Mexicans Seek Political Asylum After Eagle Pass Border Clash
Dozens of Mexicans who fled across the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass after gunfire injured several during a Piedras Negras rally say they will not return. Fifty nine slept on city facility cots near the Port of Entry awaiting asylum, amid violence tied to disputed Dec 2 elections and opposition to the ruling party.
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Eagle Pass
Texas
Jose Gabriel Espinoza
International Bridge
Tional Action Party
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Therm
IRP
Piedras Negras
Edward Leija
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Leila
Felipe Perez
National Action
Espinoza
United States
Doonesbury Reacts to Garn Shuttle Flight Jabs
Sen. Jake Garn brushes off Doonesbury barbs about his Challenger mission. The Space Shuttle crew completed a countdown rehearsal and prepare for a March 3 launch, with Patrick Baudry joining to study weightlessness.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Jake Garn
Garry Trudeau
Doonesbury
Utah Republican
Garn
Roland Hedley
Donald Williams
Rhea Seddon
David Griggs
Jeffrey Hoffman
Patrick Baudry
Challenger
Bobko
Fishermen deaths as foggy bay capsizes opening salmon season
A Moss Landing harbor flood of fog and giant waves on opening day of sport salmon fishing left seven dead including four fishermen a swimmer and a would be rescuer. Survivors include Tom Masuda Walter Tanaka and Emil Wikke with Tanaka recovering in hospital. Coast Guard and Monterey County Rescue Squad led a search from La Selva Beach to Monterey Harbor as divers recovered gear and bodies.
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Moss' Landing
Calif
Moss Landing Harbor
Tom Masuda
San Jose
Masuda
San Francisco Bay Area
Monterey County
Ken Hansen
Moss Landing
John Crisan
Crisan
Monterey Bay
la Selva Beach
Monterey Harbor
Dan Kelleher
U.S. Coast Guard
Monterey
Coast Guard
Kelleher
Urigsan
Walter Tanaka
Emil Julius Wikke
Tanaka
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
Computer Program Predicts Wars Smoke Alarm For Conflict
Carnegie Mellon researchers Paul Anderson and Tim McKeown built a computer model using 1816 to present data to predict when wars may occur. The method flags dissatisfaction and repeated contact as key factors and has an 80 percent past accuracy, though it does not guarantee prevention.
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Pittsburgh
Paul Anderson
Carnegie-Mellon University
Anderson
Tim McKeown
Carnegie-Mellon
National Science Foundation
Guatemala
el Salvador
Cambodia
Vietnam
Tanzania
Uganda
Iran
Iraq
Peres And Craxi To Meet With Pope In Rome
Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrives in Rome to meet Pope John Paul II and Italian Premier Bettino Craxi. The visit follows controversy over meetings with PLO leader Yasser Arafat and reactions from Jewish leaders and former Israeli leaders.
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Rome
Shimon Peres
Israel
John Paul II
Bettino Craxi
Italy
PLO
Yasser Arafat
John Paul
Palestine Liberation Organization
Menachem Begin
Arafat
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Pedras Negras
Mexico
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Piedras’ Negras
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iLaredo
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Karol Bobko
Garn and Baudry
Space Shuttle
San Francisco Bay
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
McKeown
Frank Scioli
Dr. Gasnel E. Bryan
Helene Curtis
J.B. White Hairstyling
Weamstye Center
Heritage Square
Aiken
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