U S aid link to Contra arms scheme revealed in calls
Documents show a Salvadoran safehouse connected to AIR MACH Inc linked to U S humanitarian aid and secret weapons shipments to the Contras. The calls were to Richard B. Gadd in Vienna Virginia, president of AIR MACH, whose firm flew non lethal supplies though it has no registered planes or listed numbers. In separate dispatch, a Peking tobacco shop lost power heat and water after denying two repairmen 10 cartons of cigarettes triggering a shut down then restoration after three days.
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State Department
U.S
Air Force
Richard B. Gadd
Vienna
Airmach Inc
Airmach
San Salvador
Nicaragua
Peking
China Tobacco Corp
Peking Evening News
Beijing Wanbao
FCC says local phone rate hikes slow but remain high
The FCC reports third quarter local telephone rate increases outpace the prior half year but show a明显 slowdown. Pending increases total $159.1 million from GTE and Continental Telephone, the smallest since AT&T breakup nearly three years ago.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
GTE
Continental Telephone Companies
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
FCC
Inequality Shift Tied to Age and Education Says AEI Report
A report to AEI finds older and better educated Americans gained wealth from 1977 to 1983 while younger and less educated groups lost ground. Authors John Weicher and Susan Wachter say inequality rose due to links between wealth and education and between wealth and age.
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Washington
American Enterprise Institute
John Weicher
AEI
Susan Wachter
University of Pennsylvania
Federal Reserve Board
Troubled Banks List Grows By One Daily
San Francisco AP reports that 1 450 banks are on the FDIC trouble list about one tenth of institutions, up from 1 150 at year start as weak balance sheets threaten more failures. New York AP notes teachers seek reform yet many plan to quit. 55 percent seriously considered leaving, slightly up from 51 percent in 1985.
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San Francisco
L. William Seidman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
New York
Louis Harris
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Reagan poised to sanction Syria without breaking ties
President Reagan plans sanctions on Syria following George Shultz recommendations. They include barring Eagleton from Damascus, shrinking the Syrian Embassy, and urging oil companies to cut operations. The move stops short of severing diplomatic relations, with Britain already in conflict over a bomb plot linked to Syria.
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Washington
Reagan
Syria
George P. Shultz
William Eagleton
Damascus
Britain
Nezar Hindawi
London
Eagleton
Shultz
U.S
Hafez Assad
Bishops Elect Moderates at National Meeting
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops elected two moderates Archbishop John May of St. Louis and Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati while debating Vatican discipline of liberal Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Conservatives warned a token protest might be needed to show firmness.
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Washington
Vatican
Seattle
Raymond Hunthausen
National Bishops’ Conference
U.S
Detroit
Thomas Gumbleton
Hunthausen
Rome
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
United States
John L. May
St. Louis
Daniel E. Pilarczyk
Cincinnati
Sun Yat Sen Remembered as China pushes Taiwan talks
In Peking a 10,000 strong Sun Yat-sen anniversary rally urged Taiwan's Kuomintang to begin reunification negotiations. Peng Zhen called for steps toward dialogue while Beijing touts Sun as a reformer and seeks Westward development despite Taiwan's rejection.
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Peking
Sun-Yat-sen
China
Taiwan
Nationalist
Kuomintang
Peng Zhen
National People’s Congress
Great Hall of the People
Sun
Hee
Aiken Standard Classifieds and Contact Details
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Aiken Communications Inc
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Aiken
S.C
Shultz Cites Growing US Support in Latin America
Secretary of State George Shultz says Western Hemisphere nations increasingly back U S policy in Central America. He urged relief if Nicaragua moves to a pluralistic democratic government while criticizing Soviet and Cuban arms shipments to dissidents amid an O A S foreign ministers meeting.
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Guatemala
George Shultz
Nicaragua
Shultz
Organization of American States
Latin America
Soviet Union
Cuba
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