States and ship them to Finland, where they will be installed in Soviet tank cars. The company said it expected to make the heating systems in the Soviet Union under license in a few years.
NEWS
August 16, 1985 | From Times Wire Services
The British powerboat Virgin Atlantic Challenger foundered in 12-foot seas off England's southwestern coast Thursday, less than two hours away from setting a record for the fastest surface crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. A spokesman said it was not immediately clear if the $2.1-million vessel had sunk, but "we believe it had." Voyage spokesman Alan Hughes said the nine crew members got onto two life rafts and were picked up by the British cargo ship Geestbay.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 16, 1994 | MIMI KO
Cities, agencies and organizations throughout the county are approving proclamations and making promises to remember the original Thanksgiving Day at the request of Los Amigos of Orange County. The community activist group passed out more than 100 pledge sheets urging organizations to remember the holiday so people will realize that everyone in the United States, with the exception of Native Americans, comes from immigrant backgrounds.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 19, 1994 | DAN BERGER, TIMES WINE WRITER
Hanns Kornell, a pioneer winemaker who got out of a Nazi concentration camp and eventually made his way to the United States, where he was to bring sparkling wine to the Napa Valley, has died at his home at age 83. The German-born Kornell, third generation of a Rhine Valley wine-making family, had been in ill health for the last six years, since suffering a serious head injury while working in the winery he founded in 1958.
NEWS
July 16, 1987 | Associated Press
A convicted cocaine trafficker told Congress Wednesday that he helped the Nicaraguan contras smuggle drugs into the United States and ship automatic weapons and explosives to Central America. George Morales, who is serving a 16-year federal prison sentence in Miami, also said he made payoffs to officials in Cuba and the Bahamas--countries he said were used to transship drugs and launder money. Panama was another money-laundering point, he said.