Shake-up in China signals end of Mao era as Hu Yaobang rises
Peking AP says Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng resigned and was replaced by Hu Yaobang, marking a shift toward Deng Xiaoping's modernization. Deng was elected party chairman of the military commission, Zhao Ziyang became vice chairman, and Hua was demoted to junior vice chair. The move consolidates Deng's influence and signals official distancing from Maoist leftism.
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F-18 Hornet clears full production for Navy fighters
The Pentagon ordered full production of the F-18 fighter variant, after a defense panel found it meets Navy and Marine Corps requirements. Ground-attack A-18 production decision postponed to fall 1982 as cost and program risks are reviewed. The Hornet, at about 25.6 million each, remains the costliest U.S. fighter. Separately, the U.S. and Egypt signed a nuclear energy cooperation pact authorizing 1000 MW reactors and low-grade uranium fuel with spent fuel reprocessing in a third country.
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Hostage standoff ends with FBI building shooting death
A man killed by police during a three hour hostage situation at the FBI headquarters had recent mental health issues and believed someone sought his life. He fired on about a dozen agents, wounding two, before officers fatally shot him. Autopsy shows multiple gunshot wounds, no natural disease found.
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Vatican bomber thwarted at St Peter's Basilica
Vatican security overpowered a 54 year old Italian as he tried to light a homemade bomb before 20 000 people. Police identified him as Giuseppe Santangelo of Salerno. He said he did not want to kill anyone but to sacrifice himself. Pope John Paul II was not confirmed informed of the incident.
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Eighth Maze inmate begins hunger strike as death looms
In Belfast an IRA inmate at Maze prison started a fast to death on Monday amid reports another prisoner, Joseph McDonnell aged 30, was near death after 52 days without food. Laurence McKeown, 24, serving a life sentence for attempted murder of a policeman and bombings, refused breakfast.
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Supreme Court upholds revocation of Philip Agee passport
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that the government may revoke ex-CIA agent Philip Agee’s passport, rejecting federal free speech claims. Agee, deserving critic of CIA spying, lives in Hamburg and faces possible deportation, having been previously expelled from Britain, France and the Netherlands. The ruling also covers other actions including lead exposure limits, employment discrimination in church-affiliated schools, minority hiring on city projects, a union pension matter, and a Pittsburgh school merger for desegregation.
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