Be irut Strife Rages In Overnight Beirut Fighting
In Arat Lebanon the moslem and Christian sectors faced heavy shelling with howitzer shells and rockets as Syrian and Christian army gunners clashed for 18 weeks. Police report four dead and 31 wounded as shells pounded homes along the Green Line. Fires swirled, smoke and flames rose from decimated buildings, and water shortages hindered firefighting efforts amid a city-wide blackout.
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Lebanon
Beirut
Verdict Returned In Palme Killing Case
In Stuukholm Sweden a court ordered Christer Pettersson held in custody until the verdict in the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme is published next week. The decision signals a likely guilty finding though sentencing on first degree murder remains unsettled and could follow later.
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Stuukholm
Sweden
Olof Palme
Christer Pettersson
Palme
Savage Faces Ethics Probe Over Alleged Africa Incident
Rep Gus Savage faces a House ethics inquiry after a Peace Corps volunteer accused him of fondling her for over two hours in a Kinshasa embassy car during an official Africa trip on March 19. Savage denies the charge.
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D-Il
House Ethics Committee
Peace Corps
Africa
Patricia Schroeder
D-Colo
Schroeder
Savage
Kinshasa
Zaire
Ex HUD Secretary Pierce to Testify Twice More
Former Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce will testify at least twice more before a congressional panel probing HUD program scandals. Rep. Tom Lantos said Pierce will return in the fall to address contradictions with witnesses who say he participated in approving questionable HUD projects. He already agreed to testify August 3 about a $15 million North Carolina project led by a former law partner.
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Washington
Samuel Pierce
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Tom Lantos
D-Calif
Pierce
House
Government Operations Employment and Housing Subcommittee
North Carolina
Georgia Firm Sues Pilot Over Double Billing Theft
Sunrise Management Services Inc. of Columbus sues Thomas Root in US District Court for the return of 334000 dollars plus 250000 in damages claiming the pilot billed twice for work and misused company funds. Root, a communications lawyer, is alleged to have failed to represent ancestors before the FCC and to have netted 100000 more via double billing amid recovery from a Bahamas crash and a gunshot injury.
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Nadhlngton
Georgia
Sunrise Management Services Inc
Columbus
Thomas Root
Root
Federal Communications Commission
Bahamas
Judge Denies Beauty's Bid For Miss Teen USA Title
Heather Anne McLeod of Nevada failed in court to overturn disqualification from the Miss Teen USA pageant after competing in Nevada and California preliminaries. U S District Judge Roger Foley said she should have known such participation could disqualify her. The hearing drew about 10 high school students as observers.
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One Vote Elevates Jaruzelski To Presidency In Poland
Jaruzelski won the presidency by a single vote as Solidarity lawmakers abstained or contested the ballot. The veteran leader now faces a fragile economy and a transition toward democracy while both ruling and opposition camps eye the new round-table sponsored system and its reforms.
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Poland
Wojciech Jaruzelski
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Jaruzelski
Solidarity
Martal
Karol Modzelewski
Wroclaw
Communist Party
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Strikes Hit Three More Soviet Coal Fields
Tens of thousands of miners walked out across Vorkuta Rostov Donpropetrovsk joining Kuznetsk and Donetsk as the worst labor unrest since the 1920s. Tass reported strikes seek local control higher wages and better living conditions with Siberian miners returning briefly after concessions.
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Soviet Union
Tass
Vorkuta
Don River
Rostov
Russia
Dnepropetrovsk
Kuznetsk
Donetsk
Siberia
Ukraine
Donpropetrovsk
Ethnic Feuding Ends Tourism in Abkhazia Evacuations
Moscow authorities evacuated 1500 tourists and banned new visitors in Abkhazia as Georgians and Abkhazians clash in the Black Sea region. State of emergency and curfew imposed with 2500 firearms seized. Rail and coal price impacts noted as strikes loom amid Gorbachev cautions.
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Black Sea
Abkhazia
Tass
Radio Moscow
House Panel Split Over Flag Burning After Hearings
Washington lawmakers remain divided over a constitutional amendment versus a regular statute to counter the Supreme Court flag burning ruling. Democrats favor nonconstitutional limits while Republicans push for action. Harvard professor and former solicitor general Charles Fried urged restraint, saying Congress should do nothing.
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House
Supreme Court
Don Edwards
D-Calif
Judiciary Committee
Jim Sensenbrenner
Wisconsin
Harvard University
Charles Fried
Reagan
Texas
Fried
Sureme Court
Robert Bork
Congress
America
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OAS Ministers Seek Final Breakthrough on Panama Crisis
After 15 hours of talks at the OAS headquarters Washington ministers reconvened to press for a final agreement on Panama's political crisis. They extended the mediating mandate to August 23 while opposition leaders and U.S. delegates faulted the draft for lacking enough pressure on Noriega and for delaying a Sept. 1 power transfer and elections.
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Organization of American States
Panama
U.S
OAS
USS
Noriega
Cities to Get Ozone Cleaning Deadlines
Washington draft of Bush clean air bill would assign 19 cities to 10 year deadlines for ozone cleanup while severely polluted Los Angeles Houston and New York face 20 year timelines The EPA data place areas in a serious category for a 16 year cleanup including Chicago-Gary Cincinnati-Hamilton Hartford-New Britain-Middletown Milwaukee-Racine Philadelphia-Wilmington Trenton Providence-Pawtucket Taunton River Plymouth Boston area and several others in the list including Atlanta Baltimore Baton Rouge Beaufort-Port Arthur El Paso Huntington Ashland Louisville Portland San Diego and Springfield and more
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New York
Bush
Associated Press
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Ind
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Hamilton
Ohio
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Middletown
Conn
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Racine
Wis
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Del
Trenton
N.J
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Bakker Refuses To Testify In PTL Tax Trial
PTL founder Jim Bakker invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify in the tax evasion case of aides David and James Taggart. Bakker, speaking through attorney George T. Davis, vowed full testimony during his own trial set for August 28. The Taggarts face charges of evading 487000 dollars in federal income taxes while connected to PTL.
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PTL
Jim Bakker
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Richard Dortch
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