Baroda clashes leave one dead and dozen injured
In Baroda India a Hindu procession was stoned provoking a fourth day of Hindu Muslim clashes with at least one fatality and 12 others wounded. Violence erupted after the procession passed through a Muslim area 215 miles north of Bombay. Mexico labor unions extend strike deadline to November 11 delaying worker walkouts for 10 more days.
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New Delhi
India
Baroda
Bombay
Mexico City
Mexico
Mexican Labor Congress
Afl-Cio
Congress
Tape records double murder in Brownsville custody case
Texas authorities describe a 23 minute tape found on Bill Staton as pivotal evidence in the murder of Staton and his fiancée Leticia Castro. Ex wife Sherry Wolf and husband Paul Wolf are charged with murder. Glenn Henderson has pleaded guilty to Castro’s killing and faces life in prison. The tape allegedly captures events from Staton’s arrival to his murder in La Feria.
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Brownsville
Texas
Bill Staton
Cameron County
Rey Cantu
Cantu
Staton
Leticia Castro
Sherry Wolf
Paul
Wolfs
Wolf
Mrs. Wolf
Glenn Henderson
Castro
Henderson
Mardis
Jim Bates
Ms. Castro
Henry Dierks
la Feria
Guatemalan government uncovers plot to overthrow regime
Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores confirms a new plot against the military government of President Efrain Rios Montt but says details will not be released immediately. The junta has ruled since a March 23 coup.
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Guatemala City
Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores
Efrain Rios Montt
Unemployed Dallas Man Detained Over Reagan Threat
A 31 year old man with a history of mental problems was jailed after entering police headquarters and declaring he would shoot President Reagan. He reportedly said the threat to a detective and had fired from his eighth job in two years two weeks earlier.
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Dallas
Reagan
President Reagan
Ohio girl charged after video game stabbing death
In Columbus an 11 year old girl Shevon Jones is charged with murder after stabbing 14 year old Charles Moore during a dispute while playing Krazy Kong. Moore died from a heart wound at Children's Hospital, witnesses said the fight began when he interrupted the game. In Florida Cape Canaveral two Air Force satellites were launched into orbit on a Titan 340 rocket, part of the DSCS system, carrying about 4000 pounds of equipment.
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Columbus, Ohio
Shevon Jones
Charles Moore
Children’s Hospital
Moore
Miss Jones
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
U.S. Defense Satellite Communication System
Nixon era plan resurfaces as nuclear freeze advocates cite 1969 memo
The Federation of American Scientists released a censored 1969 document by Gerard Smith showing a verifiable nationwide freeze proposal akin to today’s plan. Jeremy Stone notes verification has advanced, while Kennedy cites expert support for a mutually verifiable freeze.
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Washington
Nixon
Federation of American Scientists
Atomic Scientists
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Smith
Federation
Soviet Union
United States
State Department
Stone
Sakharov says KGB drugged him and stole memoirs
Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov told Western reporters that KGB agents drugged him and robbed his car on Oct 11 in Gorky taking hundreds of memoir pages and diaries, his passport, licenses, will, savings book and about 84 dollars. He appealed for return of the documents and said the theft strengthened his push to publish his memoirs begun 44% years ago.
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Moscow
KGB
Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov
Vitaly Fedorchuk
Gorky
Volga
Yelena Bonner
Soviet Union
Pope John Paul II to visit Madrid amid vast security
The pope departs for Madrid with an estimated 110000 police and volunteers mobilized for the security drive. More than 500000 people are expected to line the six mile route as Madrid hosts three open air masses with the pontiff spending most nights in the city and one in Zaragoza.
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Vatican City
John Paul II
Madrid
John Paul
Spain
Zaragoza
Pair says incident near Bush restaurant was accident
Two Boise men arrested outside a riverfront restaurant where George Bush dined claim they did not know the vice president was inside and were merely victims of circumstance. One carried an unloaded shotgun outside the Boise eatery, while Bush was hidden beneath a table. admissions cited no ammo and officers described the episode as blown out of proportion.
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Boise, Idaho
George Bush
Bush
Secret Service
Boise
Thomas G. Gorski
Ada County
R.E. Linderer
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James Mardis
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Wally Horn
Iowa
Connie Clark
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Portugal
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Shane Hartgrove
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