Shultz Pushes For Peace Treaty Changes In Panama
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in Panama for the new president Ardito Barletta, urges major changes to a proposed Central American peace treaty backed by Nicaragua's leftist government. He says the pact could favor Nicaragua and notes regional protests over alleged election fraud. The Contadora group seeks democratic elections and reduced foreign intervention amid debates on military parity.
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Panama City
Panama
George P. Shultz
Nicaragua
Shultz
United States
Nicolas Ardito Barletta
Ardito Barletta
el Salvador
Jose Napoleon Duarte
Duarte
la Palma
Reagan
Viet Union
Central America
Honduras
Costa Rica
Contadora Team
Guatemala
U.S
Pope Meets Gonzales Before Dominican Republic Flight
Pope John Paul II left Zaragoza for the Dominican Republic after an unscheduled 20 minute private talk with Socialist Premier Felipe Gonzalez at the airport. They reportedly discussed Central American conflicts and church state tensions in Spain before his 24th foreign trip to begin a nine year Columbus anniversary celebration with stops in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
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Zaragoza
Spain
John Paul II
Dominican Republic
Felipe Gonzales
Caribbean
Puerto Rico
Christopher Columbus
Hurricane Josephine poses no land threat in 24 hours
Miami AP reports Josephine strengthens slowly as forecasters warn marine interests 500 miles west southwest of Bermuda to stay alert. National Hurricane Center forecaster Bob Case says no land impact within 24 hours and the system should move north-northwest or stall under a strong high to the north.
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Miami
Josephine
Bermuda
Bob Case
National Hurricane Center
Case
Newly Found Hormone Could Aid ALS Treatment
Boston researchers seek the gene that governs a newly discovered growth hormone with potential to treat Lou Gehrig's disease. Some ALS patients produce antibodies that neutralize the hormone, which normally promotes nerve growth and health.
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Lou Gehrig
Boston
Congress Near Adjournment After Omnibus Spending Deal
Congress readies to adjourn the 98th Congress as the omnibus spending bill heads to President Reagan after a House vote 252 to 60. Senate action and extension of borrowing authority loom, with the measure likely ending aid to Nicaraguan rebels and averting a partial government shutdown. Negotiators abandoned several cherished programs to secure the bill.
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Washington
Reagan
House
Senate
White House
Congress
Sullivan Ready for Historic First American Woman Space Walk
Kathy Sullivan and David Leestma plan a three hour space walk from the Challenger to test a reeling method for transferring fuel between two tanks in the shuttle bay. They will operate on 50 foot lines in $2.1 million suits while NASA monitors from the cabin. The mission aims to extend satellite lifetimes by refueling unmanned Landsat craft using hydrazine fuel.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Kathy Sullivan
Challenger
Ang Baer
David Leestrait
Leestma
Sullivan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth Survey
Westmoreland v CBS opens as jury hears libel case details
The trial against CBS News in New York begins with Judge Leval instructing a 12 member jury on libel law as opening statements loom. General William Westmoreland, asserting a 1982 CBS documentary falsely accused him of conspiring to mislead Johnson and the Joint Chiefs.
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New York
William C. Westmoreland
CBS
U.S
Pierre Leval
Leval
Westmoreland
Lyndon B. Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vietnam
Mike Wallace
Wallace
Democrats Turn Republican in Deep South Congressional Race
Birmingham's Jake Wag goner and Conway's Lois Eargle, both former Democrats, switch to the GOP and seek Congress on November 6. National GOP sees five ex Democrats running, four challenging incumbents, as a Reagan era surge in the South.
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Jake Waggoner
Birmingham
Ala
Lois Eargle
Conway
S.C
Congress
Deep South
Gramm
Senate
Steven Lotterer
National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
South
Seifert Wins Nobel for Literature in Stockholm
Jaroslav Seifert, an elderly Czechoslovak dissident, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature as the Swedish Academy praises his poetry for liberating, inventive depictions of the human spirit. This marks the 1984 literature prize announcement.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Jaroslav Seifert
Swedish Academy ‘of Letters
Seifert
Europe
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