First day of Bell strike shows minor service hitches
The nationwide AT T strike by 675000 workers caused limited disruption on Sunday with some long distance calls error messages and emergency rerouting. Most direct dial service remained functional as unions and AT T planned further talks amid wage and job security disputes.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Bell System
California
Oklahoma
At&t
Communications Workers of America
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Telecommunications International Union
CWA
Glenn Watts
Pic Wagner
Kremlin imposes first sanctions in worker discipline drive
The Central Committee decree reported by Pravda sanctions include docking up to one third of monthly wages for sloppy work and shortening vacations for frequent absences. It targets loafers and drunks while urging workers to report infractions and two months notice to quit. The move follows Andropov era pushes for discipline and productivity.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Central Committee
Pravda
Kremlin
Yuri Andropov
Andropov
Defector Triggers Seoul Air Raid Alert
A Chinese MiG-21 pilot Sun Tienchin defected by entering Seoul air space and seeking asylum in an unidentified third country. Seoul issued the first air raid alert in 30 years, halted traffic, and civilians sought underground shelters. Sun, 46, to be processed per law. Taipei reportedly offered gold reward if he reaches Taiwan.
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South Korea
Defense Ministry
Sun Tienchin
Sun
Taiwan
Taipei
Studds Hailed in New Bedford After Censure
Rep Gerry Studds returns to his district for the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament parade in New Bedford Massachusetts amid thousands cheering and few boos. He thanks supporters and signals victory as he walks a 1% mile route through the Portuguese neighborhood.
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New Bedford
Mass
Gerry Studds
Congress
House
Studds
Shark alert in effect near Block Island after whale feeding
Coast Guard warns of sharks in eastern Long Island Sound after a dead whale and a 3,300 pound finback whale drew divers and fishermen. A Coast Guard spokesman cautioned water users as the whale, possibly propeller-wounded, drifted about eight miles south of Block Island in Rhode Island waters.
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Mystic
Conn
Coast Guard
Long Island Sound
Coast and
Dennis Hoffer
Block Island
R.I. Two
Woman leaps from Notre Dame tower in Paris tragedy
A 25 year old Frenchwoman jumped 160 feet from Notre Dame Cathedral killing herself and a 29 year old Canadian woman nearby. Two others were injured as police noted the act marked the cathedral's 23rd fatal jump in its 793 year history.
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Paris
Five terrorists captured in Wicklow shootout during kidnap bid
Anti-terrorist police staking out the lakeside Wicklow mansion of Galen Weston clashed with seven masked gunmen in a Sunday firefight. Four attackers were seriously wounded. five were captured. Police link the attempt to the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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Dublin
Ireland
Galen Weston
Wicklow
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Oil Laden Bow Towed Offshore After Cape Wreck
A government crew towed the oil laden bow of a wrecked Spanish supertanker out to sea as winds pushed the slick away from land. Rain and southerly breezes eased threat to farmland and a wildlife sanctuary after the tanker burst into flames and broke in half near the Cape of Good Hope. Three seamen were missing.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Cape of Good Hope
United States proposes detailed method to destroy nerve gas stocks
Washington reports that the United States has offered the Soviet Union a detailed plan for destroying chemical weapons stocks with international inspectors in a Geneva disarmament meeting. The two nations continue a two track push for a new anti chemical pact while pursuing broader nuclear limits.
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United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Committee On Disarmament
Geneva
Reagan
Afghanistan
Laos
Cambodia
George Bush
Shultz says U.S. will not use forces to topple Sandinistas
Secretary of State George Shultz rejected any armed U.S. effort to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government on Meet the Press. He floated asylum for U.S.-backed contras if an agreement ends Central American turmoil and signaled possible negotiations to curb guerrilla activity in El Salvador while pursuing current covert plans.
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United States
Nicaragua
George Shultz
U.S
Shultz
NBCTV
Meet the Press
Central America
House
Means
Senate
el Salvador
Jet lands safely after blowout near Las Vegas
A Republic Airlines DC-9 carrying 102 people blew a tire on takeoff from Las Vegas en route to Memphis. The two engine jet circled McCarran International Airport for over an hour dumping fuel as a precaution before a safe landing at 4:15 p.m. No injuries were reported.
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Nev
Republic Airlines
Clarke County
Douglas Downs
Republic
Bob Gibbons
Minneapolis
Downs
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