Burma protests test Maung Maung plan amid mass rallies
In Rangoon crowds rally for an interim government while President Maung Maung presses ahead with reforms ending 26 years of one party rule. A government employee strike fails to mobilize a mass turnout and airport workers halt flights. Separately in Windhoek a hotel bombing kills two and a railway mine injures two as SWAPO declares a cease fire.
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Burma
Maung Maung
Windhoek
Namibia
Windhoek State Hospital
South-West Africa People’s Organization
South Africa
U.S. Begins Removing Pershing Missiles in West Europe
A convoy hauled nine Pershing 2 missiles from a base near Stuttgart as the United States started removing intermediate range rockets in line with a 1987 treaty. Officials said the remaining 420 medium and shorter range missiles would be withdrawn over the next 36 months across Western Europe.
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West Germany
United States
Stuttgart
U.S
Europe
Mexican twin engine plane crash kills 21 in Sierra Madre
Rescue teams report all 21 aboard a twin-engine commuter aircraft died when it crashed in the western Sierra Madre mountains. Rain and clouds from Hurricane Kristy hindered recovery through rugged, forested terrain.
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Arteaga
Mexico
Sierra Madre Range
Kristy
Strikes End at Polish Shipyard As Solidarity Pressure Eases
In Gdansk Lenin Shipyard and other sites workers halted a two week wave of walkouts after government signaled talks on Solidarity. Lech Walesa urged more locals to pause while Solidarity seeks restoration of legal status and a broader settlement of labor issues.
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Lech Walesa
Solidarity
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Szczecin
Arkadiusz Rybicki
Stalowa Wola
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St. Brygida’s
Valesa
Soviet Bloc
Florida gator hunt opens with 200 plus hunters
More than 200 hunters gathered for the first statewide alligator hunt in 26 years at Clewiston as the 30 day season began. Hunters prepared with flashlights harpoons and grappling hooks while license fees and meat prices shaped the stakes.
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Fla
Will
Lake George
Florida
Tear gas and stun gun used to subdue 65-year-old woman
In Los Angeles a 65-year-old woman identified as Barbara Maxson barricaded herself in a south side home for three days shooting at police. A SWAT team used tear gas a battering ram and a Taser to subdue her. She was taken for psychiatric observation. The chief's brother, Capt. Stephen Gates, was grazed by a bullet during the incident.
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Los Angeles
Bang Lee
Barbara Maxson
Fred Nixon
Nixon
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Daryl Gates
Stephen Gates
Maxson
Cmdr
William Booth
Physicist Luis Alvarez Dies at 77 in Berkeley
Nobel laureate Luis W. Alvarez, famed for the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and discoveries in elementary particles, died at his Berkeley home at age 77 after surgery for a benign brain tumor. His work covered weapon development and theories on asteroid extinction.
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Berkeley, Calif
Luis W. Alvarez
Alvarez
Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Mary Barberia
Janet
Chilean president lifts exile ban for leftists including Allende family
President Augusto Pinochet announced the ban on exiled leftists' return is lifted, enabling Salvador Allende's widow Hortensia and his daughters Isabel and Carmen to reenter Chile. The move comes amid political relaxations before the October 5 referendum with Pinochet the sole listed presidential candidate.
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Salvador Allende
Santiago
Augusto Pinochet
Chile
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Mexico City
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Mexico
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Afghan rebels attack Soviet ammo dump at Kabul airport
Rockets fired by Afghan rebels hit a Soviet air force ammunition dump at Kabul airport destroying vast quantities of munitions and several planes. Reports from Kabul describe huge explosions and Kabul as a mess while village bombings inside Pakistan drew U.S. State Department condemnation.
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India
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Pakistan
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UPI
Afghanistan
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