Reagan weighs MX missile options with Tower Dickinson
President Reagan met with Senator John Tower and Representative Bill Dickinson to discuss the MX missile. Both lawmakers back land based silos in the West while questioning a move to base weapons on aircraft. Tower expects a decision in about three to four weeks, though no firm administration stance is stated.
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UPI
Reagan
John Tower
Texas
Armed Services Committee
Bill Dickinson
Ala
House
Armed Services Panel
Dickinson
Tower
Defense
Caspar Weinberger
Ronald Reagan
R-Texas
Regan
IRA candidate wins Sands seat in British Parliament
ENNISKILLEN Northern Ireland UPI Owen Carron 28 who ran as a surrogate for Bobby Sands defeated Kenneth Maginnis by 2230 votes in an IRA backed bid to fill Sands seat. Carron staked his campaign while Sands died on hunger strike in Belfast Maze Prison, marking a dramatic shift against Thatcher government.
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Northern Ireland
UPI
Margaret Thatcher
Bobby Sands
Owen Carron
Sands
Carron
Kenneth Maginnis
IRA
Belfast
Maze
Fireball Hits Train Engine in Siberian Incident
A rose colored fireball exploded into the engine compartment of a moving freight train in eastern Siberia. The blast, reported by Trud, blazed into a searchlight and melted glass and steel. The engineer was knocked unconscious. the assistant beside him survived unhurt.
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Moscow
UPI
Siberia
Trud
Krasnoyarsk
Kangaroo Meat Found in U S Beef Exports
Australian authorities said kangaroo meat was detected in samples from a Melbourne company tied to a probe into horse meat substitutions in U S bound beef. The $565 million export trade to the United States faces scrutiny as federal investigators probe beef fraud and adulteration claims.
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Australia
UPI
United States
Peter Nixon
Melbourne
Federal
Bureau of Animal Health
California
Poisoned oil kills 100 in Madrid market scam
In Madrid a toxic blend of olive and industrial rapeseed oil sold door to door killed 100 people in three months. Twenty-five suspects were jailed for producing and selling the poisoned oil and at least 11 will face prosecution. A lawyer for 1,300 ill residents urged minister resignations in health, agriculture, and finance.
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Spain
UPI
Antonio Garcia de Pablos
Health
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