Rival Marxist factions clash for control of South Yemen
Rebel troops and militiamen moved on Aden’s presidential palace as President Ali Nasser Mohammed was badly wounded. Reports said a coup attempt by a radical Marxist faction tied to the Soviet Union sparked fighting across Aden, with streets, harbor, and airport casualties and widespread outages.
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Ali Salem al- Bindh
Ali Shayie
Yemen Socialist Party
Saleh Musleh
Musleh
Divorcing couple clash as wife seeks alimony and pre nup fight
James Kimberly told a West Palm Beach judge he still loves his wife 35 years after their 1969 marriage. Jacqueline Kimberly requested a divorce denial, a pre marital agreement reversal, and $42 000 a year alimony while detailing alleged abuses. He denied the accusations.
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James Kimberly
West Palm Beach
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James Stewart
Jacqueline Kimberly
Stewart
Kimberly
Rich Florida sinkhole yields 10000-year-old human and Ice Age finds
Scientists report a Cutler site sinkhole near Miami holding human remains and tools tied to 10,000 year old climatic conditions. The 20 by 15 by 7 foot pit also contains bones from mammoths lions giant sloths and other extinct species. Archaeologists call it possibly the eastern United States most important dig with dry savannah context near Biscayne Bay.
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North America
Everglades
Biscayne Bay
Dade County
Bob Carr
Carr
Cutler
United States
University of Miami
Mark Duda
NASA schedules Columbia landing after weather delays
NASA cuts a day from the Columbia flight with a Kennedy Space Center landing slated for 7 28 a.m. CST Thursday after bad weather forecasts. James Wetherbee urges calm as crew readies for next mission. Elated by the mission’s pace and safety, the team remains focused on a safe touchdown.
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Space Center
Houston
NASA
Columbia
James Wetherbee
Kennedy Space Center
Miranda ruling bars silence as evidence in insanity plea
The Supreme Court ruled that a suspect's refusal to answer police questions cannot be used to prove sanity in an insanity defense. In a separate decision, the court ordered a retrial for Booker T. Hillery after finding blacks were excluded from the grand jury that indicted him in Kings County in 1962.
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Supreme Court
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High Court
Florida
John Paul Stevens
Jim Smith
Booker T. Hillery
Kings County
U S asserts right to defend freighters in Persian Gulf
The United States warned Iran at the State Department it may resist intercepts of ships in the Persian Gulf if they threaten American freighters. Six Iranian sailors boarded the President Taylor for 1 hour 45 minutes before allowing it to resume to the UAE.
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United States
Persian Gulf
Iran
U.S
State Department
Charles Redman
Iraq
Taylor
Faraira
United Arab Emirates
India
Cerezo Sworn In as Guatemala's Civilian President
Vinicio Cerezo, 43, became Guatemala's first civilian president in 16 years. Alfonso Cabrera, president of the National Assembly, administered the oath to the Christian Democratic Party leader amid high inflation and sensitive human rights challenges with the military.
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Guatemala City
Vinicio Cerezo
Guatemala
National Assembly
Alfonso Cabrera
Christian Democratic Party
Feds lack coherent plan to halt Mafia labor union corruption
A federal commission says there is no unified federal strategy to fight organized crime's reach into labor unions and business. The interim report cites mob influence in the Teamsters and four unions, urging Congress to empower the National Labor Relations Board and improve interagency cooperation.
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Commission On Organized Crime
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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FBI
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Irving Kaufman
Reagan
Senate
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Thurmond
R-S.c
Peter Rodino
D-N.j
International Longshoremen’s Association
Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union
Laborers International Union of North America
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
Cocaine use probed in Nelson crash
Federal investigators examine a possible free-base cocaine fire as the cause of the New Year’s Eve Texas crash that killed Rick Nelson and six others. Preliminary toxicology shows unmetabolized cocaine in Nelson and no drugs in the pilots’ blood. 18 aerosol cans were found among wreckage.
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Washington Post
Washington
Texas
Rick Nelson
Nelson
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