Gunmen Wound Arafat Aide as PLO Split Deepens
Gunmen wounded Lt. Col. Ezzedine Sherif, a top Arafat aide, outside Damascus amid a PLO power split. A radical faction claimed kidnapping about 50 Fatah fighters in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley as clashes erupted at a battalion HQ.
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Arafat
PLO
Chtaura
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Fatah
United States
Ezzedine Sherif
Damascus
Syria
Sherif
Abu Ziad
Occupied Territories
Sherifs
Jaffa
United Arab Emirates
al Khaleej
Bekaa Valley
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Fatah Revolutionary Council
Cairo
Kamal Hassan Aly
Egypt
Khalil Wazir
Beirut
Wazir
Popular Front
Democratic Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Reunion of liver transplant survivors with surgeon in Pittsburgh
Twenty children saved by liver transplants reunited with Dr. Thomas Starzl in Pittsburgh. The event drew families from California and Florida for a pool party and picnic, recognizing donors and supporting future grafts. Starzl and staff were honored with plaques and a Father’s Day card.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas Starzl
Starzl
California
Florida
University of Pittsburgh
Parichehr Yombtoob of
Niles, Mich
Children’s Hospital
David
Thomas Starr
Israeli Deputy PM Simcha Ehrlich Dies at 67
Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, a liberal voice in Israel's Likud coalition, died at 9 am in a Jerusalem hospital after a brain hemorrhage. He was 67 and a special Cabinet session was planned with Begin delivering the eulogy. Ehrlich tempered battlefield aims during the Lebanon war and challenged Ariel Sharon's conduct.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Simcha Ehrlich
Uri Porat
Menachem Begin
Ehrlich
Jerusalem
Israel Television
Begin
Liberal Party
Likud
Yosef Burg
Defense
Ariel Sharon
Sharon
Defense Ministry
Beirut
Sabra
Chatilla
Coup attempt fails as Ghana rebels warned to be shot on sight
Rebels briefly seized the Ghana state radio in Accra, but Rawlings loyalists retook the station within two hours. Government broadcasts warned dissidents to surrender or be shot if entering military areas. Curfew and closed borders reported amid another coup attempt, the second this year.
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London
Ghana
Jerry Rawlings
Accra
Ghana Broadcasting Corp
British Broadcasting Corp
Rawlings
Provisional
National Defense Council
Carlos Halidu Gyiwah
Quarshiegah
University of Ghana
Bahai faith executions rise in Iran with 10 more women hanged
Bahai spokesman said 10 Bahai women were hanged in Iran on Saturday, ages 18 to 54, bringing the weekly total to 16 as relatives of four of six men hanged the previous Thursday. Gerald Knight of the Bahai International Community called the group victims for refusing to recant. In Tel Aviv, a hunger strike by physicians spread to 1,000 public health doctors across 17 hospitals, with the government dispute over pay and hours prompting Cabinet consideration of fielding army doctors, a Cabinet spokesman said.
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New York
Iran
Gerald Knight
Bahai International Community
Tel Aviv
Israel
Italians arrest 39 more in Naples crackdown
Italian police rounded up 39 people overnight as part of a nationwide anti crime sweep that has netted 454 suspects so far including a Roman Catholic nun. The operation spanned 33 cities and began Friday with hundreds of officers still pursuing 65 Camorra members in Naples and surrounding areas.
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Naples
Italy
Camorra
Pair found tied to trees shot dead near Mascoutah
A man and a woman were found bound to trees and shot to death Sunday near Mascoutah Illinois, with police saying the motive is unknown and no leads have been established.
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Mascoutah, Ill
Illinois
ACLU chief condemns Reagan policies at conference
Ira Glasser, executive director of the ACLU, said the Reagan administration aims to violate the Bill of Rights. He cited cuts to Legal Services Corp., abortion restrictions, and limits on political activity by publicly funded groups.
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Washington
American Civil Liberties Union
Ira Glasser
ACLU
Glasser
Legal Services Corp
Supreme Court
Man questioned in Tylenol case faces murder charge
Roger Arnold 49 of Chicago, once questioned in the Tylenol cyanide deaths, is held without bond after being charged with murder in the shooting death of John Stanisha 46. Police say the killing may have been mistaken identity tied to the Tylenol probe. Arnold previously faced aggravated assault and weapons charges and declined a lie detector test.
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Chicago
Roger Arnold
John Stanisha
E.W. Adorjan
Adorjan
Arnold
Stanisha
Carl McCormick
Thomas Royce
Royce
Inmate brewed liquor sickens fourteen at San Quentin
Fourteen inmates at San Quentin were poisoned by liquor brewed and sold by fellow inmates. Eleven were hospitalized with two in very serious condition and two on kidney dialysis. Tests showed methyl alcohol in the brew. The spokesman cited ongoing prison alcohol-making as a recurring issue.
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San Quentin
Calif
San Quentin Prison
Percy Massey
Massey
Young Chattanooga girl offers coins to John Glenn campaign
A 9-year-old girl Karey Halsten from St Nicholas School in Chattanooga presented John Glenn with a bag of nickels dimes and quarters at a $250-a-head fund raiser. Glenn plans to keep the coins at campaign headquarters as inspiration for workers.
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Chattanooga
Duchess of Windsor turns 87 in Paris bedchamber
The Duchess of Windsor, once linked to King Edward VIII, marked her 87th birthday in a Paris mansion where she has been bedridden for six years. An employee noted she is too ill to eat cake, though flowers and cards arrived from around the world.
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Paris
Duchess of Windsor
Edward Will
Pauling Calls Doctors to Fight Arms Race at EVMS
Nobel laureate Linus Pauling urged doctors to oppose militarism during a graduation address at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. He criticized the nuclear deterrent as vastly excessive and urged reducing it to a more rational level.
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Norfolk, Va
Linus Pauling
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