Police raid COSATU building amid labor strike in Johannesburg
Police with masked officers searched the COSATU headquarters for seven hours as riot units guarded the 11 story building. Eleven people aged 12 to 49 were arrested during the raid linked to the killings of four railway workers and the mass firing of 16,000 by South African Transport Services.
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South Africa
Pierre Louw
South African Press Association
Jay Naidoo
Congress of South African Trade Unions
Cosatu
South African Railways and Harbor Workers Union
Union
Dirk Hartford
Peter Harris
Railway Workers Union
Montana sheriff hunts suspected Colorado killers in rugged mountains
Sheriff Chuck O Reilly said snipers believed to include two California escapees from two Colorado slayings fled into rough terrain after a four hour Monday night shootout. Four tactical teams and a tracking dog hunted the area near Gates of the Mountains Wilderness with aerial heat sensing to force a surrender.
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Wolf Creek
Mont
Chuck O’reilly
California
Colorado
O’reilly
Gates of the Mountains
Israeli F-15 lands after wing ripped off in 1983 collision
Israeli Defense Ministry reveals a mid air split left an F-15 with a missing wing yet the pilot managed a safe landing. The 1983 incident involved an Israeli Skyhawk bomber and was kept secret with no reason given. In London a Stradivarius violin sold for a record 726000 dollars at Christie's auction.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Defense Ministry
Fugitive Army Major Surrenders in Argentina
Former army Maj Ernesto Barreiro, a fugitive after leading a mutiny two weeks earlier, surrendered to federal authorities late Wednesday in Cordoba. Officials said the mutiny leader turned himself in at the Córdoba point of contact.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Ernesto Barreiro
Cordoba
Gazette Wire
Contras Accuse Targeting of American Engineer Linder
NICAT officials said Benjamin Linder 27 was on a contra hit list for his Sandinista volunteer work and a 1980s lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Family members blamed U.S. policy for his death in the El Cua Bocay area amid fighting between contras and Sandinistas.
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Seattle
Nicaragua
Benjamin Ernest Linder
Center For Constitutional Rights
Tom Voorhees
NICAT
Appropriate Technology
Voorhees
New
John Linder
David Linder
Linder
el Cua-Bocay
Jimotega
Nicaraguan Democratic Force
FDN
U.S
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Florida boy Ronnie DeSillers dies awaiting fourth liver transplant
Ronnie DeSillers, a seven year old from Florida who received three liver transplants after wide support from President Reagan and others, died in Pittsburgh on Wednesday while awaiting a fourth transplant. He had been back on the waiting list after his third transplant failed to function.
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Pittsburgh
Ronnie DeSillers
Florida
Reagan
Ronnie
Maria DeSillers
Children’s Hospital of
Washington
White House
Fort Lauderdale, Fla
Senate backs tentative 1988 budget with tax hikes and cuts
The Senate narrowly approves a $1 trillion fiscal 1988 budget plan drawn by Lawton Chiles by a 50 to 49 vote. It remains open for changes before a final vote expected next week as Democrats seek more favorable terms.
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Senate
Reagan
Senate Budget Committee
Lawton Chiles
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