Guatemalan Leader Promises Elections in 13 Months
President Efrain Rios Montt pledged elections for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, with July 29 1984 set for the vote and Sept 15 for assembly installation. A new five member national election board was sworn in as opponents pressed for earlier polls.
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Guatemala City
Efrain Rios Montt
Jorge Elias Serrano
Executive Advisory Council
Congress
Rios Montt
Constituent Assembly
Francisco Luis Gordillo Martinez
Lawmakers trigger probe into altered committee reports
The House voted 409 to 0 to empower the ethics committee to investigate doctored remarks in committee reports. GOP and Democratic leaders clashed over referral while seven Republicans urged a Watergate style panel. An Israeli attache was shot to death in a Washington suburb driveway.
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Washington
House
William French Smith
Thomas O’neill
D-Mass
O’neill
GOP
Trent Lott
R-Miss
F. James Sensenbrenner Jr
R-Wis
Democratic Committee
Judd Gregg
R-N.h
Environmental Protection Agency
Lott
War widow blasts U S and Vietnamese over remains delay
In Austin Texas Sue Sullivan wife of missing Vietnam War pilot Air Force Lt Col Farrell Sullivan says the government delayed announcing the remains to stage a diplomatic move in Bangkok. She claims the Vietnamese released remains to suit their aims while Pentagon officials defend careful verification.
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Austin
Texas
Sue Sullivan
San Antonio
Air Force
Farrell Sullivan
Sullivan
Caddo Mills
Pentagon
United States
Vietnam
Hawaii
Shultz
Bangkok
Thailand
U.S
Washington
Army
Bob Shields
Deng Xiaoping Selected Works hits shelves in China
The 333 page 265000 word collection presents Deng Xiaoping as China's savior guiding socialist construction after the Cultural Revolution. Publishers call it historically significant for China’s current and future development. The Mao quotations are fading in shops.
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Deng Xiaoping
China
Mao Tse-tung
Communist Party
Mao
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