Owen quits over British party merger
David Owen, leader of the Social Democratic Party, steps down after the party votes to merge with the Liberal Party. Negotiations will shape the new centrist party as the Alliance seeks to strengthen its position after Thatcher’s Conservatives won the June general election.
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London
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Liberal Party
Social Democrats
David Owen
Liberals
Margaret Thatcher
Conservative
Alliance
Labor Party
The
Britain
Fatal radiation dose higher than scientists expected
CHICAGO RP The Chernobyl disaster showed humans can survive larger radiation doses with medical care, but an adequate response to nuclear war is not possible. Dr Robert Gale notes some survivors exceeded 600 rads and may reach 800 rads with advanced treatments, raising questions about war-time medical capacity.
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Chernobyl
Soviet Union
Journal of the
American Medical Association
Hiroshima
U.S
South Pacific
Robert Gale
Gale
Dave Harvard
Nuclear Management and Resources Council
Washington
Pacific Island
Bikini Atoll
Rebels attack Ugandan post amid heavy toll
Rebels smeared with oil shielded by a witch doctor charged an army post in Soroti, Uganda, killing 201 defenders and leaving a heap of more than 100 bodies at the scene. The assault followed a two month bout over an airstrip.
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Soroti
Uganda
National Institute on Aging to sponsor THA Alzheimer’s study
The NIA will fund the first full scale THA trial on 300 patients at 17 sites to test delaying memory loss in Alzheimer’s. THA known as tetrahydroaminoacridine showed memory improvement in small tests but has serious side effects. study aims to assess safety and temporary benefit over two years.
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Washington
National Institute On Aging
THA
Father shoots son after mistaking shadow for intruder
In Los Angeles a father fatally shot his 4 year old son when he mistook the boy’s shadow for an intruder during a nighttime incident. The family had been burgled about two months earlier and investigators heard the father’s account of opening the door and firing downward to prevent harming anyone.
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Los Angeles
Kevin Harley
Harley
Soviet cites 72 warheads blocking U.S. arms talks
In Geneva Eduard Shevardnadze says 72 U.S. nuclear warheads on Pershing 1A missiles block an agreement on medium and short range weapons. Max Friedersdorf defends bilateral talks excluding third country systems. He warns allied requests could trigger a broader, weaker treaty and notes willingness to accept mandatory challenge inspections for chemical weapons.
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U.S
Soviet Union
United States
West Germany
Eduard Shevardnadze
Max Friedersdorf
Shevardnadze
Moscow
Kremlin
Woman jumps from burning Carlton Hotel to her death
Louise Frayne, 57, leaped from a sixth floor window as heavy smoke filled the Carlton Hotel in Newark. Her three teenage children pleaded with her to stay, but they were rescued after others escaped, while a guest was critically injured and 21 others treated for minor injuries. Fire officials blamed the owner Berger Hotel Corp for missing a fire door to the basement and debris in the basement. The fire started in a plastic garbage bin in the basement.
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N.J
Carlton Hotel
Berger Hotel Corp
Claude Coleman
Louise Frayne
Coleman
Frayne
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