B 52G bomber blast at Grand Forks kills five
An eight engine B 52G bomber on a maintenance ramp at Grand Forks Air Force Base exploded in a fireball killing five and injuring eight. The base said damage reached about 38 million dollars and the plane was not nuclear armed. Firefighters arrived quickly and the blaze was controlled within minutes.
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321St Missile Wing
Horton
George Venkirk
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Venkirk
Lee Martin
Emerado
Salvadoran leader stripped of power in assembly clash
In El Salvador the Constituent Assembly stripped Roberto d Aubuisson of power to set agendas while keeping him as president, a move that may fracture the U S backed coalition. The vote followed a dispute over cabinet control and a bid to replace a moderate health minister.
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Soviets Back Free Zone Through Central Europe
The Soviet Union endorsed a plan to create a nearly 400 mile battlefield nuclear weapon free zone through central Europe. Western diplomats say the move aims to sway public opinion in Western Europe and West Germany as talks in Geneva on intermediate range missiles resume.
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U.S
Geneva
Western Europe
West Germany
Diggers Meet in Undersea Link as Seikan Tunnel Nears Completion
Two construction crews on the Seikan railway tunnel met near the sea floor after a dynamite blast. The 33.49 mile link under the Tsugaru Straits connects Honshu with Hokkaido, begun in 1964, with 33 workers lost in accidents. Final boring expected spring 1984.
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Tsugaru Straits
Honshu
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Hokkaido
Shigeo Kuroda
Japan Railway Construction Corp
Kuroda
Ex premier Bidault dies at 83 in France
Georges Bidault Resist leader and former foreign minister and premier died at 83 after a December stroke in a Cambo-les-Bains hospital. Funeral services are planned in Paris Tuesday with burial at Lasalle les-Bordes near the capital.
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Georges Bidault
Algeria
Cambo-les-Bains
Bayonne
France
Lasalle les-Bordes
Conspiracy Busted in Vancouver Cruise Missile Protest
Police say five Vancouver residents in their 20s plotted to sabotage a military base tests and dynamited an electric substation. They were charged with firebombing X rated stores tied to feminist protests and claimed responsibility by Direct Action for the May substation attack.
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British Columbia
Direct Action
Toronto
U.S
Reagan says he will kick himself over corporate tax abolition remark
UPI reports President Reagan said he would kick himself for suggesting abolishing the corporate income tax after a offhand remark to business executives in Bedford Massachusetts. Aides clarified the idea is not being considered and will not be pursued.
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Washington
UPI
Reagan
Bedford
Mass
Larry Speakes
White House
China aids Pakistan on nuclear bomb design says sources
The Washington Post reports U.S. intelligence sources say China provided Pakistan with sensitive bomb design information that could accelerate its nuclear weapons program. Secretary Shultz plans to press Beijing to halt any assistance that could enable weapon development and threaten civilian nuclear cooperation.
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Washington Post Service
Washington
China
Pakistan
U.S
George Shultz
Peking
Shultz
Mubarak urges US to push Israel from Lebanon in peace push
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told President Reagan there is a golden opportunity for peace and urged withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon. He said once that is done other issues would be easier to resolve.
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Hosni Mubarak
Middle East
Reagan
Israel
Lebanon
Mubarak
White House
U.S
United States
Public TV to expand MacNeil Leher Report into hour long news
Public TV stations approved a new program package turning the MacNeil Leher Report into the nation’s first hour long early evening network news. The show will cover two or three topics and provide a daily news summary.
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Washington
MacNeil- Lehrer
Army of God ringleader convicted in abortion clinic abduction case
Don Benny Anderson convicted by a mixed jury for leading an anti abortion group that abducted Dr. Hector Zevallos and his wife to force closure of an abortion clinic. Zevallos and spouse were held eight days in a concrete bunker. Defense argued the trio acted from sincere beliefs.
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