Senate debates mammoth 556 billion budget bill with stopgap in doubt
The Senate opened debate on a 556 billion catchall spending bill as lawmakers faced a likely need for a stopgap to keep the government funded when fiscal 1987 begins. Hatfield aims for quick passage, but many amendments and veto threats loom, including arms control and Star Wars provisions.
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Senate
Mark O. Hatfield
Senate Appropriations Committee
Hatfield
Reagan
Philippines
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Israel
Egypt
House
U.S
Congress
Federal sentencing reform pushes mandatory guidelines
The U.S. Sentencing Commission proposes a 170 page draft plan to replace judge discretion with a numerical system across 2600 offenses. Final guidelines to be binding unless Congress overturns them, ending parole for many inmates and enforcing longer term compliance.
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Washington Post
Washington
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Congress
Commission
William W. Wilkins Jr
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Bomb blasts rock Coeur D Alene. fourth device detonated safely
Three explosives exploded in Coeur D Alene including a blast at the federal building and a fourth device found atop the armed forces recruiting center and detonated by bomb squad experts. Police report no injuries or damage estimates, while threats targeted a newspaper and a college rally linked to Aryan Nations. The city faces ongoing civil rights tensions.
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Idaho
Federal Building
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
Frank Premo
Aryan Nations
Kootenai County
Church of Jesus Christ Christian
Sentencing Delayed in Walker Soviet Spy Ring Case
A federal judge in Baltimore postponed John A. Walker Jr and his son Michael Walker sentencing to November 6 while prosecutors assess whether Walker lied about the extent and origin of their Soviet spy ring. The pair had been set for Friday under a plea deal that could speed parole.
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Washington
Baltimore
John A. Walker Jr
Alexander Harvey
Walker
Michael
Reagan stumps in Missouri and South Dakota for Senate hopefuls
President Reagan campaigned for Republicans in Missouri and South Dakota amid a hurting Farm Belt economy. He urged voters to elect Democrats to Washington not as a solution, backing former Governor Christopher Bond in Missouri and Senator Jim Abdnor in South Dakota during a one day Midwest swing.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Reagan
Senate
Missouri
South Dakota
Washington
Midwest
Christopher Bond
Jim Abdnor
Global loan talks and regional conflicts unfold Monday
At a midnight deadline Washington hosted a $12 billion Mexican loan push as IMF chief Jacques de Larosiere voiced optimism for an accord. In Beirut Col Khalil Kanaan, a Maronite officer, was killed amid militia clashes. In Kenya Sudanese rebels rejected safe passage for a food airlift to southern Sudan, where 2 to 3 million people face famine.
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Jacques de Larosiere
Internatonal Monetary Fund
Mexico
Beirut
Lebanon
East Beirut
Amin Gemayel
Khalil Kanaan
Nairobi
Kenya
Sudan
Demjanjuk Indicted in Treblinka War Crimes Case
Israel formally indicts former Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk for crimes against the Jewish people humanity and war crimes as a guard known as Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka. He faces the death penalty with a December trial expected to last weeks.
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Treblinka
Poland
Ivan the Terrible
Ed Nishnic
Irene Nishnic
Los Angeles Times
Jerusalem
Cleveland
John Demjanjuk
Demjanjuk
United States
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann
Ford Motor Co
U.S
Mark O’connor
Nicholas Daniloff
Historic meeting in China unites Polish and Chinese leaders
In Peking Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski met Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang to discuss shared socialist bonds. The talks mark a de facto normalization of Polish and Chinese party ties not seen since the 1960s ideological split with the Soviet bloc.
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Los Angeles Times
Peking
China
Communist Party
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Deng Xiaoping
Hu Yaobang
New China News Service
Jaruzelski
Deng
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
Europe
Poland
East Germany
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Secret U.S. Soviet talks on space cooperation disclosed
A 10 member U S delegation led by Lew Allen met Soviet space scientists for two days at the Soviet Academy of Sciences to discuss revived civilian space program cooperation. Details were not released and officials did not discuss why the talks occurred.
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Los Angeles Times
Washington
U.S
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lew Allen
Nicholas Daniloff
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Daniloff
Moscow
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