Armed Services panel alarmed by MX guidance failures
The House Armed Services Committee said MX missile guidance units built by Northrop fail at an alarming rate in tests. The panel cites IMU reliability issues, notes only 18 of 30 deployed MX weapons are on alert, and that Northrop pledged improved delivery pace to end of 1987.
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D-Wis
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Tony Cantafio
Air Force
Barry Glickman
Ballistic Missile Office
Aspin
IMU
California
Glickman
Cantafio
William Dickinson
R-Ala
Reagan
Congress
Opposition charges fraud in Haitian presidential contest
Opposition leaders accuse the junta controlled Electoral Council of disqualifying eight Duvalierist presidential hopefuls to legitimize the January election. They say the council and army-backed steps aim to install a favored candidate, as terror and roadblocks accompany the vote amid boycott calls by Claude followers.
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Haiti
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National Assembly
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Sylvio Claude
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Junta
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Jean-Claude
Doc” Duvalier
Francois
Rene Belance
Principal gains support from White House adviser
Washington AP Gary Bauer a top Reagan aide called East Side High School Paterson New Jersey principal Joe Clark an inner city hero and offered him a White House job if he loses his post Clark known for patrolling halls with a bullhorn and bat faced possible charges for expelling 60 students without board notice Bauer said he has known Clark for three years and called to cheer him up.
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Reagan
New Jersey
White House
Bauer
Joe Clark
East Side High School
Paterson
N.J
Clark
William Bennett
Delaware Couple Charged in Double Killing and Baby Abduction
Delaware police charged Joyce Lynch and Richard Lynch with the killings of Joseph and Beverly Gibson and the kidnapping of their newborn son Matthew. Investigators uncovered motive as the suspect claimed a desire for a baby after months of deception. Matthew was found in the Lynches' Houston home and reunited with his grandparents and siblings.
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Joyce Lynch
Richard
Joseph
Beverly Gibson
Matthew
Houston
Marchers plan return to Forsyth County
Civil rights marchers led by Hosea Williams prepare to return to Forsyth County Georgia for a second entry on a route blocked by a hostile crowd a year after the 1987 king holiday events. A white supremacist rally organizer seeks a counterdemonstration with city officials deciding today on access to high school property and the courthouse lawn.
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Forsyth County
Atlanta
Hosea Williams
Williams
Forsyth County Commission
Forsyth County Defense League
Richard Barrett
Jackson, Miss
Barrett
Forsyth County High School
Manila election violence rises with candidate deaths and abductions
The Philippines faces deadly campaigning as a mayoral candidate is killed in Sigma and New People's Army rebels free two abducted candidates in Quezon province. Officials report over 56 deaths nationwide, with 11 kidnappings since December 1 ahead of the January 18 elections.
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Philippines
Nand Marcos
Agustin Quirao
Sigma
Quirao
Philippine Democratic Party
Aquino
People’s Power
New People’s Army
Eduardo Rodriguez
Robert Racelis
Quezon
Salvador Laurel
United Nationalist Democratic Organization
Laurel
Commission On Election
Micro spacecraft to study solar system via orbiting railgun
NASA engineer Ross Jones proposes launching two to three pound micro spacecraft from an orbiting railgun to reach Saturn era distances in two years. The idea uses SDI era railguns to accelerate probes at six miles per second, vastly faster than Voyager 2.
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Calif
Solar System
NASA
Ross Jones
Earth
Jones
Saturn
Cape Canaveral
Gorbachev seeks summit with China
Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a summit with China's leadership in a Liaowang interview, signaling desire for normalizing relations between the two largest communist nations. It was unclear if he aimed to meet Deng Xiaoping or Zhao Ziyang, and Beijing had not indicated willingness to concede conditions on Afghanistan and Vietnam.
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China
Liaowang
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Zhao Ziyang
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Mao
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Cambodia
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