Weinberger discusses pacification plan in El Salvador visit
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was briefed on a Vietnam style pacification strategy in El Salvador as military commanders said more U.S. aid would help refugees resettle. A firefight near Chilillo occurred as Weinberger departed for the New Jersey battleship during a Central America tour. He met officials in San Vicente with Langhorne Motley and discussed training local militias and village defense amid ongoing guerrilla activity.
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el Salvador
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Vietnam
U.S
Weinberger
New Jersey
Central America
Dionisio Hernandez
Chilillo
Honduras
San Salvador
Florencia Serrano
Langhorne Motley
Inter American Affairs
Panama
Sth Army Infantry Brigade
Motley
Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
IRA officer turns informer shocks Belfast ranks
The jailed Provisional IRA deputy commander in Belfast Robert Lean, 47, turned informer after being fingered by an earlier defector William Skelly. Lean named dozens of activists, aiding police in arrests of 17 suspected IRA members as authorities moved to protect relatives and pursue new leads.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Robert Lean
Provisional Ira
Lean
Ballymurphy
William Skelly
Sean
IRA
The Gazette Publication Details and Pricing
The Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Company publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Second class postage paid at Cedar Rapids. Subscription rates by carrier 1.95 per week or 9.204 weeks for Morning Editions. 9500-52 weeks. Other states 125.0052 weeks. No mail subscriptions in Gazette corner areas. Associated Press has exclusive republication rights for local news.
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Watt urges more oil drilling or nuclear development
Interior Secretary James Watt told U.S. delegates that the nation must sharply increase oil production from Alaska the Gulf of Mexico and off California or face energy shortages that would require a nuclear program. He said federal lands and offshore acreage will supply most future oil and gas and criticized political opposition to growth.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
James Watt
Alaska
Gulf of Mexico
California
America
Watt
U.S
United States
Six face charges in death of Solidarity supporter
In Warsaw six people including two policemen two ambulance attendants and two doctors are charged over the beating death of 18 year old Solidarity backer Grzegorz Przemyk on May 14 The case follows his May 19 funeral which drew about 20000 mourners The prosecutor named only first names and did not specify exact charges The incident is tied to earlier police actions during a May 12 detention and a May 3 beating of Przemyk's mother at a convent relief center
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
PAP
Grzegorz Przemyk
Przemyk
Barbara Sadowska
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