Nicaragua bars Bush observer team from election monitoring
Nicaragua refuses visas to members of President Bush's election observer panel over U.S. funding for opponent Violeta Chamorro. Foreign Minister D'Escoto invites United Nations and OAS observers, including former President Carter, to oversee the Feb 25 vote. The move prompts U.S. officials to question commitment to free elections and opens diplomatic friction with Washington.
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Nicaragua
UPI
U.S
Bush
Washington
Miguel D’escoto
United Nations
Organization of American States
Jimmy Carter
D’escoto
Congress
Bush Administration
Violeta Chamorro
National Opposition Union
UNO
State Department
Richard Boucher
Boucher
John Bolton
International Organizations
Eliot Richardson
Central Election Commission
U.S. Congress
Army plane crashes in Maryland near Patuxent Navy base
A twin engine Army CASA-212 with five people aboard crashed Friday into Chesapeake Bay near Patuxent Naval Air Station Maryland. No bodies recovered. all five presumed dead. The plane, from Davison Army Airfield Fort Belvoir Virginia, carried four INSCOM personnel and one civilian from Lear-Siegler. A barge was planned to recover the wreck as search resumed.
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Lexington Park
UPI
Chesapeake Bay
Patuxent Naval Air Station
Maryland
Patuxent
Don Romer
Patuxent River
Patuxent Air Station
Davison Army Airfield
Fort Belvoir
Army
John Ooley
Ooley
Intelligence Security Command
Inscom
Davidson
Lear-Siegler
Livingston
N.J
Coley
William Hauser
Yemen leaders sign draft constitution toward unity
North Yemeni President Al Abdullah Saleh announced that the draft constitution, to be ratified by both parliaments, marks a historic step toward full unity of unified Yemen. Arab nations asked the UN General Assembly to postpone a vote upgrading the PLO to state status to next week.
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Cairo
Egypt
UPI
North
South Yemen
Arabian Peninsula
al Abdullah Saleh
Yemen
Saleh
United Nations
Arab Nations
General Assembly
Palestine Liberation Organization
Arab League
Clovis Mahsoud
PLO
Middle East
Pope and Gorbachev Reach Diplomatic Ties Pact
Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to formalize diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the Soviet Union. The pope rejected a visit to Soviet soil citing religious freedom limits, while Gorbachev suggested Warsaw Pact and NATO should become more political than military. Raisa Gorbachev joined the pope during the Milan leg of his trip before a Malta summit with Bush.
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UPI
John Paul II
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Milan
Italy
Malta
Bush
NATO
Czechoslovakia
Raisa
Vatican
Kremlin
Cristiani warns rebels may turn to terrorism in El Salvador
President Alfredo Cristiani said leftist guerrillas could launch assassinations and other terrorist acts as thousands flee the violence. He urged a Malta summit to halt Cuban and Nicaraguan arms to the FMLN, noted the army's strain, and reported ongoing attacks after the Nov. 11 offensive that has left over 2,000 dead and caused up to 90 million dollars in damage. A U.S. embassy charter evacuated 240 Americans as several officials were trapped at home.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
UPI
Alfredo Cristiani
Cristiani
Cuba
Nicaragua
FMLN
Salvador
Soyapango
Eloy Guevara Paz
U.S
United Nations
Arctic cold engulfs New England with snow flurries
United Press International reports an arctic front bringing bone chilling cold and light snow to New England while temps fall to the low teens in Vermont and single digits in Maine. A storm in the upper Plains heads toward Pennsylvania and West Virginia, forecasting snow in western Pennsylvania and the northern West Virginia panhandle with subzero wind chills Sunday.
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New England
Midwest
Texas
Vermont
Maine
National Weather Service
Upper Plains
Pennsylvania
Mountains
West Virginia
Panhandle
Indiana
NWS
la Porte
Michigan City
South Bend
Elkhart
New York State
Colorado
New Mexico
Gulf Coast
Washington State
Five Day Forecast With Lotto Numbers Included
A five day forecast notes rain or snow at times north with partly cloudy south and slow warming. Highs start in the 30s Monday, rise to the 40s north and 50s south by Wednesday. lows move from the teens to the mid 20s to mid 30s. Illinois Lottery draws Friday list 736, Pick Four 1149, Little Lotto 8 13 17 19 21, estimated Lotto grand prize about 19 million.
Friday commodity quotes from Merchants Trading Co
Friday closing quotes list numerous futures and commodity prices across cattle hogs pork bellies soybeans corn wheat meal and oils with highlights for Live Beef Cattle Live Hogs Feeder Cattle Soybeans and other markets. The data show prices for Dec Feb Apr Jun and other months alongside precious metals and energy benchmarks and conclude with stock quotations as of 3 30 p m provided by named brokers.
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Merchants Trading Company
S. T. Majewski
H. W. Beeler
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Marine Corps League
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Exxon
Texaco
GenMtr
Goodyr
IBM
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IntNick
Wal-Mart
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Boise
Dixon, Il
B. F. Shaw Printing Co
Peoria Ave
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