Ex Pentagon expert charged with selling secrets to Libya
Waldo Dubberstein, 75, a former Defense Intelligence Agency expert on the Middle East, is indicted for selling highly classified U.S. military information to Libya for about $30,000. He allegedly channelled data through Edwin Wilson and Douglas Schlachter, traveled to Tripoli under an assumed name, and conspired to provide Middle East reports to Libyan intelligence between 1977 and 1979.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
Defense Intelligence Agency
Middle East
U.S
Libya
Alexandria
Waldo Herman Dubberstein
CIA
Edwin Wilson
Wilson
Douglas Schlachter
Tripoli
Dubberstein
DIA
Pentagon
Howard Bushman
United States
Defense Intelligence
Secretary of Defense
Schlachter
Argentina Defends Actions Behind Disappearances in 1970s
Argentina’s 45 minute televised accounting defended wartime anti terrorist measures as legal and needed, but offered few details on the fate of thousands missing. The junta said 2050 people were killed by terrorism from 1973 to 1979 and promised to release a list of missing requests and prisoners in government custody.
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New York Times
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Interior Ministry
Isabel Martinez de Peron
Study finds welfare cuts did not drive work quits
A study for the Reagan administration shows most removed from welfare in the 1981 reform stayed employed and did not quit to keep benefits. Of those with earnings who left, about 15 percent returned by September 1982, with many leaving again within two months.
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New York Times Service
Washington
Reagan Administration
Margaret Heckler
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Research Triangle Institute
North Carolina
Reagan
Thomas C.W. Joe
Nixon
Center For the Study of Social Policy
Jo Anne Ross
Federal Welfare Program
HHS
U S asks Israel to consider prosecuting Nazi criminals
The U S Justice Department urged Israel to prosecute several alleged Nazi war criminals who entered the United States and face deportation. The talks, involving Neal Sher and Yonah Blatman, focus on Valerian Trifa and other cases amid debates on evidence and deportation procedures.
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U.S
Israel
Gazette Wire Services
Jerusalem
U.S. Justice Department
United States
Neal Sher
Justice Department
Office of Special Investigations
Yonah Blatman
Valerian Trifa
Trifa
Romania
Iron Guard
Washington
Feinberg
Slabs Crumble From Capitol West Front After Reagan Speech
About 100 square feet of sandstone veneer on the Capitol West Front collapsed into an inner courtyard minutes after President Reagan finished his address on Central America. No injuries were reported as debate over renovation and extending the West Front resumes among lawmakers and observers.
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Washington
Capitol
Reagan
Congress
House of Representatives
Central America
House
National Mall
Jerry Lewis
Rcalif
Social Security to Issue Annual Benefit Tally for Tax
U S Social Security will mail 1099 like tallies to 36 million beneficiaries showing total benefits paid for the year. Starting next year benefits become taxable for those with income above limits, affecting about 10 percent, under a Congress ordered tax in the bailout signed by President Reagan.
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Washington
Social Security
Nelson J. Sabatini
House Appropriations
Congress
Reagan
Francewide student protests sweep cities amid reform clashes
Thousands of students demonstrated in Paris and other cities as France faced its worst unrest since May 1968. A third protest was planned, with no immediate clashes reported in Paris Marseille Caen Angers or Dijon. The actions center on two government reform programs increasing classroom control, one already law affecting 46 medical schools.
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Paris
France
Marseille
Caen
Angers
Dijon
Writer gets 15 years in prison for drug conspiracy
Richard L. Stratton, 37, convicted of drug conspiracy after claiming he only gathered material for a book, received a maximum 15 year sentence from U.S. District Judge Edward T Gignoux in Portland Maine. He criticized the trial and current prosecutors as hostile toward him.
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Portland, Maine
Richard L. Stratton
Stratton
U.S
Edward T Gignoux
New MS Therapy Shows Promise in San Diego
AP reports a new multiple sclerosis treatment tested in San Diego shows promise by easing symptoms and improving mobility for patients. Researchers note early results suggest potential long term benefits pending larger trials.
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San Diego
Mudslide buries scores on Pan American Highway in Ecuador
Tons of earth and rock cascaded from a mountain ridge onto the Pan American Highway in central Ecuador burying cars and up to 200 people. Thirty confirmed dead authorities fear up to 200 may be trapped. President Hurtado visited the scene saying more than 100 buried under rubble as nature punishes.
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Quito
Ecuador
Osvaldo Hurtado
PAC funding surges as 1982 totals hit records
Washington AP reports PACs amassed 199.3 million dollars in 1981 1982 and wired 87 million to candidates while incumbents captured over two thirds of the money and challengers less than one fifth. Total spending reached 190.4 million.
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Washington
Federal Election Commission
Reagan allies block fifth vote on US Soviet freeze
In Washington AP U.S. House debate on a nuclear freeze was blocked for the fifth time by Reagan administration allies. Freeze sponsor Rep. Clement Zablocki D Wis abandoned efforts to finish the measure this week and will seek a Rules Committee ruling next week to limit debate and force a final showdown.
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Washington
House
U.S
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