Mexican dollar freeze halts foreign currency trading
Mexico froze dollar accounts and banned dollar sales in a bid to defend dwindling reserves. Banks later resumed some dollar buying as officials warned against disturbances while troops were moved for independence Day preparations. The move hits businesses and citizens converting pesos to dollars amid price rises and peso devaluation.
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Mexico City
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Texas
Miguel de la Madrid
Sergio Gonzalez
Francisco Galindo Ochoa
Monterrey
Nuevo Laredo
Bank of Mexico
Noonan
Reagan defends tax bill as not largest increase
President Reagan called the $98.9 billion three year tax measure not the biggest tax increase in history. He argued passage is crucial to reducing large deficits and announced plans for a national television address. The GOP echoed support with $400,000 in radio and TV appeals.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Reagan
Republican Party
White House
Republican National Committee
House-Senate
Senate
House
U.S
GOP fires fundraiser Richard DeVos in political shakeup
Washington AP reports chief GOP fundraiser Richard M. DeVos was fired after months of outspoken views on the economy and labor. Mike Curb named interim fund-raising chairman until the Republican National Committee meets in January 1983.
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Washington
Republican Party
Richard M. DeVos
GOP
Richard Richards
California
Mike Curb
DeVos
Republican National Committee
Valley braces for summer visit from Hells Angels
Frisco Colorado reads a calm scene as up to 400 Hells Angels and friends arrive for the annual run. Officers plan extra patrols near Officer's Gulch while FAA bans low flights. Merchants expect peace. locals warn to “run like hell” if trouble arises.
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Frisco
Colo
UPI
Hells Angels
Mountain
al Witt
Angels
Joe Antonio
Officer's Gulch
State Patrol
John Callahan
Federal Aviation Administration
Officer’s Gulch
Antonio
Angelo Alioto
al Abono
Alioto
Chamber of Commerce
Ben Fogle
Doug Long
Long
California
Suzuki Meets Education Minister Over History Textbook Controversy
Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and the education minister discussed the disputed new high school history books as Japan faced criticism from several Asian neighbors over neutral language changes. Okawa refused to revert to the original wording despite calls to do so. In El Salvador, guerrillas attacked the Interior Ministry in San Salvador and clashed near San Sebastian, with no reported injuries.
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Tokyo
Zenko Suzuki
Heiji Ogawa
Japan
Nanking
South Korea
Taiwan
Yoshio Sakurauchi
Okawa
Suzuki
San Salvador
el Salvador
UPI
Interior Ministry
San Sebastian
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Boston
Bruce C. Bolling
Trenton
N.J
Joseph “Jo-Jo” Giorgianni
Mercer County
Hal Haveson
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
John Hinckley
Fob James
South Bend
Valley
Callahan
Armstr
Ministry Hit
Armstrong Coatland
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