UNESCO overhaul as M Bow declines re election
Paris AP Amadou Mahtar M Bow announces he will not seek a new term as UNESCO director general when his current term ends in November 198. His withdrawal opens a broad search for a leader who might persuade the United States and Britain to return after both nations left in 1984, crippling the agency's finances.
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Britain
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Reagan
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Iceland
Soviet Union
General Assembly
New Jersey
Reykjavik
U.S. Won’t Retrieve Sub Or Raise Russian Vessel
The United States has no plans to lift the 3.2 mile deep Russian nuclear submarine from the Atlantic and doubts the Soviet Union could do so either. Pentagon officials say the aging sub holds little military value to recover.
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United States
Atlantic
Soviet Union
Pentagon
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Powell F. Carter Jr
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Perkins Likely OK for South Africa Ambassador Post
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to recommend confirmation of Edward J. Perkins as the first black U.S. ambassador to South Africa. Chairman Nancy Kassebaum expects action as early as Wednesday, with Sen. John Kerry predicting little Democratic opposition and Perkins ready to assume the Pretoria posting in November.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Edward J. Perkins
U.S
South Africa
Nancy Kassebaum
R-Kan
Perkins
John Kerry
D-Mass
Pretoria
Bombings Tied To Planned Robberies In Idaho
Three white supremacists set off bombs in Coeur d Alene as diversions for planned bank and National Guard armory robberies. An FBI agent said one suspect, who will cooperate, stated the group needed money for food vehicles and weapons to wage war on the government. Only three of four bombs exploded. authorities responded within minutes.
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Idaho
National Guard
FBI
UNC student seeks to lower drinking age to 18
A UNC Chapel Hill student formed the Beer Rights Union to press for an 18 year old drinking age. J D Watson and Paul Cole started in March to protest a state law raising age to 21 and gathered over 3 000 signatures from supporters aged 80 to 9 year old children.
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University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
J.D. Watson
Paul Cole
Watson
Supreme Court weighs race scope in civil rights laws
The court will decide if race includes more than skin color and whether federal civil rights laws aimed at Blacks protect Jews and Arabs from discrimination. The Anti-Defamation League welcomed the move while noting Jews are not a race. Michael E. Schultz of B'nai B'rith urged statutes be read to cover racism against Jews.
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Supreme Court
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
League
Michael E. Schultz
B’nai B’rith
Dutch Pravda folding after five issues
The Dutch Pravda edition published in Amsterdam has ended after five issues due to a dramatic falls in circulation. The weekly edition began Sept 4 and last appeared last week with a print run of 30,000 versus 150,000 at launch.
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Vincent Steinmetz
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Belgium
Soviet Communist Party
Sister of kidnapped AP editor appeals for release in Beirut
Peggy Say, sister of Terry Anderson, published an open letter to his captors in Beirut newspapers and broadcast appeals urging dialogue to secure his and other hostages' freedom. She offers to travel to Beirut and asks for names of negotiators. Anderson, 38, was abducted in west Beirut on March 16, 1985, while serving as AP Beirut bureau chief.
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Terry
Middle East
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Reagan
David Jacobsen
U.S
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Soviet Union
Pope urges clergy remains firm in beliefs in France
Pope John Paul II appealed to priests and nuns to stay loyal to Catholic teachings during his four day visit to France. He cited St Francis de Sales to inspire a waning French church and urged revival of faith amid global moral decline. Mass drew about 80000 in Annecy as fog halted a planned helicopter flight.
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France
John Paul II
Alps
Francis de Sales
Basilica of the Visitation
St. Francis de Sales
Lyon
Senators urge greater effort against espionage threat
The Senate Intelligence Committee after a two year study warned the United States has underfunded and underattended to protecting secrets from foreign spies. The 141 page staff report Meeting the Espionage Challenge says the hostile intelligence risk is more serious than public acknowledgment and cites reduced Western advantage in technology due to spying. The public report criticizes government neglect of defensive security measures amid recent spy cases.
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Senate Intelligence Committee
United States
Senate
Shuttle Atlantis Delayed For Seven Weeks Of Tests
Lightning near Kennedy Space Center delays NASA plan to roll Atlantis to the launch pad for seven weeks of tests including emergency exit drills and pad protection equipment checks. The move follows the Challenger disaster and keeps flights grounded through February 1988.
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Fla
Kennedy Space Center
NASA
Jim Ball
Atlantis
Pad 39B
Congress Bargains on Pesticide Limits
The Senate rejected a national standard for pesticide residues, voting 44 to 35 to keep state limits in place. The vote sets up a conference with the House over FIFRA, a major environmental law under overhaul after 14 years. Environmental groups praised the move as progress toward compromise with chemical interests.
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Senate
House
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
al Meyerhoff
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National Resources Defense Council
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