Shultz demands Senate vote on Burt nomination
Secretary of State George Shultz urged conservative Republican senators to allow a vote on Richard Burt for assistant secretary of state for European affairs. Burt, 35, a former New York Times reporter, has faced a filibuster from Sen. Jesse Helms and Sen. Orrin Hatch over claims of disloyalty to Reagan's hard line and questions about national security. Shultz defended Burt as a tough, pro East West policy advocate.
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UPI
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Senate
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Utah
Reagan
New York Times
UAW Leaders Back New Chrysler Pact In Ratification Vote
UAW leaders at Chrysler plants in the United States and Canada voted to recommend ratification of contracts raising production workers' wages by over 2000 dollars annually. Fraser expressed strong confidence the pact will be approved by a comfortable margin. Canadian workers had been on strike since November 5 seeking immediate pay raises.
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Husband to take lie test in cyanide Anacin case
Richard Bowen will voluntarily submit to a lie detector test next week after consulting a public defender. Police say Bowen is not identified as a suspect and all involved are being questioned as the cyanide-tainted Maximum Strength Anacin 3 incident prompted about 600 stores to pull the drug.
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Seven die as rival militias clash in Tripoli Lebanon
Violence between Alawite and Sunni militias in Tripoli lasts five days, with seven dead and 12 wounded on Saturday and total toll rising to 35 dead and 106 wounded. Clashes spread to Aley where 20 more were killed, while Christian Druze fighting occurs in the Chouf mountains. A general strike paralyzed commerce as police struggles to enforce ceasefires.
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Chouf Mountains
Mahmoud Chehadi
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Aley
Tel Aviv
Arab Democratic Party
Popular Resistance Movement
Average pay up 9.2 percent in 1981 report
The 1981 preliminary figures show the average annual pay for workers covered by unemployment programs rose to 15691 dollars, a 9.2 percent gain from 1980. State by state, private sector pay averaged 15652 dollars while government pay averaged 15879.
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Maine
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Hawaii
Fanfani Coalition Wins First Senate Confidence Vote in Rome
Premier Amintore Fanfani's four party coalition secured a 176 to 116 victory in the Senate confidence vote in Rome. The deputies vote is anticipated next week as the coalition holds 53 percent of seats. Fanfani, 74, pushes an austerity budget with cuts in health education and defense.
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Amintore Fanfani
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Chamber of Deputies
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Social Democrats
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Fire destroys Carlton Hotel in Alexandria deaths rise
A blaze at the Carlton Hotel on the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria Saturday killed at least 10 people and injured 16. Firemen could not reach trapped guests, as ladders reached only to the fourth floor of the seven story hotel. cranes and truck ladders arrived to evacuate 6 of 87 guests.
Helicopter Crashes in Nicaragua Evacuating Miskito Children
A Soviet made helicopter evacuating Miskito Indian children from border towns crashed into a northern Nicaraguan hillside. Officials said the craft was not overloaded despite the 84 dead. The incident occurred in the emergency military zone.
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Managua
Nicaragua
UPI
Jaycees scandal trial cites fictitious chapters for awards
In Concord, former Jaycees testified that competition for recognition led to creating paper chapters and misusing charity funds. Johnny Lee Fletcher, 41, faces up to 80 years for allegedly misapplying 26480.50 dollars during his term as state president. two more Jaycees are set for next year.
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N.C
Jaycees
Service Club
Johnny Lee Fletcher
Lester Chalmers
Fletcher
Jaycees World Congress
Johannesburg
South Africa
Florida man accused of grocery bombing extortion plot
The FBI arrested 44 year old Jimmie Theodore Allen Sr in Deerfield Beach Florida on charges of threatening to blow up 29 supermarkets unless paid more than 174000 dollars. One bomb was found and defused by a robot after calls to Publix and other stores statewide.
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Fla
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FBI
Florida
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