Polish Embassy siege extends deadline as hostages freed
Swiss police and government diplomats continue negotiations with the Polish Revolutionary Home Army after extending the deadline to 9 a.m. Friday. Four more hostages were released early today bringing total freed to eight, with five still held according to authorities. The attackers threaten to destroy the building if Poland does not end martial law and free political prisoners.
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Bern
Switzerland
Poland
Achille Casanova
Associated Press
Ulrich Hubacher
Federal Police
United Press International
Zigmunt Drobuszewski
Drobuszewski
Casanova
Kurt Furgler
Joseph Bochenski
Warsaw
Foreign Ministry
Hubacher
Polish Revolutionary Home Army
Col
Wysocki
Solidarity
Three men charged in nutri tion professor murder in New York
Capt. Ward said two suspects were arrested and a third is sought after professor Howard Appledorf was suffocated in his Manhattan apartment. Hamlin, 21, fled in the professor’s car with his credit cards. Lutz, 24, was nabbed on the East Side.
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Richard Ward
Gainesville
Manhattan
Howard Appledorf
Appledorf
Ward
Walter G. Lutz
Lutz
New York
Mark Hamlin
Congress halts IRS furloughs after funding switch
Treasury and congressional leaders reached a deal to transfer Treasury appropriations to the IRS allowing 19,000 employees to return to work. Sen. James Abdnor and Sen. Mark Hatfield approved the bookkeeping move, averting immediate furloughs but keeping uncertainty if a veto dispute persists.
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UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury Department
Senate Committee
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R-S.d
Treasury
Donald Regan
Abdnor
Senate Appropriations
Appropriations Committee
Mark Hatfield
Regan
IRS
Marlin Fitzwater
Congress opens amid budget fights and election pressure
The 97th Congress reconvenes with a veto fight on Reagan’s 14.1 billion supplemental bill and a tight schedule. Lawmakers face funding deadlines and a possible month of political posturing as they struggle to pass any of the next year’s 13 appropriations bills.
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Washington
97Th Congress
Reagan
Congress
Rare water horse tail found near proposed Iowa marina
Wildlife experts identified a rare water horse tail near the Mississippi River site at Lansing where the Iowa Conservation Commission plans a marina. Botany expert Roger Laushman found it along a pool edge and officials weigh whether endangered species rules affect the project.
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Mississippi River
Lansing
Iowa Conservation Commission
Allamakee County
Iowa Natural Resources Council
Iowa
Roger Laushman
Laushman
Commission
Minnesota
Village Creek
Marina
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