Space based missile defense plan eyed by Reagan administration
Defense Secretary Weinberger has urged development of a space based shield costing 18 to 27 billion dollars over five years. The plan envisions a layered defense to intercept Soviet missiles at multiple stages by 2002 to 2005 using lasers and other technologies.
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Washington
Caspar Weinberger
Reagan
United States
Administration
Pentagon
Benjamin Welles
Weinberger
White House
Larry Speakes
William Clark
Speakes
Aviation Week & Space Technology
U.S
Pact possible on European missiles until NATO deployments
A Moscow cabled communique says a U S Soviet agreement to curb nuclear arms in Europe could exist until new American missiles deploy in Western Europe. It urges the United States and NATO to renounce unilateral gains and seek limits on medium range missiles.
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Moscow
Europe
NATO
Soviet Union
East Germany
Andrei Gromyko
Erich Honecker
Geneva
United States
Tass
Gromyko
Honecker
Berlin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West Germany
Unemployment Eases Across 40 States in August
Labor Department data show 40 of 50 states posting lower unemployment in August versus a year earlier, with sharp declines in several Eastern states. West Virginia remains highest at 16.7 percent while New Hampshire and North Dakota report among the lowest rates. Maryland and D C see rises. Michigan and New Jersey also climb.
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Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
District of Columbia
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Iowa
Maryland
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New Hampshire
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Virginia
Connecticut
Walesa Confessor Questioned Over Religious Freedom Abuse
In Warsaw prosecutors questioned Rev. Henryk Jankowski about alleged abuses of religious freedom. About 200 supporters, including Lech Walesa and Bishop Lech Kaczmarek, accompanied the priest to the Gdansk office as Walesa expressed shame and pledged the matter would end soon. Jankowski denied the charges and did not answer questions.
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Warsaw
Poland
Lech Walesa
Henryk Jankowski
Gdansk
Walesa
Lech Kaczmarek
Solidarity
Jankowski
Widow Kathryn McDonald leads crowded runoff bid in Georgia
In Marietta Georgia Kathryn McDonald widow of Rep Larry McDonald led a crowded race for the 7th district with 32.9 percent 22 452 votes after 164 of 186 precincts reported She advances to a runoff against state Rep Buddy Darden who had 26 4 percent 18 037 votes None expected to win a majority forcing a November 8 runoff.
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Marietta
Larry McDonald
Soviet Union
Kathryn McDonald
George ‘‘Buddy” Darden
West German protests halt near U.S. missiles base
About 100 anti-nuclear demonstrators were arrested in West Germany as thousands protested in rain across the country on day six of a 10 day action. In Muenster police dragged away protesters from the 1st Corps Barracks and detained them after they blocked the gates for a second day.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
U.S
Europe
Muenster
1St Corps
House Republicans push immigration reform to floor despite ONeill
House Republican leaders privately agreed to move the immigration reform bill to the floor over Speaker ONeill's objections. They planned to persuade a majority to sign a discharge petition, countering the House Rules Committee blockage. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus opposed a provision penalizing employers of illegal aliens amid fears of biased hiring.
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House
Thomas O'Neill
435 House
Rules Committee
O'Neill
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Convictions in Kahl case hit four in Arkansas
A federal jury convicted Leonard and Norma Ginter of Smithville, Arthur Russell of Mountain Home, and Ed Utley of Cotter for conspiring to harbor tax protester Gordon Kahl and harboring him. Each faces up to 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine. The trials relate to Kahl who was shot dead at an Arkansas farmhouse while police pursued him for the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota.
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Harrison, Ark
Gordon Kahl
Arkansas
U.S
North Dakota
Leonard
Norma Ginter
Smithville
Arthur Russell
Mountain Home
Ed Utley
Cotter
Kahl
Silicon Valley spy sought money and thrill, lawyer says
The attorney for James Durward Harper Jr. said the Mountain View resident pursued espionage for money and the thrill of it. Harper, 49, was arrested in a case involving passing U S missile secrets to Polish agents with potential Soviet interest, and faces espionage charges after meetings across Southern California and airports.
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Silicon Valley
U.S
Washington
Justice Department
James Durward Harper Jr
William Dougherty
California
Vienna
Dougherty
Warsaw
Harper
Jay
Mountain View
Yuri Andropov
KGB Secret Police
Danish telephone sex service overloads KTAS circuits
Denmark’s first telephone sex line, financed by Agens Rapport, drew 40 000 calls in under a day. KTAS disconnected the number 1-11-96-96 as callers heard a three minute tape by a woman identified as Eva. Editor Torben Dhalvad says reconnecting is being pursued with no cost figures disclosed.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
KTAS
Agens Rapport
Ugens Rapport
Torben Dhalvad
Rapport
Israel approves Yigal Cohen-Orgad as finance minister
Israel's parliament approves Yigal Cohen-Orgad a settlements advocate and right winger as finance minister by 60 to 48 replacing Yoram Abdor who resigned amid a deep economic crisis inflation runs at about 131 percent and the government faces no confidence motions from Labor and two small opposition factions.
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Yigal Cohen-Orgad
West Bank
Cohen-Orgad
Yoram Ardor
Abdor
U.S
Cohen-Organ
Israel
Moshe Arens
Yitzhak Shamir
Labor Party
Shamir
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