Beiruts Western Front Firefight Kills French Paratrooper
Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on a French peacekeeping patrol in west Beirut during morning rush hour. The Defense Ministry said one paratrooper was killed and four or five attackers fled. The incident occurred as Lebanon's cabinet planned a special session on security before a British visit.
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Beirut
Lebanon
French Defense Ministry
Amin Gemayel
Britain
Tripoli
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Corniche Mazran
Voice of Lebanon
Defense Ministry
Paris
Bekaa Valley
Salt Lake City Doctor Angry Over Artificial Heart Guidelines Rejection
In Salt Lake City AP report, Dr William DeVries denounces the rejection of guidelines for a second artificial heart implant. University Medical Center spokesman John Dwan says the Institutional Review Board formed a subcommittee to craft a more acceptable proposal delaying the second implant. Some University of Utah heart team members consider moving their work elsewhere as the board keeps deliberations confidential.
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Salt Lake City
William DeVries
University of Utah
University Medical Center
John Dwan
Barney Clark
Clark
Seattle
Institutional Review Board
DeVries
Dwan
John Bosso
Spacelab Brings New Science Era at Edwards AFB
Scientists in a tin warehouse at Edwards Air Force Base pursue orbiting experiments after the Columbia landing. Helen Ross of Scotland discusses weightless research on Spacelab maiden flight while crew members Owen Garriott Byron Lichtenberg Ulf Merbold and Robert Parker remain human guinea pigs in studies on space motion sickness and vestibular function.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Spacelab
Columbia
Helen Ross
Ms. Ross
University of Stirling
Scotland
Owen Garriott
Byron Lichtenberg
Ulf Merbold
Robert Parker
Officials Fear New Self-Sacrificing Terror Tactics Rise
Washington officials warn a new wave of terrorism uses suicide attacks to make political statements. The Kuwait embassy bombing highlights a trend expanding beyond kidnappings and assassinations, with Islamic Jihad claiming responsibility and tightening security at U S embassies in the Middle East.
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Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
U.S
Kuwait
Persian Gulf
Islamic Holy War
Reagan
Middle East
Defense Department
Pen
Washington
State Department
Michael LaFranchi
U.S. Agency For International Development
Dennis Hays
American Foreign Service Association
Organization of
United States
Beirut
Islamic Jihad
High Court to Rule on Grand Jury Bias Conviction
The Supreme Court agreed to review Wilbur Hobby’s conviction for defrauding a job training program to decide if systematic black exclusion from grand jury foreman roles could overturn a conviction. The 4th Circuit ruled the bias had little effect on indictment outcomes.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Wilbur Hobby
Afl-Cio
North Carolina
Hobby
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Appeals Court
Three Executions Scheduled For Convicted Killers This Week
Three murder convicts faced electrocution this week in Louisiana and Georgia. Robert Wayne Williams moved to Angola Prison after the Supreme Court declined to block his execution set for Wednesday. Georgia inmate John Eldon Smith faced a possible clemency ruling ahead of Thursday’s scheduled execution, while Alpha Otis Stephens awaited a federal ruling and parole board appeal. The Georgia Pardons and Paroles board could stay Smith’s execution up to 90 days for clemency review.
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Louisiana
Georgia
Robert Wayne Williams
Angola
U.S. Supreme Court
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Short Cop Says She's Happy Losing Sex Discrimination Suit
New Bedford officer Lynda Le Boeuf Costa, 5-foot-3, welcomed Supreme Court ruling upholding a lower court decision that the department did not discriminate in 1974 when she was passed over due to height. She was hired in 1981 after the height rule was dropped.
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New Bedford
Costa
Chain of Storms Drench Nation With Snow and Rain
A widespread storm system brings rain sleet and snow from New England to the Pacific along with tornado damage in Florida. Delware Pennsylvania flash flood warnings and travel advisories stretch through Maine New Hampshire Vermont and northern New York as another storm areas dump snow Dakotas Minnesota with up to five inches. A third storm hits the Northwest while East Coast warnings follow a day of violent weather injuring six in Florida and causing $2 million in damage including mobile homes damaged in Arcadia.
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Pacific
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Dakotas
Minnesota
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Florida
Seymour H. Knox Honored as Western New Yorker of the Year
Seymour H. Knox, longtime Aiken winter resident, named 198 Western New Yorker of the Year by the Buffalo Area Chamber of Commerce. The banker and arts patron chairs a 40 year Buffalo Fine Arts Academy tenure and helped Albright Knox Gallery expand its collection. He chairs emeritus numerous boards. his sons Sey mour H. Knox III and Northrup Knox own the Buffalo Sabres.
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Seymour H. Knox
Aiken
Buffalo Area Chamber of Commerce
Knox
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
New York State Council On the Arts
F. W. Woolworth Co
Marine Midland Bank
The
Hitchcock Foundation
Seymour H. Knox III
Northrup Knox
Buffalo Sabres
Webster Seeks Home Workers for Mailing List Updates
Webster announces positions to update local mailing lists requiring staff to send name address phone date of birth to a Toronto address with enclosed one dollar for expedited shipment in 1983.
Aiken Standard Subscription and Advertising Contacts
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