Poland joins non-Communists in East bloc government breakthrough
Hungary tightens borders to stop East German refugees fleeing via Czechoslovakia and Romania extends border zones with armed guards to deter escapes toward Hungary and Yugoslavia. In Poland, Mazowiecki meets with U.S. officials as Solidarity winds down a historic transfer of power with Jaruzelski approval, Walesa urging restraint to curb economic decline.
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Romania
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Lech Walesa
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Five Charged As Part Of Gang Black Death
Five young white men were charged Friday as members of the gang that killed a black teenager in Brooklyn Bensonhurst over interracial dating. A sixth suspect was being sought, and police would not confirm if he is the gunman believed to be in the city.
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Yusef Hawkins
Hawkins
Brooklyn
Bensonhurst
Keith Mondello
Mondello
Steven Curreri
Pasquale Raucci
Charles Stressler
Curreri
James Patino
Edward Feeney
Freed rapist charged with murder in park killing
Daniel J. Webb, 27, a convicted rapist freed on bail in a separate rape case, was ordered held on a 1.6 million dollar bond for the murder of Diane Gellenbeck 37 a Connecticut National Bank vice president who was abducted during lunch and shot in a city park in Sarchun y Conn.
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Conn
Daniel J. Webb
Diane Gellenbeck
Newington
Connecticut National Bank
Watkins Rebuffs Judge On Court Appearance
Energy Secretary James D. Watkins rejected a federal judge request to testify in Ohio over terms of a $78 million pollution settlement at Fernald. He said his lawyers deem it nonessential and not legally binding. Watkins outlined plans to present a national gas production revival for nuclear weapons, including restarting three South Carolina reactors for 15 years to supply tritium, and a new Waste Isolation Pilot Plant approach near Carlsbad, New Mexico. He cited Savannah River reactors as a likely tritium source and questioned GAO cost estimates of $150 billion over 30 years.
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Carlsbad
N.M
Hanford Reservation
Richland
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Savannah River
Department
General Accounting Office
Feed Materials Production Center
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Kidnapped Merchant Found Unharmed In West Bank Town
Israeli gold merchant Shaul Mishaniya, 47, was found unharmed in a well in the village of Abush near Tukarem after being seized by masked Palestinians. An Arab suspect led secret service to the well where Mishaniya remained alive despite the 20 to 23 foot depth. In Gaza, the army ordered the demolition of four houses linked to alleged collaborators with Israel, razing three and prompting a family to demolish a fourth room themselves.
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West Bank
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Secret Service
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Tukarem
Mishaniya
Israel Radio
Gaza Strip
Israel
Frank recounts hiring male prostitute as aide in 1980s
U S Rep Barney Frank said he tried to help a male prostitute turned aide to leave drugs and sex work, firing him in August 1987 after a failed reconciliation. He acknowledged paying for sex once and said about $20,000 covered cash, bills, and legal fees from his own funds.
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House
Studds
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Steve Gobie
Gobie
Baltic Freedom Drive Links Poles and Lithuanians
Baltic residents form a human chain to mourn lost independence, while a Vilnius poster urges Lithuanians and Poles to unite against the common enemy, interpreted as Soviet communism. Solidarity in Poland nears its first non Communist prime minister as Baltic ties to reform echo across the region.
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Poland
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Lithuania
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Baltics
Germany
Soviet Union
Missing Denver Policeman Turns Up Safely In Utah
Denver officer David Hayhurst 39 turned up in Salt Lake City after a week long manhunt. He cited personal and financial pressures that forced him to abandon his patrol car and ride a motorcycle to Reno then Utah before planning to return home. He is on paid leave pending psychological and physical exams, with possible discipline.
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Utah
David Hayhurst
Reno
Nev
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Hayhurst
Salt Lake City
Ari Zavaras
Rain and darkness pause Pakistan passenger plane search
Rescue teams delayed the search for a Pakistan International Airlines Fokker 27 missing on a Gilgit to Islamabad flight after takeoff. The aircraft carried 54 people including five crew and five infants with an American journalist among passengers. rescuers monitored the Himalaya Karakoram range as weather worsened.
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Pakistan
Pakistan International Airlines
Korkoram
Gilgit
Azra Sultan
Omar
Khizar
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