Craxi resigns as Italy’s government falls after bill defeat
Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi resigns after a secret vote in the Chamber of Deputies defeats a government bill on local financing. President Francesco Cossiga asks Craxi to stay on as caretaker until a new government forms. The five party coalition had led for 1,050 days since August 4, 1983.
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Shultz Says United States Withdraws Security Umbrella From NZ
Secretary of State George Shultz announces that the United States will withdraw its security umbrella from New Zealand over NZ refusal to allow port calls by nuclear armed U S warships. He and New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange conclude the ANZUS alliance is strained.
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Government to fund limited heart transplant operations
The Health and Human Services Secretary said Medicare will cover about 65 heart transplants in the first year at an estimated five million dollars, rising to about 143 annually at twenty five million dollars within five years. Huey Newton acquitted in Oakland court on two counts of felon in possession.
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Ireland votes to keep divorce ban in referendum
Ireland decisively rejected lifting the constitutional divorce ban by 63.5 percent to 36.5 percent. Some 935,842 voted no and 538,279 yes as 97 percent of eligible voters—1.5 million of 2.4 million—turned out amid Catholic-majority support. The result challenges Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's reform agenda and its Northern Ireland interests.
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Boombox parade planned in Windham town
Windham Connecticut organizers cannot secure a marching band for the Independence Day parade and ask 20 000 residents to carry radios tuned to a local station playing Sousa music Units include baby boomer stroller skateboard and senior citizens while some watch from the crowd The idea follows a canceled Memorial Day parade due to the band shortage.
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Supreme Court upholds large attorney fee in civil rights case
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that attorney fees may exceed damages in civil rights suits. It upheld a $245,456.25 fee for lawyers who won $33,350 in damages for eight Riverside defendants, rejecting proportionality limits. A dissent called the ruling harmful to public sentiment on litigation costs.
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Churches urge civil disobedience to fight apartheid
South African Council of Churches calls for mass refusal to declare race on official documents to destabilize apartheid. Government reports six more Black deaths in unrest raising the toll to 72 since the state of emergency began. Journalists fear abduction of Zwelakhe Sisulu surfaces in London. The council asks citizens to erase the race digit on existing IDs and avoid stating race on other forms.
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