Gorbachev foe Romanov ousted from Soviet Politburo
Moscow AP reports Grigori Romanov was retired on health grounds by the Central Committee, removing a rival of Mikhail Gorbachev. Eduard Shevardnadze was promoted to full Politburo member, with Boris Yeltsin and Lev Zaikov named new party secretaries.
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Moscow
Grigori Romanov
Communist Party
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kremlin
Tass
Romanov
Eduard Shevardnadze
Georgia
Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Sverdlovsk
Lev Zaikov
Leningrad
Central Committee
Supreme Soviet
Konstantin Chernenko
Shevardnadze
Red Square
Politburo
Andrei Kirilenko
Leonid Brezhnev
Southern
Former mental patient sentenced for pipe bomb plots
Earl Steven Karr, 25, pleaded guilty to possessing an explosive device in Minnesota and was sentenced to 18 months. The case foreshadows a string of further pleas in Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois with a 15 year prison hospital term and 10 years probation expected after more charges.
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Stillwater
Minn
Iowa
Earl Steven Karr
Washington County District
U.S
Tom Heffelfinger
Karr
Mason City
Chicago
Eau Claire
Wis
St. Cloud
Woman shoots intruder at her home and police arrest suspect
A 32 year old woman reports an armed intruder at 2 a.m. who forced her to tie and gag her son. She fired twice, injuring the man who fled as she escaped through a window. Police later booked Stafford R. King 26 of Shreveport for aggravated burglary after he sought treatment for a bullet wound. In a separate report California Senator Art Torres accuses Jalisco Mexican Products Artesia plant inspectors of lax work contributing to a listeriosis outbreak that caused 52 deaths.
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Shreveport
Louise Jones
Jones
Stafford R. King
Lsu Medical Center
Frederick
Los Angeles
California
Department of Food and Agriculture
Artesia
Art Torres
Torres
Senate Toxics and Public Safety Management Committee
Jalisco
Madrid and Rome Bombings Kill One and Injure Many
A Madrid blast at the British Airways office killed one and wounded 27, with three seriously injured. Hours later a Rome airport bomb injured at least 12, as two suspects were arrested after a chase. Authorities linked the incidents to the Beirut hostage crisis and Jordanian ties.
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Gazette Wire
Madrid
Spain
British Airways
Rome
Leonardo da Vinci
Jordan
Alia
India
Gran Via
Trans World Airlines
Alta
Torre de Espana
Joaquin Leguina
TWA
Beirut
Mohammed al-Adwan
Bahrain
Arson blamed for San Diego's worst residential blaze
The San Diego fire that destroyed 63 homes and left up to 150 people homeless in an upper middle class neighborhood was ruled arson. Officials estimated damage at over 6 million dollars as firefighters battled flames and heat across 300 acres. Mayor Hedgecock and Fire Chief Phillips led the response amid evacuations and emergency declarations.
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San Diego
Roger Phillips
Roger Hedgecock
Ron Davis
Fire Department
Normal Heights
California
Arizona
Gopher Canyon
San Diego County
San Luis Obispo
Atascadero
Work stoppages at Gdansk Lenin shipyard protest meat price rise
Workers at Gdansk Lenin shipyard and other factories staged brief one hour stoppages to oppose 10 to 15 percent meat price increases, while government spokesmen deny production slowdown. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa praised the workers and expressed confidence in August 1980 ideals.
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Warsaw
Poland
Gdansk
Lenin
Solidarity Free Trade Union
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Group warns acid rain damages wider lakes region
The Clean Air Fund says new EPA regional maps show far more lakes in New York New England and the upper Midwest are highly vulnerable to acidification than earlier data indicated. It cites 1.47 million acres in New York and New England and 307000 acres in northern Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin as highly vulnerable, with ongoing data collection to track changes.
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Washington
New York
New England
Upper Midwest
Clean Air Fund
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Air Coalition
EPA
Deborah Sherman
Fund
West
Appalachian Mountains
South Central States
New York State
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Sherman
Adirondack Mountains
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Humana Hospital Audubon
Donna Hazle
Jasper
Ind
Ohio River
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Hazle
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Town & Country Shopping Center
First Ave
S.E
George Deukmejian
Hedgecock
Red Cross
Zimbabwe
Harare
Africa
Robert Mugabe
Ian Smith
United States
Clairol Appliances
Clairol Appliance Service Center
Commerce Road
Stamford
Connecticut
YMCA
Central 500
First Avenue
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