Protestant Leaders Threaten Parliament Over Northern Ireland Accord
In Belfast Protestant leaders led by Rev Ian Paisley threaten to resign their seats in the British Parliament unless a referendum on the Anglo Irish accord is held in Northern Ireland. The DUP insists on a ballot while the assembly backs rejecting the accord as British sovereignty eroded.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Ireland
Ian Paisley
Democratic Unionist Party
Britain
Paisley
Margaret Thatcher
Garret FitzGerald
Irish Republican Army
Irish Republic
Northern Ireland Assembly
William McCrae
Thatcher
Jim Allister
Allister
IRA
House of Commons
Tom King
Thatcher and FitzGerald Reach Northern Ireland Accord
At Hillsborough Castle Thatcher and FitzGerald sign a historic framework giving Dublin a direct voice in Northern Irish affairs while Ulster stays in the United Kingdom. The agreement triggers protests from Unionists and disappoints nationalists, as violence continues with an IRA killing near the border.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Hillsborough Castle
County Down
Margaret Thatcher
Garret FitzGerald
London
Dublin
North
Ulster
United Kingdom
Bush's Iowa Farm Meeting Faces Potential Volatility
Vice President George Bush meets with 17 farm group leaders and Iowa Governor Branstad to address farm finance troubles. Farmers warn of immediate market impact and fault the Reagan administration while Branstad vows scrutiny of farm policy ahead of his re election bid.
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Des Moines
Iowa
George Bush
Reagan
White House
Mitchell Daniels
Phil Lehman
Iowa Farmers Union
Dan Levitas
Prairiefire
Bush
Terry Branstad
Branstad
Des Moines Register
Soviet exit visas ease fate of eight American spouses
Kalamazoo, Michigan, and other U S locations saw their Soviet spouses granted exit visas after years of separation as part of a pre summit gesture before President Reagan meets Mikhail Gorbachev. The move followed activism by the Divided Spouses Coalition and coverage by ABC News and the New York Times.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Sandy Gubin
Gubin
ABC News
Aleksei Lodisev
Kiev
Aleksei
State Department
Immigration Office
Reagan
Geneva
Mikhail Gorbachev
University of Michigan
Congress
New York Times
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York St
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Cologne
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