West German minister shot in first political assassination
In Frankfurt a gunman climbed to the second-floor bedroom window and killed Heinz Herbert Karry, economics and technology minister of Hesse, in a 5 am attack. Police say one or more terrorists likely carried out the murder, amid Karry’s controversial stance on nuclear reprocessing and airport expansion.
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West Germany
UPI
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Hesse
Konrad Adenauer
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Maria Karry
Adolf Schroeder
Schroeder
Baader-Meinhof
Test tube pregnancy hailed as U S first success
Norfolk based Eastern Virginia Medical School announced a first in the United States a woman with removed Fallopian tubes is pregnant via test tube in vitro fertilization. Dr Howard Jones said the pregnancy was established by a controlled ovulation method and re implantation.
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UPS
United States
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Howard Jones
Virginia
Vernon Jones
France
Jones
Nazis protest Israel parade in Southfield confrontation
Uniformed Nazi protesters clashed with jeering demonstrators Sunday during an Israel Independence Day march in Southfield Michigan. About 30 marchers, heavily guarded by police, were herded away from the parade route ten minutes after arrival. No injuries were reported and three protesters were arrested for breaching police lines.
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Conservatives end 35 years of liberal ruling in West Berlin
West Berlin voters handed the Christian Democratic Union 47.9 percent and 65 seats in a 133 seat assembly, ending 35 years of Social Democratic rule and leaving the city without a mayor. The SPD took 38.4 percent and 52 seats, with smaller gains for the Free Democrats and Alternative List amid broader national discontent.
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SPD
Alternative List
Free Democrats
West Berlin
Schmidt
Suspect in 6 murders gives up in Washington
Ronald Ellis 34, sought nation wide since May 2 for the murder of his wife, two daughters and three family friends, surrendered to the FBI just before midnight. He was taken to DC jail for arraignment and did not reveal his whereabouts since May 3. Ellis, a printer and mechanic from Camp Springs, Md., was accompanied by his father and sister. The victims included Ingrid Ellis, 33, a DC police sergeant, and three other women and two children.
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Ronald Ellis
FBI
Dave Gosa
Camp Springs
District of Columbia
U.S
Gosa
Ellis
Chicago
Tyrone
Anderson starts fund drive for new third party in 1984 bid
Washington AP John B Anderson launches a fund raising drive to gauge interest in forming an independent party and mounting a 1984 presidential challenge. The preliminary effort aims to assess support for a new party in 1982 elections and beyond.
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Anderson
Reforming the Military study urges policy changes over spending
The Heritage Foundation report Reforming the Military argues that U.S. defense policy requires sweeping changes in policies tactics and force structures rather than more dollars. It questions aspects of Reagan’s rearmament program and frames the early administration as an opportune moment to reassess defense strategy.
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UPI
Conservative Heritage Foundation
Reagan
U.S
America
World Spies urged pilot defection to United States Foxbat story
American and British spies spent two years persuading Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko to defect with his MiG-25 Foxbat to Hakodate Japan on Sept. 6 1976. CIA and MI 6 arranged a guarded, free life in the United States after the defection.
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UPI
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Japan
Kyodo
CIA
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United States
Belenko
Hakodate
Hokkaido
MI-6
Far East
Sikharovka
Ambush in West Belfast fuels fears of IRA revenge plans
Gunmen ambushed a cash-laden mail truck in Catholic West Belfast wounding two British soldiers. The attack coincided with an oil terminal bomb near Shetland opened by Queen Elizabeth II, amid fears IRA hunger strikers including Bobby Sands may trigger a renewed campaign.
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Northern Ireland
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Queen Elizabeth
Bobby Sands
Whiterock
West Belfast
Irish Republican Army
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Shetland Islands
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Olav V
Sands
Maze
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Hughes
Raymond McCreesh
Patrick O'Hara
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