Dutch police nab three stolen masterpieces worth 52 million
An undercover officer posed as a buyer to trigger a pre-dawn raid at the Pullman Hotel in AMDIEKDAM. Three works seized include Van Gogh Carnations, Cezanne Bottle with Apples, and Jongkind The House of Maitre Billaud in Nevers, valued up to 52 million dollars. Three suspects, all Dutch, were arrested.
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Amdiekdam
Netherlands
Vincent van Gogh
Johan Jongkind
Paul Cezanne
Pullman
Klaas Wilting
Amsterdam
Wilting
van Gogh
Cezanne
Oy Jongkind
Maitre Billaud
Nevers
Pentagon to test recruits for drugs and alcohol kickoff
The Defense Department will begin mandatory drug and alcohol testing for all new enlisted recruits and officer candidates today. The program costs 3.1 million dollars and covers National Guard and reserve applicants. Positive results cause six months to one year of enlistment ineligibility, with a second positive triggering a two year ban.
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Wadminulun
Congress
Defense Department
Military Academies and
Reserve Officer Training Corps
National Guard
Defense
Frank Carlucci
Pershing Missile Motors Burn Test Under INF Treaty
At Pueblo Colorado a Pershing 2 missile motor burn tested to verify safe destruction under the INF treaty. Mary Wilson of the Pueblo Army Depot described a successful 8 second static firing with a bright plume monitored by 60 sites. Environmental review will follow as copies of the treaty are exchanged at Moscow.
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Pueblo
Colo
Pueblo, Colowary
High Plains
Pueblo Army Depot
Mary Wilson
Colorado Department of Health
Wilson
Senate
Moscow
Mikhail Gorbachev
Reagan
United States
German pilot crosses Soviet border amid anniversary mystery
In Stockholm West German pilot Andreas Sommer blundered a single engine Cessna 150 into Soviet airspace during bad weather. Oslo says the plane flew 30 minutes into Soviet territory on a 100 mile route from Ivalo to Kirkenes. Rust’s former plane owner seeks 250000 for the Cessna 172.
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Gazette Wire Services
Stockholm
Sweden
Mathias Rust
Red Square
Andreas Sommer
Rust
Moscow
Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ommer
Hamburg
Oslo
Foreign Ministry
Lasse Seim
Ivalo
Finland
Kirkenes
Norway
Barents Sea
Seim
Wolfgang Neumann
Munich
Hamburg Aviation Club
Neumann
Joy ride tragedy kills six women in Mississippi lake
Six young women drowned during a crowded holiday boat ride near a lake shore in Yalobusha County Mississippi. Coroner Stanley True called the deaths accidental. The boat operator, Robert Armstrong aged 32, said the passengers enjoyed a slow joy ride before tragedy.
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Coffeeville
Miss
Yalobusha County
Stanley True
True
Robert Armstrong
Duarte Reveals Malignant Stomach Disease
President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador said he has a malignant stomach disease and declared he is a man who fights. He was departing on a U S transport to Washington for treatment, bidding farewell to about 200 officials at the airport, including Cabinet members, legislators, the Supreme Court, and diplomats.
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Duarte
San Salvador
el Salvador
Jose Napoleon Duarte
U.S
Washington
Supreme Court
Radio swap claim on editor kidnapping in Colombia
A caller to a Bogota radio station says drug barons would release a kidnapped newspaper editor if the United States frees drug trafficker Carlos Lehder Rivas. Another caller, claiming to be among the gunmen, says Gomez Hurtado died from abduction injuries but a Tuesday caller says his injuries are not serious.
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Bogota
Colombia
United States
Carlos Lehder Rivas
Gomez Hurtado
Meese Signals Possible Resignation Ahead of Election
Attorney General Edwin Meese III said he might resign before the November election to answer questions about ties to Webtech Corp and a billion dollar Iraqi pipeline project. Independent prosecutor James McKay will not seek Indictments and plans to refer ethical questions to the Justice Department after his final report. Meese indicated his decision timing depends on the independent counsel's up front record and could fall before Labor Day or after Reagan's term ends.
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Bree Goweere
Washington
Edwin Meese III
Webtech Corp
James McKay
Meese
McKay
Susan Bender
Justice Department
Reagan
Larry King
White House
Pat Buchanan
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