Reagan Calls Nicaraguan Rebels Freedom Fighters
President Reagan questioned the Sandinista regime as undemocratic and said the Nicaraguan guerrillas are freedom fighters. He endorsed overt aid to the rebels while opposing restrictions, noting U S support has continued and contrasting Nicaragua with El Salvador. He also welcomed Andropov’s missile reduction proposal and avoided comment on the bishops’ anti-nuclear letter.
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Gazette Wire
Washington
Reagan
Nicaragua
White House
United States
Central America
el Salvador
Ment
House Intelligence Committee
U.S
NASA cancels second satellite launch after April failure
NASA officials at Space Center Houston canceled plans to launch an identical $100 million communications satellite from the Challenger mission in August. Johnson Space Center engineers removed the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite from the cargo manifest as experts still cannot explain why the first satellite, launched April 4, went off course.
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Space Center
Houston
NASA
Johnson Space Center
Senate Rejects Three Budget Plans In Deficit Fight
The Senate voted down three deficit-cutting budget proposals on Wednesday. Two would repeal Reagan era tax cuts, and a third relied mainly on large social program cuts. Majority Leader Baker and White House aides failed to sway moderate Republicans behind a new plan backed by Reagan.
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Washington
Senate
Reagan
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
White House
James Baker
Baker
Congress
Easton school bank shut by state banking officials
A group of students and a teacher at Easton Middle School saw their learning bank closed by state banking examiners for lacking a charter and other requirements. The bank had lent lunch money and pocket cash at eight percent weekly interest with a $1.50 limit, prompting officials to cite overstepping the banking statute.
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Easton
Mass
Robert Ledbetter
Easton Middle School
Oyster-sized gift shocks LSU as oilman Donates 125 Million
Baton Rouge Louisiana. An oilman C B Pennington 83 funds a trust for LSU nutrition and preventive medicine center. The 125 million donation is the largest to an American educational institution and surprised dean Dr Stanley H Abadie who said the figure exceeded expectations. Pennington said he aims to help poor children worldwide.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
C.B. Pennington
Louisiana Oil
LSU
Pennington
Stanley H Abadie
University
School of Allied Health Professions
Study finds low level smoke exposure on long flights
Non-smokers in smoking sections on long overseas flights inhale the equivalent of one cigarette but this small exposure does not pose a health hazard for nicotine or carbon monoxide, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study. The researchers did not assess potential lung irritation from this exposure.
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Boston
New England Journal of Medicine
Bodies found in barrels in Golden Gate Park
Police uncovered three decomposed victims inside two cement-sealed 55 gallon drums left in a park bush. A black man was found in one barrel, two nude white women in the other. Autopsies were ordered, and police treated the case as homicide.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
George Kowalski
Joseph Surdyka
Kowalski
Sardyca
Bruno Pezzulich
Fire Department
Florida may deny diplomas over literacy test ruling
A federal judge ruled Florida may withhold high school diplomas from seniors who fail the functional literacy test. About 3,000 students will receive certificates of completion instead. The decision addresses whether states can use tests as graduation requirements and notes the 12 years of desegregated schooling as a factor.
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Tampa
Fla
Florida
U.S
George C. Carr
Carr
Iran Expels 18 Soviet Dignitaries in Tehran Crackdown
Cyprus report states Iran ordered three Soviet military attaches and 15 diplomats expelled within 48 hours. IRNA cited a crackdown on the pro Moscow Tudeh Party as tensions with the Soviet Union rose. The 18 included diplomats at the Tehran embassy and other Soviet offices in Iran.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Iran
Islamic Republic
Communist Party of
IRNA
Tehran
Swedes Detonate Mines in Strait After Submarine Sighting
Swedish naval forces fired two seabottom mines in a narrow channel between Alno Island and the mainland after spotters saw a mini-sub periscope. Spokesman Berti Daggfeldt said helicopters found nothing, though the sub could be on the bottom. the operation occurred 252 miles north of Stockholm.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Berti Daggfeldt
Alno
Kohl to meet Andropov and pursue dialogue in Moscow
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced a July 4 meeting with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov in Moscow and a goal to start a regular Kremlin dialogue. He reaffirmed NATO plans to deploy 572 U.S. built missiles in Western Europe if arms talks stall, and accused the Soviet Union of threatening neighbors with expansive policies.
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Bonn
West Germany
Helmut Kohl
Yuri Andropov
Moscow
Kremlin
NATO
Europe
Kohl
El Salvador approves limited amnesty for prisoners
The Constituent Assembly unanimously backs a limited amnesty freeing about half of the 780 political prisoners. The measure offers Salvadoran guerrillas 60 days to lay down arms and apply for amnesty without reprisal.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Constituent Assembly
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