Inflation moderates as growth remains solid in 1983 recovery
The Labor Department reports a 0.3 percent rise in the consumer price index for November, the year’s inflation at its lowest in over a decade. The Commerce Department’s preliminary data show the economy growing at 4.5 percent annual rate in Oct-Dec, signaling continued recovery with inflation easing into 1984.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
Department of Labor
Department of Commerce
White House
Reagan
Peter Roussel
John Albertine
American Business Conference
Bulgarian ex-prisoner Antonov released to house arrest in Rome
Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the Bulgarian charged with complicity in the John Paul II assassination attempt, is escorted to his Rome apartment after release from prison for poor health. He was arrested November 25, 1982 and had been Rome station manager for Bulgarian state airlines.
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Sergei Ivanov Antonov
John Paul II
Rome
Antonov
Mehmet Ali Agca
Federal judge bars exclusion of jurors on account of race
In Brooklyn, Judge Eugene H. Nickerson ruled prosecutors cannot systematically exclude jurors by race using peremptory challenges. He ordered a third trial for Michael McCray, noting seven Black and one Hispanic jurors were struck in prior proceedings.
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York Times Service
New York
Brooklyn
Eugene H. Nickerson
Eastern District of
Nickerson
Michael
McCray
State Supreme Court
Cheryl Ladd wins $1.05 million in likeness case
Actress Cheryl Ladd was awarded 1,050,000 in compensatory and punitive damages by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury after alleging her name and face were unlawfully used to promote the 1979 film Taxi Girls. Ladd sought to affirm artists control over likeness, saying money was not the motive.
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Los Angeles
Charlie’s Angels
Cheryl Ladd
Miss Ladd
Jaacov Jaacovi
Superfilm Ltd
James Selna
Selna
Police arrest four in Harrods bombing hunt in London
Police in London detained four people under the 1976 Prevention of Terrorism Act in overnight raids as Scotland Yard investigates the Harrods bombing. The four, described by Press Association as IRA sympathizers, are held for questions but not charged.
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London
Harrods Department
Scotland Yard
Soviets plan space base for Mars and Moon settlements
A congressional study says the Soviet Union aims to build a permanent space base as a springboard for settlements on Mars and the Moon. The OTA notes Soviet policy seeks long term human presence in space, while the U.S. weighs a similar permanent space station with costs up to 9 billion dollars.
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Mars
Moon
Washington Post
Washington
Soviet Union
Congress
Office of Technology Assessment
House
Senate Science Committees
NASA
U.S. Space Station
U.S
Kremlin
OTA
Salyut Space Station
Two U.S. priests with Miskito Indians flee toward Honduras
Bishop Salvator Schlaefer and Rev Wendelin Shafer, both Capuchins, vanish in northeastern Nicaragua while trekking with about 2,500 to 3,000 Miskito toward Honduras. Sandinista government accuses U.S. and Honduras of destabilizing action. Misura says the group aims to cross the border willingly. State Department cautions and TV crews prepared to interview the priests on arrival.
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Washington Post
Washington
Nicaragua
Honduras
Managua
State Department
U.S
Tegucigalpa
Salvator Schlaefer
Francia Sirpe
Wendelin Shafer
Francisco Solano
Daniel Ortega
Central Intelligence Agency
Foreign Ministry
United States
Misura
Adriana Guillen
Schlaefer
Subway victim wins $650000 from Transit Authority
Milo Stephens, 26, who lost an arm and a leg after being run over by a Lexington Avenue line train while attempting suicide in March 1977, reaches a $650,000 settlement with the Transit Authority before trial. He later tried the same method again and failed.
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NEW York
Transit Authority
Milo Stephens
Stephens
86Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Rampage Ends In Gillette After Harassment Case
A man named Dale Craig Chamberlain killed four at a ranch, bombed the house, then in town took Mary Alice Beatty hostage, killed a police officer, and died in an explosion after being shot. Beatty had filed harassment charges after refusing his advances.
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Gillette
Wyo
Dale Craig Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Mary Alice Beatty
D.B
Spike" Hladky
Beatty
Forest Park Violates First Amendment Over Publicly Funded Paper
Oklahoma City AP reports the state Supreme Court ruled Forest Park population 1140 violated the First Amendment by using public funds to publish The Forest Park News. The court said press freedom requires no indirect government control via tax dollars.
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Oklahoma City
State Supreme Court
Forest Park
Auschwitz inmate Fania Fenelon dies at 75
Paris AP Fania Fenelon a lyric singer turned resistance fighter and Auschwitz survivor died after a long illness at 75 Her story of performing with the women inmates orchestra during the camps years inspired the television film Playing for Time and her memoir recounts her ordeals and arrest in 1943.
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Paris
Fania Fenelon
Auschwitz Death Camp
Fenelon
Auschwitz
Greyhound Restores Service After 47 Day Strike
Greyhound Lines resumed full operations with 3,800 buses in service after a 47 day strike. Ridership was reported strong though some routes ran with low passengers and at least one trip was canceled. Communities welcomed the return for holiday travel with banners at depots.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Greyhound Lines
Salt Lake City
Cocaine Use Rising As Marijuana Loses Ground Says DEA Head
DEA Director Francis Mullen told a Louisiana federal court group that about 12 million Americans use cocaine with 4.5 million daily users, while marijuana users number about 20 million, down from 25 million. He noted LSD is reemerging after a 1970s decline.
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New Orleans
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Francis Mullen
Mullen
Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee of
Louisiana
Eastern Federal Court District
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Charles Edward Blake
Charleston County
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