Secret Grenada papers show military underpinnings of Soviet aid
United States releases secret Grenada documents found by troops detailing five covert treaties with the Soviet Union Cuba and North Korea to supply arms vehicles and equipment for the ousted Bishop government. Officials say the papers support concerns of Soviet bloc plans to subvert nearby states and move Grenada toward superpower status.
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Washington
United States
U.S
Grenada
State Department
Soviet Union
Cuba
North Korea
Maurice Bishop
Reagan
Caribbean
Paul Scoon
Kenneth Dam
Associated Press Managing Editors
Louisville
Dam
Africa
Europe
Libya
Central America
Moscow
Baby Returns to Texas Parents After Airport Reunion
Cherie Ann Kennedy, seven months old, is returned to Penny Jo Kennedy and her husband after being abducted from a Fort Worth hospital by Linda Lee Ashmore Gomez who posed as a nurse. The child had been taken at the Mexico border in El Paso and was identified at Dallas Fort Worth Regional Airport. Gomez faces kidnapping charges.
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Grapevine
Texas
Fort Worth
Cherie Ann Kennedy
Penny Jo Kennedy
Mexico
el Paso
Dallas- Fort Worth
Fewer Work Injuries Reported in 1982, Says BLS
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports fewer than eight per hundred workers suffered job related injuries or illnesses in 1982 marking a third straight year of improvement. Days lost to work related accidents dropped from about 39.2 million in 1981 to 36.1 million in 1982. Assistant Secretary Thorgy G Auchter notes significant gains in safety and health indicators.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Thorgy G. Auchter
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Judge Orders Hospital to Produce Baby Jane Doe Records
A federal judge in Uniondale ordered the parents and University Hospital in Stony Brook to respond by Tuesday to the government’s request for records on the 24 day old deformed infant known as Baby Jane Doe. The inquiry aims to assess whether withholding life extending surgery was proper and whether government intervention could offer the infant a chance at survival.
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Uniondale
N.Y
U.S
Leonard Wexler
University Hospital
Stony Brook
William Bradford Reynolds
El Salvador Embassy Presses Action on Assassination Squad Suspects
U S Embassy officials press the Salvadoran government to act against a number of army and security officers accused of involvement in assassination squads. Named individuals include the head of security for the Constituent Assembly Hector Regalado, two provincial commanders, and intelligence directors from two security forces.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
U.S
Constituent Assembly
Hector Antonio Regalado
Regalado
Roberto d’Aubuisson
Assembly
d'Aubuisson
Belfast college blast kills two police officers
A Belfast college lecture hall bomb during a criminology class killed two policemen and wounded 33 as an hour later a car bomb outside Jack's Bar in Strabane wounded eight and trapped others. The IRA claimed responsibility in a call to Belfast media.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Strabane
County Tyrone
Royal Ulster Constabulary
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Turkish General Evren Leads Military Government
Ankara reports Gen. Kenan Evren, head of Turkey’s military government, rising as a central figure in ongoing political maneuvering. The developing scene highlights Evren’s influence over the regime as public attention focuses on his next moves.
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Ankara
Turkey
Kenan Evren
Poland accuses U.S. of pushing new sanctions
Poland's PAP news agency accuses the United States of planning additional sanctions to force Poland to release political prisoners and restore free trade unions. It says Washington seeks confrontation and to dictate internal conditions, calling the White House partial relaxations a step backward.
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Warsaw
Poland
United States
PAP
White House
Gazette
Gazette Company Establishes Cedar Rapids Daily
The Gazette began publication in 1883 at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa with daily and Sunday editions. Subscription rates list 7 issues weekly priced 10.40 for four weeks and 110.00 for 52 weeks, with higher rates for out of state.
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THE
Gazette
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
Marine Board Probes Sinking of Glomar Java Sea
A five member Marine Board of Investigation opened in Houston on Friday to probe the sinking of the Glomar Java Sea during a typhoon in the South China Sea. Rescuers search for the 81 crew members on the 10th day as the ship lies about 200 miles east of Vietnam and 60 miles south of Hainan Island.
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Grenada
U.S. Army
U.S
Point Salines
St. George’s
Merida
Mexico
Havana
Joint Military Information Center
Barbados
Grantley Adams
Cubana Airlines
Cuba
Cubana
Houston
Marine Board of Investigation
South China Sea
Glomar-Java Sea
Vietnam
Hainan Island
Iowa paratrooper among 1800 soldiers returning from Grenada
A rural Ely paratrooper, Spec. 5 Mark Klouda, 23, of Route 1, Ely, and Ernest Klouda of Hiawatha, were among 1800 U.S. soldiers who came home to cheering crowds at Fort Bragg after Grenada duty with the 82nd Airborne. Klouda said the unit faced no firefight, ground troops surrendered, and he spent much time in jungle foxholes.
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Ely
U.S
Grenada
Mark Klouda
Robert Andrie
Ernest Klouda
82Nd Army Airborne
Fort Bragg
N.C
Klouda
Friday
Michael L. Wheeler
82Nd Airborne
Margaret
John Wheeler
Rainbow Blvd
Hiawatha
Federal panel urges changes in Medicare
A federal advisory committee urged reforms to avert Medicare insolvency. The plan raises age of eligibility to 67 and increases beneficiary premiums while widening revenue through higher alcohol and tobacco taxes for Medicare. The panel projects 300 billion dollars in gains over ten years to end the trust fund deficit.
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Federal
Medicare
New York Times Service
Washington
Congress
Otis R. Bowen
Indiana
Congressional Budget Office
Department of Health and Human Services
Medicare Advisory Committee
Margaret Heckler
HHS
Reagan Administration
House of Horror killer given life in prison
Dennis Nilsen, a government clerk known as the House of Horror killer, was sentenced to life for six murders in London. He also convicted of two attempted killings after a 10 day Old Bailey trial. The court set a minimum term of 25 years.
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London
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Ulster Blast Kills
DE Lkers
7Th Street SE
Cedar Rapids Park
Ory
David Croom- Johnson
Nilsen
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