Lavelle Cleared of Contempt Charge by Jury
Rita Lavelle, former EPA official, was acquitted by an eight to four member jury of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the EPA superfund. She testified illness and airfare issues affected her appearance while prosecutors argued health was not the problem.
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Washington Post Service
Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Rita Lavelle
Congress
EPA
Lavelle
Reagan
House
U.S. District Court
House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee
California
U.S
Timothy Reardon
Las Vegas
Stanley M. Brand
Reagan Says Inflation Figures Show Economy on Right Track
President Reagan hailed a 0.2 percent June CPI gain as evidence of a healthy recovery. Economists viewed the low rise as confirmation inflation may stay near 3 percent for 1982, with gas and food prices easing and real weekly earnings edging higher.
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Reagan
Washington
Labor Department
White House
Donald Ratajczak
Georgia State University
Atlanta
Edward Yardeni
Prudential Bache Securities Inc
Martin Feldstein
U.S
Soviet reports 4.1 percent rise in first half 1983 production
The Soviet Union announced a 4.1 percent gain in industrial output for January through June 1983, driven largely by improved labor discipline and productivity. Yuri Andropov, guiding aims to curb absenteeism and weak management, oversaw the drive with CSB figures showing a 3.3 percent rise in labor productivity from year earlier.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Yuri Andropov
Leonid Brezhnev
Central Statistical Board
Adventurers vanish while seeking Kidd treasure in Thailand
Frederick Graham a 19 year old Belmont California man and Richard Knight a British adventurer in his 40s vanished after Knight rented a speedboat at Pattaya on June 8. Diplomats and police say the pair planned to hunt for treasure said to be buried by 17th century pirate Captain William Kidd on Phu Quoc island in the Gulf of Thailand about 300 miles southeast of Bangkok.
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Bangkok
Thailand
San Francisco
William Kidd
Frederick Graham
Belmont
Calif
Richard Knight
Knight
Pattaya
Phu Quoc
Gulf of Thailand
Protest at Canadian Consulate Targets U.S. Cruise Missile Testings
Four people were arrested in Boston after attempting to unfurl a banner from the Canadian Consulate to protest planned U.S. cruise missile tests in Canada. Greenpeace and Mobilization for Survival organized the noon protest as part of a wider action at consulates across the United States and Canada.
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Boston
U.S
Canada
Greenpeace
United States
Common Market approves record 1983 budget and extra funds
Brussels reports the ten European Common Market nations adopted a 1.93 billion supplementary spending package for 1983 to curb runaway agriculture costs and proposed a 1984 budget the bloc’s largest. They also set 326 million in rebates for Britain and West Germany, the only members net contributing to the budget.
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Brussels
Belgium
Britain
West Germany
Gazette
Texas tycoon shot dead in Bel-Air mansion attack
Henry Harrison Kyle, 60, a Dallas real estate and banking magnate who led Four Star Productions since last September, was killed in a dawn shooting at his Bel-Air Estates home in Los Angeles. His 20-year-old son was wounded as police investigated the early morning attack.
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Los Angeles
Texas
Bel-Air Estates
Henry Harrison Kyle
Ron Lewis
Dallas
Kyle
Four Star Productions
Omega 7 terror chief arrested in Miami Little Havana
Eduardo Arocena age 40, alleged mastermind of Omega 7, was arrested in Little Havana on charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation and receipt of explosives. FBI said weapons were seized and he awaits extradition after a bomb plot against Cuba's UN ambassador Raul Roa-Kouri failed.
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Miami
Omega 7
Little Havana
Eduardo Arocena
Raul Roa-Kouri
Cuba
United Nations
Joseph V. Corless
FBI
Corless
Arocena
New York
Roa
Hart ends filibuster over MX missile plan
Senator Gary Hart, a Democratic presidential hopeful, ends his two week filibuster against the MX missile. The Senate is set for a Tuesday vote on the weapon with a likely Reagan victory, while Hart ministries plan to pursue opposition in appropriations votes later this year.
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Washington
Gary Hart
Senate
Reagan
Hart
United States
Appeals Court: antiwar pamphleteer rights on military base
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court overturns James Vincent Albertini’s conviction for distributing anti-war pamphlets at Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii, ruling free speech protections apply on base while preserving military power to exclude threats to security.
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San Francisco
Air Force
9Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
James Vincent Albertini
Hickam Air Force Base
Hawaii
Plan OK'd for possible blockade of Nicaragua
President Reagan approved a US plan to expand military involvement in Central America with air sea and land exercises to last at least six months. The drills test quarantine options around Nicaragua and may enable a later limited blockade while radar posts stocks and a $150 million air naval base in Honduras are prepared.
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New York Times
Washington
Reagan
Central America
Nicaragua
United States
Caribbean
U.S
Defense Department
Honduras
Atlantic
Copter Seaplane Collision Kills Four in Brooklyn
A police helicopter and a seaplane collided above Brooklyn in clear skies, sending the chopper into a vacant building and the plane into New York Harbor. Two officers died, two plane occupants are presumed drowned, two other passengers were rescued and hospitalized in stable condition. Divers search the harbor for wreckage as NTSB investigates the cause.
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New York
Brooklyn
New York Harbor
Wall Street
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