Oldest known dinosaur skeleton found in Arizona's Painted Desert
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley report the 225 million year old skeleton may mark the earliest known dinosaur. The nearly complete remains were found at Petrified Forest National Park's Painted Desert and could belong to a new plant eating family related to later sauropods.
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Painted Desert
University of California At Berkeley
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University of California
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South America
Robert Long
Museum of Paleontology
Long
Petrified Forest National Park
Berkeley
House budget panel closes hearing amid press ban
The House Budget Committee approved a 56 billion 1986 spending cut package and voted 26 to 3 to bar press and public from the hearing. Chair William Gray led the session into late hours aiming to send the bill to the House floor next week.
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House Budget Committee
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D-Pa
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William Goodling
R-Pa
Vin Weber
R-Minn
Reagan
House Budget Committee For Action
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Economic Development Administration
Appalachian Regional Commission
Urban Development Action
Paper airplanes spark Pentagon funds scrutiny at Boeing
Washington auditors told a House panel that Boeing collected 5875 dollars from the Pentagon for sponsoring the World Paper Airplane Championship. The review covered indirect contract costs claimed by seven firms totaling about 4.3 billion, with 110 million challenged and 40 million paid.
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Bill Nichols
D-Ala
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Williston Cofer
Tamil bloodshed mounts after coastal raid violence
Attackers boarded a coastal ferry and hacked to death up to 40 Tamils in reprisal for a Tamil separatist raid that killed over 150 in Anuradhapura. At least 13 more Tamils were reported slain in reprisals around the city as Sinhala Buddhists overlook the minority Tamil presence.
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Sri Lanka
Anuradhapura
China announces new taxes on foreign businesses
China declares new taxes on foreign firms with a 15 percent retroactive levy on consulting services liaison work and market surveys from Jan 1. A 5 percent industrial and commercial tax on foreign, Hong Kong, and Macao enterprises takes effect June 1, prompting speculation about China’s currency reserves.
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Macao
Senate approves 14.8 billion foreign aid measure
The Senate passed a 14.8B foreign aid bill with 75 votes to 19. It includes 5M for Cambodian guerrillas resisting Vietnamese occupation and a pro democracy resolution targeting Philippine President Marcos. The package also covers Afghanistan and Libya policy moves.
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Congress
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R-N
Nicaragua
U N official abducted in West Beirut
An Irish relief official, Aidan Walsh, 49, was abducted by eight heavily armed men in combat fatigues in West Beirut. Walsh, deputy director of UNRWA, was seized from his UN vehicle on a seafront boulevard in under two minutes. Police report casualties as fighting worsens across Beirut.
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Aidan Walsh
Mahmoud Ghanem
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Raouche
Amal
Druse
U.N. Relief and Works Agency
Alec Collett
Pope urges famine relief for Africa from well fed
Pope John Paul I called on the well fed to share more food and resources with starving Africans. He urged officials of the European Common Market to ask whether all that is possible and just has been done for a large portion of humanity where hunger causes death and soil productivity declines.
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John Paul I
Africa
Judge orders pupil allowed back to finish term
Justice Howard Levitt ruled that Jonathan Hutcheson, a first grader expelled from Grace Lutheran School, may return only to finish the term after a five day hearing. The judge found the school failed to inform the parents that he needed psychological testing or face expulsion.
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Mineola
N.Y
Jonathan Hutcheson
Howard Levitt
Grace Lutheran School
Malverne
Jonathan
Mayor defends MOVE assault as toll rises to eleven
Philadelphia mayor W Wilson Goode faces criticism over the MOVE siege as the death toll climbs to eleven including four children. Investigators recover more bodies in the charred MOVE headquarters rubble and seize weapons while Goode defends the decision to use a firebomb, pledging a forthcoming commission review.
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Washington Post
Philadelphia
W. Wilson Goode
MOVE
Goode
Leo Brooks
Gregore Sambor
Hardy Williams
State Senate
New York
Edward Koch
Koch
Brooks and
Sambor
Senate races costly in 1983 record spending
Washington AP reports federal data showing 374 million dollars spent on last year’s congressional races, up 9.3 percent from 1982. The rise slowed after two rapid increases, with Senate contests driving the 42 million dollar jump led by North Carolina’s Helms versus Hunt.
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Federal Election Commission
North Carolina
Jesse Helms
James Hunt
Limousine Crash Injures Mourners Outside Funeral Home
A limousine smashed into a hearse, causing a chain reaction that hurled three vehicles into a funeral gathering in New York. At least 23 people were injured, with none in life threatening danger. witnesses described a chaotic scene as cars hit mourners and responders rushed to help. The limo driver claimed the accelerator pedal stuck and could not be controlled.
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New York
Sharpshooter ends five hour Henderson standoff
Henderson police say a sharpshooter fatally shot John Thomas Walker during a five hour standoff after he vowed to die. His 15 year old son surrendered after the man fell from a single head wound while the infant was on the ground. Walker died at St Rose De Lima Hospital.
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Nev
Ed Eckels
John Thomas Walker
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