Thousands clash as homes burned at Crossroads camp in SA
Thousands of black squatters clashed with vigilantes at Crossroads and nearby shantytowns. At least five killed and over 20 wounded as fires consumed hundreds of flimsy homes, a clinic, and relief center housing 2,500 homeless people. Police fought both sides amid gunfire and tear gas as authorities deny broader government backing claims.
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Crossroads
South Africa
KTC
Nyanga
Cape Town
Khayelitsha
Jan Calitz
Pretoria
Austrian chancellor resigns after Waldheim victory
In Vienna Fred Sinowatz resigned as chancellor after a six hour Socialist Party meeting. Franz Vranitzky, the finance minister, was named his successor and pledged possible further government changes ahead of April elections. Israel recalled its ambassador in protest over Waldheim's election.
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Vienna
Austria
Kurt Waldheim
Fred Sinowatz
Socialist Party
Franz Vranitzky
United States
Israel
Michael Elitzur
Waldheim
U.N
Elitzur
Smith to plead guilty in Belushi death case
Cathy Evelyn Smith a former backup singer will plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and three drug charges in the March 1982 overdose death of comedian John Belushi in Los Angeles. The plea offers up to eight years eight months in prison with judge's discretion.
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Cathy Evelyn Smith
John Belushi
Los Angeles
al Albergate
Miss Smith
Canada
Aldergate
Bill banning tobacco ads under attack
Washington lawmakers push a bill to ban all tobacco promotion including ads, sports sponsorships and matchbook covers. Opponents from Tobacco Institute and ACLU call the measure unconstitutional while noting bans may not deter smoking. The proposal covers cigarettes cigars pipe tobacco snuff and chewing tobacco with bans from manufacturer to retailer.
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Washington
Mike Synar
D-Okla
Congress
Synar
The
Tobacco Institute
Trade Association For Cigarette Manufacturers
Scott Stapf
American Civil Liberties Union
Stapf
American Advertising Federation
Reagan to host national TV news conference Wednesday
President Reagan will hold a nationally broadcast White House news conference Wednesday night at 7 p.m. CDT in the East Room. The event will be carried by television networks and featured reporters asking questions to the president.
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Washington
Reagan
White House
Larry Speakes
House
Libya
Bakers apologize for Great Fire causing London mayoral concern
London bakers gathered at Pudding Lane to acknowledge the blaze began with Thomas Faryner the king's baker. They admit the Great Fire of 1666 started when his oven was not extinguished before he slept on Saturday night September 1 1666.
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London
Worshipful Company of Bakers
Pudding Lane
Thomas Faryner
Leukemia cluster tied to Scottish nuclear site near Dounreay
A Scottish Health Service study finds leukemia in people under 25 within eight miles of Dounreay, northern Scotland, at rates over ten times normal. From 1979 to 1983 five cases occurred near the plant run by the Atomic Energy Authority, suggesting a statistically unlikely cluster though chance cannot be ruled out.
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London
Dounreay
Scotland
Scottish Health Service
Mike Heasnan
The
Health Service
British Atomic Energy Authority
Battle for Beirut Rages Amid Death Toll and Locust Plague
In Beirut clashes around Sabra Chatilla and Bourj el-Barajneh kill 8 more people and raise total dead to 105 with 468 wounded. A locust plague threatens 600 square miles of northern agricultural land as fighting continues and a government TV studio is damaged by rocket fire.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Mexico City
Sabra
Chatilla
Bourj el-Barajneh
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Shreveport
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Keatchie
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