Tuxedo-clad climber scales 997-foot Texas Tower
Los Angeles stuntman Ron Broyles, 29, in a white tuxedo, completed an 18-hour ascent of the 997-foot Texas Commerce Tower in Houston. He was arrested at the top on a trespassing charge, posted a class A bond planned at $800, and was taken to Harris County Jail after the climb finished at 10:44 p.m.
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Texas Commerce Tower
Los Angeles
Ron Broyles
Broyles
Harris County
Ferrell Hays
Jim Moriarity
World Almanac
George Willig
World Trade Center
New York
Dan Goodwin
Mideast talks stall on southern Lebanon security plans
Washington reports show Israel Lebanon remain far apart on post withdrawal security rules after three days of talks led by Secretary of State Shultz. Shamir said a breakthrough is possible but not near while Salem urged immediate full troop withdrawal and Beirut claimed Lebanon can secure the territory. The sides agreed to resume talks within a few days as the deadlock persists over outposts and overall pullout.
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Washington
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Lebanon
U.S
George Shultz
Yitzhak Shamir
Shultz
Elie Salem
Shamir
Reagan
United States
Solidarity rally swells in Gdansk despite Walesa absence
More than 1,000 Solidarity supporters gathered in Gdansk for a second day of protests near the Lenin Shipyard while Lech Walesa stayed away fearing provocation. Demonstrators sang, faced riot police, and dispersed by mid afternoon, with smaller actions in Warsaw Wroclaw and Kalisz and calls for Anna Walentynowicz's release amid ongoing tensions after martial law.
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Poland
Solidarity
Gdansk
Lech Walesa
Lenin
Baltic
Wroclaw
Kalisz
Anna Walentynowicz
Independent Labor Movement
Walesa
Smith orders probe of U S ties to Barbie
Attorney General William French Smith reversed earlier stance and ordered a full Justice Department investigation into claims that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie received U S aid after World War II The inquiry follows reports that U S authorities aided Barbie's flight and funded him while in Europe and Bolivia The case centers on alleged U S payments and assistance during 1948 and prior months involving intelligence cooperation with Barbie and French authorities
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White House
William French Smith
Justice Department
Klaus Barbie
U.S
Smith
Barbie
Lyons
France
Bolivia
Tom DeCair
Europe
Department of Justice
DeCair
Erhard Dabringhaus
Wayne State University
Detroit
U.S. Army
West Germany
Dabringhaus
U S considers interim plan to break arms deadlock
The Reagan administration weighs an interim agreement allowing limited missiles in Europe to restart U S Soviet talks on intermediate range weapons. White House aides say a proposal could reach Reagan and possibly be offered to the Soviets before Geneva recess, aiming to show willingness to reduce arms.
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Washington Post Service
Washington
Reagan
Europe
White House
Geneva
U.S
European
West Germany
Helmut Kohl
Emilio Colombo
United States
Reagan honors federal officers in line of duty tribute
President Reagan saluted 13 federal law officers who died on duty in the last six months, including three Secret Service agents who perished in California while protecting Queen Elizabeth. Investigators report lingering concerns about air traffic controller fatigue and training 18 months after the 1981 strike.
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Washington
Reagan
Secret Service
Queen Elizabeth
California
National Transportation Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration
Court of Appeals ruling could cut distant signal access
The U S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied a stay on rising copyright fees, threatening access to distant signals. Cable operators pay these fees to retransmit independent stations outside their markets, including WTBS Atlanta WOR New York and WGN Chicago.
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U.S. Court of Appeals
National Cable Television Association
Association
Edward Dooley
U.S. Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
Wtbs-Tv
Atlanta
Wor-Tv
New York
Wgn-Tv
Chicago
Leftist rebels reject El Salvador elections and attack
Guerrillas of the Democratic Revolutionary Front refuse participation in the elections and step up assaults on army patrols. They also dynamite power lines, leaving about two million people without electricity as interim President Magana moves the vote to December 24. The rebel leader vows no arms surrender until needs are met. A nonidentifiable spokesman cites fear of reprisals.
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el Salvador
Democratic Revolutionary Front
White House
Alvaro Magana
Population crash wipes out 17 million birds on Christmas Island
A report to the National Science Foundation says almost the entire adult population of 17 million birds on Christmas Island in the mid Pacific has been killed or fled, leaving nestlings to starve. Ralph Schreiber calls it the largest such crash and the first near total disappearance of a tropical island bird population.
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Christmas Island
mid-Pacific
National Science Foundation
Ralph Schreiber
Ornithol
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