Soviet Sub Crew Near Defection Amid Baltic Standstill
After five days stranded off Sweden the 56 crew of a diesel submarine face tense conditions and possible defection by the skipper. Swedish officers report that the captain may not be ashore, while a Soviet flotilla remains nearby outside territorial waters as Sweden withholds refloat until an official log handover and full explanation.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Army
Jean-Carlos Danckwardt
Defense
Soviet Union
Baltic
Michail Yakolev
Leif Leifland
Ola Allsten
Return to Dark Ages after a nuclear war?
The Associated Press reports that governments discuss the survivability of nuclear war while disarmament advocates warn of a Dark Ages outcome. Physicians warn of collapsed medical care and mass casualties, with survivors enduring extreme suffering and scarce pain relief. A Los Angeles symposium titled The Medical Consequences of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War highlighted vast civilian casualties and widespread fallout.
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Thomas Halsted
Physicians For Social Responsibility
Leonid Brezhnev
Reagan
Halsted
Victor Sidel
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Council For A Livable World
Los Angeles
Unhappy marriages fueled by generations of trust issues
A brief line notes men fail to fool wives as they could their mothers, suggesting evolving marital dynamics and credibility within families. This reflects social commentary on changing expectations in marriage.
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Midwest
Farmers face second straight year of low income in Iowa
Eastern Iowa farmers cope with high interest costs cutting profits. Hog receipts allocate about 19 of 100 to interest, cattle 47.76 of 770, soybeans 20.58 of 149.71 per acre, and a 40 000 tractor cost sees 7000 more finance charges at 19 percent. Farm parity at its lowest since 1933, with net income and inflation adjusted income down again.
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Iowa
Michael Boehlje
Ames
Iowa State University
Americans aided Libyan air operations in Chad intervention
Former American intelligence asset Edwin Wilson allegedly supplied crucial Western personnel and equipment used by the Libyan Air Force during the Chad intervention. Pilots claim without such support no Chinook helicopters would fly within six months. Libyan fleet includes 20 CH‑47 Chinooks. State Department cites unconfirmed reports of civilian contractors involved in airlifted resupply.
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Washington
Libya
Chad
Edwin Wilson
Helicop
Michael Bedwell
Wilson
Bedwell
United States
Italy
State Department
Department
Alan Romberg
Outlaws bury slain bikers in Marshville funeral
About 100 Hell's Angels rode from a Marshville funeral home to bury two members, Thunder Franklin Finazzo and Yank Tyler Doris Frndak, found shot in a 1981 Oldsmobile trunk. Finazzo, a Charlotte chapter head, may have been killed in a gang power struggle amid a wave of outlaw biker violence.
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Hell's Angels
Funeral Home
Marshville
N.C
Thunder
Yank
Franklin Finazzo
Charlotte, N.C
Hell’s Angels
Tyler Doris Frndak
Finazzo
Carolinas
Outlaws
Charlotte
Postage Rates Rise Again for First Class Letters
The Postal Service increases first class mail to 20 cents and postcards to 13 cents effective today. The move follows a lengthy rate battle with regulators and business groups, with price history tracing back through the 1960s and 1970s.
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Washington
UPI
Postal Service
William Bolger
Board of Governors
United States
Canada
United Press International
Soviet Union
Spain
Britain
Postal Rate Commission
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Karlskrona Naval Base
Cmdr
Pyotr Gushin
Associated Press
Ee Ee
Linn Court
Marion Bombeck
Diane Woh
al Swegle
New York Times Service
Les Smith
U.S
Georgia
Tommy Stroud
Capt
Wade Stroud
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