Ethics Office Finds Meese Wife Trip Improper
The Office of Government Ethics ruled it improper for Ursula Meese to accept a free trip to China last summer as part of Edwin Meese's delegation. Deputy director Donald Campbell noted poor advice from aides for allowing a nonprofit group to cover thousands in travel costs for her and another Justice Department official's wife.
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Washington
Edwin Meese
China
Meeses
Donald Campbell
Ursula
Justice Department
Education costs rise to 4810 per pupil this year
The Department of Education projects public elementary and secondary schooling will cost 4810 per student this year, up more than 2000 since 1980. Education Secretary William Bennett says the investment is immense and must yield better results for youth and the nation. The forecast notes spending outpaces inflation this decade.
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Washington
America
Department of Education
William Bennett
Fence climber bleeds to death in Brooklyn yard
A homeless man in his late 30s bled to death after slashing his arms while attempting to scale razor wired fencing. The Transit Authority found him in its Brooklyn material storage yard and said he had been dead for hours with no clear entry details.
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New York
Transit Authority
Brooklyn
Albert O’leary
O’leary
Limpet Mine Explosion Injures 23 in East London
A limpet mine exploded under a table at a Wimpy restaurant near East London City Hall injuring at least 23 people. About 10 patrons were inside the restaurant at 1 15 p m when the blast occurred. Police blamed the African National Congress for recent civilian bombings.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
East London
City Hall
African National Congress
Poland imposes curfew as Silesian strikes escalate
Poland declares a curfew on Jastrzbie center of miner strikes and calls a Sejm session to review economic policy. Despite closures at 12 Silesian mines, some plants end strikes while port workers in Szczecin and Gdansk keep labor actions. Lech Walesa and shipyards stay idle as government faces pressure over the faltering economy.
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Sejm
Silesian
Andaluzia
Solidarity
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Poznan
Szczecin
Gdansk
Lech Walesa
Lenin
Nowa Huta
Myslowice-Wesola
Marcel
Wodzislaw Slaski
Jerzy Urban
Trade Union Federation of Poland
Zbigniew Messner
Ex Panther leader refuses to leave jail on release day
Huey Newton, former Black Panther leader, stays in San Quentin on his scheduled release date and demands fellow inmate Elmer Pratt be freed. Pratt, serving a life term since 1972 for murder, has twice failed parole bids. Newton’s ally Sue Gegner says Newton aims to protest Pratt’s ongoing imprisonment.
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Calif
Huey Newton
Elmer “Geronimo
Pratt
Newton
Sue Gegner
Geronimo Pratt
Gegner
Thousands of Baltic nationalists rally on 49th Nazi pact anniversary
In Estonia Latvia and Lithuania thousands gathered to denounce the Aug. 23 1939 Molotov pact with Nazi Germany and recall Soviet takeover. Crowd estimates ranged from 30 000 to 200 000 with events in Vilnius Tallinn Kaunas and Riga.
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Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Kremlin
Adolf Hitler
Antanas Terleckas
Vingis Park
Vilnius
Tass
Kaunas
Valdas Analauskas
Express Chronicle
Tallinn
Josef Stalin
Baltic States
Ents Tsavilius
Riga
Thornburgh questions Meese independent counsel order
Attorney General Thornburgh criticized the Meese order to appoint independent counsels for serious congressional allegations. He favors sparing use of special prosecutors and ordered a review to decide if the measure should be enforced. He also aims to improve DOJ ties with civil rights leaders amid tensions from the Reagan era.
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Washington
Dick Thornburgh
Edwin Meese
Congress
Thornburgh
Meese
Justice Department
Reagan
Reagan Signs Landmark Trade Bill In California Rallies
President Reagan wooed blue collar and conservative voters in Irvine and Long Beach as he signed a landmark trade bill. He touted economic gains and Bush as the heir to his legacy while criticizing the Democratic ticket and avoiding mention of the 1987 trade deficit.
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Calif
Reagan
George Bush
California
Long Beach
Orange County
Bush
Congress
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
Michael Dukakis
Quayle
Timeline snippets from ambiguous OCR sequence
Fragmentary dataset lists years 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 with numeric codes 050 8340 8350 8360. No clear event or entities identified beyond years and codes.
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