White House seeks plan to break fiscal stalemate with Congress
Washington and lawmakers map a strategy after a three week spending extension and a partial government furlough. Subcommittees study numbers packaging and overall strategy while Reagan signals possible larger spending cuts. Senate action includes heavy truck emissions standards and probes into political funding. EPA urged to transfer hazardous waste duties to states.
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Washington
White House
House
Senate
Reagan
Congress
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Robert Michel
Illinois
Office of Management and Budget
David Stockman
James Baker
Santa Barbara
Calif
Larry Speakes
Speakes
Environment Committee
Environmental Protection Agency
Anne Gorsuch
EPA
Riverside nurse charged with 12 drug death murders
A 44-year-old nurse, Robert Diaz, faces 12 counts of murder in overdose deaths at Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris and San Gorgonio Pass Hospital in Banning. Investigators say lidocaine overdoses killed 12 patients, many elderly, between March 30 and April 25, and police seized narcotics and related items from Diaz’s home during the probe.
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Riverside
Calif
Robert Diaz
Thomas Hollenhorst
Diaz
Hollenhorst
Community Hospital of the
Missing nuns found unharmed in Guatemala
Two U.S. nuns, a Guatemalan priest, and a seminary student who vanished five days earlier were found safe in San Felipe Retalhulon near Panajachel. A church official confirmed their return and noted concerns over prior abduction risks amid tensions with right-wing groups.
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Guatemala City
United States
Guatemala
U.S
Panajachel
Angelico Melotto
Solola
Jean Reimer
Saginaw
Mich
Helen Lavalley
Marinette
Wisc
Jose Velasquez
Felix Argueta
San Felipe
Food riots in Poland leave three dead amid shortages
World: Food shortages trigger shopper riots in Warsaw with three deaths and dozens of storekeepers beaten. Government briefed on first fatal rioting. Solidarity threatens strikes at Radom military plants while Rural Solidarity plans to spread sit-ins. About half of Poland’s 105 colleges closed, affecting over 130 000 students.
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Warsaw
Poland
UPI
Solidarity
Radom
Solidarity Farmers’ Union
Typhoon Irma Hits Luzon Killing 11 In Philippines
Typhoon Irma struck Luzon with 150 mph winds killing 11 people and injuring 72 while forcing about 70 000 residents to flee. The storm spared Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Navy station and moved into the South China Sea with winds down to 103 mph. It was on a northwest track toward Hong Kong at 11 mph.
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Manila
Philippines
UPI
Luzon
America
Clark Air Base
Subic Bay Navy Station
South China Sea
Hong Kong
Hazardous device blasts at Tehran station kill three
A spokesman for a revolutionary committee said two leftist devices exploded under Tehran station steps killing a mother, her child, and another passenger. Eleven were injured. He blamed the Mujahideen Khalq guerrillas for the incident and reported no arrests.
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Ankara
Turkey
UPI
Tehran
Revolutionary Committee
Mujahideen Khalq
Greece's Pasok wins confidence to pull Greece from NATO
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou's Pasok gains 172 votes in a 300 member parliament, paving the path to withdraw from NATO and close four U.S. bases in Greece. He argues the confidence vote enables Greece to exit the alliance's military wing and end bases from the 1952 accord.
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Athens
Greece
UPI
Andreas Papandreou
NATO
U.S
Papandreou
Socialist Movement
Pasok
Chamber of Deputies
New Democracy Party
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Hinckley seeks transfer to St Elizabeths mental hospital
John Hinckley Jr. asks U S District Judge Barrington Parker to move him from Fort Meade military jail to St Elizabeths to ensure psychiatric treatment and prevent self harm. DOJ opposes. hearing set today. Separately in New City New York Weather Underground members Katherine Boudin and Judith Clark refuse to enter pleas in the Brink's robbery murder case.
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Washington
John Hinckley Jr
Fort Meade
Reagan
U.S. District Court
Barrington Parker
Hinckley
Parker
Justice Department
John Russell
Vincent Fuller
Gregory Craig
New City
N.Y
Weather Underground
Katherine Boudin
Judith Clark
Rockland County
Harry Edelstein
Michigan
David Gilbert
FBI
Samuel Brown
Otisville
Barbs on Three-Piece Suits and Pipe Smokers
A satirical note warns that three-piece suits return and pipe smokers face shirt stains, while a bus joke claims transit defies a schedule by “running over the thing.”
Israel urged to back peace keeping plan
Washington privately presses Israel to accept Britain France Italy and the Netherlands in the Sinai peace keeping force while Israel weighs cabinet approval. Haig negotiates, Europeans reserve sole parliamentary statements. Israeli officials view European stance as conflicting with Camp David and PLO involvement. US seeks trust signals from Jerusalem.
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Washington
United States
Israel
Sinai
Palestine Liberation Organization
Samuel Lewis
Britain
France
Italy
Netherlands
State Department
Menachem Begin
Camp David
Begin
Alexander Haig
Jerusalem
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Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel
St. Elizabeth’s
Boudin
Clark
Phil Pastore
Edgewood Rd
Marion Blvd
Marion
Comn & Register
10Th St
Cedar Ae
Nauvoutt
Vaivouns
New York Times Service
Haig
European Economic Community
PLO
Mellers
KODAK
Cedar Rapids
Center Point Rd
Hardee’s Parking
Edgewood
Johnson
Mays City Shopping Center
16Th Ave
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