Sniper Kills U.N. Colonel Amid Beirut Fighting
A French U.N. colonel was shot dead in West Beirut as Lebanese Moslem militiamen faced Israeli forces near the Sabra camp. A car bomb near an Israeli checkpoint wounded several, including three Israeli soldiers. The building housing U.N. personnel was targeted, with no clear motive or sniper affiliation identified.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.N
Sabra
West Beirut
State Radio
Deir el-Kamar
Israel
Samir Sanbar
Bizel
U.N. Truce Supervision Organization
Palestine Liberation Organization
Peres backs Reagan peace plan. Knesset session sought
Israel opposition Labor Leader Shimon Peres endorsed President Reagan's peace proposals and announced his party will push for a Knesset special session. Defense Secretary Weinberger defended Reagan's stance after talks with Israeli leaders. Begin's cabinet rejected the plans as divergent from Camp David.
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Gazette Wire Services
Jerusalem
Israel
Reagan
Knesset
Labor Party
Shimon Peres
Caspar Weinberger
Weinberger
Yitzhak Shamir
Cairo
Washington
Menachem Begin
Camp David
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Jordan
Tel Aviv
Peres
Wedelstedt pleads guilty in Iowa tax case with California sentence
Edward J. Wedelstedt agrees to plead guilty to three of nine counts of federal income tax evasion and fraud. Sentencing will occur in California where he resides. He operated adult book and cinema businesses in the Midwest while living in Cedar Rapids in the 1970s.
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Edward J. Wedelstedt
California
Midwest
Cedar Rapids
Wedelstedt
U.S. Attorney's Office
Northern Judicial District
Iowa
Ertl to Add AMT Line, Create Jobs at Dyersville Plant
Ertl Co announces acquisition of AMT Co assets boosting plastic model lines and capacity. The move aims to bring 50 to 100 new jobs as production expands at the Dyersville plant, with equipment relocating and some output starting in a few months. AMT brands include Kenworth Peterbilt were noted, expanding offerings across trucks ships aircraft motorcycles and farm equipment.
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Ertl
Dyersville
Ertl Co
AMT Co
Baltimore
AMT
Lesney International
Fred Ertl
Kidde Inc
Clifton, N.J
Ert
Ford
International Harvester
Incl
Kenworth
Peterbilt
Italy's Dalla Chiesa Murder Triggers Mafia War Tone
Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa age 62 his wife Emmanuela 32 and police escort were killed in a Palermo ambush as two cars and a motorcycle opened fire with AK 47s. Italy's prime minister labeled the killing a deadly Mafia challenge to the government amid rising Mafia violence.
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Palermo
Sicily
UPI
Italy
Giovanni Spadolini
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
Emanuela
Dalla Chiesa
Domenico Russo
Red Brigades
James Dozier
Spadolini
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J. Seward Johnson
East Potomac Park
Mideast
U.S
East Lawn
Dozier
Mafia
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