Begin Grapples With Resigning As Coalition Pleads For Retraction
Israel faced political uncertainty as Prime Minister Menachem Begin wavered on a resignation, promising a firm decision by morning after a day of sustained coalition pressure. Officials and analysts weighed successors while Kohl’s West German visit hung in suspense amid rumors of a possible cancellation.
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Washington Post
Jerusalem
Menachem Begin
Begin
Uri Porat
Porat
Likud Bloc
Israel Radio
Ronnie Milo
Yitzhak Shamir
Helmut Kohl
Night Launch Set for Challenger Flight No 8
Cape Canaveral prepares for a night launch of Space Shuttle Challenger Flight No 8 with five astronauts led by Richard H. Truly. Lightning and rain surround the pad as fuel fills the ship for a 2:15 am EDT liftoff and a six day mission ending September 5 at Edwards Air Force Base. Guion Bluford becomes the first African American named to an American space flight.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Challenger
NASA
Spaceship
Iowa
Pad
Kennedy Space Center
Equator
India
Earth
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
U.S
Navy
Richard H. Truly
Air Force
Guion S. Bluford Jr
FBI arrests killer again on West German charges
Gary Wayne Perry 28 was arrested after a provisional West German warrant charged bodily injury causing death in the death of his 7 month old daughter at a U.S. Army base in Guenzberg West Germany in January 1978. He confessed to police in Los Angeles and had been released earlier for lack of Army jurisdiction.
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Los Angeles
West Germany
FBI
Gary Wayne Perry
Texarkana
Texas
Fred Reagan
U.S
Reagan
Perry
Guenzberg
Robert Hutton
Disturbed Vietnam Vet Killed After Gun Battle in Aurora
Michael J. Tandy 30 died after a Sunday attack that began with a failed firebombing of the police station and ended in a shootout with law enforcement. Deputies and officers were wounded while Tandy carried Molotovs and a rifle, and was shot by Tom Cochran. Tandy’s father described him as changed by his Vietnam service and troubled by trauma.
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Aurora
Ind
Vietnam
Michael J. Tandy
Joe
Donna Goodpaster
Tandy
Thomas Bauer
Tom Cochran
Cochran
Bauer
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
Joe Tandy
Veterans Administration
Gunman surrenders at ABC News building in Washington
A man entered the ABC News building in downtown Washington and, after wielding a gun and claiming he wanted to reach a radio station, surrendered to police about 6 15 p m. The weapon was empty and no injuries were reported.
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Washington
ABC News
District of Columbia
Hiram Brewton
World News Tonight
David J. Mullin
Mount Pleasant
S.C
Brewton
Mullin
ABC
Ed Fouhy
Greg Dority
Dority
Dioxin Found Common in Bodies of Veterans and Canadians
Studies by the VA and Canada report background levels of dioxin in body fat across groups with and without known exposure. Levels ranged from 3 to 99 parts per trillion, suggesting widespread presence. A national tissue bank study results due in 1985 will clarify health links amid broad scientific debate.
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Washington
U.S
Alvin L. Young
Veterans Administration Agent Orange Projects Office
American Chemical Society
Vietnam
Young
Environmental Protection Agency
Bank of Human Tissues
Canada
Health Agency
Ontario
John J. Ryan
Food and Environmental Health Directorates
Ottawa
Oklahoma prison riot at Conners Correctional Center erupts
Prisoners at Conners Correctional Center in Hominy Oklahoma set several buildings ablaze in a disturbance Monday night. Authorities say 728 inmates were involved and guards were evacuated while Gov. Nigh ordered National Guard assistance. gunfire was reported as pilots were warned to stay clear of the area. No injuries confirmed.
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Hominy
Okla
Conners Correctional Center
Corrections Department
George Nigh
National Guard
Tulsa International
Judge allows San Jose Unified to drop wage terms in bankruptcy
A bankruptcy judge ruled the San Jose Unified School District can reject wage provisions for about 1,400 teachers and 800 other workers due to imminent district collapse. Workers will be paid at 1981-82 levels while renegotiations proceed.
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San Jose
Calif
U.S
Seymour Abrahams
San Jose Unified
Crowd Estimate Revised for March on Washington
Washington police revised the Saturday crowd estimate for the 20th anniversary March on Washington to 300000, up from the original count by fifty thousand. The new total reflects updated assessments of attendees and protest activity across the National Mall and surrounding areas.
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Washington (Ap
District of Columbia Police
Washington
Shultz to Meet Gromyko in Madrid Next Week
Secretary of State George P. Shultz will confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Madrid September 7 to 9 on curbs on nuclear missiles and a possible summit. The agenda remains unworked out and the date of the talks was not disclosed.
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Washington
George P. Shultz
Andrei Gromyko
Madrid
State Department
Alan Romberg
Shultz
Gromyko
Hurricane Barry Leaves Four Hundred Homeless in Mexico
Hurricane Barry struck Mexico's northeast coast causing 400 families to lose homes and 30 fishing boats to sink or drift ashore near Puerto el Mesquital. Up to 3 feet of water covered coastal highways with only a minor injury reported, a child struck by glass in Matamoros.
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Matamoros
Mexico
Barry
Puerto el Mesquital
el Norte
Here
Monterrey
Moi wins re election in Kenya no opposition candidate
President Daniel arap Moi was re elected to a second five year term after Kenya’s parliamentary election produced no opposing presidential candidate. Moi, 59, led the Kenya African National Union which was the sole party nominating him after a coup attempt last year.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Daniel Arap Moi
Kenya African National Union
Last death sentence appeal for Gray in Mississippi
Attorneys for condemned child killer Jimmy Lee Gray vow to seek Supreme Court relief from Justice Brennan as their final chance to halt Friday’s execution. Defense argues the gas chamber is cruel and Gray is insane after two convictions for killing 3-year-old Deressa Jean Scales in Pascagoula.
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Jackson, Miss
Jimmy Lee Gray
Supreme Court
William Brennan
Steve Balske
Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery
Ala
Gray
Mississippi Supreme Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Deressa Jean Scales
Pascagoula
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