Reagan arrives in Williamsburg for economic summit
President Reagan landed at Williamsburg for a three day summit with major trading partners to discuss protectionism unemployment and a durable noninflationary recovery. He met with Yasuhiro Nakasone and outlined a hopeful agenda emphasizing unity cooperation and optimism amid global recession concerns.
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Reagan
U.S
Washington
Virginia
White House
Yasuhiro Nakasone
Japan
Nakasone
Williams
Burg
Illinois Supreme Court ruling on custody of Walter Polovchak
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled the Soviet parents may take custody of Walter Polovchak if they come to the United States to reclaim him. The asylum case and federal orders complicate the matter, and attorneys say Walter is unlikely to depart the country soon.
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Chicago
Federal Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Michael
Anna Polovchak
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Joseph Mooney
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Cook County
Nazi diaries forgery exposed in Hitler hoax case
Konrad Kujau admits forging the Hitler diaries and accuses Stern journalist Gerd Heidemann of aiding the fraud. Heidemann is questioned on fraud charges while Stern pursues action. Investigators seize papers from Heidemann and Kujau and pursue further evidence in the costly hoax.
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Stern
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Peter Beck
Heidemann
Kujau
Egon Geis
Geis
Bild Zeitung
Adolf Hitler
Beck
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Hermann Goering
Gina
Henri Nannen
Nannen
Rolf Schmidt
Harris freed after prison term ends in Oakland
Emily Harris, once a Symbionese Liberation Army member involved in Patricia Hearst’s kidnapping, was released from the California Institute for Women in Oakland just after midnight. She reunited with her husband William, her partner in the crime, after serving seven years behind bars.
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Calif
Emily Harris
William
Patricia Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
California Institute For Women
Prison guard charged over gun supply to inmates
Pittsburgh AP report says Roy Hampton Layne, 37, former prison guard, was arrested at his home on a charge of supplying handguns to one of two armed convicts who held prison employees hostage for five days last month at the State Correctional Institution before the standoff ended peacefully. He was ordered held on a $50,000 bond.
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Roy Hampton Layne
Liberace Hit With 18 Million Libel Suit
Plaintiff Scott Thorson claims Liberace paid his half-brother Wayne Johnson to place a damaging article in the Globe December 7 1982. Thorson also sues Liberace and a national tabloid for libel in the high profile suit.
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Thorson
Wayne Johnson
Weekly
Globe
Carson co-founded bank shut by state officials
State officials closed the Commercial Bank of California two months after Henry Bushkin was sued for racketeering. First Credit Bank of Blythe, California took over with uninterrupted service. The purchase avoids about 24 million dollars in deposit payoffs. Carson and Bushkin served on the board until last year.
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Johnny Carson
Carson
Henry Bushkin
Commercial Bank of California
First Credit Bank of
Blythe
Calif
Louis Carter
Bushkin
Fleming appeals over jury award to Marx estate executors
Erin Fleming, once Groucho Marx's companion, appealed a jury ruling that ordered her to return funds to the late comedian's estate. Jurors had awarded nearly 500000 dollars to Bank of America as executors, finding she obtained property through fraud and undue influence. The judge later overturned punitive damages, ordering a new trial if the bank pursued none, but the bank will seek the 221000 compensatory award.
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Los Angeles
Groucho Marx
Erin Fleming
Bank of America
Marx
Cairo steamer disaster crew charged with manslaughter
The Akhbar el Yom reports 38 survivors face unpremeditated killing charges after the Nile steamer 10th of Ramadan sank with about 317 dead. Recovery totals: 194 bodies, 325 survivors, 123 missing. later totals rise to 272 dead.
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Egypt
Akhbar el Yom
Al-Ahram
Walesa questioned by police over Solidarity advisers case
Lech Walesa said he was questioned by Gdansk police for two hours about five Solidarity advisers charged with seeking to overthrow the Communist system and was told to report again. He refused to answer questions, calling it harassment, and said he must pay a $139 fine for allegedly ignoring a traffic summons.
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Poland
Lech Walesa
Gdansk
Solidarity
Walesa
Solidarity Labor Federation
Shuttle Enterprise Circles Paris Amid Air Show Tour
The U S space shuttle Enterprise atop a Boeing 747 circled Paris at about 3000 feet for 30 minutes during rush hour. The display coincides with the Paris Air Show and is part of a European tour planned for this weekend.
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Paris
Thatcher protected as IRA threats prompt security push
London police say Scotland Yard Special Branch started 24 hour protection for three opposition leaders and boosted Thatcher security after warnings of a new IRA attack wave on the British mainland. The IRA political wing calls the警 scare tactics and denies unusual activity.
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Scotland Yard
Special Branch
Margaret Thatcher
IRA
Irish Republican Army
Government not responsible for Liuzzo murder ruling
A federal judge ruled the government bears no liability for the 1965 slaying of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, dismissing a 2 million suit by her family. The 16 page opinion said FBI informant Gary Rowe likely did not fire the fatal shot during the Selma to Montgomery march.
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Mich
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Liuzzo
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Gary Thomas Rowe
Joiner
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Montgomery
Ala
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