Jury Deliberates in Wedtech Case Against Biaggi Group
The racketeering trial of Rep. Mario Biaggi and six others linked to Wedtech corruption went to a jury after more than four months. Defendants include Wedtech founder John Mariotta and former Bronx official Stanley Simon. In a separate case, six suspects were arraigned for a kidnapping and Russian roulette torture of a man over a $1,500 debt.
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Wedtech
Biaggi
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Bronx
Stanley Simon
Wedtech Corp
John Mariotta
Huntington
N.Y
Jim Powers
Suffolk County Police Department
Two Crop Duster Planes Collide Killing Two Pilots
In Almyra Arkansas a crop dusting airplane clipped the tail of another spraying aircraft during a Friday night operation. Both veteran pilots died when their planes crashed into a soybean field near Almyra Municipal Airport about 60 miles southeast of Little Rock. Officials said they were finishing insecticide spraying.
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Ark
Little Rock
Iran offers direct talks with Iraq to aid peace process
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Ali Mohammed Besharati said Tehran is ready for direct talks with Iraq if UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar deems it necessary for peace. Iraq has demanded direct talks before any cease fire. Britain plans to evacuate 10 embassy workers and dependents from Afghanistan amid guerrilla threats, advising 98 others to leave, including 45 Britons and 53 foreigners.
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United Arab Emirates
Iran
Iraq
U.N
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Ali Mohammed Besharati
London
Britain
Afghanistan
Kabul
Foreign Office
Australia
New Zealand
Finland
Bomb attack hits Wimpy Bar amid South Africa violence
A limpet mine exploded at a Wimpy Bar inside a Benoni mall near Johannesburg, killing a 21 year old white woman and injuring 56, most of them white. Police blamed the ANC and noted a rising wave of bombings targeting whites and non governmental sites.
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Los Angeles Times
Johannesburg
South Africa
Benoni
Willem Meyer
Law and Order
Adriaan Vlok
African National Congress
ANC
Vlok
Substandard fasteners in military and space gear flagged
A two year congressional probe finds millions of bolts nuts and screws used in military equipment space shuttle submarines and trucks may be substandard. Imported fasteners show excess boron and low carbon increasing breakage risk. Legislation proposed to require testing and traceability.
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Congressional
Subcommittee
Japan
Dingell
Navy
House
Ireland Population Drops Amid Emigration Wave
Ireland's population fell for the first time in 27 years as young people leave for work abroad. The Central Statistics Office estimates a population of 3,538,000, about 5,000 fewer than April 1987, with emigration cited as the reason for the net decline.
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Dublin
Ireland
Central Statistics Office
Slain teen linked to a string of killings in Richmond
Authorities tie Rakie Cloyd a 17-year-old killed at a housing project to a drug dealer's gang. Detective C T Woody says the youth likely participated in seven to ten murders, while his mother Barbara Taylor claims he was a high school athlete not involved in crime.
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Rakie Cloyd
Richmond
C.T. Woody
Woody
Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Barry
Cloyd
Barbara Taylor
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