Pilot who flew near Reagan identified as AWOL soldier
FAA revoked the license of Ralph W. Myers a 32 year old Army private AWOL from Fort Lewis Washington after he flew a Piper Archer within 200 to 300 feet of Marine One near Reagan's Rancho del Cielo in Santa Barbara. Myers said a lost contact lens caused the misadventure and that his passenger flew the plane.
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Guzene Wits Extraes
Washington
Federal Aviation Administrati
Reagan
Santa Barbara
Ralph W. Myers
Fort Lewis
Wash
Rancho del Cielo
White House
Howard Baker
Baker
Marine One
Michael Glenn
Orange County
Glenn
FAA
Marlin Fitzwater
Secret Service
Fitzwater
Skie
Bill Corbett
Myers
Harlan Lee Jones
Lake Oswego
Ore
John Wayne Airport
Los Angeles
U.S
Robert Bonner
Believers Await Harmonic Convergence Across The West
Believers gather for a Mayan calendar inspired harmonic convergence with events planned at Chaco Culture NM in New Mexico Mount Shasta in California and Enchanted Rock in Texas. Skeptics call the idea crackpot while Arguelles predicts a 5125 year cycle climax in 2012 and cleansing through 1992.
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park
New Mexico
Mount Shasta
California
Enchanted Rock
Texas
National Parks Service
Mesa Verde
Colorado
Jose Arguelles
Arguelles
Boulder
Colo
Michael Coe
Yale University
Paul Kurtz
State University of New York At Buffalo
Labor to oppose Bork nomination sparks AFL-CIO push
The AFL-CIO plans a large campaign against Robert Bork as President Reagan nominates him to the Supreme Court. The executive council votes Monday on opposing his nomination, with three major unions already against him, making the action largely formal.
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Labor
Bork Washington
Afl-Cio
Reagan
Robert Bork
Supreme Court
Labor Federations Executive Council
Bork
South Africa mine strike turns violent injuring hundreds
Police and security forces injure more than 100 black strikers at Optimum coal mine and Western Deep Level gold mine using birdshot rubber bullets and tear gas as the nationwide walkout expands. Independent estimates put total strikers around 334,640 across 59 mines with 340,000 claimed by the union.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Transvaal
Anglo ‘American Corp
Western Deep Level
Trans- Natal Corp
Pretoria
National Union of Mineworkers
Chamber of Mines
de Beers Consolidated
de Beers
Husband of Joan Rivers Producer Found Dead in Philadelphia
Edgar Rosenberg, 62, husband of comedian Joan Rivers, was found dead in his hotel room at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. Police say it appears to be a Valium overdose. a note and pills were recovered, with tapes for family members also found. Rosenberg had a recent history of illness and low spirits.
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Philadelphia
Edgar Rosenberg
Joan Rivers
Rosenberg
Gerald Whartenby
Four Seasons Hotel
Whartenby
Richard Grant
Rivers
Los Angeles
Grant
Iran begins search for mines and warns of bomb boats
Iran pressed a minesweeping mission in the Gulf of Oman to clear mines it says threaten its shipping while the UAE warned of remote control bomb boats in international waters near the Hormuz. The move follows Iran's dramatic Martyrdom maneuvers and heightens regional tensions with the United States and allied ships in the area.
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Iran
Gazette Wire Services
Kuwait
Gulf of Oman
United Arab Emirates
Strait of Hormuz
al-Khalee
Thursay
Persian Gulf
U.S
Washington
Reagan
Robert Lamb
State Department
Bureau of Diploms Security
U.S. Navy
Gulf
Emirate
Strait of Hor‘muz
Constellation
United States
Texaco Caribbean
Lions Clubs chief in Lebanon freed after 11 months in captivity
Victor Kane, international Lions Club official for Lebanon and Jordan, was released unharmed from a Syrian police suburb south of Beirut after 11 months in captivity. He said he was well treated and thanked those who helped secure his freedom. Kane was abducted September 10 near the French Embassy in West Beirut.
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Beirut
Lebanon
International Lions Club
Jordan
Victor Kane
Verdun
Kane
Shweifat
Rose
Kano
West Beirut
Rue Clemenceau
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Philippines
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Allen
Streiteville
N.C
Pope Air Force Base
Pope
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Pat Englehardt
Eglin Air Force Base
Pensacola, Fla
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Aouzou
Chad
Libya
Hewlett Packard
North Bay Computer Ware
S. Africa
Edgar Rosen
Ctyline
The
Gazette
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Dubuque
KCRG
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Lions Club
Victor Kano
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