Hong Kong Stock Exchange Officials Arrested
Former chairman Ronald Li and two top officials were arrested by the ICAC under the prevention of bribery ordinance amid an inquiry into the exchange’s operations. Bail set at 1.28 million, 512,800, and 3,850 dollars. all released pending investigation.
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Stock Exchange
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Independent Commission Against Corruption
Ronald Li
Jeffrey Hon- Kuen Sun
Exchange
Donald Takhung Tsang
Piers Jacobs
Jacobs
Israeli warplanes strike Palestinian bases near Sidon Lebanon
Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases near Sidon in a nighttime raid. Reports cite bases of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command and Fatah. No casualties were reported and Israel claimed accurate hits returning to base.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Sidon
Israel
Jerusalem
Radio
Hezbollah
Ter
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Ahmed Jibril
Fatah
Yasser Arafat
Palestine
Military testing Star Wars laser in ground trials at TRW facility
After a 12 hour countdown the first full scale ground tests of a two million watt lightweight laser began at TRW's San Juan Capistrano proving ground. The project aims to launch a space based laser in the early 1990s to defend against missiles under the Star Wars plan.
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New York
San Juan
Capistrano
Calif
TRW Inc
J. Richard Garcia
Air Force Weapons Laboratory
Albuquerque
N.M
Pentagon
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
Garcia
Alpha
Teen killed in trash compactor in Pennsylvania
In East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 17 year old Michael Hucorne died after becoming trapped in a large green trash compactor behind a supermarket. He had been talking to workers when the incident occurred as they compacted trash.
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East Stroudsburg
Michael Hucorne
Czech leader freed as banned jazz group vows activity
Karel Srp, head of the outlawed Jazz Section in Czechoslovakia, was released from jail after 16 months for defying a government ban. He said he hopes the group will remain active despite the sentence and restrictions.
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Vienna
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Karel Srp
West German Charter Plane Crashes Near Izmir
A Condor Boeing 737 carrying 16 people from Stuttgart to Izmir crashed in mountainous countryside near Izmir on Saturday night. All aboard were feared killed, Anatolia reported.
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Izmir
Turkey
Anatolia
Condor Airlines
Stuttgart
West Germany
Istanbul
Attacks and deaths across globe mark tense year start
In Manama a Maltese freighter was struck by a missile in the tanker war with Iran and Iraq, no injuries reported. In Manila communist rebels killed 11 on a military truck amid rising political violence. in Rio de Janeiro 12 miners died and 80 missing after clashes with police. New York names Richard Green NYC school chancellor designate. board to vote officially Wednesday.
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Manama
Bahrain
Lloyd’s Shipping Intelligence Unit
Iran
Iraq
Manila
Philippines
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Maraba
New York
Minneapolis
Richard Green
New York City
Green
Board of Education
Robert Wagner Jr
Wagner
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Afsaneh Zarbar
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