Cronkite Roast Funds UT Austin Chair Amid Praise
About 300 attendees paid $1,000 each at a Washington dinner to raise money for a Walter Cronkite Chair in UT Austin's communications school Cronkite attended. Marvin Hamlisch performed The Way We Were with Cronkite's sign-off phrase That's the way it is. Speaker Jim Wright and satirist Mark Russell offered praise rather than scorn.
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CBS
Walter Cronkite
Walter
Dick Cavett
Communications
University of Texas At Austin
Cronkite
Marvin Hamlisch
Jim Wright
D-Texas
Mark Russell
Iraqi jets strike Tehran as air raid alert sounds
NICOSIA Cyprus AP Iranian capital Tehran was bombed by Iraqi warplanes per IRNA reports. Dispatches say Tehran downtown was hit at 11 10 a m local time and air raid alerts rang before the situation returned to normal with no details on casualties.
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Iran
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USA Today Begins Printing In Europe
USA Today expands internationally with a Switzerland based edition for Europe and the Middle East. The first press run exceeded 35 000 copies of 24 pages with seven color pages edited in Washington and transmitted by satellite.
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Switzerland
USA Today
United States
Europe
Middle East
David Mazzarella
USA Today International
Washington
IUD Withdrawal Raises Pregnancy Risk For Users
The 1.4 million women using IUDs may see about 123000 additional pregnancies yearly as they switch to other methods after the best selling IUDs are pulled from the market. The forced switch to less reliable methods could triple the risk of unplanned pregnancies, a study in Family Planning Perspectives reports.
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New York
Family Planning Perspectives
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Powerful Blast Kills 10 In Sri Lanka City
A bomb exploded at Colombo central telegraph office injuring dozens and killing ten. Police sealed the area as rescuers pulled bodies from debris. A caller in London claimed the attack for the leftist People's Liberation Front citing elections as motive.
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Lucian Salgado
Salgado
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R.S. Perera
Body of American airman washed ashore west of Tripoli
Libyan news agency JANA reported the body of an American airman washed ashore near al Zawiyah, 32 miles west of Tripoli, after U S air raids on April 15. Libyan TV showed a helmet and items found with the body, while the Pentagon offered no comment.
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Paul L. Lorence
San Francisco
Soviet Officials Defend Response to Chernobyl Details
Moscow reports the Chernobyl situation remains disquieting with few new details. Officials cited unclear causes, noted a probable chemical explosion, and described evacuations, decontamination, and limited health risks for most evacuees. West Germany was asked for remote earth moving gear for cleanup.
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Smith Sculpture Sets Contemporary Sculpture Price Record at Christie's
David Smith's welded steel work "V.B. XXIII" sold for 1.32 million at Christie's, a new contemporary sculpture record. Jasper Johns "Target" failed to reach its reserve above 2 million and was not sold, likely to be sold privately. The sale total exceeded 5.5 million with five pieces unsold.
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Christie's
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