Caterpillar Sees mixed hopes on export lift to USSR
Caterpillar officials say it is too early to tell if the Commerce Department move lifting pipelaying equipment restrictions will help the Peoria firm. The company blames the licensing regime for a $90 million sale lost to Japan’s Komatsu and reports heavy losses for the first half of fiscal 1983 amid UAW strikes and thousands of layoffs. Senator Percy urges restoration of competitiveness and notes the lifting of licensing may remove delays.
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U.S. Commerce Department
Soviet Union
Caterpillar
Steve Newhouse
Peoria
Ill
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Komatsu
Japan
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B. Jay Cooper
Washington
Percy
House
Robert H. Michel
Illinois
Soviets Oust Chief Of Traffic Police In Anti-Corruption Push
Moscow reports say President Andropov replaces Lt Gen Valery Lukyanov with Maj Gen Viktor Piskarev as part of a broad crackdown on corruption. TV and Pravda announce Piskarev leading traffic safety efforts amid new penalties, amid wider ministerial reshuffles.
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Yuri V. Andropov
Valery V. Lukyanov
Auto Inspection Administration
Viktor A. Piskarev
Interior Ministry
Kremlin
Andropov
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nikolai Shchelokov
Vitaly Fedorchuk
KGB
Secret Police
Shchelokov
Blind sailor Hank Dekker sails solo to Hawaii
Hank Dekker arrives in Honolulu aboard his sailboat becoming the first blind person to sail solo from San Francisco to Hawaii. He used Braille charts a Braille compass a talking clock and an audio navigational system that reads his position aloud.
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Hank Dekker
Eve Mitchell
Honolulu
San Francisco
Hawaii
Dekker
Progress Reported in AT&T Negotiations and Union Action
The Communications Workers of America called its 17 member executive board to review a total new contract offer from AT&T as talks move toward possible full negotiations. A union source said the meeting could lead to face to face talks and a tentative settlement, with AT&T officials offering no settlement timeline. The dispute has sent about 700,000 Bell System workers to strike on August 6.
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Washington
Communications Workers of America
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
CWA
At&t
Duayne Trecker
Bell System
Communications Workers Union
Doctor charged in forced abortion case at Los Angeles hospital
Dr. Alfred E. Adams 30, jailed on investigation of attempted illegal abortion and assault with a deadly weapon, posted $2,000 bail. Adams allegedly threatened Dr. Ramona Minnis at knifepoint in a hospital dorm and administered an abortion-inducing solution. Minnis declined and was not harmed.
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Los Angeles
Alfred E. Adams
Los Angeles County
Kevin Carney
Adams
Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital
Ramona
Four Women Slain at Joliet Ceramic Store
Four women were found shot or stabbed to death in a Joliet ceramic shop, with evidence suggesting possible robbery not confirmed as motive. Victims include owner Marilyn Baers and Pamela M. Ryan and her mother-in-law Anna Ryan, along with Barbara Dunbar of rural Mokena. Suspects and motive remain unknown as autopsy plans proceed.
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Gae Luchowski
John Shelly
Merry
Will County
Robert Tezak
Marilyn Baers
Pamela M. Ryan
Anna A. Ryan
Joliet
Barbara J. Dunbar
Mokena
Ms. Baers
Tezak
Will County Sheriff's Police
Brett Weiler
Federal Agency to Continue Paraquat Sprays on Patch Crops
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced it will keep spraying paraquat on marijuana patches in cooperative states where appropriate amid protests in Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. NORML director Kevin Zeese says the group will sue in federal court to block further spraying next week.
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Washington
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Drug Enforcement Administration
Kevin Zeese
National Organization For the Reform of Marijuana Laws
Killer daycare virus kills infant in New York outbreak
An outbreak of diarrhea at Brockport Satellite Day Care Center has caused one death of a 7 month old girl and illness in 27 others including 22 children and five adults. Health officials say no improper sanitation caused the outbreak which began August 4.
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Rochester
N.Y
Brockport
Monroe County
Joel Nitzkin
Nitzkin
Guerrillas to meet Stone in upcoming talks in Latin America
The leftist guerrilla leadership seeking to overthrow the Salvadoran government will hold talks with President Reagan’s special envoy Richard Stone in the next few days with an open agenda. They will also meet the Salvadoran government's National Peace Commission, according to the guerrillas’ U.S. spokesman Alberto Arene. Arene said a representation from the FDR FMLN joint command would meet Stone in a Latin American country.
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Washington
Reagan
Richard Stone
National Peace Commission
U.S
Alberto Arene
Revolutionary Democratic Front-Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
Fdr-Fmln
Stone
Belgium Expels Diplomats Amid Economic Espionage Probe
Belgium orders expulsion of several diplomats and arrests a senior Foreign Ministry official over alleged economic espionage. Foreign Minister Leo Tindemans disclosed the move, noting he would not name the diplomats to avoid diplomatic difficulties. Romanian and Soviet envoys reportedly expelled.
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Belgium
Leo Tindemans
Tindemans
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TV Listings Daily in The Gazette
The Gazette provides a daily roundup of television listings across local channels. Readers find scheduled programs, start times, and notable premieres within the paper’s daily TV column.
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