Mideast peace plan alive despite Jordan setback
Reagan reassured by King Hussein and King Fahd that the peace initiative remains on track after the PLO rejected last minute terms. Shultz predicted Hussein could still join talks, while Lisbon police detain a suspect in the Sartawi murder tied to a Palestinian faction.
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West Bank
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Lisbon
Portugal
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Senate weighs Adelman nomination amid Arms Control Agency purge
A House subcommittee heard that the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency has been gutted starved and purged diminishing staff from 199 to 154 and leaving many top posts vacant or filled by acting officials. Senators scheduled to vote on Kenneth Adelmans nomination to direct the agency amid concerns over qualifications and access to top policymakers.
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Bitter Chicago race nears end for mayor title
Harold Washington camps on the North Side lakefront urging white liberal support as Bernard Epton, a millionaire lawyer, campaigns with limited public appearances. The race centers on the liberal lakefront battleground with race and integrity as key issues in Chicago's closest mayoral contest in decades.
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Chicago
Bernard Epton
Epton
Harold Washington
Washington
Jane Byrne
Judy Knapton
Lakefront
Don Rose
WLSTV
Albee Declines College Teaching After 26Minute Workshop
Dramatist Edward Albee spoke to 50 Johns Hopkins students delivering a 26 minute workshop on writing plays. He advised focusing on onstage major speeches and a late climax, reading failures as well as masterpieces, and noted critics judged his latest Broadway work The Man Who Had Three Arms rather than the play he wrote.
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Baltimore
Edward Albee
Albee
John Hopkins University
Man
Identical Twins Deliver on Same Day in Jacksonville
Jacksonville twins Andrea and Angela Polk both gave birth within a day of each other. Angela's son Joseph James III weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces at St. Vincent's Medical Center, just 59 minutes before March 11. Andrea's daughter Lacy Nicole weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces at University Hospital nine hours earlier. Both new mothers are unmarried, share interests, wear glasses, and hold associate degrees in criminal justice from Florida Junior College after Valdosta high school.
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Angela Polk
Jacksonville
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St. Vincent's Medical Center
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University Hospital
Florida Junior College
Valdosta
Gilda Radner Sues Financier Over Estate Mismanagement
Gilda Radner and brother Michael sue in Wayne County Circuit Court alleging Neil Goodman mismanaged their family partnership estate. They seek to block Goodman from any of about 3 million dollars in remaining assets, labeling him an outrageous con man. Goodman denies wrongdoing.
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Detroit
Gilda Radner
Ms. Radner
Michael
Bomb defused from Thames sinks London Bridge area
Falklands veteran Maj. John Quin of the Royal Engineers defused a 110 pound Luftwaffe bomb found by a mechanical dredge in the Thames near London Bridge after police sealed off a long river section. The ticking fuse was neutralized and authorities warned of danger if the device exploded.
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Thames
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Royal Engineers
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London Bridge
the Automobile Association
Death of Rep Phillip Burton After Aortic Aneurysm Rupture
U S San Francisco Coroner reports veteran Democrat Phillip Burton died from a ruptured abdominal aorta aneurysm followed by internal bleeding. Burton, 56, collapsed in his Sir Francis Drake Hotel suite and died at St Francis Memorial Hospital.
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Phillip Burton
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10 000 Seek 75 Jobs At Teledyne Monarch Rubber
More than 10 000 job seekers lined up in Hartville Ohio to apply for about 75 openings at Teledyne Monarch Rubber Co. Plant guards handed out applications from 6 a.m. due to a traffic jam. The company plans May 1 hires to fulfill a contract for General Motors J car parts.
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Hartville
Ohio
Teledyne Monarch Rubber Co
General Motors
J-car
Miller son of Reagan attorney labeled psychotic in competency bid
In Torrance California Michael David Miller 20 is deemed psychotic and scarred by his brother Jeff Miller’s 1981 suicide as he fights a rape murder case against his mother. A psychiatrist was appointed by Municipal Judge Benjamin Aranda with an April 29 hearing set.
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Calif
Reagan
Michael David Miller
Benjamin Aranda
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Jeff
Jeff Miller
Probation Given in Historic Albuquerque Rape Case
In Albuquerque, William Brooks is to serve five years of unsupervised probation for rape after a sentencing error left him unsentenced for a decade. Judge Phillip Ashby stated the system goofed and kept the original 10 to 50 year sentence suspended with one condition stay out of trouble.
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N.M
Bernalillo County
Phillip Ashby
William Brooks
Brooks
Ashby
Poland delays US ambassador approval awaiting gesture
Warsaw holds up approval of John Scanlan as U.S. envoy until the Reagan administration signals a positive gesture toward Poland. A Foreign Ministry official said Warsaw plans steps toward reconciliation before Pope John Paul II visits on June 16, but the decision rests with Washington. The State Department would not comment.
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Foreign Ministry
John Scanlan
Foreign Service
Washington
John Paul II
United States
State Department
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