Pope plans four nation Africa tour post assassination scare
Pope John Paul II resumes travel with a February Africa visit to Nigeria Gabon Benin and Equatorial Guinea covering about 8000 miles. The trip marks his second African tour in under two years as Catholicism expands rapidly across the continent with Nigeria as focus.
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Nigeria
Gabon
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Equatorial Guinea
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John Paul
Mehmet Ali Agca
Turkey
St. Peter’s Square
Lagos
Libreville
Albert Sc
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Costa Rica votes in pivotal presidential election
Costa Ricans vote to choose a new president amid an economic crisis marked by soaring inflation unemployment and mounting debt. National Liberation Party candidate Luis A Monge leads polls over Rafael Calderon while Jose Figueres urges patience as fiscal austerity dominates campaign rhetoric and foreign lenders halt new financing.
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Costa Rica
Latin America
Jose Figueres
National Liberation Party
Figueres
Rodrigo Carazo
Carazo
el Salvador
Central American
Rafael Calderon
Calderon
Luis A. Monge
Monge
Ohio man surrenders after claiming multiple killings
An Ohio man, Robert Dale Henderson, turned himself in to a Florida deputy and confessed to killing 10 or 11 people. Police noted he is wanted on murder charges in Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, and questioned in South Carolina, with rape and weapons charges in Georgia. He indicated two women and three men in northern Florida were among his victims, though those were unconfirmed.
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Ohio
Florida
Robert Dale Henderson
Eckmansville
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Valdosta
Henderson
Charlotte County
Glenn Sapp
Sapp
Curtis Moore
Moore
Fetuses Found in Metal Container Outside Clinic
Los Angeles County investigators questioned whether hundreds of fetuses found in a large metal container near the defunct Medical Analytic Laboratories were legally aborted. The count ranges up to 500, with fetuses preserved in formaldehyde and packed in boxes labeled with dates and women's names.
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Martin Container Co
Wilmington
Coroner's Office
Finken
Medical Analytic Laboratories
Santa Monica
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District Attorney’s Office
Los Angeles Fire Department
Fire Department
Steve Ventura
Larry Kallestad
Ralph Lopez
Mel Weisberg
Woodland Hills
Calif
Weisberg
CIA shifts tactics after Iran papers go public
The CIA plans more covert operations under private commercial cover abroad after Iran's 1979 embassy takeover led to disclosures. William Casey ordered reduced overseas files and tighter data circulation, with reliance on front companies and restricted intelligence storage.
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William Casey
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United States
Central Intelligence Agency
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
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Casey
State Department
L. Bruce Laingen
Mehdi Barzagan
Iraq
Israel
Bani Sadr
Khomeini
Bait Sadr
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