Senate approves final ASAT tests as arms talks proceed
The Senate voted 74 to 9 to allow three final-stage tests of the Air Force anti-satellite weapon next year, contingent on Reagan stating tests won’t derail Geneva talks. The move comes after defeating a Kerry-led ban and amid active negotiations on space and broader arms limits.
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Beleaguered OSHA chief resigns amid ethics review
Robert A. Rowland announced his resignation as OSHA chief effective July 1 after being cleared by the Office of Government Ethics in a stockholding review. He cited mission accomplished and cited declines in injuries and deaths amid a recession, while critics pointed to staffing cuts and enforcement concerns.
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Office of Government Ethics
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Augustus Hawkins
D-Calif
House
Education and Labor Committee
William Brock
Hawkins
Legal Services
Ethics Office
Two men convicted in Geronimo bank robbery murders
Jurors found Jay Wesley Neill and Robert Grady Johnson guilty of four counts of murder and related charges for the December robbery of the First Bank of Chattanooga branch in Geronimo. The case also involves a separate lawsuit by Mary Linen alleging assault and false imprisonment related damages.
Paralyzed patient dies after mistaken vincristine injection
In Albany a 21 year old woman Lillian Cedeno died after a vincristine injection into the spine left her paralyzed and comatose. Her premature daughter, delivered by C section after 11 days of coma, also died after 24 days in intensive care.
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Albany Medical Center
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Mom sues police after boy held in Newark cell
A Newark police cell incident is cited in a civil suit filed by a mother on behalf of her 6 year old son. The boy was locked in a darkened cell for stones thrown at a car and allegedly told to be quiet when he cried for his mother.
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Europe
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Newark
N.J
Nigeria ends expulsion of aliens two weeks late
Nigeria finished expelling thousands of illegal aliens two weeks behind schedule as a neighboring nation threatened to expel Nigerians. The last shipload of 717 aliens left Lagos harbor while diplomats estimated total expulsions at about 200,000. Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gambari said Nigerians in Burkina Faso were told to report to a camp in Ouagadougou.
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Ivory Coast
Nigeria
Lagos
Ibrahim Gambari
Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
Sakharov Ally Reports Isolation in Gorky Amid Hunger Strike
Irina Kristi, a friend of Andrei Sakharov, says the dissident is cut off from contact in Gorky by Soviet authorities while his wife Yelena Bonner reportedly sends limited letters. Kristi and her family emigrated to Vienna, noting Bonner’s May 20 message and clues about a hunger strike and hospital stay in April.
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Austria
Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov
Gorky
Irina Kristi
Soviet Union
Kristi
Yelena Bonner
Bonner
Army probes Hughes Helicopter accounting irregularities
The Army launched an investigation into alleged accounting irregularities at Hughes Helicopter Inc. Hughes, a McDonnell Douglas subsidiary, faced suspension of $3.5 million in overhead payments since May 17 after a Defense Contract Audit Agency report cited unallowable costs and weak internal controls. The probe covers 1979–1983 and beyond, with Hughes under contract for about $4 billion with the Army.
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Hughes Helicopter
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Secretary of the Army
John Marsh
Hughes Helicopter Inc
Defense
Marsh
Hughes
St. Louis
Howard Hughes
McDonnell Douglas
Gerald J. Meyer
Aerospace Company
Meyer
U.S. confirms Sharon plan for invasion of Lebanon
The State Department defended Ambassador Samuel Lewis after Ariel Sharon denied the envoy’s account of revealing plans for a large scale Lebanon invasion. The briefing noted Habib rejected the concept in December 1981 and that U.S. officials sought assurances Israel would refrain from invasion. Begin later approved the attack on June 5 1982 with aim to reach 25 miles into Lebanon.
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Washington
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Lebanon
State Department
Ariel Sharon
U.S
Samuel Lewis
Sharon
Beirut
United States
Lewis
Edward Djerejian
Philip Habib
Habib
Reagan
Menachem Begin
Begin
London
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