Four top Haitian candidates join general strike call
All four leading presidential contenders join Haiti’s three major unions in demanding a general strike Monday to force the military junta to resign and restore the Electoral Council’s mandate. The move follows violence during the first free elections in 30 years and a decree dissolving the council.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Independent Electoral Council
Dejoie
Sylvia Claude
Christian Democratic Party
Marc Bazin
Movement For the Installation of Democracy
Gerard Gourgue
National Front For
National Assembly
Henri Namphy
Namphy
Jean-Claude Duvalier
France
United Front
Autonomous Central of Haitian Workers
Poland to Ease Price Increases After Referendum Rejection
Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner announced a partial rollback of planned 110 percent food price hikes, spreading them over three years. Heat, fuel, and rents rises of 140 to 200 percent will go ahead, with overall 1988 increases outlined in a forthcoming budget. Deputies backed his speech.
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Warsaw
Poland
Zbigniew Messner
Sejm
Messner
Jerzy Ozdowski
Pentagon to trim over 30 billion from 1989 budget plan
Pentagon planners order reductions of more than 30 billion from the 1989 budget to meet deficit targets. Secretary Frank Carlucci directs the Navy to cut 11.6 billion, the Air Force 10.5 billion, and the Army 9 billion, with revisions due by December 7.
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Pentagon
Administration
Congress
Frank Carlucci
Secretary of Defense
Carlucci
Congressional
Caspar Weinberger
Capitol Hill
Defense
Robert Helm
Navy
Air Force
Army
Aviation Week
Space Technology
End of Atlanta prison siege as inmates surrender
FBI agents ended a 11 day occupation by Cuban detainees at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. After 89 hostages released, 936 inmates boarded buses to 47 prisons. 186 Cubans remain. Bottles of naphtha bombs and thousands of machetes were found. no bodies or booby traps discovered.
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Atlanta
FBI
Federal
Stone
Weldon Kennedy
Mike Caltabiano
Kennedy
Cuba
Gold Eagle Brooch Sells for Record $2.6 Million at Sotheby's
A fifth-century Ostrogothic gold brooch depicting a standing eagle sold in Monte Carlo for $2.6 million, a new auction record for an antiquity. New York dealer Edward Lubin bought it for a client who remains unidentified. The prior record was $1.3 million set last year in New York.
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New York
Monte Carlo
Monaco
Sotheby’s
Edward Lubin
South Africa to Withdraw Troops From Angola
South Africa announces troop withdrawals from Angola after intervening against anti Marxist rebels. General Geldenhuys cites completing tasks in South Africa’s interest and states withdrawal aims to protect soldiers after reports of Cuban reinforcements and a possible attack on South African forces.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Angola
Jamie Geldenhuys
Pretoria
AIM
Cuba
Geldenhuys
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