Czech cyclist and family escape across border by balloon
Hutyra a former Czechoslovak cycling star, his wife and two children flew a raincoat balloon across the border to Austria. They landed near Drasenhofen in Mistelbach district and sought political asylum. The craft used patches of nylon and propane flames and was assembled at home.
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Mistelbach
Austria
Robert Hutyra
Hutyra
Drasenhofen
Hutyras
Czechoslovakia
Bavaria
West Germany
Facial Expressions Trigger Real Emotions Say Researchers
New findings in Science show that forming joyful or fearful facial expressions can induce corresponding bodily responses. Dr. Paul Ekman and colleagues report that mimicking expressions affects heart rate and skin temperature, linking facial muscle movement to the autonomic nervous system and suggesting practical uses in acting, advertising, and mental health research.
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New York Times Service
New York
Paul Ekman
University of California At San Francisco
Ekman
Science
Robert W. Levenson
Wallace V. Friesen
Polish student Lidia Wasiak named Miss Polonia in Warsaw
Lidia Wasiak a 21 year old medical student from Szczecin Poland was chosen Miss Polonia in Warsaw on Wednesday night This marks the first Soviet bloc entrant in Miss World since the 1968 Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia and the first beauty contest in Poland in more than twenty years
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Lidia Wasiak
Szczecin
Poland
Warsaw
Czechoslovakia
Reagan seeks 47 federal laws rewritten to remove sex bias
President Reagan proposed amending 47 statutes to remove sex distinctions in the U.S. Code and backed 11 changes he would not pursue. Attorney General Smith defended the move noting some laws unfairly define people by sex. The plan follows a cabinet panel review prompted by Barbara Honegger’s critique.
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Los Angeles Times Service
Washington
Reagan
Cabinet Council
Department of Justice
Barbara Honegger
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Senate Judiciary Committee
William French Smith
Smith
Department of Labor
Women's Bureau
Larry Speakes
Man saves unborn baby after hit and run taunts
Kenneth Von, 36, rushed from a nearby home to help a pregnant woman Antoinette Jiminez 23 of Sylmar fatally injured in a Pacoima hit and run. He cleared blood from her mouth and performed mouth to mouth resuscitation allowing the baby girl to be born alive by emergency cesarean section at Lake View Medical Center. The mother died shortly after the crash as about 50 bystanders taunted and did not help.
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Los Angeles
Kenneth von
Robert Brodony
Von
Antoinette Jiminez
Sylmar
Pacoima
Salvador
Lake View Medical Center
Irish referendum bars abortion by two to one vote
Voters in the Republic of Ireland approved a constitutional amendment by about two to one to ban abortion. The nationwide referendum drew sharp lines across a Catholic nation and could complicate Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald's drive for Irish unity. Turnout was roughly half of 2.35 million electors amid bitter debate.
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Dublin
Ireland
Garret FitzGerald
Police clash with protesters in Santiago Day of National Protest
More than 1,000 demonstrators marched in Santiago calling for an end to Pinochet rule and economic recession. Police fought protesters with hundreds arrested. Rodolfo Seguel and Patricio Aylwin were detained and later released. The Democratic Alliance organized the action opposing ten years of military rule.
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Santiago
Chile
Rodolfo Seguel
Copper Workers’ Union
Senate
Patricio Aylwin
Democratic Alliance
Augusto Pinochet
Chad charges France over rebel crackdown plan
Chad's government accused France of not acting against Libyan backed rebels and alleged Paris seeks to partition Chad. The state radio broadcast claimed a 3,000 man French task force is evidence of secret talks with Libya to split Chad along north south lines, likening it to Korea.
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N'Djamena
Chad
Hissene Habre
France
Libya
Korea
Greece and U S sign defense economic pact in Athens
Greece and the United States signed a defense and economic agreement ensuring the continued operation of four American military installations in Greece for the next five years. The pact was reached in Athens on Thursday and secures a five year renewal of joint facilities and cooperation.
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Athens
Greece
United States
McGovern Announces 1984 Presidential Bid From DC
George McGovern says he will formally seek the Democratic nomination for 1984 in a George Washington University speech in Washington DC. The former senator vows a platform to the left of rivals, urging major defense cuts and strong government action to ensure social programs.
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Washington
Reagan
George McGovern
Los Angeles Times
McGovern
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Richard Nixon
George Washington University
Washington D.C
South Dakota
Mercy ruling halts Raulerson execution in Florida
Federal appeals court blocked the 11th hour execution of James David Raulerson, convicted in the 1975 Jacksonville police officer murder, delaying lethal punishment set for this morning at Florida State Prison. The case will be heard by the court in about two months as final arguments proceed.
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Starke
Fla
James David Raulerson
Jacksonville
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Raulerson
Florida State Prison
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Wallace Stefany
Federal Register
Stefany
Brookings study on unemployment insurance coverage
A Brookings Institution study to be released today finds that in 1975 about 78 percent of the unemployed received regular extended or supplemental unemployment insurance, indicating relief measures were less widespread than in earlier recessions despite high joblessness.
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Congress
Gary Burtless
Brookings
Washington
Brookings Institution
Judge orders end to Missouri teacher strike over desegregation plan
A federal judge in St. Louis ordered 3,800 teachers and school workers to end the nation’s largest active strike, saying the stoppage disrupted a court-approved desegregation plan. Union officials refused to comment until formally served.
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ST. Louis
U.S
Stephen Limbaugh
Gazette Wire Services
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