IRA claims it placed bomb that killed Airey Neave
The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the car bombing that killed Airey Neave in the New Palace Yard near the House of Commons. Scotland Yard sought witnesses. Neave was a Conservative MP and key Thatcher ally who advocated a hard line against the IRA.
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IRA
Airey Neave
London
API
Irish Republican Army
Britain
House of Commons
Margaret Thatcher
Scotland Yard
Neave
United States
Provisional Ira
Dublin
RTE
Irish Nationalist Liberation Army
Richard Sykes
Hague
Netherlands
Three Soviet Nuclear Accidents Reported by CIA Sources
U.S. intelligence and dissidents allege the USSR faced three major nuclear incidents. They cite a 1957 58 Urals blast near Kyshtim with hundreds dead, a 1960 61 Kyshtim explosion leaving red dust on trees, and a 1973 Mangysh lake Peninsula reactor fire.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Ural Mountains
Tass
Harrisburg
Urals
CIA
Zhores Medvedev
Britain
Leo Tumerman
Israel
Kyshtim
Medvedev
West
Tamerman
Shevchenko
Caspian Sea
U.S
Pennsylvania
Czechoslovakia
Man Foils Gas Station Robbery With Dog Attack Claim
Newbury Park California police said a man attempted to use a German shepherd in a gas station robbery. Attendant Jim Kendricks punched the dog in the mouth, chipping a tooth, and the assailant fled after the failed plan.
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Newbury Park
Calif
Jim Kendricks
Ventura County
Kendricks
Hearst Hearst-Shaw to wed in Treasure Island ceremony
Patricia Hearst will marry Bernard Shaw in a Navy chapel on Treasure Island behind a chain link fence. The couple sold exclusive coverage rights to Look magazine for 50 000 with 300 guests attending the ceremony led by Rev Ted Dumke.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Treasure Island
Look Magazine
Miss Hearst
Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Charles Gould
Hearst
Navy Reserve
Ted Dumke
Three-day shelling of Kampala halted
Diplomats in Kampala reported Libyan forces defending the city after Idi Amin’s regime faced a Tanzanian and Ugandan rebel advance. The capital appeared quiet as Libyans repelled invaders from artillery range while Amin’s troops reportedly deserted, looted, and fled, with no official battle communiques from Tanzania or the Uganda National Liberation Front.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Kampala
Amin
Radio
Uganda
Tanzania
Uganda National Liberation Front
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France
New Palace Yard
Westmin
Soviets
Mr. Bunny
Lindale Mall
Killians
Hearst-Shaw
Berkeley
Symbionese Liberation Army
Shaw, Hearst
Joanna
Fabri
Cedar Rapids
BONE
NAVY
WHITE
Weather Shield
Aluminum
United States Steel
Weather Shield Corp
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