Requiem Mass for Polish Workers Sparks Solidarity Ties
About 4,000 prayed at Saint Heart of Jesus church in Lubin for two workers shot amid protests supporting Solidarity. An underground Solidarity bulletin called August protests a moral victory and urged a potential general strike. police and military arrests continued as rioting spread across towns. The pope and church leaders urged patience while honoring the dead.
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Lubin
Poland
Saint Heart of Jesus Church
Solidarity
Wlayslaw Frasyniuk
Wroclaw
Andrzej Trajkowski
Mieczyslaw Pozniak
John Paul II
Jasna Gora
Rome
Grizzly Bears Swim to Beat Southern California Heat
Grizzly bears at the Los Angeles Zoo take a swim to escape ongoing 90 degree weekend heat. Southern California endures high temperatures with a thick smog layer over the region.
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Los Angeles Zoo
California
Governor to Recommend Commuting Corsetti Sentence
Governor Edward King said he would recommend commuting newspaper reporter Paul Corsetti’s 90 day contempt sentence after he refused to testify about an interview with murder defendant Edward Kopacz Jr. The move, awaiting ratification by the Executive Council, would free Corsetti immediately.
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Boston
Mass
Edward King
King
Boston Herald American
Paul Corsetti
William Highgas
Corsetti
Thomas Troy
Middlesex County
U.S. Supreme Court
Superior Court
Robert Barton
Edward Kopacz Jr
Kopacz
Sunset Boulevard fire claims nineteen lives
A Sunset Boulevard apartment blaze killed 18 instantly with ten children among the dead and four others in serious condition. a 14 month old boy died later in hospital as two dozen residents escaped smoke and flames.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sunset Boulevard
Mystery Pan Am crash victim identified in New Orleans
FBI fingerprint experts identify Thomas William Crumpton 33 of North Miami as the mystery passenger among 159 killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over a residential area. Crumpton’s body awaiting family contact. he previously used the name Thomas Kelly and tipped a Miami agent $12 before a Las Vegas trip.
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New Orleans
FBI
Pan American
Here
Thomas William Crumpton
North Miami
Fla
Don Mcintosh
Jefferson Parish
Hu Yaobang to lead purge and party overhaul in China
Hu Yaobang announced a four year purification drive including purge of provincial Maoists retirement of leaders and re registration of China’s 39 million party members. He said the party chairmanship will be abolished shifting power to the secretary general as in Soviet and East European parties.
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Peking
UPI
Communist Party
Hu Yaobang
Xinhua
Planes collide at Stansted but one lands safely
Two DC-8 jets collided at Stansted Airport in fog during a landing attempt. The Intercontinental Airways plane overshot, ripped the tail of the Flying Tigers jet on the ground, then flew to Manchester for a safe landing. No injuries were reported among the 68 aboard.
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Stansted
England
UPI
London
Stantsted
Intercontinental Airways
Civil Aviation Authority
Manchester
U.S. Blacklists Italian Firm Over Pipeline Material
The United States added Nuovo Pignone to its sanctions list for supplying equipment for the Soviet gas pipeline. The Commerce Department bans all U S oil and gas equipment and services to Nuovo Pignone and its subsidiary INSO. Secretary Shultz said Washington may pursue other pressure options if allies back them.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
George Shultz
Poland
Shultz
CBS
Reagan
Europe
Leghorn
Italy
Nuovo Pignone Engineering Co
General Electric Co
Commerce Department
U.S
Nuovo Pignone
INSO
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Warsaw
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Jozef Glemp
Middlesex
Peter Agnes
Supreme Court
William Brennan
Cambridge
Executive Council
Klan Groups
Stone Mountain
Ku Klux Klan
Canada
Confederation of Klans
Dor Black
Black
Alloways Creek
N.J
Salem I
Public Service Electric & Gas Co
Public Service Gas & Electric
Delaware River
Radio Martin
Cuba
Castro
William Kitchen
James Slaughter
Quality Media Corp
Columbus
Caicos Island
Caribbean
Radio Marti
Fidel Castro
House of Representatives
Senate
Madrid
Spain
Shao-Shao
West
Glenbrook Drive
1St Avenue
Lindale Mall
John's
Richadss Fitness
King Richards
Robics
Sun
Department of Trade
CAA
Derek Winter
PARTY
Mariabelle Stewart
Anne O’deen
the Lindale Mall
Iindale Small
First Avenue N.E
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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