Abductions in Beirut Rise Amid Shiite Clan Battle
In Beirut's Ouzaí suburb fighting between the Makdad Shiite clan and Amal supporters leaves nine dead and 25 wounded. Foreign hostages, including Glass and Osseiran, are believed held with 25 missing since March 1985. Hezbollah accused. Terry Waite unaccounted.
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Mali
Believ Od
Makdad
Akel Hamieh
Amal
Berri
Lebanon
Glass
Osseiran
Beirut
Ouzai
Hezbollah
Kennan
Sheik
Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
U.S. State Department
Terry Waite
West Beirut
ABC
Los Angeles
Syria
Ouzai Highway
Middle East
Students stage protests as Chun seeks talks in Seoul
In Seoul Chun Seeks Officials planned separate meetings with opposition leaders amid large campus protests. At Yonsei students staged a peace march chanted against the military regime while riot police held the campus perimeter.
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Chun
Lee Man-sup
Korea National Party
Lee Min-woo
New Korea Democratic Party
Yonsei
United States
Roh
U.S
Gaston Sigur
Seoul
Washington
Sigur
Kim Dae-jung
Reunification Democratic Party
Kim
James Lilley
Kim Young-sam
America faces looming trillion dollar world debt
Washington economists warn the United States is on track to surpass a 1 trillion dollar foreign debt in coming years as Japan holds a large creditor surplus. The Commerce Department’s year end 1986 estimate looms, with analysts predicting a debt over 200 billion dollars for 1986.
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Washington
United States
America
Commerce Department
Brazil
U.S
Reagan
Try
David Hale
Kemper Financial Services
Japan
Hale
Aiken Residents Recall Astaire Visits of the 1940s
Aiken residents recall Fred Astaire visiting in the 1940s at Palmetto Golf Club where Robert Knowles golfed with him in 1945 and 1946. Knowles recalls Astaire dancing around the ball and shooting in the low 80s as a horse enthusiast who visited Saratoga.
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Aiken
Astaire
Robert Knowles
Palmetto Golf Club
Knowles
Saratoga
N.Y
Miss Rogers
Cyd Charisse
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