Record Auction Sells Jefferson’s 1787 Lafite Bottle
Forbes magazine heir Christopher Forbes bought a bottle of 1787 Lafite Bordeaux once ordered for Thomas Jefferson for 157500 dollars at Christie's in London. The wine, found in a Paris cellar, was destined for Jefferson’s table but delivered to no one and will join Forbes collections in New York.
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London
Thomas Jefferson
Forbes Magazine
Christopher Forbes
Bordeaux
United States
France
Mouton- Rothschild
Dallas
Texas
Jefferson
Paris
Hardy Rodenstock
Wiesbaden
West Germany
Forbes
New York
Business Magazine
Malcolm Forbes
Christie
Malcolm Broadbent
Forbes Capitalist
Christie’s
Peter Rose
Tear gas used as vigils clash with apartheid police in South Africa
Police used tear gas and whips to disperse candlelight vigils for jailed anti apartheid activists and mourners at a Soweto funeral. Witnesses said about 5,000 people faced tear gas as 18 year old girl’s burial proceeded despite state of emergency limits. Police reported injuries from a grenade, arson at a school, and no deaths. Rev Allan Boesak condemned the actions outside Cape Town.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
National Police
Pretoria
Cape Town
Soweto
Cape Province
Allan Boesak
Bellville South
Boesak
Attie Laubscher
NATO proposes stepped reduction of forces in central Europe
Vienna dispatch reports NATO proposed to Warsaw Pact a reduction of non-nuclear forces in central Europe as an effort to break the Geneva deadlock. It calls for withdrawal of 5,000 American troops in Western Europe and 11,500 Soviet troops from Eastern Europe under a three year verification agreement.
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Vienna
Austria
NATO Alliance
Warsaw Pact
Europe
Geneva
Sikh militants clash with police in Punjab college storming
Radical Sikh students union members and police fought a two hour street battle after militants stormed a college that remained open amid a protest strike. Several injured as reports say New Delhi issued a red alert for possible Sikh militant attacks in Punjab Kashmir Haryana and nearby states.
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New Delhi
India
Punjab
United News of India
Telegraph
Hindustan Times
Kashmir
Haryana
Bonner for Sakharov tribute meeting with Craxi
Yelena Bonner met Italian Premier Bettino Craxi in Rome for about 35 minutes to renew a friendship from 1975 and express respect for her husband An drei Sakharov. She said the encounter honored Sakharov and the Soviet dissident's country.
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Yelena Bonner
Andrei Sakharov
Bettino Craxi
Bonner
Craxi
Milan
Italy
Palazzo Chigi
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