Pope Offers Solace at Lourdes During 30 Hour Visit
Pope John Paul II blessed about 2,000 sick and handicapped pilgrims at Lourdes and urged them to find rebirth in their trials. He addressed thousands, spoke of serenity and hope, and noted the feast of the Assumption as part of a broad joint celebration with Mary’s birth milestones.
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Lourdes
France
John Paul II
John Paul
Pyrenees
Rome
Ciampino
Marguerite Crampes
Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine
St. Bernadette
Virgin Mary
Heaven
Europe
Christ
Mary
Andropov pushes bold economic reforms at party meeting
In Moscow Yuri Andropov urged senior Communist Party officials to backing sweeping economic changes after two weeks of experimental measures. He warned half measures were insufficient and signaled scope to extend plans into the 1986 five year period, reshaping planning and management while limiting turmoil.
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New York Times
Moscow
Yuri Andropov
Communist Party
Andropov
Women and their lists highlight Glamour feature
Glamour magazine spotlights how prominent women including Diane Sawyer Jessica Savitch and Mary Cunningham organize their lives with lists. Separately Ashley Bailey marked her first birthday awaiting a liver transplant at the University of Minnesota Hospitals as her family seeks a donor. In Little Rock Professor Leslie Griffiths discusses Love 4380 a course with no tests and a focus on journals for grading.
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New York
CBS News
Diane Sawyer
Jessica Savitch
NBC News
Mary Cunningham
Glamour Magazine
Ms. Sawyer
Minneapolis
Ashley Bailey
Ashley
Annette Gossett
Clyde
Texas
Little Rock, Ark
Leslie Griffiths
University of Arkansas-Little Rock
Griffiths
11 year old saves 300 pound neighbor from surf
Danny Alpert an 11 year old Seminole student dragged 61 year old Jerry Rogan 40 feet to shore after Rogan collapsed in the Gulf of Mexico during surf fishing. Doctors say Rogan suffered a stroke and might not have survived without the boy's effort.
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Fla
Danny Alpert
Seminole
Jerry Rogan
Gulf of Mexico
Rogan
Lake Seminole Hospital
Danny
NM Boy Dies of Bubonic Plague in New Mexico
A 13 year old boy died Monday from bubonic plague marking the third death among 24 cases reported in New Mexico this year. State epidemiologist Dr Jonathan Mann said the Eagle Nest youth was admitted Sunday night with the most severe plague case he had seen in the state but showed no plague pneumonia symptoms.
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Albuquerque
N.M
New Mexico
Jonathan Mann
Mann
Eagle Nest
Nkomo Returns Home to Fight for Parliaments Seat
Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo arrives from five months in exile to defend his parliamentary seat and challenge Prime Minister Mugabe over a push for a one party state. Police may not press charges on arrival as Nkomo to attend National Assembly debate on expulsion.
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Harare
Zimbabwe
Joshua Nkomo
Robert Mugabe
Nkomo
Mugabe
Zimbabwe Inter- African News Agency
Wiridzayi Nguruve
National Assembly
ZANU
Zimbabwe African National Union
Beirut Airport Reopens After Six Day Closure
The government and Druse opponents agreed to reopen Beirut airport after six days of closure caused by Druse shelling. Druse broadcasts eased pressure on 30,000 Lebanese vacationers stranded abroad prompting the reopening اتفاق.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Druse
First formal talks in nationwide phone strike begin
The strike by 675000 workers enters a new phase as AT&T and union leaders resume negotiations after a nine day stalemate. Key issues include pay job security and working conditions amid reports of scattered sabotage and vandalism.
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New York
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Indira Gandhi marks 36th independence anniversary
Indira Gandhi pledged a jobs program as India marked independence day with speeches and parades. Violence across four states left six dead and many injured including a policeman and four Sikhs in Punjab, and a bomb killed a girl in Assam.
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India
Indira Gandhi
Britain
Punjab
Sikh Autonomy Movement
Assam
Japan marks war's end anniversary in state ceremony
Tokyo reports Emperor Hirohito leading a state ceremony commemorating the end of World War I and honoring more than 3 million Japanese war dead. Opposition politicians denounce what they call a drift toward militarism amid the observance.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Government rules out talks with Walesa on trade unions
In Warsaw the government declared it will not negotiate with Lech Walesa or his group about lifting the ban on free trade unions. Vice Premier Miecyslaw Rakowski stated the position in an NBC TV interview.
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Warsaw
Poland
Lech Walesa
Walesa
Miecyslaw Rakowski
North Georgia residents win TRO over paraquat spraying
U S District Judge Charles Moye Jr issued a temporary restraining order barring further spraying of the weedkiller paraquat on illegal marijuana fields in North Georgia. The DEA signaled it would not continue spraying in Georgia, but a government lawyer could not promise prior notice if plans change.
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Atlanta
North Georgia
U.S
Charles Moye Jr
Drug Enforcement Administration
Georgia
Amnesia Victim Identified as Australian Man
A 24 year old Melbourne man Mantis Gasiunas was identified in Portland Oregon after a July 30 traffic crash. Emanuel Hospital spokeswoman Marianne Koop said the Australian had no ID when found and a brother alerted officials after seeing his photo in a British paper.
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Portland
Ore
England
Marianne Koop
Emanuel Hospital
Mantis Gasiunas
Melbourne
Drug Ring Indicted For Smuggling 250 Tons Across States
Two men were indicted on charges of running a drug ring that allegedly smuggled 250 tons of marijuana and hashish into seven states over the past decade. A DEA spokesman called them top-level organizers of the operation. Salaried American workers forecast 6.8 percent pay raises this year with real gains near 3.3 percent in 1983, down from 5.3 percent in 1982, as companies seek to cut payroll and lean on bonuses.
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Boston
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
Princeton
N.J
Sibson & Co
Metromedia seeks reversal of Craft sex bias verdict
Metromedia Inc. asked a federal judge in Kansas City to overturn the jury verdict awarding TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in a sex discrimination case. The filing occurred in U S District Court on Monday.
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Kansas City, Mo
Metromedia Inc
Christine Craft
Metromedia
U.S. District Court
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