Vietnam names veteran hard liner to top post
The 79 year old Truong Chinh was named to succeed Le Duan as Vietnam's Communist Party leader and State Council chairman. Diplomats say he already holds power and may serve only until a fall party congress names a new generation of leaders.
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Bangkok
Thailand
le Duan
Vietnam
Communist Party
Hanoi Radio
Truong Chinh
Duan
Chinh
State Council
Hanoi
Party
Southeast Asia
Israeli prosecutor orders police probe into Shin Bet affair
Israel's attorney general Yosef Harish ordered a police investigation into the Shin Bet killings during the hijacked bus incident after the cabinet vote failed to create a judicial inquiry. The debate reflected deep Labor Likud divisions and potential impact on the Shamir-Peres rotation.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Yosef Harish
National Unity
Avraham Shalom
Shin Bet
Labor
Amnon Rubinstein
Shinui Party
Likud
Labor-Likud
Yitzhak Shamir
Shimon Peres
Shamir
Titanic Wreck Survey Reveals Intact Port Holes and Wheel
Ocean researchers in a tiny Woods Hole submersible describe driving the Titanic’s length twice, spotting glassy portholes and a polished ship wheel as rust flows from the hull. Ballard reports vivid images and portholes still sealed as the dive ends.
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Woods Hole
Mass
Robert Ballard
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Institution
Anne Rabushka
Ballard
Teenager waives extradition after family killings in Indiana
In Terre Haute Indiana a teen charged with killing his mother and wounding his father and sister waived extradition from Wisconsin to return for the funeral. Sheriff Atelski said John Rowe hugged his mother’s body at the funeral home. Rowe 18 also embraced his sister and father both not seriously wounded. Authorities say Rowe was likely using heroin during the shooting spree. He initially refused extradition but agreed after learning his father requested his attendance. He is charged with killing Theodora Rowe 44 and wounding 13 year old Gretchen.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Wisconsin
John Rowe
Vigo County
Andrew T. Atelski
Rowe
James
Atelski
Theodora J. Rowe
Gretchen
Gephardt Faults Reagan Tax Plan Emphasis on Top Rate
Rep. Richard Gephardt declares President Reagan misguided for focusing on lowering the top rate to 27 percent as the Senate and House struggle to shape a final tax bill. He stresses middle class relief and warns against a flat tax while conference leaders consider broad committee participation.
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Washington
Reagan
Richard Gephardt
House Democratic Caucus
Senate
Gephardt
House
Ways and Means
Senate House Conference
Charles Grassley
Iowa
Fort Worth
Texas
Grassley
Senate Finance Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Bob Packwood
Dan
Rostenkowski
D-Ill
Packwood
Sen
Bill Bradley
D-N.j
Bradley
Delay on Manion case could force Senate standoff
Senate Democrats consider a broad blocking tactic to force a vote on Daniel A. Manion after Majority Leader Dole signals possible year-end delay. The move could stall Reagan nominees including Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, intensifying the ongoing Senate confrontation over Manion’s qualifications.
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Washington
Senate
Supreme Court
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Daniel A. Manion
Indiana
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Dole
Manion
Cranston
Reagan
William H. Rehnquist
Rehnquist
Antonin Scalia
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
South Bend
Jail mixup over two men with same birth date
Jorge Garcia Soto, from Santa Ana, spent six days in jail due to a warrant intended for a man with the same birth date and similar name. Officials later confirmed the prior DUI conviction belonged to Jorge Garcia of Los Angeles County. Soto pleaded no contest and received a fine, three years probation.
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Los Angeles
Jorge Garcia Soto
Soto
Beth van Arnam
Santa Ana
Jorge Garcia
Los Angeles County
Department of Motor Vehicles
Mexicans Occupy Durango City Hall in Fraud Protest
About 1,000 supporters of the opposition National Action Party seized Durango City Hall around 1 a.m. to denounce alleged fraud in state and local elections won by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Government spokesman Jaime Lopez noted the nonviolent takeover and threatened indefinite stay in the city, located 440 miles south of the U.S. border.
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Durango
Mexico
National Action Party
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Jaime Lopez
U.S
Cosmonauts Set For Earth Return From Long Soviet Space Mission
Moscow reports that cosmonauts Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovev will land in Soviet Central Asia on Wednesday in the Soyuz T-15 ending a 126 day mission. The trio including Oleg Atkov previously set a 237 day endurance record in 1984.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Space Station
Tass
Leonid Kizim
Vladimir Solovev
Soviet Central Asia
Kizim
Solovev
Oleg Atkov
Outer Space
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