Argentine warplanes strike as British destroyer damaged
Argentine jetfighters launched a major attack on the British fleet damaging a destroyer. Britain shot down three jets as ground forces pressed toward a Falklands garrison. Pope John Paul II urged peace in a message to Argentina, while UK officials described the loss as major. The UN debated a potential cease-fire as both sides reported actions on Port Stanley and at sea.
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Gazette Wire
Britain
Falkland Islands
John Paul II
Argentina
Buenos Aires
England
DYN
Leopoldo Galtieri
London
John Nott
ABC News
ABC
Port Stanley
United Nations
Nicanor Costa Mendez
Security Council
Anthony Parsons
Falklands
U.N
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Galtieri
Comodoro
Argentina at war a land of contrasts in a battered nation
Buenos Aires glitters as luxury diners sit beside Villa Miseria slums where families struggle to eat. The country faces a long war with leftist guerrillas and death squads, high inflation, and unequal wealth. A lampshade of prosperity masks deep hardship across regions and crops.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Pedro Castro
Lobos
Paris
Madrid
Polo-Field Pampas
Patagonia
Calle Florida
Rue du Faubourg St. Honore
Maria Gomez
Villa Miseria
Ms. Gomez
FMC layoff to leave 80 on production line
Jim Hurtt of UAW Local 299 says FMC Cedar Rapids will lay off 310 production workers within three weeks leaving 80 on the line. Earlier layoffs include 380 this month, with 170 from production, as plant staffing falls from about 1300 to 420 office staff. Some production work moves to non union plants in Bowling Green and Lexington, Ky, potentially prompting NLRB charges over contract violations.
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Jim Hurtt
UAW
FMC
Cedar Rapids
Hurtt
Bowling Green
Lexington
National Labor Relations Board
Campbell donations lead pack in gubernatorial race
Campbell leads fundraising among Iowa Democrats with 209000 in contributions, followed by Roxanne Conlin at 165207 and Jerome Fitzgerald at 85480. Reports cover Jan 1 to Thursday, show loans from Campbell and Conlin, and detail spending of 167639 for Campbell with 41809 cash and 5272 unpaid bills, while Conlin loaned 50000 herself.
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Campbell
Conlin
Bankers Trust
Des Moines
Democratic Party
William Knapp
Iowa
Harold Hughes
Eva Hughes
Hughes
U.S
House Demos fend off first GOP budget move
House Democrats narrowly beat back a GOP bid to cut taxes in the Democratic budget, as conservatives and moderates crossed party lines. The vote 237 to 178 reflected a fragile coalition facing a complex fiscal battle over deficits and Medicaid cuts.
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Schweiker
Evans
White House
House
Lona
James Leach
R-Davenport
Tom Tauke
Dubuque
Leach
Tauke
Gazette Wire Services
Washington
Reagan
Jim Wright
Texas
James Jones
D-Okla
Heard in a Doctor's Waiting Room
A humorous remark surfaces in a medical waiting area as a speaker jokes about a patient described as hypochondriac and compares his waterbed to being filled with chicken soup. The quip reflects casual banter rather than medical detail.
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