Voyager 2 adjusts course for Neptune encounter
Space probe Voyager 2 fired thrusters from Pasadena under instruction from scientists two billion miles away to alter its path for a 1989 Neptune flyby. The maneuver raises speed, lets the craft pass within 3,100 miles of Neptune’s north pole and 25,000 miles of moon Triton.
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Calif
Neptune
NASA
Voyager Project
Ed Stone
North Pole
Triton
Stone
Moon
Nereid
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
California Institute of Technology
Florida
Earth
Terror of Stalin years exposed in Soviet novel
A Soviet weekly magazine prints an excerpt from Anatoly Rybakov’s novel Children of the Arbat about Stalin era terror. The serialized work signals greater openness as readers gain access to the mechanisms of repression and the fates of ordinary citizens.
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Stalin
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Children of the Arbat
Anatoly Rybakov
Rybakov
Ogonyok
Soviet Union
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ivan Denisovich
Air Force tanker crashes during maneuvers, six dead
In Spokane the Air Force tanker plane practicing with a B 52 crashed and burst into flames killing six including one on the ground and leaving one missing. Capt Brad Peck said five aboard and a car victim were among the dead. In Trenton an inmate armed with razor blade weapon took five hostage at a maximum security prison and surrendered after about two hours Bengio Galvan, 29, a Cuban with seven year drug sentence, was identified.
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Spokane
Wash
Brad Peck
Fairchild Air Force Base
Trenton
N.J
Department of Corrections
Kim White
Bengio Galvan
Trenton State Prison
Chernobyl Disaster Trial Planned in Soviet Union
A Soviet official said those responsible for the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster will go on trial soon. The announcement came Friday in Moscow as authorities move toward accountability for the catastrophe that released radioactive material.
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Moscow
Chernobyl
Iran says U.S. cited Soviet threat near Caspian Sea
Iran's parliament speaker Rafsanjani claimed U.S. envoys showed Iranians a satellite image of 36 Soviet divisions massed near the Caspian Sea with plans to invade Iran. He said the Americans aimed to draw Iran into conflict with the Soviet Union and distract from Iraq.
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Cyprus
Iran
U.S
Tehran
Caspian Sea
Hashemi Rafsanjani
Tehran University
Soviet Union
Iraq
Islamic Republic
Tehran Radio
Rafsanjani
Caspian
Robert McFarlane
Lebanon
Appeals court rules Post did not libel Mobil Oil exec
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the Washington Post did not libel former Mobil Oil president William Tavoulareas and did not have to pay the $2 million judgment. It found the Tavoulareas story substantially true and without malice, upholding the paper’s investigative reporting and public figure protections.
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Washington
Washington Post
Mobil Oil Co
William Tavoulareas
U.S. Court of Appeals
Post
Tavoulareas
Peter
Mobil
George MacKinnon
Patrick Tyler
Tyler
Tavoul
John Walsh
Tavouleras
Mobil Oil
John Lord
Benjamin Bradlee
The
Boisseuillet Jones Jr
Robert Wills
Society of Professional Journalists
Milwaukee Sentinel
U.S. District Court
Oliver Gasch
Gasch
Anarchy Rules Said Plague Manhattan Streets
The Automobile Club of New York reports widespread violations at six Midtown intersections. Drivers pedestrians and bicyclists breach laws at an average 274 times per hour per corner with red lights ignored and crosswalks blocked. Spokesman Bob Lawner laments chaotic conditions.
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Los Angeles Times
NEW York
Automobile Club of New York
Manhattan
Midtown
Pye
Bob Lawner
Auto Club
Man Arrested For Impersonating Gynecologist In Queens
Victor Collado 32 was arraigned on charges of practicing medicine without a license after forging a medical diploma and a stolen practice certificate and using stolen MD plates. He allegedly examined women and prescribed medicine, with officials unsure how many victims there were, possibly dozens.
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New York
Victor Collado
Queens
John Santucci
Collado
Sheri Roman
Tom McCarthy
Santucci
Wholesale prices rise in February
Wholesale prices rose 0.1 percent in February led by energy gains offsetting lower food and automobile costs. The PPI increase followed January’s 0.6 percent jump, with energy prices rising and food costs dipping 0.5 percent as economists note ample supply and favorable winter conditions.
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Washington
Labor Department
Three Milwaukee boys held in slaying of 2 year old girl
Three boys aged 7 8 and 10 were taken into custody in Milwaukee in a case ruled a homicide. The 2 year old died after severe beatings including punches a bed slat and being jumped on. The 8 year old faces possible murder charges while the others face child abuse referrals.
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Milwaukee
District Attorney’s Office
Jerome Neuman
Carl Ruscitti
St. Michael Hospital
Albert Hentz
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