Hungary votes under new law offers multiple candidates
Hungarians cast ballots for Parliament and local councils in the first election under a 1983 law requiring at least two candidates for almost all seats. Officials predicted near full turnout with about 80 percent voting before polls closed. Among 71 parliamentary candidates, many voters showed indifference citing no expected gains.
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Budapest
Hungary
Patriotic People’s Front
Communist Party
Janos Kadar
Peruvian rebels strike during Alfonsin visit in Lima blackout
Guerrillas from the Shining Path launched overnight attacks in Lima during Argentine President Raul Alfonsin's visit. A car bomb near the palace, another near the Palace of Justice, and fires in eight shopping centers caused millions in damage. One man was killed, two wounded, and power remained out midday Saturday as security forces fought fires and chaotic scenes.
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Lima
Peru
Raul Alfonsin
Alfonsin
Buenos Aires
Fernando Belaunde Terry
Palace of Justice
Plaza de Armas
Presidential Palace
el Callao
Shining Path
Fernando Reyes Roca
Police
The
Jury awards 355100 to widow of anti-Klan demonstrator
A federal jury ordered eight Ku Klux Klansmen Nazis and police to pay 355100 to the widow of Michael Nathan, shot to death at a 1979 Greensboro anti-Klan rally. Four other defendants owe 38360 to a wounded demonstrator and 1500 to another.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Greensboro
Michael Nathan
Marty Nathan
Nathan
U.S
Robert Merhige
Merhige
Eddie Dawson
David Wayne Matthews
Jerry Paul Smith
Roland Wayne Wood
Jack Fowler
Mark Sherer
P.W. Spoon
J.H. “Rooster” Cooper
Dawson
Matthews
Smith
Wood
Fowler
Walker case seen as big success for KGB says CIA chief
CIA Director William Casey called the John Walker spy ring a major KGB success, saying the defendants stole and shared Western technology the Soviets wanted. He noted U.S. efforts thwart KGB ranks but warned the case shows the operation’s reach with about 300 dummy firms. Casey also defended Reagan era aid to the Nicaraguan rebels against the Sandinistas.
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Walker Case
KGB
CIA
Washington
William Casey
John Walker Jr
Central Intelligence Agency
Walker
West
Casey
Reagan
Nicaragua
U.S
Franklin Roosevelt
Three Blacks Killed by Police in Port Elizabeth Mob Attack
In Port Elizabeth near Zwide, police killed three Black men during a predawn mob attack on the home of a Black police officer. Elsewhere at a West Johannes burg area mine, eight miners were recovered dead after an underground quake triggered a rock slide, with nine missing. The Port Elizabeth region faces intensified racial unrest.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Port Elizabeth
Zwide
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