Riots spread in Britain across Liverpool Manchester and London
Britain faced five days of riots with hundreds injured and millions in damage as youths attacked shops in Manchester and dispersed after police action. Prime Minister Thatcher urged law and order saying violence would destroy values and ruled out quick economic fixes to unemployment as a cause.
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London
Liverpool
Manchester
Margaret Thatcher
England
Thatcher
Hunger striker death triggers street violence in Northern Ireland
The death of hunger striker Joe McDonnell in the Maze Prison near Belfast sparked street clashes in Belfast and Londonderry. A 16 year old was killed as rioting and vehicle arson followed, complicating mediation efforts by church mediators and stalling proposals for prison regime changes linked to the protest.
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London
Joe McDonnell
Maze
Belfast
Northern Ireland
McDonnell
Irish Republican Army
Londonderry
Irish Commission For Justice and Peace
Margaret
Thatcher
Britain
Humphrey Atkins
Dowdy Wins Mississippi Seat In Tight Runoff
Democrat Wayne Dowdy claims heavy black turnout aided his narrow victory over Republican Liles Williams in Mississippi 4th District. Unofficial returns show Dowdy 55,512 to Williams 54,486 in a 1,026 vote margin for the special election runoff to replace former Rep. Jon Hinson who resigned after a Washington rest room arrest and later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor.
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Jackson
Miss
Wayne Dowdy
Reagan
Mississipi
Dowdy
Liles Williams
Jon Hinson
Washington
Probes Explore Brown Aides for Destruction of Evidence
The Fair Political Practices Commission asked prosecutors in Sacramento and Los Angeles to determine if criminal violations occurred in connection with alleged destruction alteration or withholding of evidence tied to a commission investigation. The complaints followed findings of insufficient evidence to action Brown over using a governor office computer system for campaign politics.
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UPI
Edmund Brown Jr
Fair Political Practices Commission
Los Angeles
Brown
Polish dockers threaten wider strike amid warnings
Thousands of Baltic port dockworkers closed ports for an hour in a warning strike as Solidarity unions press plans to strike at Polish airlines. Officials warned of a hard line response at the upcoming Communist Party Congress and dockers threatened a proper strike if demands are not met by next Wednesday. In Israel, Prime Minister Begin said he has 61 votes to form a government and vowed to keep the Golan Heights while pursuing West Bank settlement and cabinet formation within 21 days.
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Poland
Baltic
Solidarity
Communist Party Congress
Bydgoszcz
Back to work for Congress
Congress returns from July 4 recess as filibuster battles over busing continue. Sen. Lowell Weicker pushes to sustain the delay with a 60 vote threshold, while Sen. Jesse Helms and Sen. Bennett Johnston push an anti busing amendment. Thurmond expects O Connor confirmation as first woman justice. Budget and tax cut talks loom, with Ways and Means set to finish by July 24 and conference talks postponed until August.
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R-Conn
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R-N.c
Bennett Johnston
D-La
Justice Department
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Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Sandra Day O’connor
Supreme Court
Reagan
House
Thomas O'Neill Jr
Ways and Means
Senate
Iran tightens border patrols to halt ex-president escape
Iran reinforced patrols along its western border with Turkey to stop former President Abolhassan Bani Sadr, who officials say is sheltered by Kurdish separatists. About 70 presidential hopefuls registered for the July 24 vote. names were not released. The Kommiteh said Bani Sadr is believed hidden in Kurdistan province, with candidates to be screened by the Guardian Council within five days.
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Lebanon
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Turkey
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Bani Sadr
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Kommiteh
Kurdistan
Tehran
Council of Guardians
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